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How to Replace Your Retired Microsoft Access Salesforce Connector

Jan 30, 2026 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
Microsoft officially retired the built-in Salesforce ODBC connector in Access on October 28, 2025 for Microsoft 365 monthly versions and November 11 for semi-annual and perpetual licenses. Teams that relied on Access for quick Salesforce data pulls, lightweight reports, and dashboard connections suddenly found their Microsoft Access Salesforce connection not working. Here, we discuss what happened, who’s affected, and how to get your data flowing again with minimal disruption.
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databox

How an AI Assistant Can Work With Your Business Data with MCPs

Jan 30, 2026 By Alexander B. Pavlinek In Databox
And instead of getting a generic answer or being told to check your dashboard, the AI pulls the exact numbers from your company’s data and gives you a real answer in seconds. This is no longer science fiction. A new technology called MCP (Model Context Protocol) makes this possible. It’s a standardized way for AI tools to securely connect to your business intelligence and analytics platforms and actually work with your real data.
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thoughtspot

Performance at Scale: A Test Case for Snowflake Interactive Analytics on ThoughtSpot

Jan 29, 2026 By Antonio Scaramuzzino In ThoughtSpot
Interactive analytics has a simple promise: answers should show up when people need them, not after the moment has passed. But when usage spikes, many teams end up paying twice: once in latency and again in compute. We recently published a blog introducing Snowflake Interactive Analytics and what it means for ThoughtSpot customers.
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keboola

The Silent Profit Killer: Why Overhead Costs Creep Up (And How to Stop Them)

Jan 29, 2026 By Keboola In Keboola
It starts innocuously. Marketing signs up for a new analytics platform. IT renews that enterprise license even though only 40% of seats are used. HR adds another recruiter. Travel spending creeps back to pre-pandemic levels despite hybrid work. Then one day: SG&A as percentage of revenue climbed from 22% to 28% over three years. Your margins are compressed. The board is asking questions.
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keboola

The Month-End Close That Never Ends (Until Now)

Jan 29, 2026 By Keboola In Keboola
It's 9 PM on Day 5 of the month-end close. Your controller is still at their desk, squinting at the intercompany reconciliation spreadsheet that refuses to balance. The German subsidiary's numbers came in late (again). The currency conversion formulas broke when someone accidentally sorted column B. And tomorrow morning, the CFO needs consolidated financials for the board meeting.
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keboola

From Excel Hell to AI-Powered Finance: A CEO's Journey to Data-Driven Decision Making

Jan 29, 2026 By Keboola In Keboola
"We were wasting too much time debating the accuracy of numbers as opposed to using that time to make decisions." That's how Satty Saha, Group CEO of CreditInfo-a credit bureau operating across 30+ countries-described the moment he realized his organization had a data problem. Not the kind of data problem you'd expect from a company whose business is data and analytics. An internal data problem.
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Collections: A New Way to Tackle Content Clutter with ThoughtSpot

Jan 29, 2026 By ThoughtSpot In ThoughtSpot
Eliminate the chaos of content sprawl and bring structure to your analytics environment. In this feature deep-dive, we explore Collections, a powerful new way to organize, navigate, and share your ThoughtSpot assets using a smart, hierarchical folder system. In this video, you will learn how to: The Result? A radically cleaner user experience that empowers executives to find answers faster and allows admins to govern content with surgical precision.
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Capturing User Logins for Business Intelligence Insights with ThoughtSpot

Jan 29, 2026 By ThoughtSpot In ThoughtSpot
Bridge the gap between deploying analytics and driving actual adoption by capturing and analyzing real-world user login behavior. In this technical walkthrough, we explore how to utilize ThoughtSpot CS Tools to extract audit logs and activity data, giving admins and stakeholders clear visibility into platform engagement. In this video, you will learn how to: The Result? A data-driven approach to platform administration that replaces intuition with hard evidence of user adoption and engagement.
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