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• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  TigerGraph unveils support for query language openCypher

  The graph database vendor moves to support openCypher to attract customers unfamiliar with its GSQL query language while the industry works to develop a standard query language.

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Guided analytics tool highlights Tableau platform update

  Data Guide features augmented intelligence capabilities designed to assist users as they surface insights from their data and reach actionable decisions.

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Oracle analytics update adds CX app, semantic modeling tool

  The tech giant's latest platform update adds capabilities designed to improve the productivity of business users and reduce organizations' reliance on IT teams.

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Marketing agency uses Looker to build data platform, grow

  When overhauling its analytics operations, a digital marketing agency turned to analytics vendor Looker's tools to build data marts and enable self-service exploration and analysis.

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Power BI platform adds cross-tenant sharing, integrations

  Power BI users can now safely share data and collaborate with partner and customer organizations, while new integrations with Microsoft 365 tools are now in preview.

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• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Google Cloud consolidates analytics tools under Looker name

  The tech giant renamed Data Studio, its primary BI platform before its acquisition of Looker, and unveiled a new enterprise version of the rebranded platform.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Yellowfin enhances NLQ tool in analytics platform update

  The release is the vendor's first since being acquired by Idera in early 2022 and builds on natural language query features it first launched in late 2021.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  SingleStore raises funding to fuel development, expansion

  The database vendor plans to use the capital to fund product development, global expansion and marketing as well as keep some in reserve as a hedge against a potential recession.

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Accounting giant boosts efficiency with Alteryx automation

  Two years after starting a pilot program with the data and analytics vendor, the accounting firm has saved more than 100,000 work hours by automating repetitive tasks.

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  SAS, Microsoft make Viya available on Azure Marketplace

  The vendors aim to market the analytics platform to a new audience of self-service customers that will be able to quickly deploy Viya and pay only for the compute power they use.

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  Starburst adds tools to enhance its data mesh capabilities

  The vendor added data product and data set sharing features along with enhanced governance capabilities aimed at enabling organizations to decentralize their analytics operations.

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Google launches trio of new tools for its data cloud

  The data management and analytics tools, including new data sharing and data lake platforms, are designed to let users access more data at lower expense.

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Tableau unveils integration with Salesforce Genie

  The combination is designed to enable joint customers of the analytics vendor and CRM giant to more easily connect to their customer data and surface insights.

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  More automation, embedded analytics part of Tableau plans

  New capabilities scheduled for release as part of the vendor's final two platform updates in 2022 are designed to speed the ability to reach insights and take actions.

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Ricoh modernizes its analytics with Qlik

  The information management and digital services company is beginning to develop a data culture, and the BI vendor's platform has enabled new efficiencies.

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Consumer data needs better protection by government

  Though legislation is before Congress that would address data privacy, it may not set clear enough guidelines or give individuals enough control.

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Data privacy concerns grow as legislation lags

  While healthcare and financial data are protected by federal legislation, individuals have little control over how consumer data is collected and used.

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  Snowflake, UiPath launch integration to automate data prep

  The collaboration between the data cloud vendor and robotic process automation vendor will enable joint customers to automate data pipelines used to fuel business applications.

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Business intelligence needs boost from decision intelligence

  As the volume and complexity of data grows, organizations need AI and ML capabilities to surface insights and augment the capabilities of overmatched BI tools.

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Amazon advances QuickSight with new embedded analytics tool

  Coming after the addition of natural language processing capabilities, the new embedded analytics tool strengthens the BI platform to make it more feature rich.

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Sisu adds new decision intelligence capabilities

  The startup aims to augment human decision-making with automation, and its new tools find and explain changes in data, analyze their effect and prescribe what to do next.

• August 29, 2022 29 Aug'22

  Teradata launches cloud-native platform, enhances BI suite

  VantageCloud Lake is designed to enable wider use across organizations along with better cost control, while ClearScape Analytics adds more than 50 new capabilities.

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  New SAS, SingleStore integration boosts speed, efficiency

  The integration between the longtime data and analytics vendor and the upstart database vendor enables users to work with data in-database, which increases speed-to-insight.

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Geospatial data a key means of combating climate change

  By pinpointing when and where fires, floods and other natural disasters caused by climate change might occur, the damage from such events can be drastically reduced.

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  Scenario planning fertile ground for analytics vendors

  Despite enabling organizations to explore what might happen based on different decisions and to prepare for potential problems, many BI vendors don't offer such tools.

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Free tool from Collibra tests data maturity against peers

  The assessment tool is free to anyone and is designed to help organizations better understand the evolution of their data and analytics systems relative to others.

