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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of April 25, 2025.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review<\/em>, join Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.<\/p>\n AnswerRocket’s expanded capabilities address this challenge through agentic AI solutions that solve critical business problems and deliver actionable insights. Cognitive Spark’s expertise will enable AnswerRocket to create and deploy intelligent AI agents that automate complex data science routines for various use cases.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Now, finance professionals can query and analyze financial and operational data using natural language\u2014all without leaving the tools they already rely on. The chat-native apps extend Cube\u2019s growing suite of AI-powered capabilities designed to accelerate how FP&A is transforming and eliminate the friction of traditional workflows.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n If you’re new to\u00a0AI\/BI, it’s a fully integrated suite of Business Intelligence capabilities within\u00a0Databricks SQL\u00a0that requires no additional licenses, so be sure to check it out today. AI\/BI allows users to explore, analyze, and share insights effortlessly across the entire organization without managing licenses, data extracts or a shadow data warehouse.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n There are a lot of exciting features this month, including mobile optimized report layouts, the best way to view data in the general availability of Power BI mobile apps, editing your semantic models with TMDL (Preview), and improved layouts for live editing semantic models.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Ocient recently launched its first named solution, the Data Retention and Disclosure System for telecommunications, which enables service providers to meet lawful disclosure requirements far below the mandated timeframes, and for significantly less cost and energy.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n With governments and enterprises rapidly scaling AI initiatives, the ability to control, process, and analyze data within national borders is a necessity. The new cloud region enables businesses across critical industries such as finance, healthcare, energy, and the public sector to operate with real-time intelligence, lower latency, and full regulatory confidence.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Aswani joins Starburst with a proven track record of engineering leadership at some of the world’s most innovative technology companies. Most recently, he was Vice President of Engineering at StarTree, where he led engineering strategy and execution for distributed, multi-cloud real-time analytics platforms. He also served as the acting Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), overseeing the company’s security strategy and operations.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Until now, organizations using Tableau and Google Workspace had to switch between different applications regularly. Exporting and updating visualizations significantly slowed down the work process. With this new integration, Tableau aims to end this inefficient way of working.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Any analysis starts off with a question\u2014and before you even have your first question, Spotter gives you some places to start. Whether on your desktop or on your phone, Spotter provides a set of curated questions that help you get an understanding of your data.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify\u2019s newest study: AI Won\u2019t Replace You\u2014But 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.<\/p>\n Register free on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME\u2014the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n In this webinar, we\u2019ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake\u2014no code required and full governance intact. You\u2019ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.<\/p>\n Register free on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n There is one thing I\u2019ve often noticed about the phrase, is this, most of what\u2019s touted as a best practice in the world of data and AI is nothing more than a well-dressed mistake. Even worse, it\u2019s often someone else\u2019s mistake, packaged, dressed up and marketed, sold to everyone as THE gospel.<\/p>\nAnalytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 25<\/strong>, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n
AnswerRocket is Set to Acquire Cognitive Spark<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Cube Unveils New Conversational AI Apps for Slack & Teams<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Databricks Announces April ’25 Updates to AI\/BI<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Microsoft Announces Mobile Optimized Report Layouts & More in April ’25 Power BI Feature Summary<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Ocient Closes $132 Million Series B Funding Round<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Qlik Gains Momentum in AWS Cloud MidEast Region<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Starburst Names New SVP of Engineering\u00a0 Jitender Aswani<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Tableau Introduces New Add-On for Google Workspace<\/strong><\/h4>\n
ThoughtSpot Updates ‘AI Analyst’ Spotter<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/a>Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam<\/em>, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community<\/a><\/strong><\/span> 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.<\/p>\nAI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam<\/em> Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 1<\/h4>\n
Solutions Review<\/em> On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8<\/h4>\n
Solutions Review<\/em> Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21<\/h4>\n
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam<\/em> Samir Sharma: Why Most Data & AI ‘Best Practices’ Are Just Expensive Mistakes in Disguise<\/h4>\n