Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of October 4, 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 October 4, 2024
EXL and Databricks Extend Partnership
EXL will leverage the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, which enables companies to unify all their data and AI to, help clients fully harness their data for advanced analytics and AI applications. In addition, over the next several months, EXL plans to train and certify data engineers and data scientists in the Databricks ecosystem.
Dataiku Unveils New LLM Guard Services
Dataiku LLM Guard Services includes three solutions: Cost Guard, Safe Guard, and the newest addition, Quality Guard. These components are integrated within the Dataiku LLM Mesh, the market’s most comprehensive and agnostic LLM gateway, for building and managing enterprise-grade GenAI applications that will remain effective and relevant over time.
New AI Capabilities Now Available in MicroStrategy ONE
The new release marks the one-year anniversary of MicroStrategy AI. Over the last 12 months, MicroStrategy has innovated in close collaboration with customers to address many of the challenges that companies have faced in seeing value and ROI from generative AI (GenAI) across the enterprise, including integration complexity, hallucinations, and lack of trust.
Ocient Releases Third-Annual Big Data Report
The report reveals a significant shift in enterprise data analytics and management strategies as cloud costs and energy consumption become critical concerns, and companies increasingly prioritize their artificial intelligence spend.
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Free Event on October 24 – Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks & Expert Moderator Wayne Eckerson on Scaling AI with an Intelligent Data Platform:
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks, and Eckerson Group to hear from experts at Databricks, Microsoft, and Neudesic as they share practical learnings and best practices to ensure successful AI outcomes.
Free Event on October 29 – Impetus, Copa Airlines, Databricks & Expert Moderator William McKnight on Modernizing Workloads and Unifying Data Governance:
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Impetus, Copa Airlines, Databricks, and William McKnight on why enterprises are migrating their data warehouse workloads to Databricks to leverage its unified, scalable platform that enhances analytics and reduces operational costs and provides superior performance and price-performance to competitors like Snowflake.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: Panel of Experts Discuss How Organizations Can Stay Ahead of Evolving AI Regulation
Our expert panel discusses how organizations can navigate the challenges of using generative AI while staying compliant with evolving regulations and industry standards. The panelists explore AI governance, including legal and regulatory compliance, data provenance, ethical use, and ensuring the accuracy and safety of AI outputs.
New on Solutions Review Thought Leaders by Samir Sharma: A Value-Driven Perspective on Self-Service Analytics
Most executives think that they can switch this on and they will instantly get faster decision-making, employee empowerment, and operational efficiency. But, it isn’t that easy and most organisations today live in the midst of what I term “Spaghetti Junctionitis”
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