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Cloud-agnostic ethos key for Qlik as an independent vendor

  The vendor has developed relationships with many of the key cloud providers and is intent on enabling its users to house their data on the cloud of their choice.

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Intersport boosts analytics, marketing efficiency with Knime

  Using the BI vendor's platform, the sporting goods retailer has reduced staff needed to attend to data, decreased time to build data workflows and improved marketing campaigns.

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  MicroStrategy adds more governance to analytics platform

  The longtime independent vendor's latest platform update features tools to help system administrators and application developers easily add data governance and security guardrails.

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  Saylor to step down as MicroStrategy CEO after 33 years

  The vendor's co-founder will leave the role he's held since the company was founded to become executive chairman, with President Phong Le to take over as CEO.

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  Metrics upgrades, AR tool highlight Power BI platform update

  The July update includes over 20 features, with highlights including new capabilities for Metrics, a tool that uses AR to add context to data and new embedded BI capabilities.

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Automation, more security and governance next big BI trends

  As many data preparation and management tasks get automated, insight generation and action are the next likely targets for automation. Another key trend is more data governance.

• July 19, 2022 19 Jul'22

  5 business analytics trends that shaped the start of 2022

  While AI and machine learning capabilities continue to evolve, another major movement in BI so far in 2022 has been to enable users to take action directly from insights.

• July 18, 2022 18 Jul'22

  Tibco adds SaaS version of MDM platform, updates TCI

  The analytics vendor unveiled Cloud EBX as it continues to add cloud-native versions of its tools. In addition, it launched an updated version of its cloud integration suite.

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  New CEO not likely to change Tibco once merged with Citrix

  The analytics vendor's product leaders all remain in place, so while it will have a new company leader, its product development capabilities are expected to remain unchanged.

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  SingleStore secures $116M in funding to fuel growth

  The data management vendor has secured $278 million in financing since December 2020 and plans to use the new funds to fuel product development and expand marketing efforts.

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Tibco targets data model deployment with ModelOps launch

  The analytics vendor designed the no-code platform, a sort of operating system for AI, to simplify the deployment of AI and machine learning models by users across organizations.

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  Databricks platform fuels analytics at State Department

  The vendor's AI and machine learning capabilities have enabled the government agency to improve the effectiveness of its data analysis technology and its overall efficiency.

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  LA County modernizes hiring with Azure and Databricks

  The HR department of the largest U.S. county revamped its analytics stack in order to help reduce hiring times that often took more than a year.

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  TigerGraph Cloud update enables easier adoption, deployment

  With enterprise customers adding more users as graph technology gains popularity, the vendor added features to make wide use of its SaaS platform easier and more secure.

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  Tableau adds data storytelling tool in latest update

  Six months after the analytics vendor's acquisition of Narrative Science comes Data Stories, a new tool aimed at enabling more employees within organizations to work with data.

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  New Collibra, Snowflake integration enhances data governance

  The new tool aims to enable customers to quickly put protections on sensitive data without requiring them to write code so that business users can securely work with data.

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Scottish EPA rebuilds with Tibco Spotfire after cyber attack

  After almost all of the agency's data and analytics tools were wiped out, it survived and then thrived using the analytics platform to fuel data-driven decision-making.

• June 20, 2022 20 Jun'22

  Knime adds new UI, tighter Snowflake bond to analytics suite

  The vendor's new platform update is aimed at end users and features a revamped user interface, more Snowflake integration and a dedicated Python environment for writing scripts.

• June 16, 2022 16 Jun'22

  Tibco Spotfire 12 to enable direct actions from dashboards

  The platform's next update, which the vendor previewed during a recent virtual user conference, will enable customers to trigger data-driven actions directly from their dashboards.

• June 15, 2022 15 Jun'22

  SAS analytics and BI platform evolves toward cloud

  Though the analytics vendor has invested heavily in AI over the past few years, the most significant change to its platform has been its embrace of the cloud.

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  ThoughtSpot, Matillion partner to accelerate analytics

  The analytics vendor and data integration vendor both offer cloud-native tools and have joined forces to reduce the time it takes go from data ingestion to insight and action.

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Increasing importance of analytics an opportunity for ISVs

  With more organizations looking to data to inform decision-making, there's a growing need for the services of independent software vendors and data providers.

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Datamart a new self-service developer tool in Power BI

  The capability, now in in preview, will enable Premium customers to build small to midsize relational databases dedicated to a single subject, without requiring code.

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Qlik fuels solar equipment maker IronRidge's insights

  The manufacturer is using the analytics vendor's platform to harness both internal and external data and inform decision-making throughout the solar firm's partner network.

