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• March 27, 2020 27 Mar'20

  SAS analytics platform benefiting from AI investment

  Fueled by SAS' investment in AI and augmented intelligence features, the long-established vendor strengthened its BI platform with a host of new features and capabilities over the past year.

• March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20

  COVID-19 effect on analytics software development an unknown

  With COVID-19 forcing software engineers to work remotely rather than together in teams, they'll need to find new ways of collaborating in order to keep up the pace of innovation.

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  New AI tools in the works for ThoughtSpot analytics platform

  Set against the backdrop of COVID-19, ThoughtSpot is trying to stick to a roadmap that includes new AI-infused features and eventually an initial public stock offering.

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  ThoughtSpot CEO: COVID-19 creates unprecedented challenges

  ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair addresses the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19, not only in terms of running a business, but also psychologically.

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  AI, no-code tools highlight Domo analytics platform update

  The latest update from Domo, unveiled during the vendor's virtual user conference, include a no-code tool for application development and a host of AI features.

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• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  BI vendors provide resources for COVID-19 analysis

  With the new coronavirus continuing to spread worldwide, analytics software vendors are joining in to help in slowing, and hopefully stopping, the pandemic.

• March 16, 2020 16 Mar'20

  TigerGraph delivers no-code tools, free use for COVID-19 analysis

  No-code tools that enable users to migrate to graph databases and model data for queries highlight TigerGraph 3.0. The vendor also extended free access to tools to track COVID-19.

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  2nd Watch launches data-management-as-a-service offering

  A new data management service from 2nd Watch aims to help organizations make data-driven decisions without having to rely on data scientists for their data preparation.

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Natural language query tools offer answers within limits

  Natural language query tools could one day allow end users to do all their data analysis without the aid of data scientists, but at this point the capabilities remain limited.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Alteryx 2020.1 highlighted by new data profiling tool

  Holistic Data Profiling, a new tool to give users an overall view of their data during modeling, highlighted the latest platform update from the data management and analytics vendor.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Small business analytics success hinges on resources, skills

  A new report from IT services vendor Onepath reveals that 86% of SMBs are unable to fully take advantage of their data. Those that do are better able to grow and succeed.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  SMBs struggle with data utilization, analytics

  SMBs know they need data and analytics tools to support business decisions, but few small and midsize firms are able to fully realize the benefits.

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  New coronavirus wreaking havoc on tech conference calendar

  As the coronavirus continues to spread, the organizers of some technology conferences have decided to alter or cancel their events for the safety of attendees.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Gartner's Sallam: Top BI vendors poised for next disruption

  Leading analytics vendors appear poised to remain innovative as AI becomes pervasive in BI, Gartner's Rita Sallam explains in a discussion about BI's present and future.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Gartner's Sallam: Top analytics platforms share common traits

  In an interview, Gartner analyst Rita Sallam discusses what separates the top BI vendors from the rest as well as the trends that will shape the future of analytics.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Birst analytics key to partnership between Infor, Snowflake

  A new partnership between Infor and Snowflake will use BI tools from Birst, acquired by Infor in 2017, to enable users to build automated data warehouses on Snowflake.

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Tableau 2020.1 highlighted by Viz Animations, Dynamic Parameters

  Dynamic Parameters and Viz Animations highlight Tableau's first 2020 platform update and comes nearly four months after Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau closed.

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  MicroStrategy analytics suite fosters insurance co-op's growth

  Using MicroStrategy's BI platform, a Canada-based insurance co-operative has been able to spread analytics to end users throughout the organization.

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Yellowbrick Data, MicroStrategy partnership aims to enhance analytics

  The new partnership will enable flexible scalability, support for mixed workloads and multi-cloud support. The goal is to provide actionable insights into data.

• February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20

  Regulatory approval allows Google acquisition of Looker to close

  Google's purchase of analytics vendor Looker was approved by a United Kingdom regulatory agency, more than eight months after the acquisition was revealed.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  AWS collaboration highlights Domo analytics platform update

  The new Domo BI platform update features a new collaboration with AWS to enable users to work with third-party data and a low-code tool for developers.

