Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of October 30; Updates from Planview, Wiley, Zoho & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of October 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, education updates, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of October 30, 2026

Anaconda Joins Open Secure AI Alliance To Advance Agent And Tool Security Standards

Anaconda has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance, founded by NVIDIA and led by the Linux Foundation, to collaborate on open tools, standards, and techniques for secure AI-native development. Its planned work focuses on testing agents across multistep decisions, vetting tools and MCP servers, and recording evidence that security policies hold in production. The move builds on Anaconda’s August acquisition of Enkrypt AI and extends its software-supply-chain approach from open-source packages to the tools and actions used by enterprise agents.

Read on for more→ Anaconda Joins Open Secure AI Alliance to Help Establish Industry Standard for Secure AI-Native Development

Dataiku Brings Governed Project Development Into Agentic Coding Tools

Dataiku has introduced Headless, a capability that lets coding agents inspect and operate Dataiku environments and delegate project creation or modification to its Cobuild interface. Developers can build pipelines, models, dashboards, and agents—or migrate legacy workflows—while producing visual Dataiku projects that teams can review and maintain. Administrators can also investigate failed jobs and adjust settings.

Read on for more→ Dataiku Introduces Headless, Bringing Governed Data and AI Work to Agentic Coding Tools

H2O.ai Releases Time-Series Foundation Model With Leading Forecasting Benchmark Results

H2O.ai has released TimeH2O-v1, a 108-million-parameter forecasting model that ranked first among 32 models by win rate on fev-bench’s October 23 leaderboard. Across 100 tasks, it recorded a 91.9% head-to-head win rate and forecast error 50.8% below a seasonal-naive baseline, without training on the benchmark datasets. The model supports zero-shot forecasts and external signals such as prices or weather. Weights are available on Hugging Face under a noncommercial license for internal testing; commercial users must contact H2O.ai.

Read on for more→ H2O.ai’s TimeH2O Beats Mistral, Google, and Amazon in Time-Series Forecasting

Oracle Expands Fusion Analytics With Conversational Agents And Deeper Business Investigation

Oracle has announced Fusion Data Intelligence updates that connect governed metrics and business context with conversational analysis and operational workflows. Generally available Data Agents answer questions within dashboards, while forthcoming Deep Insight Agents investigate performance drivers, assess business impacts, and compare responses through follow-up analysis. Additional capabilities connect EPM budgets and forecasts with ERP actuals and support analytics during E-Business Suite migrations.

Read on for more→ Oracle Expands Fusion Data Intelligence With New Deep Insight Agents, Operational Analytics, and AI Capabilities

Prophecy Turns Chat-Based Data Analysis Into Inspectable, Repeatable Production Workflows

Prophecy has launched DataGPT, enabling business analysts to prepare, reconcile, analyze, and report on data through Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or its own web app. Results include visual workflows backed by open code, while approved rules enter a shared knowledge graph for reuse. Teams can publish reviewed workflows as deterministic, scheduled code on Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery, avoiding fresh model prompts on every run.

Read on for more→ Prophecy DataGPT: Governed Data Work in Your AI Assistant

Wiley Launches Browser-Based Lab For Spectral Search And Analytical Data Management

Wiley has launched Wiley Analytical Lab, a SaaS platform that brings spectral reference data, compound identification, and analytical data management into one browser-based environment. Researchers can search millions of reference spectra and manage, validate, publish, and share experimental datasets without relying on disconnected desktop tools and repositories. The vendor-neutral platform supports work across instruments, formats, and research teams, complementing Wiley’s spectroscopy APIs and KnowItAll desktop software.

Read on for more→ Wiley Launches Online Lab for Spectral Data and Analysis

Zoho Adds Business Context And Multi-Agent Workflows To Its Analytics Platform

Zoho has expanded Zoho Analytics with native semantic and ontology layers that ground AI agents in business definitions, relationships, and metrics. An upgraded Ask Zia orchestrates six specialized agents for analysis, preparation, modeling, visualization, coding, and SQL, while custom agents and MCP support extend workflows into external systems. Pricing remains unchanged, with cloud updates available now; semantic-model, ontology, and pixel-perfect-reporting previews will roll out over four to eight weeks.

Read on for more→ Zoho Brings Trusted Business Intelligence to AI Agents in Zoho Analytics Platform Evolution

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.

Solutions Review Set to Host Planview for Exclusive Spotlight Show “AI-Powered Portfolio Management: Turn Strategy into Business Value” on November 25

Reporting on delivery is the foundation, not the destination. Strategy-to-outcome transparency is the next horizon: a trusted, connected view of which outcomes your investment serves, what is committed, what is deliverable and what value is being realised. AI is now making it practical, taking manual effort out of planning, forecasting and reporting so portfolio teams can spend their time steering rather than collating.

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Mini Jam Q3, 2026 On-Demand: Education in the Age of Abundant Intelligence

AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q3, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King

A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from “Can you rank?” to “Can you be anchored as trusted a source?”

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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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.

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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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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.

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