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Ep 78 | Mastering Enterprise AI: Why Some Projects Succeed While Others Fail

AI may be the most capable intern your organization has ever hired. However, interns still need guidance and clear direction. Enterprise AI is proving no different. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Michael Gray, CTO of Thrive, to explore the patterns and anti-patterns emerging from real-world enterprise AI deployments. Drawing on his experience helping organizations implement AI at scale, Michael offers a practical framework for evaluating AI maturity, helping leaders understand where adoption breaks down and what it takes to build momentum across the organization.

Reporting Intelligence UI Flyover

See how Reporting Intelligence from insightsoftware transforms the way finance teams build, manage, and distribute ERP-connected reports, without IT involvement, data engineering, or infrastructure overhead. This walkthrough covers the full product experience, from self-serve report building in Excel to cloud-based scheduling and distribution, embedded Lineos AI assistants, and the autonomous Intelligence Layer that monitors your KPIs and surfaces insights around the clock.

The internal war over who owns AI.

There is a massive boardroom fight happening right now over who gets to control AI. Should it be IT? A centralized lab? The executives? Boris Rabkin from Ligentia drops a truth bomb: AI belongs wherever value is actually created. If your AI strategy is locked inside an isolated corporate lab instead of in the hands of your product, engineering, and customer teams, it’s going to fail. Full episode out now!

Stop Rebuilding Data Models From Scratch: Meet SpotterModel

Your data engineering team shouldn't be the bottleneck between a business question and a governed answer. SpotterModel turns a natural language prompt into a deployable data model. This release does the heavy lifting on complex calculations, and lets you roll back to any previous model state, anytime, so a bad change never costs you hours of rebuilding. It maps your relationships, dimensions, and measures instantly, and you stay in control of table selection and the build process the whole way.

Building a Data Foundation for AI Is a Rewarding Experience

AI runs on data, and global enterprises are awash with petabytes of data. That might suggest that it’s easy for companies to advance their businesses through the power of AI. Yet enterprise data is often fragmented across departmental and technological silos, and that data is often inconsistent, ungoverned and disconnected from mission-critical systems. As a result, many AI initiatives stall before they can deliver operational value, and the root cause is rarely the model.

Ready Set Code! The Telemetry Tsunami

Welcome to Ready Set Code! The game show where data engineers face off to prove who can build faster. In today's episode, "The Telemetry Tsunami," three contestants face a massive flood of nested JSON telemetry data. Their mission: flatten the arrays, join it to customer tables, and deploy a secure automated pipeline. Who will separate themselves as a data driver vs. a data downer? Find out now! Type Less. Build More.

Qlik Live Stream Friday: Choose Your Champion 2026

Join Ouadie Limouni and Mike Tarallo on this week's Qlik Live Stream Friday for a look at Choose Your Champion 2026, an interactive World Cup prediction experience powered by. Ouadie will walk through the application, highlighting how machine learning, interactive analytics, and conversational were combined to create a unique fan experience for World Cup 2026 predictions.

Agentic Workflow for Petabyte-Scale Data Analytics | Cloudera Agent Studio

Struggling to get clear, reproducible insights from petabytes of data? Join Charu Anchlia, Principal Engineer II at Cloudera, to see how Cloudera Agent Studio brings business users and tech analysts together under one simple interface. See how multi-agent orchestration—using specialized SQL and coding agents—can solve complex data analysis challenges, generate real-time visualizations, and seamlessly transform LLM outputs into repeatable Airflow pipelines.

How ThoughtSpot Fixed This CIO's Biggest Headache

The secret to a seamless customer experience? Embedding your intelligence. Ligentia wanted one consistent, branded experience across their entire supply chain offer. The fix? Partnering with ThoughtSpot. Catch Ligentia CIO Boris R. and Cindi Howson on podcast discussing how to turn standard apps into data powerhouses. Music: “The Clermont” by Flash Fluharty Licensed via PremiumBeat, ID: P9IHFMDYNZCKLEFZ.

Logi Symphony: "No-Compromise Embedded Analytics

Every product team wants smarter analytics and AI. But for organizations that operate on-premises, in a hybrid-cloud environment, or regulated industries that can’t share protected data on the cloud, this forces them to either migrate or leave intelligence features behind. Can you access advanced analytics features without being boxed into a vendor’s cloud environment? Watch our video to learn: How to access analytics without compromise About tailored analytics experiences in a single platform.