Microsoft Power BI will track progress towards goals
Microsoft has released Power BI Goals. The software allows users to track how close their companies are to achieving specific goals.
The goal of Goals is to bridge the distance from tracking company data to comparing that data to a company's goals, Microsoft says in its announcement. With Goals,...
‘ThoughtSpot and Snowflake is a well-oiled data machine together’
The data world is currently experiencing a wave of innovation. Some new IT vendors are disrupting the market. ThoughtSpot and Snowflake are two of those companies. The Business Intelligence (BI) vendor and data warehouse vendor have a strong partnership, as they complement each other.
Many IT p...
Microsoft adds new security features to Power BI
Microsoft has added a couple of new security features to its Power BI platform for business intelligence. The features provide options to better limit who can access what data.
Arun Ulag of Microsoft explains the new security options in Power BI in a blog post. These mainly revolve around networ...
‘With Active Intelligence, your business is prepared for the future’
The world of analytics is shifting towards Active Intelligence, according to data specialist Qlik. With Active Intelligence, an organisation takes a step forward into modernisation and is prepared for the future. During the recent Data Revolution Virtual Summit, Qlik discussed exactly what your bus...
ThoughtSpot makes Cloud BI feel more like social media
ThoughtSpot has unveiled a new version of ThoughtSpot Cloud, called ThoughtSpot One. The software is supposed to be more user-friendly and should feel more like "consumer applications like Google, Twitter, and Spotify".
An important improvement in ThoughtSpot One is the improved search function....
Databricks launches SQL Analytics
Databricks (the AI and data analytics company) announced that it was launching the SQL Analytics service to make it easy for data analysts to perform standard SQL queries directly on data lakes.
With this new capability, an enterprise will now connect their BI (Business Intelligence) tools like ...
ThoughtSpot is a rising star in the BI world
In recent years, the Business Intelligence (BI) world has been dominated by a handful of vendors. However, ThoughtSpot is on the rise. It records strong growth figures, is appreciated by analysts and has recently entered some new markets. Time for a conversation with the CEO of ThoughtSpot, Sudhees...
TIBCO expands its enterprise reach by acquiring Information Builders
TIBCO Software is on the acquiring Information Builders in a move that will bring their combined 70 years of data management expertise under one roof. Information Builders was founded in 1975 in New York City. Since then, it has been providing tools for data analysis for upward of 45 years now.
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The Google Analytics update brings ML to reveal useful customer data
Brands want more and better information about their target markets. Just this week, Twilio bought the customer data startup Segment for a reported $3.2 billion. Google is no different than any other company in the same space.
Yesterday, it announced a slew of updates to Google Analytics to help ...
Qlik BI switches to end-to-end data platform
Qlik aims to play a bigger role in the data analytics journey of enterprises. This means addressing both Business Intelligence (BI) and data integration. A unified approach which Qlik calls an end-to-end data platform, ultimately leading to 'Active Intelligence'.
The BI industry is experiencing ...
Qlik works on a platform for the next phase of business intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) is a data discipline that is just entering a new phase. At least, that's the message Qlik's Elif Tutuk from the Research & Development department conveyed to us in a recent interview. The software supplier is busy preparing for this 'third generation BI', as Tutuk des...
Google completes billion-dollar acquisition of BI firm Looker
Google announces that it has officially completed the acquisition of Looker. The acquisition of 2.6 billion dollars (2.3 billion euros) was awaiting approval from a British regulator.
In June 2019, Google announced that it was taking over the business intelligence (BI) provider, with the immedia...