Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of November 8; Updates from Databricks, Impetus, MicroStrategy & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of November 8, 2024.

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 November 8, 2024

Amazon OpenSearch Service Launches New UI

The launch also introduces OpenSearch Workspaces that provides tailored experience for popular use cases and supports access control, so that you can create a private space for your use case and share it only to your collaborators.

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AtScale Drops Public Leaderboard for Text-to-SQL Solutions

This resource enables academia, vendors, and developers to measure and compare T2SQL performance on a consistent, replicable benchmark using an industry standard open dataset, schema, and evaluation methods.

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Databricks Announces Materialized Views & Streaming Tables

Materialized views precompute and incrementally update the results of queries so your dashboards and queries can run significantly faster than before. Together, they allow you to create efficient and scalable data pipelines from ingestion to transformation using just SQL.

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MicroStrategy Nabs Proddy Award

MicroStrategy’s GenAI bot, Auto, can be embedded within applications such as Microsoft Teams to enable employees – from the C-suite to the frontline – to easily query MicroStrategy ONE using natural language to get a response that’s immediately useful and understandable.

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NTT DATA & Google Cloud Extend Partnership on AI & Analytics

By using NTT DATA’s existing industry blueprints, best practices and cloud solutions on Google Cloud, the partnership will deliver customized solutions and implementation expertise to businesses in healthcare, life sciences, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, retail and public sector.

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Registration Now Open for Qlik Connect 2025

The event highlights the urgency for organizations to find clear, actionable paths to harnessing AI’s full value. This year’s event will be held from May 13-15, 2025, at Disney Coronado Springs in Orlando, Florida.

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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.

Solutions Review Set to Host Impetus, Deluxe, and Forrester Research for Exclusive Expert Roundtable on Unlocking the Power of Enterprise GenAI, November 14

With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Impetus to bring you a discussion from experts from Forrester Research, Impetus, and Deluxe Corporation that will help you take a dive deep into the real-world success stories of enterprises that are leading the charge with GenAI while discussing current and future trends.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Eve: Analytics 2025: Ignore These Trends at Your Peril

With 2025 around the corner and AI’s disruptions continuing, Albert Einstein’s wise counsel above seems especially prescient for every technology leader today. And perhaps most relevant to leaders in the analytics domain. New thinking is required. New capabilities must be considered. New investments need to be made.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Infragistics for an Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on Custom Embedded BI Solutions, November 6

Hear from industry expert Jason Beres, VP of Developer Tools, and discover how the Visualization Catalog allows you to create a library of reusable visualizations, making the process of building dashboards and generating insights faster and easier.

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NEW Episode of the Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Data Dynamics CEO Piyush Mehta

They discuss how AI has transformed data into a critical asset while exploring the challenges organizations face in managing, protecting, and leveraging their data effectively. Stick around for Piyush’s insights on future of work, the impact of AI on technology careers, and maintaining company culture in a hybrid work environment.

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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst (John Santaferraro) Featuring Mike Ferguson

Ferguson emphasizes the need for organizations to focus on practical use cases identified by employees rather than getting caught up in technological hype, while also addressing concerns about scalability, cost, and compliance.

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For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.