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Business intelligence analysts are becoming increasingly central to how companies operate, as organizations generate unprecedented amounts of data. Take for example, Google, which processes more than 16 billion searches a day, while upwards of three billion daily users upload their life updates across Meta’s social media apps. Today, there is more data collected than ever…

“What are new things I need to learn? And what are old things I don’t need to learn?”

AT&T Business introduced AT&T Video Intelligence with EdgeVis Cloud, a new managed cloud deployment option designed to help organizations scale and manage live video monitoring across a wide range of operating environments while reducing deployment complexity and infrastructure requirements.

Marc Henrichmann, chairman of the German Bundestag’s Parliamentary Oversight Panel and member of the Christian Democratic Union party, wants Germany’s intelligence services, which he says need to be “rebuilt from the ground up”, to be given powers to carry out pre-emptive cyberattacks against Russian drone manufacturers.

Ainika Hou in a tennis match at Carnegie Mellon University. Hou and Peter Spivack started a new course at CMU that introduces students to the analytics behind a tennis match. (Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University)

The $3 trillion club got a little more crowded following second-quarter earnings. Microsoft regained its position at this level and is nearly at the $4 trillion mark. Amazon briefly entered the $3 trillion club following the strong reception of its earnings, but has since dropped below the $3 trillion threshold. By the end of 2027, I’d expect…

New built-in AI layer unifies and activates law firms’ institutional knowledge, surfacing insights that help firms capture missed revenue, elevate expertise, and confidently execute client work

As it gets closer to the end of 2026, it looks like the market has a fair chance of scoring another year of double-digit gains. Anything can happen over the next five months, but year to date, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is up 13.4%. If it remains steady or rises further, it will be…

In search of information for a story on business intelligence technology 2.0, I was informed politely by the head of the BI practice of a global IT provider that I was at least six years behind the times.

As mentioned in previous columns, I believe the surge in artificial intelligence is unstoppable. Whereas we’ve seen many applications—for example, research assistance and the discovery of trends—most were aimed at productivity improvements: obviously of value, but not leading to disruptive innovation or system solutions.