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• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  Splunk Business Flow evidences company's heightened focus on BI

  Long known as a data security and IT monitoring vendor, Splunk is honing its data analytics tools and making the foray into business intelligence.

• August 02, 2019 02 Aug'19

  Merger and acquisition activity is altering the BI landscape

  From Qlik's acquisition of Podium Data in July 2018 through Salesforce's purchase of Tableau Software in June 2019, the last year in BI has been characterized by a wave of consolidation.

• August 02, 2019 02 Aug'19

  Data ethics issues create minefields for analytics teams

  Organizations have to map out ethical boundaries for data mining and analytics applications, according to participants in a roundtable discussion on data and ethics.

• July 29, 2019 29 Jul'19

  Looker's acquisition by Google seen in a good light for users

  Overshadowed at the time by Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, a few months later, Google's acquisition of Looker is still seen as a major positive for Looker's users.

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Analyst forecasts the next big things in BI

  In a Q&A, Wayne Eckerson looks at the state of the business intelligence industry, and self-service analytics, and discusses what new innovations excite him about the future.

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• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Enterprises that use data will thrive; those that don't, won't

  A data divide is growing between enterprises that embrace business intelligence and those that don't. It's the data elite that will survive, analyst Wayne Eckerson says in a Q&A.

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  ThoughtSpot strategic partnerships help add capabilities

  Through its partnership strategy, ThoughtSpot is adding to its capabilities as a BI software vendor the same way others are improving theirs by mergers and acquisitions.

• July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19

  IBM battling to change perception of Cognos Analytics BI platform

  While some see IBM's BI suite as being too complicated and expensive for citizen data scientists, the company is adding updates to try and attract the modern user.

• July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19

  Howard Dresner talks business intelligence trends

  In this Q&A, analyst Howard Dresner talks about trends in the business intelligence software market, industry consolidation and what excites him about analytics.

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  AI in digital marketing powers hidden advertisements

  With AI in advertising and marketing, companies can provide potential customers with more personalized results, while also increasing engagement rates.

• July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

  Independent vendors Qlik, MicroStrategy upgrade BI platforms

  Independent business intelligence and analytics vendors Qlik and MicroStrategy update their platforms in a move to stay ahead of their competition.

• June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19

  Music data visualization comes to life in Tableau collection

  With its new collection of visualizations about music, Tableau demonstrates how users are using its platform to understand the information behind the music.

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Power BI update firms up Microsoft analytics market

  With its latest update to Power BI, Microsoft showed its commitment to its business intelligence platform and maintained its position as an industry leader.

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  MicroStrategy product development advances after Voice.com sale

  Analytics and BI vendor MicroStrategy sells the Voice.com domain name and moves forward with product R&D in a competitive market that is consolidating quickly.

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  How the Salesforce acquisition will affect Tableau users

  In the wake of Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, it remains to be seen whether Tableau users will be pushed to the cloud and how Tableau's pace of innovation might be affected.