Business intelligence technology

Technical requirements needed to analyze huge amounts of corporate data are increasingly complex. Business intelligence technologies such as data discovery processes, data warehouses and data visualization have become essential for enterprises to tap into the business value of information. Learn about the latest BI technologies designed to help create value from big data.

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Tip 11 Apr 2024
Speed up Python and NumPy by avoiding the conversion tax

Data and memory transfers in Python come with a hidden performance tax. Here's how to use NumPy for optimal performance by avoiding jumps across a hidden line of conversions. Continue Reading
News 10 Apr 2024
Collibra launches AI Governance, unveils GenAI capabilities

The vendor's AI Governance suite enables users to ensure the quality and security of AI models while new GenAI features let them automate data quality and governance. Continue Reading

Definition 10 Apr 2024

Zoom fatigue (virtual meeting fatigue)

Zoom fatigue, also known as 'virtual meeting fatigue,' is the feeling of exhaustion that often occurs after attending a series of virtual video meetings. Continue Reading
News 09 Apr 2024

Google Cloud to inject Gemini into data, analytics tools

The tech giant unveiled integrations between its LLM and BigQuery, Looker and its databases to provide customers with a foundation for developing GenAI models and applications. Continue Reading
News 04 Apr 2024

Coalesce raises $50M to expand data transformation platform

The startup's new funding is a vote of confidence from investors given how difficult it has been for technology vendors to secure financing over the past two years. Continue Reading
News 04 Apr 2024

Aerospike raises $114M to fuel database innovation for GenAI

The vendor will use the funding to develop added vector search and storage capabilities as well as graph technology, both of which can be used to train generative AI models. Continue Reading
News 02 Apr 2024

AI assistant from Tableau targets efficiency, deep analysis

The analytics vendor's copilot can recommend questions that might lead to otherwise undiscovered insights as well as understand follow-up questions that result in deep analysis. Continue Reading
News 01 Apr 2024

Vector search and storage key to AWS' database strategy

The tech giant is prioritizing vector search and storage, adding the capabilities to its data storage tools so customers can use them with language models to build AI applications. Continue Reading
News 27 Mar 2024

New Databricks open source LLM targets custom development

The data platform vendor's new language model was designed to provide open source users with AI development capabilities similar to those provided by closed source models. Continue Reading
News 27 Mar 2024

Domo to add prebuilt models, chat capabilities to AI suite

The BI vendor's latest innovations include conversational analytics capabilities and prebuilt models designed to help customers forecast outcomes and conduct sentiment analysis. Continue Reading
News 26 Mar 2024

New embeddable MicroStrategy Auto bot expands AI beyond BI

The longtime analytics vendor's new bot enables customers to embed emerging technology in third-party applications just as they are now able to embed traditional BI. Continue Reading
News 21 Mar 2024

Databricks acquisition of Lilac targets GenAI development

The data platform vendor's latest purchase expands its generative AI development capabilities by adding improved access to unstructured data that can be used to train models. Continue Reading
News 19 Mar 2024

Confluent adds support for Apache Flink, unveils update

The streaming specialist has added a managed service for the popular open source compute layer so customers can use the tools of their choice to develop a data ecosystem. Continue Reading
News 19 Mar 2024

Redpanda serverless streaming option targets cost control

The real-time data management specialist's new serverless platform enables customers to pay only for the compute power they use, which helps predict and manage spending. Continue Reading
News 14 Mar 2024

Sisense targets hardcore developers with new toolkit

The embedded BI specialist's latest update features a software development kit that enables developers to compose applications using prebuilt APIs, libraries and visualizations. Continue Reading
News 14 Mar 2024

Databricks partners with Mistral AI to aid GenAI development

The data cloud vendor joins Microsoft and Snowflake in partnering with -- and investing in -- the startup to provide customers with access to Mistral's open source language models. Continue Reading
News 12 Mar 2024

Snowflake boosting its commitment to AI, including GenAI

Recent moves, including the appointment of a new CEO and the formation of a new partnership, are representative of the vendor's heightened focus on artificial intelligence. Continue Reading
Definition 12 Mar 2024

Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence (BI) platform that provides nontechnical business users with tools for aggregating, analyzing, visualizing and sharing data. Continue Reading
News 11 Mar 2024

Alation platform update targets building a data culture

New business lineage and data discovery capabilities aimed at helping customers develop an enterprise-wide data culture are included in the data catalog specialist's latest update. Continue Reading
News 11 Mar 2024

