Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of July 4; Updates from Domo, Manta AI, Power BI & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of July 4, 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 July 4, 2025

Alteryx Names Arvind Krishnan as New CTO

Krishnan will lead Alteryx’s global engineering team, driving product velocity, platform reliability, and operational excellence. His appointment comes as Alteryx expands its platform capabilities to deliver seamless integration across cloud ecosystems, enable trusted enterprise-wide AI, and deliver secure, governed analytics at scale.

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Databricks Intros New AI Governance Framework

As organizations embrace AI at scale, the need for formal governance grows. Enterprises must align AI development with business goals, meet legal obligations, and account for ethical risks. This framework is designed to support program development, deployment, and continuous improvement.

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Datavault AI Joins White House Experience Council

Datavault AI was recently appointed to the White House Experience Advisory Council, a group established by the White House Historical Association to modernize how the Executive Mansion shares and preserves American history. This appointment positions Datavault AI alongside key leaders engaged in preserving and sharing national heritage through innovative technology.

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Domo Collaborates with Snowflake on AI Analytics & Cloud Integration

As part of this expansion, Domo’s managed offering, Powered by Snowflake, enables Domo to offer a fully managed, analytics and BI solution. Domo will maintain and operate the Snowflake environment, simplifying deployment, management, and billing for customers—who benefit from seamless access to Domo’s Magic ETL, connectors, dashboards, and low-code apps without managing the infrastructure themselves.

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KNIME Launches Analytics Platform 5.5

You now have more choice when selecting AI models with new connectors that let you use Anthropic Claude, Gemini models from Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, as well as models from IBM watsonx.ai, helping you match the best model to your needs.

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Manta AI Secures New Funding Round for ‘Future’ of Data Science

At its core, Manta makes sophisticated data analysis radically accessible. Instead of hiring full analytics teams or waiting weeks for results, organizations – from local governments to national nonprofits – can ask Manta questions and get defensible, elegant answers in just minutes.

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Microsoft Updates Copilot in Power BI

You can ask Copilot natural language questions directly about report data, and it will generate answers using the actual visuals from your report – those same visuals that authors intentionally designed to answer real business questions.

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Expert Insights

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

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Viral Shopify CEO Manifesto Says AI Now Mandatory for All Employees by Douglas Laney

A confidential memo from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke has circulated among executive members, generating significant attention due to its important content. The document represents a vivid guide toward proper CEO leadership within AI-terminal societies.

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Jam Session On-Demand: Future-Proofing Your Data Architecture with Wayne Eckerson

Our Jammers tackle the perpetual challenge of building data architectures that don’t become tomorrow’s technical debt. Host Wayne Eckerson leads a panel of battle-tested data architects who’ve witnessed countless architectures crumble under the weight of changing business needs and evolving technology.

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The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring Philip Russom, PhD.: Is Autonomous Data Engineering Finally Here?

Together, they unpack the evolution from basic automation to true AI-driven autonomy, exploring how generative AI has become the new user interface for data platforms while agentic AI promises to revolutionize entire data engineering workflows. Their expert conversation reveals why we’re standing at the precipice of a transformation that could free data engineers from mundane tasks to focus on strategic, creative work that truly drives business value.

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