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Spotter Enhancements

Spotter just got smarter and more in your control. You can now customize your agent's name, persona, output formatting, and guardrails to dictate exactly how it should (and shouldn't) handle data. Set it once, in plain language, and every user across the organization gets a configured, governed Spotter. Other new features include: Ad-hoc file analysis: Upload any flat file directly into Spotter and start asking questions instantly, solo or blended with your governed data.

How Booking.com Scaled Agentic Analytics for Self-Service

At Snowflake Summit '26, Chris de Groot, Manager of Data Engineering Customer Service, and Jay Stricks, Group Product Manager, Insights Platform, took the stage to share Booking.com's massive data transformation. In their session, "Booking.com's Data Travels: Platform Foundations to Agentic Analytics," they laid out a masterclass on how to make a colossal, fragmented data landscape entirely AI-ready.

The internal war over who owns AI.

There is a massive boardroom fight happening right now over who gets to control AI. Should it be IT? A centralized lab? The executives? Boris Rabkin from Ligentia drops a truth bomb: AI belongs wherever value is actually created. If your AI strategy is locked inside an isolated corporate lab instead of in the hands of your product, engineering, and customer teams, it’s going to fail. Full episode out now!

Stop Rebuilding Data Models From Scratch: Meet SpotterModel

Your data engineering team shouldn't be the bottleneck between a business question and a governed answer. SpotterModel turns a natural language prompt into a deployable data model. This release does the heavy lifting on complex calculations, and lets you roll back to any previous model state, anytime, so a bad change never costs you hours of rebuilding. It maps your relationships, dimensions, and measures instantly, and you stay in control of table selection and the build process the whole way.

Build Your Super Team: What 150 Years of Soccer Data Says

Soccer is a game of stories, but the most fascinating stories are often buried deep inside the numbers. And this year on the world's biggest stage, the tournament has expanded by nearly 60% – traditional scouting reports and pundit hot-takes simply can't keep up with the sheer volume of new data. That’s why we’re looking at the tournament through a much wider lens.

How ThoughtSpot Fixed This CIO's Biggest Headache

The secret to a seamless customer experience? Embedding your intelligence. Ligentia wanted one consistent, branded experience across their entire supply chain offer. The fix? Partnering with ThoughtSpot. Catch Ligentia CIO Boris R. and Cindi Howson on podcast discussing how to turn standard apps into data powerhouses. Music: “The Clermont” by Flash Fluharty Licensed via PremiumBeat, ID: P9IHFMDYNZCKLEFZ.

Gallus Insights: From Dashboard Overload to Instant Answers

I had the distinct pleasure of hosting a Snowflake Summit ‘26 session with Agustin “Augie” Del Rio, CEO and Founder of Gallus Insights, an analytics platform tailored specifically for mortgage lenders. As we sat down to discuss the future of analytics, one core truth echoed throughout the room: the most ambitious AI goals live or die by the quality of the underlying data.

Agentic Analytics in Finance: Lessons from Navan and EcoLab

Finance leaders are operating in one of the most demanding macro environments in recent memory. Interest rates are moving faster than most models anticipated, reshaping the cost of capital almost overnight. Supply chain fragility has also turned working capital management into a moving target, and geopolitical uncertainty is changing how you plan for the future. Yet for many finance functions, the analytics stack hasn't kept pace with that urgency.

How Thrive Learning Scaled 56K Users with Agentic Analytics

Live from Snowflake Summit '26, tech leaders from around the globe gathered to discover how the world’s most innovative companies are making AI real for business. But few sessions delivered as much raw, practical insight as the one presented by Frankie Woodhead, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Thrive Learning. Heading up a fast-growing, £20m ARR LearnTech business that serves over 500 global customers and 5 million users, Woodhead didn't give a standard product pitch.

How Agentic AI is Rewriting the Rules of Global Trade

Explore how a global supply chain company turned its data platform into a customer-facing product designed to operate at the speed of disruption. Boris Rabkin, Chief Information Officer at Ligentia, shares how the company executed that shift through a deliberate phased approach and a partnership with ThoughtSpot. He breaks down how to build a data foundation that scales, what it takes to embed analytics where decisions happen, and how to structure AI ownership and governance across a global regulatory environment.