Ocient raises $49.4M in funding to fuel development, growth

The data platform vendor plans to use the new financing for product development and to fund sales and marketing efforts as it moves into its growth phase. Continue Reading
News 05 Mar 2024

New Informatica governance suite automates data access

The vendor's new suite of AI-powered capabilities manage access to an enterprise's proprietary information to help ensure security and compliance while enabling analysis. Continue Reading
News 05 Mar 2024

Snowflake signals AI commitment with Mistral AI partnership

Days after appointing a new CEO, the data cloud vendor showed a heightened focus on emerging technologies by aligning closely with a rising large language model developer. Continue Reading
News 29 Feb 2024

Couchbase unveils vector search that extends to the edge

The vendor's new capabilities will enable users to feed and train AI models, and through an embeddable version of its database extend to edge devices for real-time insight. Continue Reading
News 29 Feb 2024

Google Cloud unveils new GenAI-fueled data, analytics tools

The tech giant introduced extensive support for vector search and improved access to unstructured data while also making a pair of GenAI capabilities generally available. Continue Reading
News 29 Feb 2024

Snowflake CEO Slootman steps down, Ramaswamy takes over

Slootman resigns after five years at the helm of the data cloud vendor. Revenues grew fivefold under him and the company went public in a record-setting initial public offering. Continue Reading
News 29 Feb 2024

Collibra adds AI governance to data management platform

The data management vendor's new suite adds capabilities aimed at enabling enterprises to safely and securely use AI the same way data governance frameworks apply to data. Continue Reading
News 28 Feb 2024

Alation broadens ecosystem with spate of new integrations

The data catalog specialist is adding integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB and Apache Kafka -- among others -- to broaden the connectivity of its data ecosystem. Continue Reading
Definition 27 Feb 2024

edge analytics

Edge analytics is an approach to data collection and analysis in which an automated analytical computation is performed on data at a sensor, network switch or other device instead of waiting for the data to be sent back to a centralized data store. Continue Reading
News 26 Feb 2024

Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities

The analytics database vendor's trio of new AI capabilities, including the ability to pull in GenAI models, aims to improve the efficiency of decision-making. Continue Reading
News 20 Feb 2024

Generative AI dominates Google's data and analytics roadmap

Following recent integrations between Gemini and the tech giant's major data and analytics platforms, more product innovations featuring LLMs are expected over the next few months. Continue Reading
News 14 Feb 2024

Alteryx, Databricks expand complementary partnership

The expanded partnership features new integrations designed to better enable joint customers to combine self-service data preparation and analysis with data science and AI. Continue Reading
News 13 Feb 2024

Alation launches benchmark tool to assess data maturity

The data catalog specialist's new tool examines four key criteria, including literacy and governance, in assessing an organization's business intelligence culture. Continue Reading
Definition 13 Feb 2024

data mining

Data mining is the process of sorting through large data sets to identify patterns and relationships that can help solve business problems through data analysis. Continue Reading
Feature 08 Feb 2024

Effective integration key to creating trusted data

Pipelines and platforms capable of managing volume and combining information from disparate sources in real time are key to the agile decision-making needs of modern organizations. Continue Reading
Feature 07 Feb 2024

Treating data as a product a method to grow analytics use

Treating BI assets such as models and dashboards as commodities is an emerging trend as organizations continue to seek new ways of making analytics use more widespread. Continue Reading
News 06 Feb 2024

New Acceldata co-pilot targets efficiency, broader use

The data observability specialist's new generative AI-powered capabilities are designed to help experts be more efficient as well as enable non-technical users to work with data. Continue Reading
News 01 Feb 2024

Databricks acquisition of Einblick enhances GenAI portfolio

The data lakehouse pioneer's latest purchase adds NLP capabilities to the generative AI features at the core of its new Data Intelligence Platform. Continue Reading
News 31 Jan 2024

Rockset targets cost control with latest database update

The real-time database specialist added new compute power optimization and workload autoscaling capabilities to help customers better control their cloud computing costs. Continue Reading
News 31 Jan 2024

ThoughtSpot update adds feedback loop to help train GenAI

The vendor continues to focus on generative AI, updating its conversational interface with more in-depth analysis capabilities and adding new methods of improving LLM accuracy. Continue Reading
Feature 26 Jan 2024

Rise of generative AI heightens need for data quality

Good information has always been key to fuel good decisions, but with LLMs prone to hallucinations, it's critical that the models be trained with intelligence that can be trusted. Continue Reading
Feature 25 Jan 2024

18 data science tools to consider using in 2024

Numerous tools are available for data science applications. Read about 18, including their features, capabilities and uses, to see if they fit your analytics needs. Continue Reading
News 24 Jan 2024

