Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 23; Updates from Databricks, Microsoft, Sigma & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of May 23, 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 May 23, 2025

Cloudera Unveils New AI Data Visualization

The offering is an AI tool designed to democratize insights across the data lifecycle, enabling data engineers, business analysts, and data scientists to seamlessly communicate, collaborate, and share insights, without compromising data security or governance – all through the common language of visualization.

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Databricks Announces Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 On-Platform

With full integration into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, enterprise teams can now securely build, evaluate, and govern Claude-powered AI agents using their own data — with centralized governance and observability.  This advances our mission to enable enterprises to build intelligent agents that can reason over their data.

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Microsoft Announces New Chat with Your Data Experience in Power BI

Your critical business data is at your fingertips in Power BI, but sometimes finding the right report or semantic model can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. You know you’ve seen it before, you know the general topic, maybe you even remember the name of the visual you’re trying to hunt down. But you cannot seem to remember the name of the report or what workspace you saw it in. That’s where the new standalone Copilot experience comes in

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SEMI and Purdue University Set to Launch New AI & Analytics Courses

Available through the SEMI University learning platform, the courses were developed to equip semiconductor professionals to integrate AI and data-driven approaches in today’s competitive industry landscape.

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Sigma Computing Unveils New Cloud Data Platform Writeback Features

With the introduction of the new File Column Type feature, teams can connect unstructured content with structured data for the first time, making complex, real-world workflows fully executable inside Sigma. Also announced today were upcoming features that continue to expand on Sigma’s platform capabilities, including the ability to build Python-powered data science apps and natural language-built data apps.

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Expert Insights

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.: The Curiosity Deficit: Why Tech Teams Are Getting Smarter But Less Innovative

According to our April 2025 report, a staggering 93 percent of tech professionals agree that curiosity is “very” or “extremely” important. But nearly half (47 percent) say they struggle to find the time to explore new tools, processes, or ideas.  In the report, tech professionals also cite difficulty identifying which ideas are worth pursuing, fear of wasting time on dead ends, and limited opportunities to experiment in their roles.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Impetus, Forrester Research & Amazon QuickSight for Exclusive Show on Unlocking the Power of GenBI on May 29

GenAI-based BI (commonly referred as GenBI) is rapidly emerging as the new standard to deliver actionable insights that can power superior decision-making while increasing effectiveness, responsiveness, and cost savings for organizations across industries. However, organizations must navigate a dynamic set of technologies and capabilities to ensure their GenBI solutions are quickly providing trusted business insights, operational excellence, while delivering bottom-line cost savings in parallel.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Robert Eve: Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering

Will we become the horse at the advent of the horseless carriage? Or the bookkeeper with the advent of financial software? Steve Jobs once said, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” Today, perhaps Steve would amend his statement to say, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people and agents.”

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal: AI Needs to be Supervised

In Kant’s moral theory, autonomy is a quality of rational agents that act and make choices based on their own reason. Merriam-Webster defines autonomy as the quality or state of being self-governing, self-directing freedom, and especially moral independence. When it comes to artificial intelligence, the definition gets a little foggy.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Strategy Meets Autonomy: How to Align People, Data & Agents

It is true, that we have used ML which as you know is a subset of AI, but the most widely known and probably the most successful, perhaps. Many believe that AI (or ML in this instance) has shifted from making recommendations to making decisions. The big hype is that Agents are no longer support tools; they’re actors in your business.

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