Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of April 11, 2025.
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 April 11, 2025
AI One Launches Out of Stealth
Originated in partnership with Nadia Partners and launching out of stealth today, AI One offers a clear, transformative solution: bypass legacy data lake implementations, unlock immediate value from existing data, and redirect bottom-line savings into top-line growth.
DataChat Secures Google Cloud Ready Designation
As part of this initiative, Google Cloud engineering teams validate partner integrations into BigQuery by running a series of data integration tests and comparing results against benchmarks as well as working closely with partners to fill any gaps and refine documentation.
Databricks Brings Meta Llama 4 to Data Intelligence Platform
Llama 4 marks a major leap forward in open, multimodal AI—delivering industry-leading performance, higher quality, larger context windows, and improved cost efficiency from the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture. All of this is accessible through the same unified REST API, SDK, and SQL interfaces, making it easy to use alongside all your models in a secure, fully governed environment.
Envoy Launches Rebuilt Actionable Analytics Experience
This launch includes a set of new and redesigned dashboards with interactive data visualizations—focused on occupancy, attendance, desks, rooms, visitors, and workplace deliveries. With intuitive filtering and custom reporting, Actionable Analytics empowers companies to make informed, data-driven decisions about workplace occupancy, employee attendance, space utilization, and more to help automate and facilitate workplace operations.
Google BigQuery and Looker BI Set for Agentic AI Makeover
According to Google, the data engineering agent will simplify and accelerate analytics tasks as data practitioners, typically, have to spend a majority chunk of their time creating a pipeline for data and preparing data to get actionable insights from it.
Microsoft Updates Power BI Embedded Analytics Accelerator Program
These accelerators significantly reduce time-to-market for delivering self-service analytics solutions integrated into multi-tenant, customer-facing web applications. They also enhance the Power BI Embedded user experience by providing additional functionality.
Plotly Announces New Dash Enterprise Version 5.7
The latest enhancements improve the platform’s AI-powered development capabilities, strengthen enterprise security, and improve user experience. This release builds upon Plotly’s commitment to empowering data scientists, analysts, and developers to create sophisticated, interactive data applications with unprecedented ease and efficiency.
Qrvey Unveils New Embedded BI Services
Designed to augment in-house product delivery teams, Qrvey effectively embeds within your team to optimize product roadmap planning, implementation, testing, and deployment of your embedded analytics solution.
ThoughtSpot Upgrades Learning Experience in ThoughtSpot University
Their learning hub is designed to equip every member of your team—from business users and data leaders to developers and analysts—with the latest tools, tips, and resources so you can get the most out of your data.
Expert Insights Section
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AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 21
Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.
Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21
In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal Writes: AI is More Than ChatGPT
While in some cases it’s fine to use general terms, I think it’s important that we are specific when talking about AI because there are many different types of AI solutions which are based on differing capabilities and functionalities. These differences matter, especially when you are new to the topic or trying to solve a very specific problem.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham Asks: Should the Data Governance Manager be Responsible for MDM Implementation?
When you become known as the Data Governance manager or lead in your company, people might start thinking you’re responsible for everything related to data. But that’s not really the case. So, when a company needs to choose a master data management (MDM) tool, should the Data Governance manager be in charge? Or is there a better way?
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma Writes: How Your Competitors Are Using Data to Crush You and How You Can Fight Back
In 1997 I wrote my thesis on “The Application of Information Warfare to Business Strategy & Planning.” A large part of it was based on my understanding of how information (and this means data too), could and will be used as a weapon in the future. I even applied the teachings on Sun Tzu to the equation and a bunch of business strategy frameworks from Porter, Kotler and others. It was only this morning that I was thinking about it again and how it applies to the world of business we live in now.
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King Lists the 28 Best AI Agents for Data Engineering for 2025
In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, we break down the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for data engineering, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs — whether you’re building real-time ETL pipelines, managing complex data ecosystems, or embedding AI into your operational workflows.
On-Demand! Insight Jam Hosted Cher Fox for the Jam Session: Data Trust Decoded: Moving Beyond Compliance
Great news! We’ve added a second Jam Session each month. Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around transparency, accountability, and ethical practices in the world of data governance.
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