SingleStore update adds new tools to fuel GenAI, analytics

The database vendor unveiled Pro Max, a rebranded version of its platform that includes new vector search and change data capture capabilities that enable AI and BI at scale. Continue Reading
Feature 23 Jan 2024

Databricks lakehouse a key tool for champion Texas Rangers

The Rangers relied on the data management vendor's tools to develop metrics that led to key personnel and strategic decisions that helped Texas win its first World Series. Continue Reading
News 19 Jan 2024

Qlik's Kyndi acquisition targets unstructured data, GenAI

The longtime analytics vendor's latest purchase adds support for unstructured data that can be combined with structured data to inform GenAI models and improve decision-making. Continue Reading
News 18 Jan 2024

Ascend.io, DBT integration targets cost control, efficiency

The partnership aims to address the difficulty of efficiently and inexpensively deploying and managing data models developed in DBT by automating previously manual processes. Continue Reading
News 17 Jan 2024

Pinecone unveils serverless vector database, targets costs

The vendor's new tool is designed to help customers control their cloud computing costs while developing and maintaining generative AI applications and models. Continue Reading
News 17 Jan 2024

Databricks launches platform for the telecom industry

The data lakehouse vendor's latest industry-specific set of tools is aimed at telecommunications providers that features a GenAI chatbot and customized analytics capabilities. Continue Reading
News 12 Jan 2024

Microsoft unveils new GenAI, data tools for retail industry

The tech giant is adding industry-specific features in Data Fabric along with GenAI Copilots designed to better personalize shopping as well as aid frontline workers in real time. Continue Reading
News 09 Jan 2024

Generative AI a key tech for analytics, but within limits

Despite its potential benefits, including increased productivity, users need to be wary of overreliance on generative AI given its propensity for delivering incorrect outputs. Continue Reading
News 09 Jan 2024

Dresner: Analytics trends include prioritization of BI

While generative AI is the BI craze of the moment, increased investments in BI, attempts to expand BI use to business users and embedded analytics are also in vogue. Continue Reading
Feature 27 Dec 2023

Vector search now a critical component of GenAI development

The feature's ability to make unstructured data discoverable as well as locate similar data points among potentially billions make it ideal for helping train generative AI models. Continue Reading
Definition 21 Dec 2023

sentiment analysis (opinion mining)

Sentiment analysis systems help organizations gather insights into real-time customer sentiment, customer experience and brand reputation. Continue Reading
News 20 Dec 2023

Qlik's Mozaic acquisition adds decentralized data management

The longtime analytics vendor continues to expand into data management, now adding capabilities that enable a decentralized approach and an emphasis on data products. Continue Reading
News 19 Dec 2023

Snowflake acquisition of Samooha adds data clean room tools

The data cloud vendor's purchase aims to give users a way to share data with partners and collaborate on decisions without compromising data privacy and security. Continue Reading
News 18 Dec 2023

Alteryx to be acquired by private equity firms for $4.4 billion

Following slow revenue growth in recent quarters, the data management vendor will become a private company and be afforded time to restructure. Continue Reading
Feature 18 Dec 2023

Infusion of generative AI into analytics a work in progress

Many vendors have introduced tools that integrate LLM technology with their platforms, but most are still refining the tools to ensure their accuracy and security. Continue Reading
Definition 12 Dec 2023

complex event processing (CEP)

Complex event processing (CEP) is the use of technology to predict high-level events. It is a method of tracking and analyzing streams of data to gain real-time information about events. Continue Reading
News 08 Dec 2023

Knime updates analytics platform with new GenAI capabilities

The vendor's latest release improves the accuracy of its GenAI chatbot, including citations so users can know the source of the chatbot's responses, and features a new UI. Continue Reading
News 08 Dec 2023

Databricks intros suite to aid generative AI development

The data lakehouse vendor's new set of tools includes vector search and aims to enable users to develop data pipelines that train language models with proprietary data. Continue Reading
News 29 Nov 2023

AWS unveils Amazon Q in QuickSight to add more generative AI

The tech giant's new generative AI chatbot could help more employees within organizations work with data by enabling them to query and analyze data using conversational language. Continue Reading
News 29 Nov 2023

New AWS tools simplify access, management of data at scale

The tech giant revealed serverless tools that eliminate limitations on workload size as well as integrations that simplify access to data within the Amazon Web Services ecosystem. Continue Reading
News 28 Nov 2023

