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What Happens When the CEO Can Always Get the Answer

Jul 2, 2026 By Kristyna Kaucka In Keboola
The goal is not complicated to describe. The CEO opens a dashboard, asks a question about regional margin for Q2, drills through to the underlying journal entries, and gets the answer in seconds, without asking anyone. No email to the controller. No waiting until Thursday. No 'let me come back to you on that.' Every CFO who has sat through a pitch for a data platform has been shown this vision. Most of them believe it is achievable. A meaningful number have actually achieved it.
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qlik

Qlik Academic Program Expands Access with Upgraded Cloud Licenses and Powerful New AI Features

Jul 2, 2026 By Brittany Fournier In Qlik
The future of data analytics and AI education has just become even more accessible. The Qlik Academic Program is excited to announce a major upgrade to Qlik Product licenses available for educators and students worldwide. Participants in the program will now receive access to Premium Qlik Cloud Analytics and Premium Qlik Talend Cloud, providing an even more powerful environment for teaching, learning, and innovating with data.
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integrate

How to Connect Your Data Warehouse to AI Agents With MCP

Jul 2, 2026 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Your organization invested heavily in a data warehouse, yet business users still wait days for answers to simple questions. The disconnect between where data lives and who needs it remains one of the persistent challenges in enterprise analytics. With 95% of AI pilots failing due to poor data foundations and accessibility issues, companies need a standardized way to connect AI agents to their existing data infrastructure.
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MCP vs REST APIs for Data Integration: When to Use Each

Jul 2, 2026 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Your data integration team just asked: "Should we use MCP or REST APIs?" The answer is yes to both. With the ETL market reaching $10.24 billion in 2026 and projected to grow to $21.25 billion by 2031, understanding when to leverage each technology determines whether your AI agents can autonomously adapt to changing data needs or require manual code updates for every new integration.
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How to Become an AI-Native Team

Jul 1, 2026 By Špela Jurič In Databox
A year ago we announced that Databox is becoming an AI-first company. At the time, that mostly meant what it meant for many companies in 2025: AI becoming a strategic priority. Teams were encouraged to experiment and adopt new tools, as it was clear that AI wasn’t a trend we could ignore. That was the easy part. What’s become clear over the last year is that there’s a significant difference between being AI-first and being AI-native.
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Welcome to the Era of Action: A Message from Ketan Karkhanis

Jul 1, 2026 By ThoughtSpot In ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. We’re celebrating this milestone while building for tomorrow, as we shift from the Era of Reporting into the Era of Action. Hear a message from our CEO Ketan Karkhanis on what this shift means for our customers and partners, and how companies can win in this next era of AI BI.
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MAR-Pricing trap your data teams do not know about

Jul 1, 2026 By Hevo Data In Hevo
Most data teams think MAR pricing is predictable and manageable. You pay for rows that change, your pipelines keep running, and the monthly bill should be easy to understand. But teams on the pricing model learn the reality 6 months in. If you’re on the MAR model this is a must watch (before you get your next bill spike). Dan Murphy explains why MAR mechanics are designed to break.
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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.
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qlik

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.
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