Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of June 12; Updates from Anaconda, Databricks, DATA POEM & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of June 12, 2025.

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 June 12, 2025

Anaconda and Databricks Partner to Secure Enterprise AI

Anaconda and Databricks have announced a partnership to deliver secure, enterprise-grade open source Python packages natively within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. This integration addresses key challenges in enterprise AI development—such as dependency management, security vulnerabilities, and governance—by combining Anaconda’s curated Python ecosystem with Databricks’ scalable infrastructure.

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anaconda-partners-databricks-bridge-security-150000712.html

AssureSoft Partners with Databricks for Real-Time Data AI

AssureSoft has joined the Databricks Partner Network to boost clients’ real-time data and AI capabilities, aiming to deliver faster insights and smarter decision-making across industries such as SaaS, healthtech, fintech, and e-commerce. The partnership leverages Databricks’ unified data and AI platform, enabling AssureSoft’s certified teams to help organizations transform data into a strategic asset and build adaptive AI-driven solutions. This move underscores AssureSoft’s commitment to high-quality, value-driven software and sustained growth.

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/assuresoft-partners-databricks-enhance-real-140000789.html

Databricks Unveils Databricks One for Enterprise-Wide Data & AI Access

Databricks has launched Databricks One, a new user experience designed to make data and AI capabilities accessible to all business users—not just technical teams—across the enterprise. Databricks One introduces a redesigned, intuitive interface featuring AI/BI dashboards, the conversational AI/BI Genie assistant for natural language queries, and custom Databricks apps, all within a secure, code-free environment.

Read more → https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-unveils-databricks-one-new-experience-bring-data-and-ai

DATA POEM Launches New Large Causal AI Model

POEM365 launches with a robust foundation built on over 250+ billion integrated transaction records spanning 15,000 brands and $5 trillion in spend. Rigorously tested across varied datasets, DATA POEM’s large causal architecture demonstrates industry-leading accuracy, exceeding the performance of major tech platforms.

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250612839314/en/DATA-POEM-Launches-POEM365-The-Worlds-First-Large-Causal-AI-Model-LCM

MathCo Launches Databricks Center of Excellence

MathCo has launched a Databricks Center of Excellence to help enterprises accelerate their readiness for agentic AI solutions. The initiative is designed to provide organizations with best practices, specialized expertise, and tailored frameworks for deploying advanced analytics and AI workloads on Databricks. MathCo’s center aims to bridge the gap between data engineering and AI-driven business outcomes, supporting faster adoption of next-generation data architectures.

Read more → https://cbs4indy.com/business/press-releases/globenewswire/9464998/mathco-launches-databricks-center-of-excellence-to-accelerate-agentic-readiness-for-enterprises/

Qlik Expands Integration with Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Qlik has announced expanded integration with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, further streamlining analytics and data management for enterprise users. The enhanced partnership enables organizations to leverage Qlik’s analytics capabilities directly within Databricks, supporting more efficient data workflows, improved governance, and accelerated insights. This move is aimed at helping businesses maximize the value of their data investments while maintaining robust security and compliance standards.

Read more → https://www.qlik.com/us/news/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-expands-integration-with-the-databricks-data-intelligence-platform

ThoughtSpot Unveils DataSpot for Agentic Analytics on Databricks

ThoughtSpot has launched DataSpot, a new offering on the Databricks Marketplace that delivers real-time, governed, AI-powered insights directly from the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. DataSpot integrates ThoughtSpot’s AI-driven analytics with Databricks’ data infrastructure, enabling business users to access trustworthy insights via intuitive search and AI.

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/thoughtspot-unveils-dataspot-accelerate-agentic-140000978.html

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.

WATCH: AI to Value & Building the AI Ecosystem featuring Amalgam Insights CEO & Chief Analyst Hyoun Park

Amalgam Insights CEO Hyoun Park shares how enterprises can turn AI initiatives into measurable business value. He’ll explore what it takes to build a scalable AI ecosystem—from data and infrastructure to governance and talent—so organizations can move from experimentation to enterprise-wide impact.

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WATCH: Expert Roundtable: Beyond Human Speed: AI Agents Transforming Real-Time Data Analysis

This panel explores the evolution of AI from passive assistants (like copilots) to active, autonomous collaborators that can execute, manage, and even optimize complex business processes. The session focuses on how AI agents are no longer just helping — they’re doing — and what that means for workflows, workforce design, and business operations.

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WATCH: Expert Roundtable: AI Agents in Proactive Data Management: Governance, Ethics & Architecture

This session explores how AI agents are being developed and deployed to anticipate, prevent, and respond to issues in real-time through data-driven insights — with a focus on the governance, ethics, and architecture behind such predictive systems.

With Fox Consulting’s President Cher (The Datanista) Fox as panel moderator and featuring Dutch Schwartz, DataPrivacy CMO Kohei Kurihara, Noelle Russell (Microsoft MVP, AI), Raghavan Chellappan, and Graphwise’s Sumit Pal.

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WATCH: The Agentic AI Future is Here featuring Ferraro Consulting Founder & CEO John Santaferraro

Ferraro Consulting CEO John Santaferraro unpacks the rise of agentic AI—intelligent systems that act autonomously on behalf of users—and what it means for the future of business. He’ll explore how these AI agents are reshaping work, decision-making, and digital transformation and what organizations must do now to prepare for this next wave of innovation.

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WATCH: Agents Today & Tomorrow: What You Need to Know Now

The Hackett Group’s John Thompson breaks down the current and future landscape of AI agents—what they are, how they’re being used today, and where they’re headed. He’ll offer practical insights into how organizations can prepare for agent-driven transformation, from early adoption to enterprise integration.

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WATCH: Expert Roundtable: From Copilot to Coworker: How AI Agents are Redefining Business Processes

This show explores the evolution of AI from passive assistants (like copilots) to active, autonomous collaborators that can execute, manage, and even optimize complex business processes. The session focuses on how AI agents are no longer just helping — they’re doing — and what that means for workflows, workforce design, and business operations.

With Global Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon as panel moderator, and featuring Advait Patel, Aparna Achanta, Jessica Wynter Martin, Tony Moroney, and Tony Rhem.

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Mini Jam Q2, 2025 – AI Agents of Change: Watch All Sessions On-Demand

Centered on the theme ‘AI Agent of Change’, this quarterly Insight Jam virtual event explores the emerging role of AI agents in reshaping the Future of  Work through Automation, driving innovation, and facilitating adaptation to the new reality of this AI moment. Be sure to register free for InsightJam.com here to watch all the sessions live or on-demand.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.: You Can Work Alone – But You Won’t Win Alone

According to our April 2025 report, 85 percent of tech professionals say relationship-building is very important. Yet, over a quarter of the respondents (30 percent) struggle to maintain strong professional connections, and a surprising number (26 percent) prefer to work alone, even when collaboration would drive better results.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal: What are AI Hallucinations?

If you use GenAI tools like ChatGPT, you know that some results can be a bit strange, even wrong at times. This is called a hallucination. What causes these tools to hallucinate and how can we prevent that from happening? Many of us think of hallucinations as seeing something that doesn’t exist or hearing noises that no one else can hear. In the context of AI, hallucinations occur when the model makes a prediction that doesn’t come from the input data.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Dr, Joe Perez: The Empire of Presumption and the Power of Data

History has no shortage of characters who seized power through force of will alone, believing their own vision was strong enough to keep an empire intact. Napoleon Bonaparte was a such an individual whose one-track mind filled with presumptuous ambition reshaped not only France but also Italy, forging new political structures on the foundation of his own confidence rather than measured governance.

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