• June 03, 2022 03 Jun'22

  Data connectivity key to insight discovery

  With the economy in near constant flux over the past two years, connecting data points to fuel analytics has enabled many organizations to act and react as they need to.

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Analytics, automation and AI will fuel future of business

  Organizations that speed their decision intelligence abilities will be those that survive and thrive, while those that don't digitally transform will fail.

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Tech stock sell-off signals tough times for data vendors

  In addition to lowering the values of publicly traded data, analytics and AI vendors, the stock market's decline is making it difficult for companies still in their funding phase.

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  TigerGraph unveils new tool for machine learning modeling

  The vendor's new capability is a pipeline for developing and deploying machine learning models with graph technology and works with popular third-party machine learning platforms.

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Alteryx adds augmented analytics, more cloud capabilities

  The vendor's latest update includes increased connectivity to cloud data storage repositories and enhanced augmented intelligence features designed to increase speed-to-insight.

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Baseball's Rangers seek analytics edge with Tableau

  Although the game's governing body provides comprehensive stats, the franchise is using the analytics vendor's tools to deliver digestible daily reports to gain a competitive edge.

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Qlik unveils 2022 roadmap for its analytics platform

  Included in the vendor's product development plans are a new in-database query tool, stronger machine learning capabilities and enriched security and compliance features.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  HP deriving value from data with ThoughtSpot

  After experimenting with a variety of BI platforms, the computer giant found success with the analytics vendor's platform given its ability to handle scale.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Tableau adding new storytelling tool to analytics platform

  During its user conference, the vendor unveiled automated data storytelling capabilities, a new cloud version of its platform and more self-service data science tools.

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Data storytelling, cloud in focus at Tableau Conference '22

  Following its 2021 acquisition of Narrative Science, data storytelling -- along with cloud capabilities -- will be prominent when the vendor hosts its upcoming user conference.

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  ThoughtSpot roadmap aims to make analytics simple, efficient

  The vendor's product development philosophy is designed to give users more output from the platform while requiring less effort from the users themselves.

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  ThoughtSpot demonstrates its evolution at Beyond 2022

  The vendor's first in-person user conference since 2019 has showcased its transformation. In an interview, ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair discusses the company's modernization.

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  ThoughtSpot broadens analytics customer base, targets SMBs

  The analytics and BI vendor has added plug-in API apps to its natural language processing and embedded BI-friendly platform aimed at larger cloud-based enterprises and SMBs.

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  ThoughtSpot adds analytics app templates, more automation

  New capabilities included in the vendor's latest platform update include prebuilt applications, tools that automate insight delivery and a series of integrations with partners.

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Pyramid Analytics raises $120M, IPO could be next

  The vendor plans to use the influx of capital to fund product development, geographic expansion and add staff with an eye toward going public within three years.

• April 29, 2022 29 Apr'22

  Qlik wants analytics platform to lead to certainty, swagger

  The vendor has added capabilities through acquisitions in recent years, and at its user conference plans to demonstrate the full scope of its integrated, end-to-end platform.

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Experts outline keys for strong data governance framework

  Developing guidelines that simultaneously protect organizations from risk while enabling and encouraging employees to work with data can be difficult, but not impossible.

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Tableau targets embedded analytics with new developer tools

  Unveiled during Salesforce's TrailblazerDX '22 developer conference, the new capabilities are aimed at enabling more business users to work with data in their everyday workflows.

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Self-service analytics key to agile decision-making

  With worldwide events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine causing economic uncertainty, organizations need to be able to make informed decisions in near real time.

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Tibco WebFocus update aims to make analytics accessible

  The platform update adds capabilities including a hub for analytics assets and natural language query designed to increase the number of potential users within organizations.

• April 18, 2022 18 Apr'22

  GoodData to launch fully managed analytics platform on AWS

  The vendor unveiled its overhauled suite in June 2021, and in July 2022 expects to make GoodData Cloud generally available to users who prefer not to manage their own deployments.

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Databricks fuels analytics for Spain's top soccer league

  After prioritizing data-driven decision-making over the last decade, LaLiga is now using Databricks to inform its clubs and fans about play on the field.

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Infragistics targets better data-driven decision-making

  The vendor released Slingshot, a new platform that brings analytics, collaboration, a data catalog and project management capabilities into one environment.

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Gartner: Augmented analytics, ecosystem for BI now key

  While AI capabilities are now a must for BI vendors, it is becoming increasingly important that their capabilities fit into a larger ecosystem for users, according to Gartner.

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Domo unveils integrations with Microsoft 365, Teams

  The new integrations will allow joint customers of the analytics vendor and the tech giant to access data assets while remaining in their everyday workflows.

