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Analysis: Microsoft Extends Power BI Q&A Search to On-Premises Data

Microsoft’s decision to extend Power BI’s natural language search technology to on-premises data sources is good news for Power BI subscribers.

Relational Technology Has Staying Power

The RDBMS provides transactional safeguards and data management amenities that NoSQL database systems do not now provide -- and probably won't provide for quite some time.

Data Digest: Predictive Analytics, Politics, and Voter Data

What does a so-so economy do to predictive models? Plus one candidate says voter data is overrated.

Upside Briefing: Dell Statistica

Dell recently released Statistica 13.1. We offer Upside's first impressions from a business briefing and a look at the idea of a citizen data scientist.

Datawatch Revamps Monarch for Self-Service Data Prep

Datawatch's Monarch 13.3 release adds new analytical functions and algorithms. It also bundles new automated data loading capabilities, along with an Angoss export function.

Data Digest: Advice on IoT Security and Moving to the Cloud

Read IoT security advice offered by an open source foundation and by technology executives, plus how to determine whether you should be in the cloud.

Data Digest: Big Data in the Cloud and Two Views of the Future of Data Science

Learn 5 reasons why big data projects belong in the cloud, how many people are applying to be data scientists, and why enterprises are hiring data science teams.

Analysis: Birst Tackles the New Siloing

Cloud BI player Birst says that it's the biggest name in network BI. Network BI isn't a recognized category, but Birst's vision of it gets at a real and pressing problem.

Raison d’Graph

Graph database technology gives us a way to clarify the connections between and among data points, facts, analytics, and other synthetic objects. As more enterprises intend to relate data across disparate data models, interest in graphing technology should rise.