Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of January 16; Updates from Impetus, insightsoftware, Sisense & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of January 16, 2026.

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 January 16, 2026

Amplitude Acquires Infinigrow to Connect Product Analytics and Revenue Planning

Amplitude announced the acquisition of Infinigrow, a revenue and marketing planning platform, to link product‑usage analytics with budget allocation and pipeline forecasting. By combining user behavior data with campaign and spend intelligence, Amplitude aims to help go‑to‑market teams continuously optimize where they invest to drive revenue, not just engagement.

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Calero Appoints Industry Visionary Hyoun Park as Vice President of Telecom Mobility Management

Calero named Hyoun Park as VP of Telecom Mobility Management, bringing in a well‑known telecom and SaaS analyst to shape product strategy and thought leadership. Park will focus on helping enterprises rein in mobility, UCaaS, and connectivity costs while supporting AI‑era collaboration and device growth.

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IBM Launches Cloud Platform Tuned to Digital Sovereignty Requirements

IBM unveiled a new digitally sovereign cloud platform that allows governments and regulated enterprises to meet strict data residency, access, and control requirements while running modern AI and cloud‑native workloads. The platform combines IBM Cloud, partner infrastructure, and governance tooling so customers can keep sensitive data within specific jurisdictions, control who can operate underlying infrastructure, and still adopt generative and agentic AI services.​

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insightsoftware Introduces a Virtual Teammate With JustPerform Account Reconciliation

insightsoftware launched a JustPerform‑based “virtual teammate” that automates large parts of account reconciliation, from pulling balances and matching transactions to flagging anomalies. Finance teams can orchestrate workflows, reduce manual spreadsheet work, and maintain stronger audit trails across complex close processes.

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KNIME Enters Into Next Phase of Growth With the Appointment of Trevor Kaufman as CEO

KNIME founder and longtime CEO Michael Berthold is stepping down from the chief executive role, and the company has appointed Trevor Kaufman—former CEO of Piano and Possible Worldwide—to lead its next phase of SaaS‑style growth. Berthold will remain a shareholder and advisor as KNIME builds on its revamped platform for “data work in the era of agentic AI,” combining the open‑source KNIME Analytics Platform with the commercial KNIME Business Hub to operationalize data science at scale.​

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SAS Viya Now Available on Microsoft Azure Government for U.S. Public Sector

SAS announced that its Viya analytics and AI platform is now offered on Microsoft Azure Government, making it easier for U.S. agencies and partners to run governed AI and advanced analytics in a FedRAMP High environment. The move lets public sector customers modernize legacy analytics, build AI models, and operationalize decisions while meeting strict security and compliance requirements.

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SelectZero Releases December 2025 Updates for Cloud Cost and Emissions Intelligence

SelectZero’s December 2025 release adds richer Kubernetes and multi‑cloud cost breakdowns, an “Efficient Compute Score,” and automated rightsizing recommendations that factor in both spend and carbon impact. New dashboards help FinOps and platform teams prioritize optimizations with the biggest combined cost and emissions reductions, supporting greener AI and data infrastructure.​

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Sisense Delivers Faster, Smarter Analytics With AI

Sisense unveiled new AI‑driven capabilities that speed dashboard creation and insight discovery, including natural‑language querying and automated narrative explanations. The enhancements aim to help business users get to answers faster on complex, high‑volume datasets without depending on BI specialists for every question.

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Smartsense Launches Smartsense One at NRF for Unified Retail Monitoring

Digi’s Smartsense business introduced Smartsense One, a unified monitoring platform that combines sensors, gateways, and cloud analytics to track temperature, equipment health, and compliance across retail locations. The system is aimed at grocers, pharmacies, and foodservice brands that need automated monitoring, real‑time alerts, and digital logs to reduce spoilage, improve safety, and simplify audits.

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S&P  Global Market Intelligence Publishes New Report on Unified Analytics with Alteryx

S&P Global Market Intelligence shared new research detailing how organizations unify analytics for AI. The report covers market context, adoption patterns, and practical ways teams keep access and oversight as they modernize. It also features Alteryx One as an example of a single platform that connects desktop and cloud, while supporting both analysts and IT.

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Tredence Unveils Agentic Commerce Solution Accelerators

Tredence launched Agentic Commerce accelerators, a “system of agents” that senses shopper intent and orchestrates personalized, mission‑based shopping journeys across channels. Built first on Google Cloud, the accelerators claim up to 60% faster time‑to‑value for retailers by providing configurable blueprints for agent‑driven experiences that go beyond traditional rules‑based personalization.