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  New integrations unite Looker with other Google BI tools

  As part of a project the tech giant is calling Big BI, Google is unifying the analytics vendor's capabilities with those of Data Studio and Connected Sheets.

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  ESPN improves app performance with Domo analytics tools

  The sports broadcasting giant is using a customer care application developed with the analytics vendor's tools to improve its app performance and streaming capabilities.

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Tableau analytics platform update targets efficiency

  The vendor's first 2022 release includes capabilities that make natural language query easier and aid dashboard developers as they build new assets.

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Snowflake launches industry-specific data cloud for retail

  Retail Data Cloud is the vendor's fourth industry-specific data cloud, and comes prepackaged with data sets and capabilities to enable efficient data management and analytics.

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  Data, analytics remain key tools as pandemic abates

  The past two years have shown the vital role of analytics, and even as some COVID-19 restrictions ease, many organizations now understand BI is a permanent part of decision-making.

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  Domo BI update includes app development, multi-cloud tools

  The vendor's platform update highlights its focus on applications as a way to extend analytics to more business users and expands the platform's multi-cloud capabilities.

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Domo making app development a focus of analytics platform

  With a new CEO in place, one of the cloud-based vendor's main goals is to get data into the hands of more business users within the flow of their everyday work.

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Seeking truth in crisis times shows importance of metadata

  Metadata gives context to data, and during crises like the war in Ukraine when it's difficult to know what news to trust, context can help distinguish truth from fiction.

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Pyramid Analytics helps LionShare increase speed, efficiency

  Using the BI vendor's platform, the healthcare marketing and CRM firm has improved speed to insight and increased customer engagement with data for its clients.

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud update targets productivity

  The vendor's new and enhanced features are aimed at improving user efficiency and include a new browser extension along with added data governance capabilities.

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  An analyst's blueprint for choosing a cloud data platform

  Though choosing the tools that best fit the needs of an organization is difficult, analyst Doug Henschen has come up with a series of steps that can serve as a guide.

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Use of data, analytics a growing part of battle for equality

  As technology plays a larger role in working toward a more equitable world, the practice of using analytics to further social causes is becoming more widespread.

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Differentiation key for independent Pyramid Analytics

  A strong set of augmented intelligence capabilities and an end-to-end platform are enabling the vendor to grow despite not having the backing of a large parent company.

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Domo CEO Josh James steps down, John Mellor promoted

  The analytics vendor's leadership change comes as it continues to add functionality to its platform and after it reported strong fourth-quarter and full-year revenue growth.

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Sisense analytics tools spur growth at Hastings Mutual

  The insurance company is using the BI vendor's tools to improve data-driven decision-making efficiency and identify sales opportunities leading to revenue growth.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Power BI platform adds new data prep, mobile capabilities

  Microsoft added more than 40 features to its main analytics tool this month, including enhancements to data preparation capabilities and upgraded mobile formatting options.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Alteryx makes personnel changes to navigate cloud journey

  The longtime data management vendor has remade its C-suite over the past few years, including adding a new CEO and president, as it modernizes its technology.

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Salesforce, Tableau unveil trio of new integrations

  As part of its Spring '22 Release, the CRM giant added three new tools powered by the analytics vendor's augmented intelligence capabilities.

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  Databricks launches new lakehouse for financial services

  The cloud data vendor's new set of capabilities for financial services customers is its second industry-specific lakehouse after it launched one for retail users in January.

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  Good data-driven decision-making avoids common pitfalls

  Avoiding cognitive biases that can lead to the use of incomplete or inaccurate data is crucial to the successful use of analytics.

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Crate & Barrel modernizes with MicroStrategy BI platform

  The home decor chain added governance capabilities and sped time-to-insight by adopting the longtime analytics vendor's platform after 14 years using a legacy system.

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  Trusted data key to MicroStrategy platform plans

  The vendor plans to add new capabilities this year that will provide AI-generated guidance to better enable self-service users to take action using governed data.

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  Use of AI and automation together an analytics trend in '22

  Analysts at BI vendor MicroStrategy's virtual user conference said the combination of the two technologies could deliver insights that lead to action in real time.

• February 02, 2022 02 Feb'22

  App development a focus of MicroStrategy analytics platform

  The longtime independent vendor is making application development and embedded BI priorities in order to enable data-driven decision-making in real time.

• January 31, 2022 31 Jan'22

  Yellowfin acquired by B2B software specialist Idera

  The formerly independent analytics vendor hopes to expand its customer base by getting acquired, while its app development tools made it attractive to its new parent company.