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What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

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Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. What does a business intelligence analyst do? The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools

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Open-source business intelligence company Metabase announced Thursday a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners. Metabase was developed within venture studio Expa and spun out as an easy way for people to interact with data sets, co-founder and CEO Sameer Al-Sakran told TechCrunch.

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Datalogz raises $5M to deal with your business intelligence sprawl

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In recent years, there has been a proliferation of business intelligence tools that aim to help companies make critical business decisions based on data analytics. As data adoption increases at most companies, they are left with growing administration problems, said Logan Havern, co-founder and CEO of Datalogz.

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MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform

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We’ve seen our fair share of business intelligence (BI) platforms that aim to make data analysis accessible to everybody in a company. “I have seen the business intelligence problems in the past,” Panuganty said. Will automation eliminate data science positions?

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Salesforce Data Cloud updates aim to ease data analysis, AI app development

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Salesforce is updating its Data Cloud with vector database and Einstein Copilot Search capabilities in an effort to help enterprises use unstructured data for analysis. The Einstein Trust Layer is based on a large language model (LLM) built into the platform to ensure data security and privacy.

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It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

TechCrunch

Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools. Because BI has failed businesses. A gap exists between the functionalities provided by current BI and data discovery tools and what users want and need. Yet, adoption rates are still below 30%. Why is this the case?

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Coalesce lands fresh capital to transform data at ‘enterprise scale’

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Coalesce is a startup that offers data transformation tools geared mainly toward enterprise customers. Petrossian met Coalesce’s other co-founder, Satish Jayanthi, at WhereScape, where the two were responsible for solving data warehouse problems for large organizations. (In