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Wiley Appoints Armughan Rafat as Chief AI and Data Services Officer

Wiley named Armughan Rafat as Chief AI and Data Services Officer, charging him with leading AI and data initiatives to turn Wiley’s content and datasets into AI‑ready products for developers and corporate R&D teams. The role builds on nearly 100 million dollars in AI licensing revenue since early 2024 and partnerships with Anthropic, AWS, Perplexity, and Mistral, as Wiley pushes its AI Gateway and other research‑intelligence offerings as “foundational truth” for LLMs.​​​

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Solutions Review Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI

Artificial intelligence is everywhere—but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger, comes in. Designed to chronicle how AI is reshaping the way we learn, work, lead, and live, this newsletter explores the soft side of AI—the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Impetus and Forrester Research for Exclusive Session ‘The Next Generation of Observability in the Era of Agentic AI’ on January 28

In this fireside chat, an analyst-led discussion will explore how observability has evolved, whether today’s tools are ready for these new demands, and why observability is becoming essential in the agentic AI era. The session will also highlight how solutions like Impetus Prism help organizations bring observability and cost intelligence together as an enterprise capability.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Promethium and BARC for the Exclusive Session ‘Break the Metadata Bottleneck to Drive Agentic AI and Contextual Insights’ on January 29

This webinar examines three structural challenges behind that bottleneck: distributed datasets, heterogeneous environments, and rising expectations for true self-service analytics. We then outline architectural principles that dynamically integrate data, metadata, and analytics to guide wide-ranging business decisions.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Nutanix and Northeastern University for the Exclusive Session ‘Cloud-Native for the AI-Powered, Innovation-Ready Enterprise Masterclass’ on February 19

Join us for the Nutanix Cloud Native Masterclass, an exclusive event for C-level executives, where attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion from Northeastern University, recognizing their expertise in cloud native strategies. In this Masterclass we’ll explore how cloud native architecture is reshaping enterprise IT. Unlike traditional monolithic applications — which are slow to evolve, difficult to scale, and operationally complex — cloud native applications are composed of independent, loosely coupled components. Built on microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and API-driven design, they are optimized for dynamic, distributed environments.

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The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro: Why 5 Tools Cost More Than One Platform with Telmo Silva

In this episode of The Digital Analyst, we explore how mid-sized companies can access world-class analytics without massive data teams. Telmo explains why buying individual “shiny object” tools creates integration nightmares, and how unified platforms eliminate the hidden tax of maintaining multiple systems.

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Solutions Review Expert Samir Sharma Publishes New Book: The Strategy Canvas: A Field Guide for Data & AI

The most significant problem in enterprise data and AI is not the technology; it’s the strategy-execution gap. The vast majority of data & AI initiatives fail to deliver measurable value because the Boardroom’s strategic vision cannot be translated into the day-to-day execution of technical teams. This strategic disconnect costs the global economy trillions in wasted effort, failed projects, and missed opportunities.

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Thought Leaders: Why Causal AI is Not a Technology Upgrade, but a Leadership Test by Samir Sharma

Hanging out with John Thompson, Bill Schmarzo, and Mark Stouse makes my head hurt a lot! These three guys push me to go beyond what I currently know and think. Which is very difficult for any human being and so I really need to dig deep to keep apace with them, which in all honest truth is super difficult. So, my mantra of being pushed to the limits is “to figure it out” and the best way to figure this out for me is to go back to something I loved studying and that was psychology!

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GoodData Publishes New Donald Farmer Whitepaper on the Rise of Organizational Intelligence

As AI moves from experimentation to execution, organizations are confronting a critical shift: intelligence is no longer something you fetch — it’s something you reason with. This paper explores why traditional BI architectures fail to work for AI, and what it truly means to build production-ready organizational intelligence grounded in shared semantics, governance, and trust.

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Keith McCormick and LinkedIn Learning Launch New Course: Side Hustle Strategies for Data Science and Analytics Experts

Keith steps through how to jump-start your side hustle in writing by serving as a technical reviewer for technical books. He explains how to use your data science and analytics expertise to become a paid presenter at conferences. Plus, he covers how to build your reputation as a consultant, become a part-time instructor at a university, and more. Along the way, Keith shares tips and strategies for making the most of these new ventures once they’ve become part of your professional portfolio.

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For consideration in future analytics and data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.