Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 16; Updates from Alteryx, Databricks, Qlik & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of May 16, 2025.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.
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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 16, 2025
Featured: New Skiilify Survey Finds: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might
As the first in an ongoing quarterly series of studies from Skiilify, the initial study finds that nearly all (94 percent) of technology leaders felt that resilience and other critical soft skills are required for the future, but many fail to get the proper training required. With AI, automation, and globalization reshaping the workforce, soft skills have emerged as the key differentiator for career advancement and organizational agility.
Alteryx Unveils Unified Alteryx One Suite
Alteryx’s new AI Control Center offers unified orchestration, combining licensing management with built-in security, governance, and visibility into all AI interactions, including large language models (LLMs). This centralized control helps ensure consistent access and usage policies across the platform.
Anaconda Debuts ‘First’ Unified AI Platform for Open-Source
As the only AI platform for open source, the Anaconda AI Platform combines trusted distribution, simplified workflows, real-time insights, and governance controls in one place to deliver secure and production-ready enterprise Python. Given Python’s prevalence as the language of choice for AI programming, this synergy gives users an unparalleled advantage, resulting in greater productivity, less risk, and a clearer path to value.
Databricks Unveils New Data Intelligence Tool for Marketing
Data Intelligence for Marketing helps organizations meet customer expectations faster by making it easier for anyone to access insights, run smarter campaigns, and do more with their resources using AI and trusted marketing partners.
GridGain 9.1 is Live and in the Wild
The core enabler of GridGain 9.1 is the concept of secondary storage. This allows selected tables to use two storage formats simultaneously: primary storage optimized for OLTP and secondary storage optimized for OLAP. The secondary storage layer asynchronously ingests updates from the transactional store, providing up-to-date analytics without interfering with transaction performance.
IntelePeer Unveils New SmartAnalytics Feature
Available to all SmartAgent and SmartOffice customers, SmartAnalytics features an Interaction Explorer, a powerful way to search and track trends from customer communications, a self-service business intelligence functionality to custom tailor analysis to meet business needs, and real-time data insights that can be exported across the business.
OneStream Brings Agentic AI to Finance Portfolio
The agents were debuted in Nashville on Tuesday at OneStream’s annual customer conference. Other products unveiled at the event include “SensibleAI Account Reconciliations,” which is designed to allow users to detect anomalies and flag risks — such as unusual adjustments or missing documentation — early in the close process.
Qlik is Set to Extend Qlik Cloud Analytics Solution
With these planned launches, Qlik will be introducing a new layer of intelligence across its platform — one that doesn’t just report what’s happening, but anticipates what’s next and enables action in the moment. Discovery agent, multivariate time series forecasting, write table, and table recipe work in concert to solve a singular problem: how to move from fragmented insight to seamless execution, at scale.
TensorStax Raises $5 Million Seed Funding for Data Engineering AI Agents
Unlike software engineering, which allows for many ways to solve one problem, data engineering is much more rigid, as it deals with strict data schemas, reproducibility requirements, and tightly coupled pipelines where even small errors can corrupt downstream outputs.
Expert Insights
Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Paula Caligiuri PhD: Too Many Options, Not Enough Clarity: Why Tolerance of Ambiguity is Tech’s Next Competitive Edge
According to our April 2025 study, 75 percent of tech leaders say tolerance for ambiguity is critical. Yet 37 percent of those same leaders admit they struggle to make decisions in uncertain conditions. Even more striking? Nearly a quarter say too many options leave them feeling paralyzed.
Insight Jam Set to Host Bob Eve for the Jam Session: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering Featuring William McKnight, Aria Attar & Barzan Mozafari on May 20
Customer service improvements, IT resource and performance optimization, and new product development acceleration are just a few benefits. In a world of agents, where does that leave people Will we become the horse at the advent of the horseless carriage? Or the bookkeeper with the advent of financial software? Steve Jobs once said, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21
In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.
Solutions Review Set to Host Impetus, Forrester Research & Amazon QuickSight for Exclusive Show on Unlocking the Power of GenBI on May 29
GenAI-based BI (commonly referred as GenBI) is rapidly emerging as the new standard to deliver actionable insights that can power superior decision-making while increasing effectiveness, responsiveness, and cost savings for organizations across industries. However, organizations must navigate a dynamic set of technologies and capabilities to ensure their GenBI solutions are quickly providing trusted business insights, operational excellence, while delivering bottom-line cost savings in parallel.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal: AI are Like Onions
I was talking with a friend the other day about how Artificial Intelligence isn’t a new concept and was trying to explain how there are several different types of AI techniques and they all offer unique capabilities. I love analogies and I finally had an Aha! moment… AI are like onions!
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Joe Perez: The Unforeseen Vortex: How a Small Omission Can Topple the Grand Design
During the design phase, meticulous attention was paid to every conceivable detail, including extensive wind tunnel experiments. Engineers rigorously tested scale models to ensure the tall structure could withstand the often-fierce winds that swept through Sheffield. The results were reassuring; the design was sound, stable, and ready for construction.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Stop Trying to Build a “Data Culture”
Having worked in the industry for over 20 years, I’ve seen plenty of trends come and go. One that’s stuck around is the idea of building a “data culture.” But often, that ends up feeling like something separate, bolted on rather than built in. That’s the real issue.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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