data analytics

Microsoft Excel hasn’t gone away — it’s been remixed. In 2026 the spreadsheet remains the lingua franca of finance, operations, and analytics, and the year’s most useful training lists mix classical workbook skills with new requirements: Power Query, Power Pivot/DAX, Copilot-aware workflows, and...

Google appears to be closing a small but persistent UX gap in Chrome on Windows by adding support for dragging and downloading multiple files from web apps directly into File Explorer — a change spotted in a recent Chromium code update that would let one drag action represent a group download...

Delaware’s Belgian arm has quietly elevated two long-serving senior technologists — Nicompetitorlas Maes and Kenny Decorte — to partner, a move that tightens the consultancy’s grip on two strategic value pillars: sector-focused ERP delivery and Microsoft-cloud-led data platforms. The personnel...

Microsoft’s Power BI, Tableau (Salesforce), SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud, IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense, Google’s Looker + BigQuery, SAS Viya, Databricks, and TIBCO Spotfire define the business analytics landscape in 2026 — each delivering distinct trade-offs between accessibility...

Microsoft Clarity’s December analysis reframes a simple traffic story: AI assistants still account for under 1% of measured visits, but those visits are growing rapidly and — where they’re tracked — convert at materially higher rates than traditional channels, forcing publishers, advertisers...

CloudMoyo’s dual announcement — that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Data & AI (Azure) and launched a new Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program to bundle licensing, implementation and managed services — marks a deliberate push to convert Microsoft platform...

Microsoft has released a public preview of the Dataverse SDK for Python, a first-party, open-source client that brings Dataverse business data directly into Python workflows—enabling data scientists, automation engineers, and developers to build analytics, agentic workflows, and production...

Tredence’s announcement that it has won the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Data & Analytics Platform confirms the company’s rising profile as a multi-cloud data and AI systems integrator — but it also raises the practical questions every IT buyer must ask about measurable evidence...

From startup to standout, Nimble Gravity says it has been named a finalist for the Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Awards in the Emerging SI (Systems Integrator) category — a recognition that, if independently confirmed, would mark a significant milestone for a young, Azure‑focused...

Monash University is piloting a graph-database and generative-AI platform — Research and Publications Pattern Analysis (RAPPA) — that links researchers, publications, equipment and funding into a single, queryable knowledge graph to improve discoverability and measure return on research...

Microsoft Clarity’s new analysis upends a simple volume-first view of web traffic: AI-driven referrals remain a tiny slice of visits today, but they are growing fast and — according to Clarity’s dataset — converting at substantially higher rates than traditional channels, a finding that should...

Microsoft Clarity’s new analysis shows AI assistants and large language models are still a tiny slice of referral traffic but are already producing materially higher conversion rates than traditional channels — a signal that discovery and attribution are shifting beneath publishers’ and...

Highwire’s new AI Index promises to give marketing and communications leaders a single, continuously updated metric for how their brand is represented across major generative‑AI assistants — a timely product that answers a practical gap but raises methodological questions that buyers must insist...

Simpson Associates’ announcement that it has taken a private equity investment from Beech Tree Private Equity marks a clear inflection point for a UK data specialist that has built market credibility around Microsoft-aligned data engineering, analytics and AI for regulated sectors—but the deal...

VeriPark is reported to have been named to Microsoft’s elite Inner Circle for AI Business Solutions for the 2025–2026 cycle, a recognition that — if confirmed — would mark a continuation of the company’s long-running partnership with Microsoft and its steady profile in financial‑services-focused...

Point B's announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) designation with a formal Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a deliberate deepening of its Microsoft alliance and a visible signal to clients that it’s doubling down on enterprise-grade...

Sydney Zoo’s IT team has quietly turned a zoo‑wide data tangle into a single analytics surface, adopting Microsoft Fabric to consolidate multiple siloed databases, ingest real‑time operational telemetry and build semantic models that drive business reporting, visitor analytics and future CRM...

StatCounter’s August 2025 snapshot produced a deceptively simple headline — Windows 11 slipped below 50% of desktop Windows installations while Windows 10 regained ground — but the data behind that headline, and what it means for users and IT teams as Windows 10 support ends in October, require...

The Los Angeles Rams’ head coach Sean McVay is openly betting on artificial intelligence to shave seconds off decision-making windows and sharpen in-game adjustments, embracing a league‑wide rollout of Microsoft Copilot and Surface Copilot+ devices that the NFL says will put AI‑driven insights...

StatCounter’s latest tracking shows Windows 11 has climbed to roughly the halfway mark of Windows desktop installs — a milestone that reflects accelerating migration away from Windows 10 as Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline approaches. The headline numbers — what StatCounter...