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insightsoftware Data + Analytics Wins 2025 Dresner Technology Innovation and Application Innovation Awards for Embedded BI

For the fifth consecutive year, Dresnor Advisory Services has recognized insightsoftware Data + Analytics as a top Embedded Business Intelligence solution. This year’s dual recognition, winning both the 2025 Technology Innovation Award and 2025 Application Innovation Award, reinforces Logi Symphony’s position as the market’s premier solution for embedding analytics directly into applications.

Microsoft Access Loses Salesforce Connector - Here's Your Replacement Plan

Microsoft retired the Access Salesforce connector in October 2025. Here's how to keep your data flowing with the Simba Salesforce ODBC Driver. If you've been using Microsoft Access to connect to Salesforce, you need a new solution. The good news? Simba has been powering Microsoft's Salesforce connectivity under the hood for years. Same proven driver, same reliable performance. The switch is simple: update one connection string and your queries keep running, your reports stay intact, and your stakeholders don't even need to know anything changed.

The Future of AI in the Enterprise

As AI continues to rise in importance across all industries, the cost of implementation, readily available access to cloud computing, and practical business use cases make AI-powered offerings a competitive advantage for product managers, engineering, and data leaders. However, AI isn’t without its fair share of risks and challenges.

Unifying Snowflake & Apache Iceberg in Logi Symphony via Simba's ODBC Driver

How do you connect Snowflake and Apache Iceberg to embedded analytics without adding complexity? In this video, we demonstrate:→ Setting up the Simba Snowflake ODBC driver via system DSN→ Why pushdown queries matter for performance→ Building governed, reusable metrics in Logi Symphony→ Delivering fast, interactive dashboards on live retail data The result: unified sales and inventory analytics without the ETL pipelines, Python scripts, and custom services that create support headaches.

Data and Analytics Trends for 2026

Another year has flown by at breakneck speed. In the data and analytics space, the past year has seen an AI gold rush where BI and analytics solutions raced to offer AI-powered insights to best meet end users’ rising expectations. But despite AI being named the most important trend of the next five years in an insightsoftware survey, it isn’t an exact science as organizations contend with AI projects that fail to launch and the risk of AI hallucinations.

Why Enterprise AI Projects Fail - The Token Predictor Problem Executives Don't Understand

Why do large language models hallucinate? It's not a modeling problem. It's a data and context problem. This video breaks down why AI fails in enterprise environments and what it takes to get reliable, verifiable answers from your AI systems. When AI doesn't have governed access to live data, no understanding of your business rules, and no guardrails to keep it grounded, hallucinations aren't just likely. They're inevitable.

How to Replace Your Retired Microsoft Access Salesforce Connector

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.

Top Features of Business Budgeting Software & Planning Platforms

Businesses of all sizes rely on detailed budgets to stay aligned on internal goals, monitor their spending, and make decisions that advance their company. Without an effective budget process, businesses increase their risk for costly errors, react more slowly to market shifts, and spend more time on managing numbers than on advancing strategy.

From Qlik to Quick: How to Transform Qlik Dashboard Analysis With Hidden Insights AI

The gap between having data and getting actionable insights has always been a challenge in business intelligence. Users face dashboards filled with information but struggle to answer critical questions without exporting to Excel, waiting on developers, or missing key trends hidden in their filtered data. But with technological advancements like natural language AI agents, users can access insights and patterns they might otherwise miss.