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Multi-cloud strategy becoming a necessity for BI vendors

  Multi-cloud capabilities are becoming a necessity for BI and analytics vendors as their customers migrate to the cloud and want the flexibility to use the cloud service provider of their choice.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Embedded BI the future of analytics

  Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, discusses HyperIntelligence, the vendor's zero-click embedded analytics tool, as well as the trend of embedded analytics.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  HyperIntelligence improvements a focus for MicroStrategy

  Since MicroStrategy introduced HyperIntelligence a year ago, the embedded BI tool has received an overwhelmingly positive response, CEO Michael Saylor said in an interview.

• February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20

  Innovation inspires user loyalty to MicroStrategy analytics suite

  As some longtime vendors struggle to keep up with the pace of innovation, customers stay loyal to longtime vendor MicroStrategy and its continually evolving platform.

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  HyperIntelligence upgrades highlight MicroStrategy 2020

  MicroStrategy 2020, the latest version of MicroStrategy's analytics platform, was released Wednesday and includes updates to the vendor's embedded analytics tool.

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Data confidence a problem data wrangling aims to resolve

  Joe Hellerstein, co-founder and CSO of Trifacta, talks about data wrangling and the ongoing trend of migration to the cloud, among other data management topics.

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Data wrangling software helps access, interpret relevant info

  Joe Hellerstein, co-founder and CSO of data wrangling software vendor Trifacta, discussed the benefits of data wrangling and the cloud migration trend, among other topics, in a Q&A.

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  New funding fuels startup analytics vendor Kloud.io's growth

  Armed with $4 million in new seed funding, startup Kloud.io aims to expand its engineering and marketing efforts to fuel the growth of its no-code analytics platform.

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  Tibco analytics platform gets NLG boost from new integration

  Tibco Spotfire's natural language generation capabilities received an upgrade as Tibco revealed an integration with Arria NLG Studio for BI.

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  Sigma analytics platform's interface simplifies queries

  Featuring a spreadsheet interface designed to make queries simple for citizen data scientists, Sigma Computing is trying to make analytics available to all business users.

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  ThoughtSpot IPO could be coming after vendor adds first CFO

  Hiring of a CFO for the first time signals that ThoughtSpot may be positioning itself for an IPO and comes six months after what was likely the vendor's final round of funding.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Storytelling using data makes information easy to digest

  In a Q&A, Nate Nichols and Anna Schena Walsh of AI-based analytics vendor Narrative Science talk about how data storytelling can make analytics accessible to business users.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Data-driven storytelling makes data accessible

  In a Q&A, Nate Nichols and Anna Schena Walsh of data storytelling vendor Narrative Science discuss their book on storytelling and how narratives can make analytics more accessible.

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Startup Uplevel targets software engineering efficiency

  Startup vendor Uplevel emerged from stealth on Wednesday touting a platform aimed at improving the efficiency of software engineers by using data analysis.

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  AtScale's Adaptive Analytics 2020.1 a big step for vendor

  AtScale's new update is centered around data virtualization for analytics and marks a significant overhaul of the data engineering vendor's platform.

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Power BI platform remains a vibrant, respected suite

  With the ability to update on a nearly constant basis, Microsoft's Power BI remains a strong analytics product despite not necessarily being at the forefront of innovation.

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Former SAP Concur exec Christal Bemont named Talend CEO

  Talend named Christal Bemont its new CEO on Thursday after Mike Tuchen stepped down after six years in the role. Bemont comes to Talend following 15 years at SAP Concur.

• December 23, 2019 23 Dec'19

  Investing in tech startups an act of trust for VC firms

  Investing in tech startups, including BI vendors, is about finding that quality that makes a company special, according to Vanessa Larco, a partner at New Enterprise Associates.

