Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of November 22, 2024.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.
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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of November 22, 2024
Anaconda Releases New Toolbox for Excel
With secure, accessible analytics tools — including enhanced data preparation, statistical modeling, and visualization features — the toolbox guides beginners while enabling developers to run complex code and support data driven decision-making.
AppSOC Partners with Databricks
This collaboration introduces robust security, governance, and compliance capabilities for organizations leveraging Databricks to develop and deploy AI models at scale. The integration is designed to address the growing need for securing AI models and workflows, enabling Databricks users to innovate confidently while maintaining stringent governance standards.
Domino Data Lab Brings Fall Release to Market
Domino’s Fall Release also introduces new Project Templates that allow enterprises to define and share AI project best practices —including code, datasets, environments, and configurations— in a few clicks. These templates increase the velocity, quality, and predictability of data science and AI projects.
Informatica Announces New Azure AI and Analytic Features
As enterprises increasingly turn to Azure OpenAI Service LLMs and GenAI applications, Informatica’s new suite of Microsoft-specific Gen AI solutions simplifies the creation of enterprise-grade GenAI applications and Microsoft Copilot experiences. Informatica’s Gen AI Blueprint for Azure OpenAI Service empower customers.
insightsoftware Launches Logi Symphony on Google Cloud
Logi Symphony is a highly adaptable BI platform, integrating diverse data sources and evolving with enterprise needs to unlock powerful analytics capabilities. Logi AI builds on this foundation with an open framework that integrates with any large language model (LLM), including Gemini models via the Vertex AI platform.
Luzmo Launches New Luzmo IQ for In-Workflow AI Analytics
Moving far beyond simple prompts, through automated reasoning, querying, summarization and relevance checks, Luzmo IQ delivers the ability to build and embed data products that can reason how to answer a user’s question so that responses are both highly context-aware and hyper-personalized.
OpenText Releases Cloud Editions 24.4 at OpenText World 2024
Seamless data flow across an organization’s cloud ecosystem is essential for data accessibility, informed decision-making, and operational continuity. OpenText Cloud Editions 24.4 provides the ideal foundation, supporting secure and efficient data movement across platforms while maintaining compliance and mitigating risk in complex multi-cloud setups.
Robling and AnswerRocket Deliver New Retail Analytics Tool
The retail industry has long struggled with effectively utilizing data due to siloed systems and limited analytics tools. Robling and AnswerRocket’s GenAI retail analytics platform addresses this challenge head-on, providing retailers with a revolutionary tool to transform their operations through actionable, real-time insights.
SAS Software Announces Viya Workbench for Learners
SAS Viya Workbench for Learners is a free cloud-based, on-demand compute environment that provides flexible programming environments and seamless tool integration. With support for both the SAS language and Python, users can quickly build models and analyze data, allowing students to gain valuable, real-world experience.
StarTree Unveils New Cloud Capabilities
StarTree has unveiled a set of new innovations designed to equip organizations to efficiently handle evolving data structures, enhance query performance, and streamline user access management, ensuring faster and more reliable real-time analytics at scale.
ThoughtSpot Names John Colson SVP of North American Sales
Colson brings more than 30 years of experience in the software industry, with a deep focus on analytics and a proven track record of building and scaling successful SaaS companies. Most recently, he led sales for Salesforce’s analytics business, overseeing CRM Analytics, Tableau, and Einstein Analytics.
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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Impetus, Deluxe, and Forrester Research for Exclusive Expert Roundtable on Unlocking the Power of Enterprise GenAI
The team at Solutions Review has partnered with Impetus to bring you a discussion from experts from Forrester Research, Impetus, and Deluxe Corporation that will help you take a dive deep into the real-world success stories of enterprises that are leading the charge with GenAI while discussing current and future trends.
NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst (John Santaferraro) Featuring John K. Thompson: Preparing for the AI Agent Revolution
They discuss how AI agents are poised to overtake generative AI as the next major technological advancement, with predictions that organizations will soon have more AI agents than employees. The conversation covers different types of AI agents, the challenges of governance and regulation, and the importance of AI literacy among executives and employees.
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