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By InsightSoftware
Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) has released its 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards, a competition voted on by DBTA readers to recognize the best information management products, services, and solutions. This year, we’re proud to announce that Simba Intelligence was voted Best Semantic Layer Solution. Here, we discuss the award and why a semantic layer shouldn’t be an afterthought to your data and analytics strategy.
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By InsightSoftware
You’ve invested in SAP Business Data Cloud to unify your analytics. Your SAP data flows into its’s semantic models and Joule. But your Oracle financials, Microsoft Dynamics operations, and Workday HR data still sit isolated—separate analytics tools, separate metrics, separate dashboards. The result is an incomplete picture. Your analytics reflect part of how your business runs, not all of it.
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By InsightSoftware
Implementing a PXM solution provides numerous benefits to your organization, from improving efficiency to increasing sales, reducing returns, and promoting customer loyalty. Today, we’re going to explore these benefits in more detail. Interested in the distinctions between PIM and PXM? See our breakdown of how they differ (but are also similar) here.
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By InsightSoftware
Most AI content assumes your data is in the cloud. But for a meaningful segment of enterprises, cloud-only AI tools block them at the pass. For regulated industries like manufacturing and healthcare, data residency requirements, compliance mandates, security policies, and simple operational reality mean sensitive data must remain on-premises.
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By InsightSoftware
Last April FloQast, an American maker of accounting software, published something unusual: a detailed engineering post on Amazon Web Services’ machine-learning blog, co-authored with AWS personnel, explaining precisely how its AI-powered transaction-matching feature works under the hood. The post described cloud infrastructure, model selection, and the specific technique (generating matching rules from user-supplied examples) that powers its AutoRec product.
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By 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.
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By 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.
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By 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.
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By InsightSoftware
Ever since AI-driven analytics burst onto the scene, product leaders have been racing to adopt it. Promoted as a way to stay ahead of the curve, AI analytics bring the promise of streamlined processes, personalized recommendations, and a more efficient user experience. But AI advancements aren’t without pitfalls, chief among them inaccuracies caused by AI hallucinations and pilot projects not making it to production.
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By InsightSoftware
If you’re a data engineer or architect who’s been handed a database modernization mandate, the conversation usually arrives pre-loaded with a conclusion. For example, if the legacy system needs to go or the data needs to move. When thinking about data migration, it’s important to ask yourself whether data migration is the right approach at all.
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By insightsoftware
See Jet Analytics in Action Watch how Jet Analytics helps Microsoft Dynamics organizations connect to modern cloud platforms in hours — not months — while eliminating the fragmented data stack that slows teams down and drives up costs. This flyover demo shows how a unified, zero-access platform delivers the governed, AI-ready data foundation your organization needs, without rebuilding pipelines from scratch or starting over.
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By 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.".
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By insightsoftware
Four specialists. 75+ years of combined close experience. One roundtable. We asked them to dissect the month-end close: where governance quietly erodes, why a one-day delay can cascade into seven, what happens when your best reconciliation person is unavailable, and where automation is genuinely delivering results today. 45 minutes of practical close strategy from people who know exactly where the process breaks, and how finance teams can fix it.
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By insightsoftware
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.
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By insightsoftware
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.
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Tableau's direction is clear. For embedded analytics teams serving customers with strict governance, data residency, or infrastructure requirements, "cloud only" constrains your product, your market, and your roadmap. In this video, we break down what Tableau Next's Hyperforce launch actually means for ISVs and SaaS vendors building embedded analytics, including: If you're doing real long-range planning, this is the conversation that matters.
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Most organizations are investing heavily in AI—but the outputs still aren’t reliable. The reason often isn’t the model. It’s the data pipeline behind it. Disconnected systems, inconsistent preparation, and limited governance make it difficult for AI to produce accurate answers. Before AI can deliver real value, the data feeding it must be structured, contextualized, and governed. In this animation, we break down the 5 Pillars of AI-Ready Data and show how data moves through a connected pipeline before it reaches AI.
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Most AI failures aren’t model problems. They’re data pipeline problems. Disconnected systems. Inconsistent preparation. No governance at query time. This short animation walks through the 5 Pillars of AI-Ready Data and shows how data needs to move through a structured pipeline before it can power reliable AI. 5 Pillars of AI-Ready Data Access → Prep → Context → Governance → Monitoring Five stages. One connected flow.
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Budgets are critically important. For the CFO's standpoint, budgets are the roadmap for an organization's future. As budgeting and planning take on more importance in the wake of financial uncertainty, the economic landscape calls for transformation and innovation.
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By InsightSoftware
Organizations across all industries need more accurate and faster business insights, and finance teams are producing an ever-increasing volume of operational reports to meet that need.
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By InsightSoftware
Driver based budgeting (DBB) is rapidly gaining attention. As business environments rapidly change, business leaders are seeking to gain greater agility and responsiveness. DBB is an innovative approach to planning and budgeting designed to identify the variables that have the greatest impact on a company's performance. By tying budgets to those critical variables, finance leaders can build flexibility into budgets, enabling them to adjust quickly to changing conditions.
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A unique combination of evolving tax regimes and regulations, disruption to global trade triggered by the pandemic, a strengthening focus on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda, and increasingly powerful technologies is bringing about change for multinational companies and their tax teams. It's also creating an exciting opportunity to completely reset multinational enterprises' (MNEs) approach to tax planning and forecasting by investing in high performance software. This will enable tax teams and professionals to add significant value to their organizations.
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