• December 23, 2019 23 Dec'19

  Differentiation key for BI startups when attracting investors

  A strong value proposition is crucial to attracting venture capital investments, said Vanessa Larco, a partner at New Enterprise Associates, in a Q&A about startup BI vendors.

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  NLP, embedded BI and data literacy top 2020 analytics trends

  Improved natural language processing tools, more embedded BI applications and an increase in data literacy are among the analytics trends to watch in 2020.

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  2019 BI trends included reality check for AI, consolidation

  AI features in BI products improved in 2019, but not at the pace predicted before the year began. Instead, advancement was incremental and consolidation was a dominant theme.

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Up-and-coming BI vendors to watch in 2020

  Promising BI startups look to gain a foothold in 2020 by focusing on underserved markets and embracing next-gen technologies not available in traditional analytics tools.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Government IT pros: Hiring data scientists isn't an exact science

  There's no such thing as a data science unicorn, U.S. government experts caution. You'll need more than programmers and technical expertise on your data science team.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Tableau 2020.1 unveiled for beta testing

  Featuring improvements to Explain Data, an AI product that aims to explain the reasons behind data points, the update is made up of 21 features.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Easy-to-use coding tools a new opportunity for BI vendors

  In a Q&A, Yellowfin CTO Brad Scarff talks about why analytics software vendors have recently introduced low-code tools for developers as part of their offerings.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Low-code tools serve BI customer needs

  With easy-to-use tools for application development a growing trend among BI vendors, Yellowfin CTO Brad Scarff discusses the motivation behind them in part one of a two-part Q&A.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Alteryx 2019.4 highlighted by new integration with Tableau

  New integrations with Tableau that enable easier data management and Mapbox to provide street-level map views come with the latest platform update from Alteryx.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  BI vendors jump into low-code/no-code tools for developers

  A spate of BI vendors included easy-to-use tools for developers in their recent updates, perhaps marking the start of a new trend in the analytics software market.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Sisense analytics platform update features AI, data prep tool

  Augmented intelligence features and an in-warehouse data prep tool highlight Sisense's latest update, its second since acquiring Periscope Data in May.

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Operation Fistula uses data to treat childbirth injuries

  Aided by an analytics stack developed by Exasol, nonprofit Operation Fistula is working to end obstetric fistula in targeted regions around the world.

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Startup Sisu's data analytics tool aims to answer, 'Why?'

  With the ability to answer, 'Why?' at the core of its diagnostic tool, startup analytics vendor Sisu recently entered the market with aims of competing against established vendors.

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Tableau Foundation, Splash fight for clean water in schools

  With funding and analytics technology from Tableau, Splash, a global nonprofit organization, is providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene to children in Ethiopia and India.

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Alteryx analytics platform focuses on ease of use

  Alteryx is focusing on ease of use in new platform updates as it looks to attract users beyond its traditional base of data scientists and data analysts.

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Salesforce acquisition of Tableau finally getting real

  With Salesforce and Tableau finally free to start integrating, Andrew Beers, Tableau's chief technology officer, talks about what the future might be for Tableau and its users.

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Tableau analytics platform upgrades driven by user needs

  In a Q&A, Tableau chief technology officer Andrew Beers talks about the driving factors behind recent product upgrades centered around data management and augmented intelligence.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Salesforce acquisition of Tableau details emerge as CEOs speak

  The Salesforce and Tableau CEOs appeared together for the first time at Tableau Conference 2019, five months after the analytics vendor agreed to be acquired by the CRM giant.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Tableau analytics platform gets AI, data management upgrades

  Augmented intelligence, improved data management capabilities and a tool to monitor KPIs are at the core of improvements unveiled by Tableau on Wednesday.

