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• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  Equifax and FICO unite to move into alternative data market

  With the Equifax-FICO alliance, the credit giants are offering a combined Data Decisions Cloud suite they hope can solidify their place in the alternative data market.

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  $1 billion SAS AI investment recharges vendor's mission

  SAS' new AI initiative includes a $1 billion investment and partnership with AI chip vendor Nvidia. The goal is to bring advanced AI tech to end users.

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Tableau-VoiceBase deal brings speech analytics data to users

  Tableau's partnership with AI speech analytics vendor VoiceBase enables users both inside and outside of the contact center to easily derive insights from speech analytics data.

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  NYPD's Patternizr crime analysis tool raises AI bias concerns

  The NYPD has rolled out Patternizr, a machine learning algorithm that helps analysts identify crime patterns but highlights the complexity around eliminating AI bias in real-world systems.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Users find data preparation tools vital to BI strategies

  Data preparation isn't the sexiest topic, but it's critically important to IT and business users, according to a study by Dresner Advisory Services.

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• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  Augmented analytics tools, NLP search, graph are trending

  Augmented analytics, NLP and graph analytics are changing the data and analytics market, according to Gartner -- enabling users to more easily get at and share data.

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  Attunity acquisition expands data management for Qlik users

  Qlik's acquisition of Attunity is another sign of the BI vendor's data management ambitions -- and may help attract new users that want to unify big data and analytics.

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Tableau Ask Data gives BI users simple NLP data query tool

  Tableau's new Ask Data software uses natural language processing to enable users of any skill level to more easily search for data insights by typing text queries.

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Qlik's CrunchBot acquisition adds AI chatbot to analytics

  Qlik's acquisition of CrunchBot, an AI chatbot, aims to help users of its BI software get data easier and underscores a growing enterprise trend: conversational analytics.

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  MicroStrategy 2019 platform touts 'zero-click' analytics

  MicroStrategy's latest BI platform supports a 'zero-click' analytics future with help from new voice and vision capabilities. The aim: quicker decisions and the democratization of data.

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Deep learning in big data analytics with Sisense Hunch

  Sisense Hunch, a new Sisense BI tool, enables big data analytics for IoT devices by using deep learning to automatically extract insights from big data.

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  ThoughtSpot SearchIQ enables voice analytics

  Part of the ThoughtSpot 5 update, which adds a number of upgrades to the BI platform, SearchIQ allows users to take advantage of conversational analytics.

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Data literacy training offerings key to BI vendors

  Tableau announced a basic certification training exam, adding to its roster of online data literacy courses. Self-service BI rival Qlik also has a big focus on data literacy.

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Tableau extensions get more dev tools for integrations

  With the Tableau Developer Program, developers will be able to use a Tableau Online development sandbox and sample codes, among other free resources.

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Tableau new features include NLP, AI, machine learning

  Tableau unveiled AI and NLP tools intended to improve users' experience with its BI platform by adding smart capabilities to Tableau 2019, now out in a public beta.