Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of December 5; Updates from Databricks, Power BI, Qlik & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of December 5, 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 December 5, 2025

AtScale Delivers Semantic Intelligence to Databricks MCP Marketplace

AtScale released its MCP Server in the Databricks MCP Marketplace, enabling AI agents to call the AtScale semantic layer as an action service and reason over governed business metrics instead of raw tables. By leveraging Databricks’ Model Context Protocol, enterprises can deploy trusted agentic systems that eliminate hallucinations and apply consistent business logic for use cases like revenue, churn, and margin analysis.​

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251201005442/en/AtScale-Delivers-Semantic-Intelligence-to-Databricks-MCP-Marketplace

Databricks Introduces Serverless Workspaces: Workspaces in Seconds

Databricks launched serverless workspaces that spin up in seconds, eliminating cluster management and simplifying how teams get started with analytics and AI workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The new model abstracts away infrastructure provisioning so users can focus on building data and AI applications while benefiting from automatic scaling, security, and cost controls.​

Read more → https://www.databricks.com/blog/workspaces-seconds-introducing-serverless-workspaces

New insightsoftware Report Exposes Confidence Gap Slowing AI Adoption Across Corporate Finance Teams

insightsoftware’s report “The AI Confidence Crisis in Corporate Finance” finds that while 58% of finance professionals see AI as essential to their roles, only 39% feel confident using it, revealing a widening confidence and skills gap. Limited time, training, and trust are slowing the shift from experimentation to full deployment, suggesting that enablement and change management, not just technology, are now the main barriers to AI adoption in finance.​

Read more → https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/11/24/3193547/0/en/New-insightsoftware-Report-Exposes-Confidence-Gap-Slowing-AI-Adoption-Across-Corporate-Finance-Teams.html

Microsoft Deprecates Power BI Q&A in Favor of Power BI Copilot

Microsoft announced the deprecation of Power BI Q&A, its legacy natural language query feature, which will be fully retired in December 2026 and replaced by Power BI Copilot for natural language analytics. Customers are encouraged to migrate scenarios to Copilot, which offers a more advanced generative AI interface for asking questions, creating visuals, and exploring insights over their data.​

Read more → https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deprecating-power-bi-qa/

Model N Launches Data nSights: Real-Time Analytics to Drive Action and Optimize Net Revenue

Model N introduced Data nSights, a real-time analytics and data platform for life sciences and high-tech manufacturers that delivers curated, AI-ready data and a growing library of revenue management insights. The solution automates data pipelines and provides prebuilt dashboards, no-code BI, and dimensional data stores so teams can shift from manual data preparation to strategic decisions that reduce revenue leakage and improve profitability and compliance.​

Read more → https://www.8newsnow.com/business/press-releases/globenewswire/9592106/model-n-launches-data-nsights-real-time-analytics-to-drive-action-and-optimize-net-revenue/

Qlik Debuts Agentic Experience to Accelerate Data-to-Decision Workflows

Qlik introduced a new agentic experience that provides a single conversational interface where users across the enterprise can work with specialized AI agents to explore data, generate insights, and automate complex workflows. The experience is designed to boost productivity and decision speed by letting people interact with governed data in natural language, with rollout beginning via private previews after Qlik Connect 2025.​

Read more → https://www.qlik.com/us/news/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-debuts-agentic-experience

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Insight Jam Podcast: How AI is Transforming Education with Jo Cornelissen

DataCamp co-founder Jo Cornelissen reveals why we’re entering the third wave of online education. It’s going to disrupt everything from corporate training to traditional universities. In this episode, Doug and Jo explore how AI-powered adaptive learning is democratizing personalized education, why the $250,000 college degree model is on borrowed time, and what the bottom-up demand for AI upskilling really tells us about the future workforce.

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The Jam Session With Wayne Eckerson On-Demand: Why We Need a Universal Semantic Layer

Semantics have always been critical for data and analytics. Semantics are business and technical shortcuts to the raw material that comprises our reports, analyses, and predictive models. They are predefined views and definitions of subjects, dimensions, and metrics that make it easier for people and applications to query data and receive accurate, trustworthy answers.

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Thought Leaders: Stop Wasting Millions on Data & AI Projects That Fail to Scale

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Thought Leaders: Are We Using Data Literacy as a Crutch?

It’s easier to default to training stakeholders on how to read dashboards or interpret KPIs than to dig into the messy, complex, and sometimes ambiguous process of uncovering true executive priorities. When a dashboard doesn’t land or a request feels misaligned, we might shrug it off with, “They just need more data literacy.”

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Contributor Series: Your BI Tool is Dying: Your Career Doesn’t Have to

You’re scrolling LinkedIn and another post appears; someone building real-time analytics in the latest ‘cool’ BI tool, someone else talking about AI native business intelligence stacks. It all seems so futuristic. Meanwhile you maintain your old school dashboards and pipelines that break every time someone changes a column name and wonder what the hell an ‘ontology’ even is.

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