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In the fast-paced world of software development, the efficiency of build processes plays a crucial role in maintaining productivity and code quality. At ThoughtSpot, while Gradle has been effective, the growing complexity of our projects demanded a more sophisticated approach to understanding and optimizing our builds. This requirement prompted us to explore Build Analytics—harnessing data from our build processes to gain actionable insights.

After being recognized by Gartner as the leading generative analytics experience for augmented analytics, ThoughtSpot’s SpotIQ just got an upgrade. As an integral part of ThoughtSpot’s core platform for nearly seven years, SpotIQ has unlocked the value of billions of rows of data for hundreds of customers. Even more inspiring are the customer testimonials highlighting how SpotIQ empowers business users to perform complex analytics and analyze key metrics—even on the go.

With generative AI, you have the opportunity to deliver a data strategy that helps business people answer their most pressing data questions—providing unprecedented value to your internal teams, partners, and customers. Hype around GenAI has overwhelmed people with too many use cases and too little focus on achievable value. That’s why we sponsored a first-of-its-kind survey with MIT SMR Connections, asking 1k global data and business leaders questions.

The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms just dropped, and we’re thrilled to announce that ThoughtSpot was recognized as a Leader in the report. But, we aren’t the only ones finding ourselves in a new position this year. The analytics and BI space has undergone some of the most significant shifts in over a decade, an aftershock of generative AI.

Organizations leveraging cloud data warehouses like Snowflake require the ability to efficiently manage and optimize their data connections. Without this, data teams will face challenges with various use cases, such as workload distribution and environment testing. Recognizing the need for greater flexibility and control over data connections, ThoughtSpot developed a powerful new feature: Multiple Configurations per Connection.

Every company around the globe is trying to get in on the GenAI wave to simplify user experiences with natural language. And this is especially true in the realm of data and analytics. Imagine if you could enable all of your marketers to evaluate the performance of their campaigns with a simple question? Or, if you could provide all of your insurance risk managers with the ability to analyze the risk profile of their claims with the power of search and automated insights?

Over the past couple of years, ThoughtSpot and Google have collaborated on a series of seamless user experiences—enabling deployments on Google Cloud Platform, creating the ability to live query entire Google BigQuery analytics catalogs, and integrating key Looker Modeling functionality just to name a few. This type of co-innovation helps mutual customers get the most value out of their data.

Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to found and lead multiple technology companies with great teams. These companies have redefined their industries and empowered customers to work in different, better ways. At the core of these companies, however, has been a constant mission. A purpose. A north star that guides us over multiple decades.

Managing complex data pipelines is a major challenge for data-driven organizations looking to accelerate analytics initiatives. While AI-powered, self-service BI platforms like ThoughtSpot can fully operationalize insights at scale by delivering visual data exploration and discovery, it still requires robust underlying data management. Now, that’s changing. Snowflake's new dynamic tables feature redefines how BI and analytics teams approach data transformation pipelines.