Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of December 15; Updates from AnswerRocket, Databricks, Power BI & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of December 15, 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 December 15, 2023

AnswerRocket Unveils New Skills Studio

Skill Studio addresses this gap by providing organizations with the ability to personalize their AI assistants to their specific business, department, and role, which enables users to more easily access relevant, highly specialized insights.

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DAS42 Unveils Subscriber Analytics Tool

With the Subscriber Analytics solution, leveraging the Snowflake Data Cloud, leaders can drive faster, more informed business decisions, resulting in an increase in subscriber engagement and, ultimately, improved subscriber

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Databricks Announces ‘Major Update’ to Model Serving

Databricks Model Serving now offers a unified interface, making it easier to experiment, customize, and productionize foundation models across all clouds and providers. This means you can create high-quality GenAI apps using the best model for your use case while securely leveraging your organization’s unique data.

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Datalogz Nabs $5 Million Funding for BI Sprawl

Part of Datalogz’s business is stepping into the turf of traditional consulting firms, which easily charge $1-10 million annually just to perform business intelligence audits and clean-ups. Datalogz has an algorithm-driven automation tool that plugs into customers’ BI environments to generate insight and automation for risk reduction, security improvement, cost cuts and other performance monitoring tasks.

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Featureform Nabs $5.5 Million Venture Capital Funding

This round of capital will allow Featureform to expand its product growth and increase support for existing and new enterprise customers, in addition to its open-source community. The completion of the Seed round brings Featureform’s total funding to date to $8.1 million.

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Microsoft Announces Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary

Microsoft made lots of improvements for reporting, for example, there are many more options for styling your column and bar charts. Also, if you are a fan of our PowerPoint add-in, you’ll be happy to know we’ve made it easier to find and insert Power BI content into your PowerPoint presentations.

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Pitt Launches New Online Data Science Master’s Program

Anyone with a bachelor’s degree is eligible to attempt the minimum-20-month program, which will cost students $15,000. The program is 38 percent more affordable than the average online master’s program in data science, according to Pitt officials. Enrollment will begin in February, with the first course starting in May.

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Salesforce Debuts New Einstein Copilot Search

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 customer relationship management (CRM) software provider’s Data Cloud, which is a part of the company’s Einstein 1 platform, is targeted at helping enterprises consolidate and align customer data.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Celebrates the Success of Insight Jam LIVE 2023

Solutions Review hosted its biggest Insight Jam LIVE ever, with 18 hours of expert panels featuring more than 100 thought leaders, sponsored by Satori and Monte Carlo. Also, part of this largest-ever Insight Jam LIVE was a call for 2024 enterprise tech & AI predictions, and wow, did the community oblige!

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SR Editors Release Annual Roundup of Expert Analytics & Data Science Predictions for 2024

For our 5th annual Insight Jam LIVE! Solutions Review editors sourced this resource guide of analytics and data science predictions for 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech experts.

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SR Editors Release First-Ever Roundup of Expert AI Predictions for 2024

For our 5th annual Insight Jam LIVE! Solutions Review editors sourced this resource guide of AI predictions for 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech experts.

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