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Tableau partners with AWS to release Modern Cloud Analytics

  Tableau revealed an expanded partnership with AWS on Tuesday to help the vendor's on-premises users migrate their analytics operations to the cloud.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Yellowfin 9 marked by developer tools, revamped mobile app

  The latest product update from BI vendor Yellowfin features new dashboard design tools, a revamped mobile app and a repackaged data presentation platform.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Evolution of analytics marked by wider dissemination of data

  With BI platforms getting easier to use by the year and enabling more self-service users in process, the value of analytics is being realized by a growing audience.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Analytics revolution has spread the wealth of information

  Business intelligence over the last 20 years has been marked by the opening up of data to everyday business users after it was once the sole possession of IT departments.

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Looker 7 advances embedded BI capabilities of vendor's suite

  The latest update of Looker's business intelligence platform, unveiled Wednesday at the vendor's user conference, is highlighted by improved embedded analytics capabilities.

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Microsoft launches Azure Synapse Analytics for the cloud

  New Microsoft Azure analytics service provides cloud BI and machine learning, enabling users to do analytics on data in various sources, including data warehouses and data lakes.

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Domo BI platform helps Dal-Tile solve data management problems

  Overwhelmed by an influx of data, Dal-Tile, a leading manufacturer of ceramic tile products, went to Domo to try to solve its business intelligence problems.

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  ThoughtSpot-Qlik battle shines a light on non-compete contracts

  ThoughtSpot and Qlik CEOs squabble online over controversial but widely used non-compete agreements and the larger impact these contracts have on the IT industry.

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  AI for BI at the heart of third-generation analytics

  Doug Henschen, analyst at Constellation Research, details in a Q&A some of the findings of his recent report on augmented capabilities in BI platforms.

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  AI at the core of next-generation BI

  AI is part of BI platforms, but this is only the start of a new analytics generation. In a Q&A, Constellation Research analyst Doug Henschen discusses AI tools in BI platforms.

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  SAP Tennis Analytics adds tool to track patterns within points

  Players and coaches in the Women's Tennis Association are now able to discover the tendencies of their opponents within a given point thanks to SAP's Patterns of Play.

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  New tools add AI power to Teradata Vantage platform

  Teradata unveiled Vantage Analyst and Customer Experience, two new tools now part of the vendor's analytics platform, on Tuesday at its user conference in Denver.

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  SAS analytics platform aided by $1 billion AI investment

  The SAS suite of business intelligence products is quickly seeing results from the vendor's $1 billion commitment to AI seven months after the investment was made public.

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  ThoughtSpot BI platform an early adopter of AI

  Due to AI, ThoughtSpot's analytics tools have been accessible to citizen data scientists from the start, Andrew Yeung, the vendor's senior director of product marketing, said in a Q&A.

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  ThoughtSpot 6 advances AI power of BI platform

  New augmented intelligence and machine learning tools, along with a new mobile app, highlight the release of the new update to the ThoughtSpot business intelligence platform.

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  Promethium tool taps natural language processing for analytics

  The software, called Data Navigation System, was designed to enable non-technical users to make complex SQL requests using plain human language and ease the delivery of data.

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  Intelligence as a service is key to nonprofit's urban planning

  Cobalt Community Research, a nonprofit organization based in Michigan, uses data collected and packaged by TruFactor for urban planning projects.

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  GoodData BI customers now able to use data on Amazon Redshift

  GoodData partners with Amazon Web Services to allow the vendor's users to store and manage their data in Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse powered by AWS.

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Acquisition of AI lab a benefit for Alteryx BI users

  With the acquisition of Feature Labs, a startup founded at MIT, Alteryx is making a heavy investment in augmented intelligence and machine learning capabilities.

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Tibco Spotfire BI platform gets an AI boost

  Tibco Spotfire customers will benefit from AI upgrades.

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Qlik Sense Business improves Qlik's cloud, AI capabilities

  Qlik's new product shows the vendor's strategy of providing a cloud-based service for users that's rich in augmented intelligence and machine learning capabilities.

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  Former accountant embezzled $3.5 million from QlikTech Singapore

  A former employee of analytics vendor Qlik’s Singapore subsidiary embezzled nearly $4 million. Ariel Biasong Salamanes worked in the Singapore office’s sales and marketing department.

