Doug Henschen

Introduction Tableau is an innovator and market leader in the analytics and business intelligence (BI) market that almost single-handedly introduced the era of self-service analytics and BI. Ever since that time, two decades ago, Tableau has been the target of imitators, lower-cost 's#156;good enough's#157; solutions…

Introduction Once generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grabbed the world's attention, in 2023, a technology arms race ensued, with the leading purveyors of large language models (LLMs) outdueling each other to deliver ever larger and more capable models. Innovative businesses jumped on the GenAI bandwagon,…

The analytics market is mature in many respects, but it's rapidly evolving in the era of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Augmented capabilities, headlined by GenAI, promise to ease analysis, improve understanding, and bring advanced predictive capabilities into the mix. But adoption won's#153;t happen…

Zoho is not just a cost-competitive disrupter in the CRM, personal productivity, and collaboration spaces; since 2009 the company also has been steadily gaining market share in the business intelligence (BI) and analytics arena. Zoho Analytics 6.0, the latest upgrade of the vendor's BI and analytics platform,…

The analytics and business intelligence (BI) market is mature in many respects, but it's rapidly evolving in three important ways: expanding cloud deployment options; adding embedding capabilities to deliver insights within applications and collaboration platforms or as triggers of business workflows; and adding…

Integration, automation, application programming interface (API) management, service orchestration, and data management. These are core requirements for almost any midsize or enterprise-scale organization seeking to harness and coordinate myriad applications and systems. They are also among the core capabilities of…

Introduced by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2016, Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-based analytics and business intelligence (BI) service that has steadily matured over its eight-year history. Although the service initially delivered basic data visualization and dashboarding at an attractive price point, QuickSight has…

Founded in 2010, Domo was born as a cloud-based data and insight platform aimed at business decision-makers. Conceived well after the first generation of business intelligence (BI) products and well into the democratized, self-service era of BI, Domo is, as the company's leadership describes it, 's#156;an AI and…

This best practices report examines emerging regulations and standards for corporate disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate risks. The report details European Union (EU) regulations tied to the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). These regulations apply to large EU…

Kinetica is a real-time database that is purpose-built to enable analytics on time-series and spatial data on a massive scale. The product was developed in 2016, just as data from sensors and machines began to explode. Spatiotemporal data from smartphones, vehicles, aircraft, cyberattacks, networks, satellites,…

Google BigQuery is a leading analytical data platform delivered as a service on Google Cloud. Introduced in 2011, BigQuery pioneered automated scaling and performance optimization in the data warehousing space. The innovation has continued, with BigQuery gaining refinements and advances such as SQL-accessible…

This report examines important product introductions at Salesforce's September 2023 Dreamforce event, starting with a rewrite of the company's core platform to introduce the Einstein 1 Platform, with its unified metadata framework. By moving more applications as well as Salesforce Einstein AI and Salesforce Data…