%term

AI Feels Out of Reach for SMB Finance Teams. Here's How to Change That.

Jul 2, 2026 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware

You’ve heard the pitch: AI is going to revolutionize finance. It’s going to write your variance commentary, spot anomalies before you do, answer questions about your data in plain English, and free your team from the drudgery of month-end prep so you can focus on what actually matters: strategy, decisions, and moving the business forward. It’s easy to see why you’d believe the hype.

Read Post

InsightSoftware

Read more about AI Feels Out of Reach for SMB Finance Teams. Here's How to Change That.

How Cross Joins Are Killing Your Dashboard Performance

Jul 2, 2026 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware

Your analytics team built a report. It worked fine in development, but when it went into production, users began to complain about loading time. Your team has checked the database and looked at the dashboard configuration, but nobody can find the problem. There’s a good chance the cause is a cross join, and there’s an even better chance it’s executing in the wrong place.

Read Post

InsightSoftware

Read more about How Cross Joins Are Killing Your Dashboard Performance

Logi Symphony Surges Ahead of Tableau in New Info-Tech Report

Jul 2, 2026 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware

The results of Info-Tech’s Head-to-Head: Business Intelligence & Analytics – Enterprise are in. In the report, Info-Tech and SoftwareReviews evaluated 360 verified enterprise end-user reviews to set benchmarks for vendor capabilities, product experience, and the full customer relationship. The study evaluates 11 areas amongst software vendors that are especially critical to making and fostering strong, long-term relationships between software providers and their customers. These include.

Read Post

InsightSoftware

Read more about Logi Symphony Surges Ahead of Tableau in New Info-Tech Report

Would You Ask a Chef To Cut With a Bending Blade? | Longview Tax

Jul 2, 2026 By insightsoftware In InsightSoftware

Chef Laurent trained under Ducasse. Her knife work was flawless. Then the blade bent before it touched the meat. She was told the proper knives were being used elsewhere. These had worked "well enough" before. Well enough is a difficult standard to cook by. It's a worse one for filing taxes. Your tax team knows the feeling. Fragmented data. Manual reconciliation. Every close cycle a race against "well enough.".

View Video

InsightSoftware

Analytics
BI

Read more about Would You Ask a Chef To Cut With a Bending Blade? | Longview Tax

What It Takes to Build an AI Agent as a First-Class Product

Jul 2, 2026 By Ayesha Amjad In Astera

In June 2026, the highest-grossing law firm in the world committed $500 million to build its own AI platform. The firm put more than 180 engineers and data scientists and over 250 of its lawyers on the effort. It chose to build because general-purpose tools could not execute their transactions or reason over their massive institutional knowledge. That is the bill for a first-class AI product built from scratch.

Read Post

Astera

Read more about What It Takes to Build an AI Agent as a First-Class Product

The Frozen Excel Preference

Jul 2, 2026 By Kristyna Kaucka In Keboola

There is a pattern showing up in finance teams that almost nobody is writing about, because it runs counter to the narrative. Finance leaders at organisations with messy, ungoverned data have made a deliberate choice: they prefer working with a frozen Excel snapshot over connecting AI to their live financial data. Not because they are afraid of technology. Not because they distrust AI as a concept.

Read Post

Keboola

Read more about The Frozen Excel Preference

Conversational analytics in BigQuery brings trusted agentic reasoning to everyone

Jul 1, 2026 By Vasiya Krishnan In Google BigQuery

Use Conversational Analytics in BigQuery to query data, run analyses, and generate reports using natural language on data in BigQuery and Lakehouse.

Read Post

Google BigQuery

Read more about Conversational analytics in BigQuery brings trusted agentic reasoning to everyone

You can't build AI in a walled garden

Jul 1, 2026 By Shiva Mogili In Fivetran

As software vendors place more controls around data access, enterprises must decide whether their future AI capabilities will be defined by their strategy or their vendors' policies.

Read Post

Fivetran

Read more about You can't build AI in a walled garden

Qlik Named a Leader. Again. For the 16th Year. For Us, AI Was Never an Afterthought.

Jul 1, 2026 By Brendan Grady In Qlik

We are excited to share that Qlik has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics & Business Intelligence Platforms, recognized for both our Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Download the complimentary report here. Sixteen years. Our Sweet Sixteen, if you're counting. I'd argue it's less a milestone for us and more a proof point.

Read Post

Qlik

Read more about Qlik Named a Leader. Again. For the 16th Year. For Us, AI Was Never an Afterthought.

Where AI Capital Is Flowing: Insights From The Snowflake-Crunchbase Report

Jul 1, 2026 By Snowflake Inc. In Snowflake

At Snowflake Summit 2026, Gene Teare from Crunchbase and Harsha Kapre, Director at Snowflake Ventures, discuss their joint report examining AI investment trends and capital formation in the data ecosystem. Learn how the market has evolved from 2021's broad exuberance to concentrated investment in AI-ready infrastructure, governance, and agentic applications. Discover what signals indicate a startup is truly enterprise-ready versus experimental, and explore the next phase of capital formation in the agentic AI economy.

View Video