qlik

The Times They Are A-Changin' - Just Not on SAP's Terms

Aug 13, 2026 By Adam Mayer In Qlik
Bob Dylan wrote those words in 1964 about a world in flux - where the old rules were being quietly rewritten, and the people who hadn't noticed yet were about to find out the hard way. He wasn't thinking about enterprise data architecture. But if you've been following SAP's moves on data access, extraction, and platform strategy over the past two years, those words might be landing a little closer to home than usual.
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Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake in August

Aug 13, 2026 By Snowflake Inc. In Snowflake
The August Snow Report is LIVE Two GA launches for CoCo, warehouse tuning that handles itself, and World Tour in 23 cities. What's new CoCo Desktop is GA A native IDE inside your governed Snowflake environment, so it knows your data models and access policies from day one. Up to 2X faster on complex tasks with 51% fewer tokens than third-party assistants. Cloud Agents are GA Run agentic workflows from your browser in Snowsight. Start with a prompt, close your session, and the agent keeps working on Snowflake's managed infrastructure.
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yellowfin

Yellowfin BI 9.18 Brings Conversational Analytics You Can Trust

Aug 13, 2026 By Vladimir Ceric In Yellowfin
We are happy to announce the general availability of version 9.18 of Yellowfin BI, our business intelligence and embedded analytics platform. This release marks a step forward in how organizations and ISVs can combine the power of modern AI models with an auditable data analysis process.
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databox

Claude + MCPs Isn't a Semantic Layer: What Breaks When You Analyze Your Business Without One

Aug 13, 2026 By Nevena Rudan In Databox
Ask Claude for your average sales cycle today. Ask again next Tuesday. Same prompt, same MCPs, same playbook. There is a real chance the two numbers do not match. The reason is not exciting, and it costs you decisions. If you have wired Claude to your CRM, product, and finance tools through MCPs and given it a detailed playbook, you are already ahead of most companies asking whether AI can analyze the business. The gap between that and running the company off the answers is real, though.
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astera

What's New and Improved in Astera 11.2

Aug 13, 2026 By Ayesha Amjad In Astera
A faster, efficient, more capable Astera with same licensing cost Astera 11.2 is available now for every product on the platform: Centerprise, ReportMiner, EDI Connect. High-volume jobs process up to 2x faster, extraction templates are generated under five seconds with AI-powered Auto-Generate Layout, and Dataflows can run a full retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline without a separate tool. The release also simplifies deployment, and adds email-driven workflow triggers.
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Agent Product Use Case - Slack & Jira Discrepancy Workflow

Aug 12, 2026 By ThoughtSpot In ThoughtSpot
Customers and champions report problems in Slack, but if nobody files the ticket, the issue disappears before it ever reaches Jira. In this video, we use AgentSpot to build a Slack to Jira Coverage Workflow that reads your champions channel every morning, cross-compares it against your Jira backlog, and emails you a report of every issue raised in Slack that no one has filed yet. What is AgentSpot? AgentSpot is an Agentic Workforce Platform for building workflows that make decisions, take action, and deliver results across every system your business runs on, grounded in your data.
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databox

Why Do AI Tools Give Different Numbers for the Same Question?

Aug 12, 2026 By Mateja Verlic Bruncic In Databox
You can ask two AI tools the same question about your data and get different answers, even when both have access to the same system. There are several reasons this can happen. Each one might run a different model, or have a different set of tools available. The data you thought was the same might not actually be the same. Or one tool might have more context about my account than the other. I want to focus on what happens after I rule those things out: each tool still has to decide what my question means.
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hitachi vantara

Manage by Exception, Not by Exhaustion

Aug 12, 2026 By Nick Loy and Sushant Sawant In Hitachi Vantara
Ask any storage team what has changed over the last five years, and you'll hear a version of the same answer: everything grew and became more complex all at once. More applications, more data, more platforms, more places for a problem to hide. Complexity outpaced the teams meant to manage it. The staffing math makes it worse. Two-thirds of data center operators now struggle to hire or retain qualified staff.
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integrate

Database Mapping Explained: Techniques, Tools, and Real Examples

Aug 12, 2026 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Database mapping sits at the core of every successful data integration, migration, and ETL project. It's the blueprint that determines whether your customer records, sales figures, and operational data arrive accurate and usable, or quietly broken. With organizations managing dozens of data sources in mid-market environments, getting database mapping right has become essential for maintaining data integrity across increasingly complex tech stacks.
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