ServiceNow takes RPA plunge by acquiring India-based startup Intellibot
ServiceNow became the latest company to take the robotic process automation (RPA) plunge when it announced it was acquiring Intellibot, an RPA startup based in Hyderabad, India. The companies did not reveal the purchase price. The purchase comes at a time where companies are looking to automate workflows across the organization. RPA provides a way to automate a set of legacy processes, which often involve humans dealing with mundane repetitive work.No-code business intelligence service y42 raises $2.9M seed round
Berlin-based y42 (formerly known as Datos Intelligence), a data warehouse-centric business intelligence service that promises to give businesses access to an enterprise-level data stack that’s as simple to use as a spreadsheet, today announced that it has raised a $2.9 million seed funding round led by La Famiglia VC. Additional investors include the co-founders of Foodspring, Personio and Petlab. The service, which was founded in 2020, integrates with over 100 data sources, covering all the standard B2B SaaS tools from Airtable to Shopify and Zendesk, as well as database services like Google’s BigQuery.Our Top 20 Most-Read Data & Analytics Research Last Week (to Mar 14)
Click here for an interactive PDF to connect to the notes directly. Henry Cook scores his first "number 1" hit this year with this iteration of The Practical Logical Data Warehouse that was published in December 2020. "The logical data warehouse — a data consolidation and virtualization architecture of multiple analytic systems — is used by both user organizations and vendors. This research provides practical advice for data and analytics leaders planning data management solutions for analytics." Enjoy!Daily Crunch: Facebook shows off a wrist-based interface
Facebook develops a new way to interact with AR, Uber’s facial recognition policy faces scrutiny and SpaceX’s Starship rocket booster hits a major milestone. This is your Daily Crunch for March 19, 2021. The big story: Facebook shows off wrist-based interface This project comes out of Facebook Reality Labs and is supposed to present an alternative computer interface on your wrist, with electromyography sensors to interpret motor nerve signals.It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools
Charles Caldwell Contributor Share on Twitter Charles Caldwell is VP of product management at Logi Analytics, which empowers the world’s software teams with intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the analytics market, including 10+ years of direct customer implementation experience. Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools.Recognizing Vulnerabilities and Risky Behavior Through Business Intelligence
Risk: It is something which every business owner wants to avoid or manage in their life. No matter in which business you are, risk will always be there with whom you need to deal with. How will you react, if someone tells you that it is possible to get rid of all your business-related risk? Well! At first you won’t believe it, but if it happens, you will certainly celebrate it, right?Effective Data Management Is the Overlooked Key to Business Growth
All companies, big and small, rely on data to help them streamline and improve business operations and make important decisions. That’s why data is often regarded as the secret ingredient for business success, and it can’t be denied it’s one of the most valuable assets in a company. The overwhelming number of companies are at least considering big data in their strategy, if they haven’t already.Oracle brings Autonomous Data Warehouse to the rest of us
With the new release, Oracle is expanding the appeal of the autonomous data warehouse to add end-to-end self-service experiences geared for business users.SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses
Python still welcome, though Oracle has updated its cloudy data warehouse and made structured query language harder to find, in the name of having database administrators spend less time working with the product.…Pregame Y Combinator with Equity
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