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databox

Claude + MCPs Isn't a Semantic Layer: What Breaks When You Analyze Your Business Without One

Aug 13, 2026 By Nevena Rudan In Databox
Ask Claude for your average sales cycle today. Ask again next Tuesday. Same prompt, same MCPs, same playbook. There is a real chance the two numbers do not match. The reason is not exciting, and it costs you decisions. If you have wired Claude to your CRM, product, and finance tools through MCPs and given it a detailed playbook, you are already ahead of most companies asking whether AI can analyze the business. The gap between that and running the company off the answers is real, though.
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yellowfin

Yellowfin BI 9.18 Brings Conversational Analytics You Can Trust

Aug 13, 2026 By Vladimir Ceric In Yellowfin
We are happy to announce the general availability of version 9.18 of Yellowfin BI, our business intelligence and embedded analytics platform. This release marks a step forward in how organizations and ISVs can combine the power of modern AI models with an auditable data analysis process.
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Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake in August

Aug 13, 2026 By Snowflake Inc. In Snowflake
The August Snow Report is LIVE Two GA launches for CoCo, warehouse tuning that handles itself, and World Tour in 23 cities. What's new CoCo Desktop is GA A native IDE inside your governed Snowflake environment, so it knows your data models and access policies from day one. Up to 2X faster on complex tasks with 51% fewer tokens than third-party assistants. Cloud Agents are GA Run agentic workflows from your browser in Snowsight. Start with a prompt, close your session, and the agent keeps working on Snowflake's managed infrastructure.
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qlik

The Times They Are A-Changin' - Just Not on SAP's Terms

Aug 13, 2026 By Adam Mayer In Qlik
Bob Dylan wrote those words in 1964 about a world in flux - where the old rules were being quietly rewritten, and the people who hadn't noticed yet were about to find out the hard way. He wasn't thinking about enterprise data architecture. But if you've been following SAP's moves on data access, extraction, and platform strategy over the past two years, those words might be landing a little closer to home than usual.
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integrate

8 Best Salesforce Data Cleansing Tools in 2026

Aug 12, 2026 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Salesforce serves as the operational backbone for sales, marketing, and customer service teams worldwide. When that foundation contains duplicate records, incomplete fields, or outdated information, the consequences cascade throughout the entire organization. Sales teams waste hours chasing leads that already exist in another record. Marketing campaigns target contacts who left their companies months ago.
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integrate

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Explained for Data Teams

Aug 12, 2026 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Data teams face an impossible challenge: democratize data access across the organization while maintaining security controls and meeting regulatory requirements. Without a structured approach, engineering teams spend 15-25% of their time handling access requests instead of building data products. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) transforms this operational chaos into a manageable system but only when implemented correctly.
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integrate

Data Cleansing: The Complete Guide (Process, Techniques, Examples)

Aug 12, 2026 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Data cleansing sits at the heart of every reliable data pipeline. Yet despite being essential to trusted analytics and decision-making, cleaning data remains one of the most time-consuming and undervalued steps in modern data workflows. With poor data quality creating significant operational challenges, getting data cleansing right has never been more critical.
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Resource Planning in Power BI | Power ON Demo

Aug 12, 2026 By insightsoftware In InsightSoftware
See how to plan and allocate your team's resources directly inside Power BI. This demo walks through a resource management app built with Power ON from insightsoftware, where you can schedule people across projects, set rates, and track utilization against capacity without ever leaving Power BI. Power ON adds planning and write-back to Power BI, so your team can edit and save data right in a dashboard using a familiar, spreadsheet-style interface. In this walkthrough, we put those capabilities to work for resource and capacity planning.
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