Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of August 9; Updates from Databricks, KNIME, MicroStrategy & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of August 9, 2024.

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.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of August 9, 2024

Databricks Announces Row and Column Level Security with Unity Catalog

With Unity Catalog, you can use standard SQL functions to define row filters and column masks, allowing fine-grained access controls on rows and columns. Row Filters let you control which subsets of your tables’ rows are visible to hierarchies of groups and users within your organization.

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Forbes Releases 2024 Cloud 100

With the tech IPO market stuck in the doldrums, familiar faces rule the top of our ninth annual list of the world’s top private cloud computing companies. But a wave of AI challengers – and standouts in fintech, security and vertical software – are looking to close the gap.

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KNIME Nabs $30 Million in Venture Capital Funding

The platform is centered on what KNIME says is an intuitive, low-code user interface that’s combined with generative AI, enabling anyone to quickly build both simple and sophisticated analyses for AI models. It provides tools for tasks such as data preparation for training AI models, including large language models.

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Microsoft Releases Power BI Paginated Report Authoring in Preview

With this update, Power BI gives you a simple way to design your not-so-simple reports. With a few clicks, you can add headers, footers, text boxes, and images to your report and create parameters to display what’s relevant to consumers. You can save and share these reports or simply export the paginated report to one of the many supported formats.

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MicroStrategy ONE for Public Sector is Now Available on AWS

MicroStrategy ONE for Government is a managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution built on a cloud-native architecture designed specifically to meet the sophisticated security, data protection, governance, and privacy needs of the public sector. Through AWS Marketplace, public sector customers can easily and quickly purchase and deploy MicroStrategy ONE.

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Seeq Raises $50 Million in Series D Funding

This round brings Seeq’s total funding to approximately $165 million. Nari Ansari, Managing Director at Sixth Street Growth, will join Seeq’s Board of Directors. Founded in 2013, Seeq serves hundreds of customers in energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, utilities, mining and materials, and other industrial sectors in 36 countries.

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SQream Drops 2024 State of Big Data Analytics Report

Adding more compute power has in the past been the go-to way to yield better AI results. However, SQream’s survey highlights that doing so indefinitely is an untenable approach for modern, data-driven enterprises, with the complexity of queries and volume of projects being compromised due to skyrocketing bills and IT costs.

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Expert Insights Section

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.

[Event] Jam Session: How to Create Hit Data Products in an AI World Feat. Bob Eve, Mike Magalsky, Promethium & Qlik

It’s our regular Jam Session! Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Robert Eve is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around building data products in an AI world.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Informatica for the Spotlight in August: How to Build AI-Powered Data Pipelines and Put Them Into Action

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Informatica, a leader in data management and integration, to provide viewers with this unique webinar. Hear from industry experts like Siddharth Mishra and Abhilash Reddy to learn how to effortlessly prepare quality data and deliver it so it’s timely and relevant for GenAI.

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