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Information Builders BI platform making a return to form

  After lagging behind the pace of innovation in recent years, Information Builders is modernizing its BI platform and again offering a full suite of analytics tools.

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  IBM certification program tackles shortage of data scientists

  IBM reported it certified 140 new data scientists, the first to be certified under a program IBM developed with The Open Group to address the dearth of data scientists.

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  TigerGraph Cloud releases graph database as a service

  TigerGraph, a graph database vendor, now offers a native cloud database-as-a-service product with its newest release.

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Qlik exec discusses AI and its role in the future of BI

  The next major trend in business intelligence will be the increasing impact of augmented intelligence and machine learning, Qlik's VP of product marketing Dan Potter says in a Q&A.

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  SAP BI platform stays strong due to cloud-based architecture

  A cloud-native BI platform along with domain-specific applications that can be embedded to serve the needs of various industries keep SAP current and positioned well for the future.

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  Tableau 2019.3 highlighted by enhanced AI, new data catalog

  Tableau released its third-quarter update Wednesday, featuring Explain Data, an enhanced augmented intelligence tool, and Tableau Catalog, a data management suite.

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  Oracle BI platform on the comeback trail

  Time had seemingly left Oracle's business intelligence tools behind -- until the vendor responded by consolidating its BI products and catching up to the pace of innovation.

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  BI for mobile remains a challenge for vendors

  While some BI vendors have developed effective mobile apps that provide concise insights, those that have attempted to recreate their desktop dashboards on phones have struggled.

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  Magento BI update a benefit to vendor's e-commerce customers

  Magento rolled out the Magento Business Intelligence Summer 2019 Release, updating its BI platform with enhanced scheduling capabilities and new data visualizations.

• September 06, 2019 06 Sep'19

  Flowhub provides cannabis industry with tailored BI platform

  With marijuana now legal in some form in more than 30 states, Flowhub is selling business intelligence software to an industry still in its early stages.

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Yellowfin analytics platform gets upgraded mobile app

  Yellowfin upgraded its business intelligence platform with a revamp of its mobile app that will enable users to have more complete functionality while away from their desktops.

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Data integration problems a hurdle companies must overcome

  Relevant data is hard for organizations to find, Talend CEO Mike Tuchen says. So is mining the right data amid the complexity that large data stores have created.

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Talend CEO discusses importance of mining relevant data

  Enterprises can't do good business intelligence without good data. In the first part of a two-part Q&A Talend CEO Mike Tuchen talks about how hard mining the right data can be.

• August 30, 2019 30 Aug'19

  Domain-specific BI vendors gain foothold with expertise

  While leading BI vendors target large audiences with their analytics tools, many other companies target a single specialized industry and use their expertise to best serve users.

• August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19

  Tibco analytics platform keeps pace through innovation

  Tibco has remained one of the more active business intelligence vendors while some of its competitors have lost some momentum.

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  ThoughtSpot BI platform gets financial boost, IPO may be near

  With its latest round of venture capital funding, ThoughtSpot is planning to invest heavily in product improvement while also pondering a potential initial public offering.

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  Museums and data: A powerful combination

  With more and more museums using data to inform their decision-making processes, visitors are reaping the benefits by enjoying a better user experience.

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  Phocas BI tool proves its value for manufacturers, wholesalers

  With its focus on the manufacturing and wholesale distribution industries, Phocas Software has carved out a niche for itself among other BI software vendors.

• August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19

  The Salesforce acquisition of Tableau complements Einstein Analytics

  Given the different strengths of Salesforce's Einstein Analytics platform and Tableau, the BI tools could prove complementary now that Tableau is part of Salesforce.

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  Domo management expansion signals strategic shift

  Five months after it stated it would be pursuing strategic partnerships, Domo appears to be making a move toward implementing that strategy with the hiring of three new executives.