Analytics

Your AI model isn't the problem. Your data was never ready for it

The room went unusually quiet after someone finally said what everyone had been thinking: Maybe the AI model just isn't good enough.

By Janardhana Naidu Kola

31 Jul 20268 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ManagementData Quality

With AI, control matters more than capability

By Allan Dabre

30 Jul 20268 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData GovernanceIT Governance

Why your data layer is AI’s most critical climate technology

By Max Romanenko

30 Jul 20268 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData QualitySustainable IT

Oracle simplifies migrating legacy databases off IBM mainframes with support for EBCDIC

By Evan Schuman

29 Jul 20266 mins

MainframesOracle DatabaseRelational Databases

Articles

Addressing consequence blindness

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

By John Reuben

2 Jul 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

1 Jul 2026 4 mins

Amazon Web ServicesAnalyticsIaaS

SAS at 50: The analytics pioneer is cautiously adopting AI

Rather than add AI (and its attendant costs) to everything, SAS is applying it where it thinks it can have the most business impact.

By Lynn Greiner

1 Jul 2026 5 mins

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence

pgEdge joins rush to merge OLTP and OLAP storage to support AI

pgEdge’s ColdFront could appeal to enterprises looking to reduce storage costs without sacrificing application compatibility or the ability to modify historical data.

By Anirban Ghoshal

26 Jun 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsDatabasesTransaction Processing

From data to insights with Dynatrace Dashboards

We had one main goal in mind when designing Dynatrace® Dashboards: reimagine how our customers consume and interact with their observability data. Built for speed, clarity, and collaboration, the Dashboards app helps teams easily explore, visualize, and act on telemetry data. From natural language queries to advanced visualizations, Dashboards streamlines your workflow and reveals critical insights at any scale. Whether you're monitoring infrastructure, applications, or AI workloads, Dashboards adapts to your needs, turning raw data into real-time insights.

By Thomas Ziegelbecker and Christoph Enzinger

1 Aug 2025 11 mins

AnalyticsBusiness Intelligence

Agentic AI: 11 promising use cases for business

Organizations are deploying the ever-advancing technology to assist with software programming, create advanced business intelligence, and automate customer support and HR functions.

By Grant Gross and Maria Korolov

23 Jun 2026 15 mins

Business IntelligenceIT StrategyThreat and Vulnerability Management

What is data governance? Frameworks, tools, and best practices to manage data assets

Data governance defines roles, responsibilities, and processes to ensure accountability for, and ownership of, data assets across the enterprise.

By Thor Olavsrud

22 Jun 2026 11 mins

Big DataCertificationsData Integration

McLaren F1 embraces AI-powered ITSM to build race-day infrastructure

Throughout the racing season, the McLaren Mastercard F1 Team gets a jump a week before each event to customize garages with the help of ITSM that leverages AI to sort and prioritize tickets.

By Thor Olavsrud

19 Jun 2026 5 mins

Data ScienceIT StrategyService Management Software

The 12 most strategically important IT initiatives today

IT’s top initiatives underscore how CIOs are increasingly shaping and enabling business outcomes — and focusing less on maintaining service levels as their primary objective.

By Mary K. Pratt

8 Jun 2026 10 mins

Cloud ManagementDigital TransformationIT Strategy

Data lakehouses now a backbone for enterprise analytics and AI

Data lakehouses have become central to enterprise data strategy due to the need for data consolidation, the emergence of open standards, and the rise of gen AI.

By Maria Korolov

8 Jun 2026 9 mins

AnalyticsData ArchitectureIT Strategy

American Express: Democratize analytics, not data

The global payments company is focusing on how to stage and deploy its data for analytics in the age of agentic AI.

By Thor Olavsrud

3 Jun 2026 4 mins

Financial Services IndustryFintechPayment Systems

Snowflake recasts its AI strategy around action, not answers, with CoWork

The move could help CIOs operationalize AI across business processes while advancing Snowflake’s ambition to play a larger role in orchestrating and governing enterprise AI workloads, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

2 Jun 2026 5 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Warehousing