Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 30; Updates from Databricks, dbt Labs, Sisense & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of May 30, 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 30, 2025

Apache Spark 4.0 is Now Available in Databricks Runtime 17.0

Spark 4.0 is designed to be more powerful, ANSI-compliant, and user-friendly than ever, while maintaining compatibility with existing Spark workloads. In this post, we explain the key features and improvements introduced in Spark 4.0 and how they elevate your big data processing experience.

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AtScale Unveils New Product Innovations at 2025 Summit

A central theme of the 2025 summit was an open standard for semantic standardization to prevent semantic lock-in. AtScale officially introduced the Semantic Modeling Language (SML)—the industry’s first open-source language designed for defining, sharing, and operationalizing semantic models.

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Chalk Raises $50 Million in Series A Funding for AI Inference Tools

Existing solutions like Databricks and Snowflake solve training data pipelines, and feature stores provide low-latency access to pre-computed data. But these incumbents don’t provide a solution for applications that require fresh data, with complex computation, at inference time.

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ClickHouse Raises $350 Million in Series C Funding

This combined funding will be used to scale product development, support global expansion, and deepen partnerships with customers and technology providers building the next wave of AI-native applications. In addition to this financing, ClickHouse has secured a $100 million credit facility led by Stifel and Goldman Sachs.

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DataRobot Launches Open-Source Framework for Performant Agentics

Syftr empowers AI practitioners to programmatically discover and implement the best combinations of components, parameters, tools, and strategies for agentic use cases, optimized for accuracy, processing speed, and cost.

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dbt Labs Unveils New dbt Fusion Engine

Fusion, built on Rust and equipped with native SQL comprehension, introduces a lightning-fast developer experience that delivers  productivity, data velocity, and platform intelligence to drive substantial cost savings. dbt Labs also launched its VS Code extension, unlocking broad access to the power of Fusion for local developers, and is introducing a free, source-available version of the Fusion engine with a subset of features.

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Deccan AI Raises New Investment for AI Model Training Platform

Founded by Rukesh Reddy, Deccan AI delivers pristine model training and eval data to top AI labs. Its network of freelancers enables a support for complex AI workflows such as agentic evaluations, multi-modal data labeling, and code-based tasks.

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ExpertOps AI Releases Process 2.0 Platform

Designed with governance, transparency, and human oversight in mind, the platform supports safe and scalable AI deployment aligned with regulatory standards like HIPAA, GDPR, and SOX. Process 2.0 is available immediately for enterprise and SMB adoption. A developer-powered AI Agent Marketplace is also in the works, allowing businesses and creators to customize and monetize industry-specific digital employees.

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Hex Secures $70 Million in Funding for AI Data Science

Hex is taking an integrated approach and bringing users of all technicality levels and use cases together in one place. With AI woven into every layer of the workflow, Hex accelerates speed-to-insight, eliminates redundant work, and allows data teams to scale impact across their organizations.

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Infragistics Announces App Builder Updates: Ultimate 25.1

The enhanced Infragistics Ultimate UI/UX toolkit offers a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and includes the exclusive low-code WYSIWYG App Builder for developing modern, high-performance, and engaging apps across major frameworks.

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LandingAI Unveils Agentic Document Extraction

Document processing remains a significant hurdle for many enterprises, often incurring high costs and requiring substantial manual intervention. Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) goes beyond traditional OCR and fine-tuned LLMs by utilizing layout-aware parsing, visual grounding, and no-template setup, allowing for quick deployment and dependable outcomes without the need for fine-tuning or model training.

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PlainID Launches Policy Management for Agentic AI

Policy Management for Agentic AI enables organizations to define granular policies that control what data AI agents can access, how they process it, and which actions they may take—ensuring that every AI-driven workflow abides by corporate and regulatory mandates.

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Qlik Says: AI is the Macro Strategy but Data Complexity Persists

Amid mounting pressure from investors for measurable returns on AI investments, the data underscores the growing urgency to turn AI ambition into real-world results. The urgency around AI execution is particularly pronounced among younger executives. The survey found 99 percent of leaders aged 25-34 view proactive automation as critical to business success, compared to 83 percent of executives aged 55 and older.

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Sisense Launches New ‘Intelligence’ AI-Powered Tools

The assistant is complemented by a robust suite of GenAI capabilities that make analytics more accessible and actionable. Overall, Sisense Intelligence represents a fundamental innovation in how organizations leverage and extract insights from their data, make smarter business decisions, and drive more impactful outcomes.

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ThoughtSpot Expands in Japan

Over the past year, ThoughtSpot has supported leading organizations across Japan turn to ThoughtSpot to drive AI-powered data-driven decision making and innovation. This is reflected among ThoughtSpot’s new and expanding customers, who are in some of Japan’s most respected enterprises, including Toyota, Omron, Kyocera, Seiko Epson, Okumuragumi and JGC.

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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.

NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.:

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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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst AI with John Santaferraro Featuring RapidCanvas CEO Rahul Pangam: What Will BI Look Like in 3 Years?

They discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming BI from template-based dashboards to conversational, agent-driven platforms that can handle end-to-end data processes. The conversation explores how generative AI and agentic AI will create natural language interfaces, autonomous agents, and strategic thought partnerships that make data-driven decision making accessible without extensive technical teams.

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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Impetus, Forrester Research & Amazon QuickSight for Exclusive Show on Unlocking the Power of GenBI

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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