Analytics

What happens when vendors take the lead on agentic AI

Instead of building their own agentic AI stacks, many companies are using off-the-shelf vendor solutions to reduce costs, difficulties, and time to deployment. But buyer beware.

By Maria Korolov

Oct 28, 20269 mins

BudgetingC-SuiteCIO

Articles

Who should own analytics: IT, the business or both?

Centralize analytics, and it gets slow. Decentralize it, and it gets messy. The answer is a shared seam that keeps data and decisions connected.

By Arturo Torres Arpi Acero

Oct 2, 2026 8 mins

AnalyticsBusiness OperationsIT Leadership

In cloud-native systems, you can't optimize what you can't observe

Your averages are lying to you: Cloud systems fail at the tail, not the mean, and most teams are still watching the wrong number entirely.

By Srinivas Chippagiri

Sep 30, 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsCloud-NativeROI and Metrics

What behavioral data reveals about AI value

What if the best way to measure AI’s value isn’t counting prompts, but seeing what work disappears and where friction gets reduced?

By Douglas Laney

Sep 29, 2026 9 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Science

Tableau certification guide: How to boost your data analytics skills

With the data visualization market booming, Tableau skills are a valuable asset. Learn how Tableau certifications validate your expertise and can lead to career advancement.

By Thor Olavsrud

Aug 28, 2026 13 mins

Business IntelligenceCertificationsIT Skills and Training

How IT can scale self-service without losing control

Governed self-service isn’t about choosing between speed and control. It’s about giving each side of the equation what it needs to trust the other.

By Troy Wilson, Product Marketing Manager, Alteryx

Aug 28, 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsFinancial Services IndustryMachine Learning

After building executive dashboards for years, I realized AI changed the question

The dashboard era is ending as AI turns business intelligence from something you check into something that answers back.

By Janardhana Naidu Kola

Aug 24, 2026 7 mins

AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceDigital Transformation

Snowflake attacker pleads guilty to hack of 165 companies’ data

Connor Riley Moucka faces between 2 and 30 years in prison for the hacks.

By Maxwell Cooter

Aug 7, 2026 2 mins

CyberattacksCybercrimeData Breach

The missing role in every enterprise AI strategy: The analytics engineer

Everyone owns the data. Nobody owns the metrics.

By Ritish Chugh

Aug 3, 2026 9 mins

AnalyticsHiringRoles

12 business analyst certifications to level up your career

Business analysts blend data skills and business acumen to the benefit of analytics-driven organizations. Here are 12 noteworthy certs to help you get ahead as a business analyst.

By Sarah K. White

Aug 3, 2026 10 mins

AnalyticsCertificationsIT Skills and Training

The data scientist is dead — long live the data science conductor

AI coding assistants are freeing up data scientists to get closer to the heart of data science: iteration. Here’s how the role is evolving as a result.

By Lasse Schmidt

Jul 28, 2026 7 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Science

What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

By Sarah K. White

Jul 24, 2026 7 mins

BusinessEnterpriseMarkets

Addressing consequence blindness

Dashboards show what is happening. A consequence layer shows what else moves when something changes.

By John Reuben

Jul 2, 2026 10 mins

AnalyticsIT LeadershipROI and Metrics

AWS aims to lower log analytics costs with new analytics engine for managed OpenSearch

The new engine could let enterprises retain more telemetry data for compliance and incident response at lower cost, although migration work and missing query support may slow adoption, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 1, 2026 4 mins

Amazon Web ServicesAnalyticsIaaS