Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of January 30; Updates from Alteryx, AtScale, Sigma & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of January 30, 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 30, 2026

Agerpoint and Databricks Team Up to Scale Data Intelligence for Agriculture and Nature Systems

Agerpoint has joined the Built on Databricks Partner Program, using the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify massive volumes of field, sensor, imagery, and enterprise data into a governed lakehouse for agriculture, forestry, and natural asset management. The partnership strengthens Agerpoint’s ability to build high-resolution digital twins of crops, trees, and landscapes and to run AI-driven analytics for global food systems, supply chains, sustainability programs, and nature-based initiatives under evolving regulatory and compliance regimes.

Read on for more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agerpoint-partners-with-databricks-to-scale-enterprise-data-intelligence-for-agriculture-and-nature-systems-302670698.html

Aon and DataRobot Partner to Bring Agentic AI to Client Onboarding and Servicing

Aon is collaborating with DataRobot to use its Agent Workforce Platform and reasoning-based AI agents to modernize client onboarding and day-to-day servicing across parts of the insurance lifecycle. The initiative aims to let AI agents handle routine documentation and workflow decisions while colleagues remain in the loop for oversight, giving clients faster turnaround times, more consistent experiences, and real-time insights without sacrificing the human relationships and risk expertise that define Aon’s brand.

Read on for more → https://www.datarobot.com/newsroom/press/aon-and-datarobot-collaborate-to-redefine-client-onboarding-with-agentic-ai/

Alteryx and Google Cloud Bring Governed, In-Place Analytics to BigQuery

Alteryx is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud so business users can run governed, no‑code analytics workflows directly in BigQuery via Live Query for BigQuery, turning the warehouse into an AI‑ready analytics engine without moving data. The collaboration embeds repeatable business logic and data preparation in‑place, helping enterprises close the gap between where data lives and how it’s governed and operationalized so AI models stay aligned with trusted metrics, definitions, and policies.

Read on for more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alteryx-collaborates-google-cloud-unlock-140000182.html

AtScale Joins Open Semantic Interchange to Standardize Metrics for AI and BI

AtScale has joined the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open source initiative led by Snowflake to define a vendor-neutral standard for semantic metadata so enterprises can maintain consistent metrics across dashboards, notebooks, and machine learning models. Bringing over a decade of semantic layer experience and its Semantic Modeling Language (SML), AtScale aims to help OSI ground the standard in real-world multidimensional modeling, easing migrations from legacy systems like SSAS and Cognos while making governed business logic portable across cloud data platforms, BI tools, and AI agents.

Read on for more → https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/01/atscale-enters-open-source-osi-to-standardise-semantic-metadata-for-ai-and-bi/

Datalinx AI Raises $4.2M to Fix Data Readiness for Enterprise Marketing AI

Datalinx AI has raised a $4.2 million oversubscribed seed round led by High Alpha with participation from Databricks and others to help enterprise marketing and data teams turn fragmented, low-quality data into predictive, AI‑ready data products. The company targets the persistent “our data isn’t ready for AI” problem by automating data preparation and quality work so marketing teams can ship models and use cases faster without building heavy internal data engineering pipelines.​

Read on for more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/datalinx-ai-raises-4-2m-133400295.html

Top Software Development Challenges of 2026 According to Infragistics: AI Integration and Risk Take Center Stage

BetaNews’ 2026 “Top Software Development Challenges” survey finds that 57% of respondents now name AI integration into the development process as their biggest challenge, up from 44% in 2025. Security threats (49%) and data privacy and regulatory compliance (48%) follow closely, underscoring how AI-driven systems are amplifying existing risk and governance issues even as they boost productivity.​

Read on for more → https://betanews.com/article/the-top-software-development-challenges-of-2026/

Oracle Launches Life Sciences AI Data Platform to Unite Fragmented Data and Agentic Intelligence

Oracle has introduced the Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform, a generative AI–enabled environment that unifies customer data, third‑party sources, and more than 129 million de‑identified longitudinal Oracle Health EHR records to accelerate R&D, clinical trials, safety monitoring, and commercialization in pharma, medtech, and life sciences. Built on OCI and tightly integrated with Oracle Life Sciences and Oracle Health AI application suites, the platform uses agentic reasoning and out‑of‑the‑box AI agents so researchers can ask open‑ended questions, refine hypotheses, generate synthetic control arms, monitor safety across disparate sources, and support regulatory submissions with full data lineage transparency and guardrails.

Read on for more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oracle-life-sciences-ai-data-platform-unites-data-and-agentic-intelligence-to-accelerate-medical-breakthroughs-and-drive-commercial-success-302673290.html

Sigma and Snowflake Launch AI-Driven Process Effectiveness for Energy Operations

Sigma has introduced a new process effectiveness solution built on Snowflake that lets energy companies combine OT, IT, and financial data to analyze process performance with AI inside a governed cloud environment. By running Sigma’s low‑code analytics directly on Snowflake’s Energy Solutions data foundation, operators can surface bottlenecks, benchmark sites, and simulate improvements, turning siloed plant and grid data into continuous, AI‑driven recommendations for efficiency and reliability.

Read on for more → https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/sigma-launches-new-process-effectiveness-solution-with-snowflake-to-power-ai-driven-energy-operations/

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Insight Jam Launches Year-Long “Mesh Lab” to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI

Insight Jam Mesh Lab is a year-long, monthly series of expert-led discussions dedicated to exploring and shaping the next generation of frameworks for work and learning in the age of AI. Rather than reacting to tools or trends, Mesh Lab is designed to initiate a sustained, cross-sector conversation about how human capability itself must be re-architected as AI becomes embedded across education, enterprise, and leadership.

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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: Adopting Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara

In this episode of The Digital Analyst, John and Bhaskar explore the evolution from dashboards to autonomous analytics agents with someone who decoded complex signals at AppDynamics. Bhaskar reveals why detection without understanding creates alert fatigue, and why fragmented data means marketing, payments, and product teams never agree on basic definitions.

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The Board Question That Rarely Gets Asked by Samir Sharma

Boards routinely approve significant investment in data, analytics, and AI. Platforms, programs, and capability build-outs are intended to “future-proof” the organization. The scrutiny applied is familiar and necessary, including cost, risk exposure, delivery timelines, and sometimes competitive parity.

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Contributor Series: APIS Are Not Enough: The Case for Embeddable AI

Think about an AI-powered airline booking experience. The API might return flight options ranked by some intelligent criteria. But the developer still needs to build interfaces for: how many travelers, what class, number of stops, departure and arrival time preferences, airline filters, and then how to actually display the results in a way users can compare and act on. Every team rebuilding this from scratch is duplicating effort, and likely doing it worse than a dedicated team would.

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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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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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