Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of August 4; Updates from Akkio, Domo, ThoughtSpot & More
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Tim King
, Executive Editor at Solutions Review - Business Intelligence News,
Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy analytics and data science news items for the week of August 4, 2023.
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.
Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of August 4, 2023
Akkio Raises $15 Million in Series A Funding
The funding accelerates the commercialization of Akkio’s powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable AI platform. Akkio has hundreds of customers that chat with their data, generate live dashboards, and use machine learning to predict future outcomes across their operations, such as lead scoring, forecasting, content optimization, and more.
Ascend.io Integrates Free Ingest Data Management Tools into Databricks
Ascend’s architecture offers enterprise-grade security and supports both SaaS and private deployment models, with enterprises receiving a fully dedicated instance inside their own cloud account and network. This ensures that data from sources inside their network never leaves their security perimeter until it is loaded into Databricks.
Databricks Launches New AI Assistant, Security, Compliance Controls on AWS & Azure
Azure Databricks is now certified PCI-DSS (Classic) and HIPAA (Databricks SQL Serverless) compliant. Additionally, AWS Databricks SQL Serverless is certified HIPAA, PCI and FedRAMP Moderate compliant as a public preview.
Dataiku & Databricks Partner on New Research on ROI Surrounding AI Initiatives
Dataiku and Databricks surveyed over 400 global senior AI professionals across a range of enterprises and industries in early June 2023 to explore AI adoption and perceptions. A majority agreed that AI had made its value clear across their organizations.
Domo Named Overall Leader in Dresner’s 2023 Wisdom of the Crowds BI Market Study
Dresner Advisory Services’ 14th edition of this report provides a comprehensive look and broad assessment of the BI market. The report includes in-depth analyses of BI topics such as adoption and deployment, data leadership, organization budgets, data literacy and objectives and achievements.
Gartner Unveils Top Trends for Future of Data Science & Machine Learning
Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top trends impacting the future of data science and machine learning (DSML) as the industry rapidly grows and evolves to meet the increasing significance of data in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly as the focus shifts towards generative AI investments.
Salesforce Adds New Einstein Studio to its Data Cloud Offering
Targeted at data scientists and engineers, Einstein Studio is designed to help enterprises connect their Salesforce data to any AI or large language model, including Llama 2 and OpenAI’s GPT 4, for enhancing and accelerating the development of AI and generative AI applications
ThoughtSpot Officially Launches AI Explain on ThoughtSpot for Sheets
AI Explain integrates Google’s PaLM 2 LLM, specifically leveraging the Bison model to automatically generate the top data stories for any visualization created with our Sheets extension. The app launched in October 2022 and already has thousands of users from Fortune 500 companies, startups, non-profits, universities, and more.
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Solutions Review Set to Host Monte Carlo for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on August 21
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What to Expect at Denodo DataFest 2023 on September 12-14
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For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.
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Tim King
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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