Starburst update adds new GenAI, streaming data features

Galaxy, the cloud-based version of the vendor's platform, now includes text-to-code translation capabilities as well as automated governance and real-time ingestion tools. Continue Reading
Feature 21 Nov 2023

American Airlines lowers data management costs with Intel

As the airline giant moves more of its data workloads to the cloud, tools from Intel's Granulate are making platforms such as Microsoft's Azure Data Lake more efficient. Continue Reading
News 17 Nov 2023

Databricks puts AI at core of new Data Intelligence Platform

The vendor's new platform, now in beta testing, combines its existing lakehouse with AI to better enable users to manage and prepare data for model training and analytics. Continue Reading
Tip 16 Nov 2023

Generative AI won't replace data analysts

Generative AI isn't going to replace data analysts. It can help analysts be more effective, but it lacks human insights and knowledge to properly do the job. Continue Reading
News 15 Nov 2023

IBI launches new full-featured data management platform

The data management and BI specialist has released Data Intelligence, an AI-driven suite that includes data quality and data integration capabilities in an integrated environment. Continue Reading
News 15 Nov 2023

Microsoft launches Fabric, adds Copilot for the new platform

The suite unites Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics and Data Factory in an integrated environment to better enable data management and analysis, including developing AI models. Continue Reading
Definition 14 Nov 2023

business intelligence dashboard

A business intelligence dashboard, or BI dashboard, is a data visualization and analysis tool that displays on one screen the status of key performance indicators (KPIs) and other important business metrics and data points for an organization, department, team or process. Continue Reading
Definition 09 Nov 2023

self-service business intelligence (self-service BI)

Self-service business intelligence (BI) is an approach to data analytics that enables business users to access and explore data sets even if they don't have a background in BI or related functions such as data mining and statistical analysis. Continue Reading
News 09 Nov 2023

MongoDB unveils Atlas for Retail, Partner Ecosystem Catalog

The database vendor is making industry verticalization a significant part of its product roadmap to help customers in various industries develop applications that meet their needs. Continue Reading
News 08 Nov 2023

Monte Carlo unveils data observability for vector databases

The vendor's new integration with vector database specialist Pinecone is designed to enable users to ensure quality of the data they use to train generative AI models. Continue Reading
News 03 Nov 2023

Generative AI capabilities highlight latest Denodo update

The data virtualization specialist's platform update includes natural language processing capabilities that reduce repetitive tasks as well as some complexities of data management. Continue Reading
News 01 Nov 2023

Snowflake previews slew of AI, governance, development tools

The data cloud vendor introduced more than a dozen features currently in various stages of development designed to help users build and govern data models and applications. Continue Reading
News 31 Oct 2023

TigerGraph update adds enterprise-scale capabilities

The graph database vendor's platform now features improved workload management capabilities and support for Kubernetes to meet the data processing needs of large organizations. Continue Reading
News 27 Oct 2023

Tableau update highlighted by new embedded analytics tool

In addition to Embedding Playground, the longtime BI vendor's latest platform update features new metadata management capabilities and an integration with Google Docs. Continue Reading
News 25 Oct 2023

Alation adds trio of partnerships to improve data insight

The data catalog vendor's connectors to Monte Carlo, Sigma Computing and ThoughtSpot aim to make it easier for users to get insights from data to inform decisions and actions. Continue Reading
News 25 Oct 2023

Neo4j updates graph database to improve performance speed

The vendor's latest update includes new parallel analytical query and transactional query runtime capabilities as well as automated real-time data tracking via change data capture. Continue Reading
News 23 Oct 2023

Databricks' $100m acquisition of Arcion adds data ingestion

The data lakehouse specialist's latest purchase adds native data ingestion capabilities that will help users stream data in real time to inform AI and machine learning models. Continue Reading
News 19 Oct 2023

GoodData launches new platform for AI, ML and BI workflows

The vendor's FlexHouse Analytics Lake provides a single environment for normally disparate data assets to simplify AI, analytics and machine learning development and analysis. Continue Reading
News 19 Oct 2023

DBT Labs updates Semantic Layer, adds data mesh enablement

New semantic modeling capabilities include support for dynamic joins, while added support for data mesh represents evolution beyond the vendor's roots in data transformation. Continue Reading
News 17 Oct 2023

Alluxio launches orchestration layer optimized for AI, ML

The data orchestration specialist introduced Enterprise AI, a new version of its platform optimized for AI and machine learning models with improved performance and greater scale. Continue Reading
Definition 17 Oct 2023

actionable intelligence

Actionable intelligence is information that can be immediately used or acted upon -- either tactically in direct response to an evolving situation, or strategically as the result of an analysis or assessment. Continue Reading
News 17 Oct 2023

