Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 9; Updates from Alteryx, DataRobot, Neo4j & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of May 9, 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 9, 2025
Amplitude Signs Strategic Agreement with AWS
This will expand opportunities to jointly build solutions that help organizations improve customer experiences—from optimizing digital shopping journeys, to improving user onboarding and boosting viewer engagement.
Databricks Introduces SQL Scripting Support
SQL Scripting is now available in Databricks, bringing procedural logic like looping and control-flow directly into the SQL you already know. Scripting in Databricks is based on open standards and fully compatible with Apache Spark.
Datadog is Set to Acquire Eppo
With its acquisition of Eppo, Datadog creates a full end-to-end product analytics solution on one platform. This unified approach means that engineers can track code changes with feature flags, data science leaders together with product managers can design and measure impact with experiments, and business analysts can use Datadog’s Product Analytics suite to understand overall product usage and business outcomes.
DataRobot Unveils New Federal AI Application Suite
The federal AI application suite delivers mission-specific AI use cases to help government agencies overcome critical challenges like talent attrition, financial management hurdles, asset downtime, legacy system integration, diverse data quality issues, emerging efficiency mandates, and more.
Datavault AI and Kove Release Data Monetization Tool
The solution leverages Datavault’s AI stack: DataScore for asset appraisal, DataValue for real-time pricing, and Data Vault Bank for tokenized transactions via the patented Information Data Exchange. Kove’s SDM Memory Tower 39i eliminates computing bottlenecks, ensuring secure, on-premises data vending. Compatible with Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks, the platform integrates seamlessly into existing infrastructure.
Domino Data Lab Says: AI ‘Breakthroughs’ Advancing, Biz Impact Still Lackluster
REVelate 2025, which commissioned BARC to poll 300+ C-level executives, VPs, and directors involved in AI strategy across North American and European enterprises, found stark differences in AI outcomes and priorities across sectors. Finance, life sciences, and public sector respondents identified varying degrees of adoption and use, shedding light on how each industry is incorporating AI infrastructure, tooling, and data to break ahead in their own markets.
KNIME Demonstrates its AI Agent-Building Capabilities
Agent design typically comes in two flavors – either through blackbox prompt chains or through code-heavy environments accessible only to deep experts – KNIME offers users something in between. The visual workflow-based software is as transparent and flexible as a coding language, but intuitive – allowing for wider accessibility and easier collaboration. It’s also modular, allowing for faster time to value and easy reuse.
Kyvos Insights Unveils GenAI-Powered Kyvos Insights Tool
Kyvos Dialogs redefines how organizations access and analyze data. By combining the best of human knowledge and artificial intelligence, users can now ask questions in plain English and receive precise, actionable answers—no technical expertise or complex queries required. Kyvos Dialogs delivers best-fit charts and graphs to build compelling data stories.
Microsoft Unifies Datamart with Fabric Data Warehouse
Although customers appreciate datamarts providing a simpler way to get SQL experiences for analytics, there’s worry about scale, performance, and going ‘all in’ because there’s no grow-up story. With the advent of Microsoft Fabric, you don’t have to choose between a Power BI Datamart or a full-blown data warehouse.
Neo4j Unveils New Graph Analytics for Any Data Platform
The solution delivers the power of graph analytics to users of all skill levels, unlocking deeper intelligence and achieving 2X greater insight precision* and quality over traditional analytics. Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics is generally available now on a pay-as-you-use basis and works with all databases, such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL, all cloud data warehouses and data lake platforms, such as Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Microsoft OneLake, and on any cloud.
Qlik Announces New Analytic Migration Tool
This automated solution, to be branded as the Qlik Analytics Migration Tool, eliminates the complexity of migrating from QlikView, Qlik Sense, and NPrinting to Qlik Cloud—a persistent barrier to cloud adoption. It will be made available through Qlik at no cost to customers or through our Qlik-certified partners.
Reactor Data Unveils New Electron AI Agentic Assistant
Electron acts as an intelligent co-pilot, enabling data analysts and teams to generate precise, context-aware mapping logic across source systems, semantic models, and destination schemas – all through simple conversational interactions.
SAS Software Releases New AI Agents with Customizable Human-AI Interaction
True enterprise value from agentic AI comes from building collaborative, intelligence-amplifying systems that work with humans. SAS Viya’s agentic AI framework is underpinned by three pillars that define how AI agents are designed and delivered.
Sigma Computing Unveils New No-Code Data Apps
Given that Data Apps can be customized to address specific business purposes, they can potentially be more valuable than traditional dashboards, according to Donald Farmer, founder and principal of TreeHive Strategy.
New Skiilify Survey Finds: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might
As the first in an ongoing quarterly series of studies from Skiilify, the initial study finds that nearly all (94 percent) of technology leaders felt that resilience and other critical soft skills are required for the future, but many fail to get the proper training required. With AI, automation, and globalization reshaping the workforce, soft skills have emerged as the key differentiator for career advancement and organizational agility.
WisdomAI Launches New Agentic Data Insights Platform
WisdomAI offers innovative business insight agents that empower organizations with advanced decision-making capabilities. Founded by AI experts that have built market defining companies that are now public, WisdomAI innovates on a first-of-its-kind platform that combines reasoning AI agents with a Knowledge Fabric that understands business context intricacies.
Xponent Launches New Suite of Databricks-Powered Industry Data Products
These solutions empower organizations across life sciences, healthcare, energy, retail, manufacturing, and financial services to rapidly operationalize data, accelerate AI adoption, and extract value from even the most complex datasets.
Yellowfin Adds AI-Powered NLQ to Version 9.15 of BI Platform
Use of the AI NLQ feature requires an active OpenAI account. Only metadata (columns, data types, reference codes) and user questions are sent to the AI model. No raw data is transmitted, and role-based access controls allow for fine-grained management of the feature.
Expert Insights Section
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On-Demand: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Hosted Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon
Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.
NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring James Kobielus: What is AGI?
John talks artificial general intelligence (AGI) with James Kobielus. They explore what AGI is, how it differs from current AI applications, and the technological milestones needed to achieve it. They debate whether AGI is a paradigm or a future capability, discuss governance challenges, and consider realistic timelines for AGI development, with Kobielus viewing it as a focusing function rather than a discrete endpoint.
NEW Episode of The Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Syncfusion CEO Daniel Jebaraj: Software Development in the AI Era
He and Doug explore how enterprises are navigating AI adoption amid market uncertainty, as many development teams already incorporate AI tools. Daniel shares Syncfusion’s strategy of making productivity tools more accessible globally, and what he loves and hates about being a CEO.
NEW Friday Jam Session with Cher Fox, Joe Blatly, Jessica Wynter Martin & Gregory Lewandowski: Are You Doing AI or is AI Doing You?
Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for a live, informal, and informative chat around the reality of AI adoption. Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for a live, informal, and informative chat around the reality of AI adoption.
Solutions Review On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8
The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME—the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you’ll explore the power of data integration and AI. From creating workflows to building AI agents, data integration and AI drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented insights.
Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21
In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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