Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of March 28; Updates from AWS, Databricks, Firebolt & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of March 28, 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 March 28, 2025

5000fish Unveils Yurbi 12 White Label Analytics

Designed specifically for software vendors and SaaS providers, Yurbi Version 12 empowers organizations to seamlessly integrate dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics into their applications. It eliminates the high costs, excessive complexity, or security vulnerabilities often associated with traditional BI tools.

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AWS Adds AI Agents to QuickSight BI Platform

The new offering opens up the opportunity to make every user an analyst who can dive deeply into data and go hands-on with spreadsheets and datasets. This capability was originally demonstrated during re:Invent last year in preview and is now generally available.

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Databricks Brings Anthropic Claude Models to its Data Intelligence Platform

Combined with Databricks Mosaic AI, the landmark deal brings Anthropic’s world-class Claude models directly to over 10,000 companies, alongside their business-critical, proprietary data. Anthropic’s newest frontier model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet — the first hybrid reasoning model on the market and the industry leader for coding — is now available via Databricks on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

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Firebolt Unveils New FireScale Benchmark for AI Analytic Workloads

Firebolt ran the FireScale benchmark on Firebolt as well as other cloud data warehouses (CDWs) such as Snowflake, Redshift and BigQuery. The results prove Firebolt to be a clear leader in CDWs in delivering low latency, high concurrency and the best price-performance for data-intensive AI applications.

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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.

April 4! Insight Jam is Getting Set to Host Cher Fox for the Jam Session: Data Trust Decoded: Moving Beyond Compliance

Great news! We’re adding a second Jam Session each month! Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around transparency, accountability, and ethical practices in the world of data governance.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King Lists the 28 Best AI Agents for Data Analysis for 2025

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, we break down the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for data analysis, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs — whether you’re a data scientist building custom pipelines, a business analyst looking for quick insights, or a C-suite leader planning enterprise-scale AI adoption.

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On-Demand! Insight Jam Hosted Robert Eve, Dr. Irina Steenbeek & David Sweenor for the Jam Session: Mind the Gap: Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI

In this month’s Jam Session, our expert panel address these critical AI governance questions: What’s unique or different about governing AI? Where does AI require additional governance capabilities beyond traditional data and analytics governance? What are the benefits of AI governance? What are the risks? How can organizations best fill their AI governance gap? Where is the best place to start?

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