Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of October 18, 2024.
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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of October 18, 2024
Alteryx, Salesforce & Others Ask U.S. House to Draw Distinction Between AI Players
A group of AI integration industry leaders today submitted a joint submitted to the House of Representatives leadership by Alteryx, Salesforce, Twilio, Box, Kyndryl, and Peraton.
Cube Drops New Data Modeling and AI Features at First User Conference
Additionally, Cube announced new capabilities for Semantic Catalog and its promotion to being generally available to Cube Cloud users. With these exciting new features, users will see performance improvements, improved developer experience, and easier collaboration.
Databricks Extends Partnership with AWS for GenAI
Databricks will leverage AWS Trainium chips as the preferred AI chip to power Mosaic AI model training and serving capabilities on AWS. Joint customers can leverage Mosaic AI to pretrain, fine-tune, augment and serve large language models (LLMs) on their private data, backed by the scale, performance and security of AWS. The expanded partnership will also include new integrations for Databricks on AWS Marketplace.
Microsoft Retires Real-Time Streaming in Power BI
This impacts organizations and users who use these capabilities today to stream data and update dashboards in real-time. The blog below outlines the changes, the timelines for deprecations, and recommended alternatives.
OneStream Launches Finance 2035 Initiative
The report, based on insights from a survey of 2,000 global CFOs, CEOs, line of business leaders, and investors, finds that investors identify the competence of the CFO as the most important factor when considering investing in a business, second only to market expansion and notably ranking above the competency of the CEO.
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Solutions Review Set to Host Infragistics for an Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on Custom Embedded BI Solutions, November 6
Hear from industry expert Jason Beres, VP of Developer Tools, and discover how the Visualization Catalog allows you to create a library of reusable visualizations, making the process of building dashboards and generating insights faster and easier.
Episode 1 of the Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro, Featuring BARC CEO Shawn Rogers
Join John Santaferraro for his interview with Shawn Rogers, CEO of BARC USA, about the current state and future of artificial intelligence in business. They discuss the evolution of data analytics, the impact of generative AI, and how companies can leverage these technologies to achieve digital dominance.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Seiner: Data Investor – A New Name for a Data Owner
Let’s put a fresh twist on a familiar concept in data governance. We’ve all heard the term “Data Owner” tossed around in boardrooms and governance meetings. It makes sense, right? Someone’s got to own the data, manage it, and be accountable for it. But what if I told you that thinking of people as “Data Owners” might not be the best way to approach it?
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Adopt a SAS-Inspired Data Operating Model to Win in the Competitive Business Battlefield
Before I start out, I must say that this post was inspired by Fred Lardaro. In a comment he made on my post yesterday, he talked about data strategy and operating models working like military operations. It got me thinking and I asked myself the question “what if the SAS (Special Air Service – UK Elite Special Forces Tier 1 Operators) were the folks creating your data strategy and making it real through an operating model to support the business strategy outcomes?”
SR Expert @ Insight Jam John Santaferraro: Unleashing the Power of Generative AI for Data and Analytics – Part 1
In the last year, Generative AI has created the wild, wild West for artificial intelligence. The tech world has gone from tacking “.ai” onto the end of their URL to the point where every vendor is now an AI company. The shift from a mobile-first to an AI-first approach was almost instantaneous, and whether we like it or not, we will all be changed by this latest invasion of AI.
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.
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