SingleStore unveils features aimed at enabling real-time AI

The database vendor's new vector search capabilities, compute layer and integrations are all designed to enable customers to build and deploy real-time generative AI models. Continue Reading
News 12 Oct 2023

Logi now Insightsoftware's unified embedded analytics suite

Logi Symphony combines capabilities from numerous Insightsoftware acquisitions and adds support for generative AI so that users can build and embed AI-infused applications. Continue Reading
News 11 Oct 2023

Data catalog expert Alation unveils genAI, benchmark tools

Analytics Cloud enables users to measure the maturity of their data management and analytics operations while new generative AI tools address the efficiency of data workers. Continue Reading
News 05 Oct 2023

MicroStrategy launches new suite of generative AI tools

The longtime analytics vendor's suite incorporates LLM technology to make users more efficient by enabling them to use natural language to query, model and analyze data. Continue Reading
Definition 05 Oct 2023

IBM Watson supercomputer

Watson was a supercomputer designed and developed by IBM. This advanced computer combined artificial intelligence (AI), automation and sophisticated analytics capabilities to deliver optimal performance as a 'question answering' machine. Continue Reading
News 04 Oct 2023

Databricks improves support for generative AI models

A new service enables users to easily deploy privately built language models and uses a GPU-based architecture to optimize and manage the models once on the lakehouse platform. Continue Reading
News 03 Oct 2023

New Boomi AI tool enables natural language data integration

The iPaaS vendor's new capabilities are aimed at increasing efficiency by enabling customers to build pipelines and manage data using natural language rather than code. Continue Reading
News 28 Sep 2023

Sisense unveils composable toolkit for app development

Compose SDK for Fusion is a composable set of APIs that enable developers to build customized advanced analytics applications to inform business users within their normal workflow. Continue Reading
News 26 Sep 2023

Acceldata makes acquisition to improve AI, LLM observability

The acquisition will give users more visibility into generative AI and LLM pipelines in addition to the traditional data pipelines already served by the vendor. Continue Reading
News 22 Sep 2023

SAS unveils plans to add generative AI to analytics suite

After holding off on integrating with LLMs until it could ensure data security and accurate outcomes, the vendor is making industry-specific tools the focus of its AI strategy. Continue Reading
News 20 Sep 2023

Spotfire unveils generative AI plans, adds to pre-built apps

The analytics specialist introduced the private preview of Copilot, which will enable customers to ask questions of their data and receive responses without having to write code. Continue Reading
News 20 Sep 2023

Oracle unveils new suite for analytics, AI data management

The tech giant's new Fusion Data Intelligence Platform is aimed at fueling AI, BI and data management so customers can quickly take action based on analysis and insight. Continue Reading
News 14 Sep 2023

Databricks lands $500M in new funding, now valued at $43B

The data lakehouse pioneer recently acquired MosaicML for $1.3 billion and could use the new capital to finance acquisitions and further investment in generative AI. Continue Reading
News 12 Sep 2023

Staige: A new Qlik portfolio for traditional AI, genAI and ML

The analytics and data integration vendor's new suite combines AI and ML capabilities with generative AI to provide a secure and governed environment for development and analysis. Continue Reading
News 12 Sep 2023

Einstein 1 Data Cloud fuels Salesforce's AI, analytics

The CRM giant's new metadata management layer is capable of processing more data than previous versions to better enable customers' artificial intelligence and analytics needs. Continue Reading
Feature 08 Sep 2023

7 ways to prevent tech buyer's remorse

Tech buyer's remorse is on the rise due to factors such as lack of research, poor vendor communication and impulse buying. Explore seven tips to avoid tech buyer's remorse. Continue Reading
News 07 Sep 2023

Collibra acquires data notebook vendor for analytics tools

The data management specialist will add query and analysis capabilities to its portfolio of data quality and data governance tools with its new acquisition. Continue Reading
News 31 Aug 2023

Embedded analytics a way for organizations to broaden BI use

By delivering data to workers within their workflows in an easily digestible form, inserting BI into other applications is one way organizations can broaden the use of analytics. Continue Reading
News 30 Aug 2023

New set of Domo tools enables generative AI development

The analytics vendor's new artificial intelligence suite includes integrations with ChatGPT and other LLMs along with text-to-code translation that simplifies development. Continue Reading
News 28 Aug 2023

Google unveils generative AI integrations for data tools

Integrations between Duet AI and both Looker and BigQuery are among the features and integrations the tech giant is planning for its data and analytics tools. Continue Reading