Tableau Extends Augmented Analytics, Bringing the Power of AI to Everyone

Tableau, a leading analytics platform (NYSE: CRM), is bringing data analytics and AI together in a suite of new and expanded augmented analytics features. Tableau’s latest release will empower more people with the right technology to make smarter and faster decisions regardless of their role and skill level.

eBook: How to Use Third-party Data to Make Smarter Decisions

Your business is reliant on data. The insights gained by using third-party data to complement your internal data can help you make smarter decisions when used with your internal data. At AWS Data Exchange can accelerate that capability. To help, we put together an eBook of our technical blogs that focus on using data from third-party providers to make informed decisions faster.

The Era Of Continuous Intelligence

In this contributed article, James Corcoran, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Kx, discusses the era of ‘continuous intelligence,’ namely the ability for organizations to make smarter decisions derived from insights gained from analysis of data – whether real time, historic or both in as short a time frame as possible.

How Yum! Brands Uses Location Data from Foursquare to Make Smarter Decisions

Join this virtual event with a compelling panel of technology leaders to discuss to discover how Yum! Brands and other organizations are leveraging location-based data to boost in-app location accuracy, increase in-store foot traffic, and expand e-commerce business.

COVID-19 Has Underscored the Need for Brands to Harness the World of Signals Around Them

In this contributed article, Gil Sadeh, Co-founder & CEO of Signals Analytics, says that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to be going anywhere – in fact, the future seems uncertain, leaving brands trying to find ways to adapt and strategize in order to stay afloat and satisfy their customers’ ever-changing needs. During this time, in order to stay ahead of the competition, many brands are turning to advanced analytics.

Qlik Announces Inaugural Professor Ambassador Class to Celebrate Educators Helping to Create a Data-Literate World

Qlik® announced its first-ever Academic Program Professor Ambassador Class, a select network of academics from the Qlik Academic Program, that have demonstrated dedication and excellence in leveraging Qlik to drive data literacy with analytics in the classroom and preparing students for the data-driven economy.

Data and Analytics: Delivering Clarity at a Time of Great Uncertainty

Don-Carolis, Managing Director of TrueCue, outlines three key data and analytics trends that will characterize the most forward-thinking businesses in 2021. Data, and the value which can be obtained from actionable, business intelligence, often acts as the differentiator between success and failure.

5 Tips for Making Data Work for Your Business

In this contributed article, Scott Ziemke, Director of Data Science, Vertafore, discusses how in order to overcome barriers to data & analytics success, companies must implement clear and relevant strategies that focus on real business cases. Too often data scientists get excited about data and its nuances, but the organization doesn’t know how to operationalize the insights and turn them into action that drives business results. Here’s how to overcome that problem, along with other tips that can help ensure you get the maximum ROI out of your data & analytics investment.

87 Percent of US Retailers Race to Achieve Faster Data-Driven Insights to Support Online Sales

Exasol, the high-performance analytics database, published new research that reveals since the pandemic started, 87% of retail organizations in the U.S. have been under pressure to make data-driven decisions faster. The finding comes from an in-depth research report, “Retail: Decision making during times of uncertainty,” that quantifies how retail organizations in the U.S. are heightening data-driven decision-making cycles to meet real-time demand and prepare for surging online sales brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Databricks Launches SQL Analytics to Enable Cloud Data Warehousing on Data Lakes

Databricks, the data and AI company, announced the launch of SQL Analytics, which for the first time enables data analysts to perform workloads previously meant only for a data warehouse on a data lake. This expands the traditional scope of the data lake from data science and machine learning to include all data workloads including Business Intelligence (BI) and SQL.