Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 10; Updates from Alteryx, Insight Jam, Qlik & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of April 10, 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.

For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 10, 2026

Actian/BARC: Data Products Make Organizations 3.4x More Likely To Scale AI

New global research from Actian and BARC finds organizations with company‑wide data products are 3.4 times more likely to move AI projects into production successfully. Among those with broad data‑product adoption, 85% report three or more AI projects in production and 77% have at least one agentic or autonomous system live, versus 25% and 23% respectively for organizations not yet using data products—highlighting curated, contract‑backed data as a core AI‑scale advantage.

Read on for more→ https://www.actian.com/company/press-releases/organizations-using-data-products-are-3-point-4-times-more-likely-to-successfully-scale-ai-according-to-actian-study-by-barc/

Gravyty’s Embedded Analytics Helps Nonprofits Tell A Clearer Impact Story

Gravyty has introduced embedded analytics and reporting inside its engagement and giving platform so nonprofits can move from raw activity tracking to impact storytelling. The new capabilities are designed to surface outcomes, ROI, and pipeline health in context, giving advancement teams clearer, in‑app insight into how outreach translates into giving and long‑term relationships.

Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/gravyty-launches-embedded-analytics-reporting-130000414.html

Gurobi Rebrands Around Decision Intelligence As A Core AI Engine, Not Just An Optimizer

Gurobi is refreshing its brand to emphasize its role as the optimization “decision engine” inside AI and analytics stacks that solve complex, high‑stakes problems. The company is positioning mathematical optimization as a foundational AI technology that turns data and predictions into defensible, optimal actions for use cases like supply chains, pricing, workforce planning, and energy grids.

Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260407612444/en/Gurobi-Defines-Its-Role-as-the-Technology-Behind-Better-Decisions-in-the-AI-Era

Qlik AI Council Warns: The “Hard Part” Of AI Will Be Trust, Geopolitics, And Adaptability

Qlik’s AI Council is urging companies to prepare for a tougher AI phase where evaluation, accountability, policy fragmentation, and rapid model churn become central challenges—not access to models. The council argues future advantage will come from trusted data, grounded reasoning, sovereign‑ready architectures, and the ability to swap models and interfaces without constant re‑platforming, and says Qlik Connect 2026 will focus on agentic analytics, open data foundations, and deployment options built for those realities.

Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260409610238/en/Qlik-AI-Council-Calls-on-Companies-to-Prepare-for-the-Hard-Part-of-AI

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.

Insight Jam and Donald Farmer Launch Waitlist for New Mesh Expert Group on the Last Mile: Analytics Leadership in the Age of AI

Over twelve monthly sessions, a cohort of just eight senior analytics and BI leaders works through the practical and strategic dimensions of leading in an AI-augmented environment.

The sessions build progressively: early months establish a framework for where human judgment remains indispensable; middle months address the operational pressures, data quality, governance, the proliferation of shadow AI tools, and conversational interfaces that complicate deployment in real organizations; later months turn toward team development, role evolution, and a planning horizon of two years.

Join the waitlist on Insight Jam

Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Alteryx for the Industry Trends event: AI in Analytics: Who’s Really in Control? on April 29

In this fireside conversation, we’ll unpack with Alteryx experts Brett Hamel and Troy Wilson what responsible AI looks like inside real analytics workflows. We’ll discuss where AI performs well today, where it still makes mistakes, and how teams validate outputs without slowing themselves down. We’ll explore what “human in the loop” actually means in practice, what tends to break when AI scales too quickly, and how to design workflows that are transparent, defensible, and accountable.

Read on Solutions Review

Thought Leaders: Drucker’s Five Questions in the Age of AI: A Test Most Organizations Are Failing by Samir Sharma

I received an email yesterday that took me back 30 years to when I did Management Science at university and specifically Peter Drucker’s five questions from a marketing strategy standpoint. What struck me is that the questions are global within themselves and can be used for any “strategy”. Hence, why I’ve applied them to AI, because of course that’s the buzz these days, if you haven’t heard!

Read on Solutions Review

–

Mini Jam, Q1 2026 On-Demand: The Skills Reckoning on March 31

This program is designed not simply to comment on change, but to explore the structural redesign of education and workforce systems now required to keep pace with it. For leaders operating at the intersection of AI, education, upskilling, and L&D, the Q1 Mini Jam offers a clear view into the forces reshaping how capability is defined, developed, and deployed in the years ahead.

Watch on YouTube

Solutions Review Surpasses 250K on YouTube to Power Unmatched Media Momentum in Enterprise Tech & the Human Impact of AI

Solutions Review has officially surpassed 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, a milestone that’s about more than just the number. This moment marks the payoff of a deliberate, two-year strategy centered on authoritative video, human-led insight, and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale.

Read on Solutions Review

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.

Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.

Sign Up Free

How One Solutions Review Article Reshaped AI Answers Across an Entire Software Category

Something just happened in the AI search landscape that most companies will miss. But the ones who understand it will have a multi-year advantage. In January, Solutions Review recorded a 324 percent increase in media domain citations across AI answer engines in less than 30 days.

Read on Solutions Review

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