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• 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.

• August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19

  Reveal moves Infragistics BI platform into embedded analytics

  With the release of Reveal, an embedded business intelligence platform, longtime software vendor Infragistics is expanding its presence in the analytics space.

• August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19

  Deal boosts MicroStrategy platform's foray into government

  Through its new deal with ImmixGroup, a distributor of enterprise software to the public sector, MicroStrategy aims to increase sales of its BI platform to government agencies.

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  Pyramid sees opportunity in staying an independent BI company

  As competitors merge forces, Pyramid Analytics not only chooses to stay independent but also sees an opportunity to grow into the space left behind by the wave of consolidation.

• 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.

• 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.

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Google acquisition of Looker to boost Google Cloud analytics

  By acquiring Looker, Google will enhance its analytics and BI capabilities available through Google Cloud, while becoming a formidable force in the enterprise-level BI space.

• May 22, 2019 22 May'19

  Latest Tableau BI software update upgrades map technology

  Tableau Software has released Tableau 2019.2, an update to previous BI software. It includes upgrades to location data, new vector maps and other requested upgrades.

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Sisense acquisition of Periscope yields versatile BI platform

  The Sisense merger with Periscope Data is expected to create a new, combined BI product that will cater to casual business users and advanced data scientists alike.

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Qlik multi-cloud, Kubernetes options drive cloud-first vision

  Qlik advances its plan to be a cloud- and SaaS-first analytics vendor with new multi-cloud and Kubernetes deployment options. But on prem still is a priority -- for now.

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Qlik debuts free data literacy certification

  Qlik unveiled a free data literacy certification in the hopes of making people -- both customers and non-customers -- more data literate.

• May 03, 2019 03 May'19

  SAS Viya cloud software at center of SAS analytics strategy

  The spotlight at SAS Global Forum 2019 was on the vendor's Viya analytics tools, which are getting new functionality and licensing options meant to spur deployments.

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  SAS Platform update expands AI in Viya cloud analytics tools

  A new version of the SAS analytics platform adds a variety of AI features to SAS Viya, the cloud-based software that SAS hopes will secure its place in the AI future.

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Most in-demand data science skills include ML, Python

  Experts detail the skills employers want most in data scientists -- notably machine learning and programming languages -- and why often the most valuable expertise comes with time.

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Cloud AutoML, BigQuery ML upgrades expand Google stake in ML

  Google introduced a raft of updates to its cloud-based machine learning and AI products, including expanded capabilities for its AutoML and BigQuery ML tools.

• April 08, 2019 08 Apr'19

  Google's BigQuery ML needs big changes to compete

  On the eve of Google Cloud Next '19, experts assess the impact of Google's BigQuery ML since its release and their hopes for the automated machine learning tool's future.

• 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.

• 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.