ISG Software Research Analyst Perspectives | AI and Machine Learning (3)

OneStream Splash Highlights Practical AI Advances

Posted by Robert Kugel on 15 August 2024

OneStream offers a platform designed to serve the needs of accounting and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) organizations. The software handles financial close and consolidation, planning and budgeting, analysis and reporting. OneStream recently held its annual user conference, Splash, in Las Vegas. In attending this meeting, my focus was on progress the company has made in the areas of... Read More

Topics: Performance Management, Office of Finance, Business Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, AI and Machine Learning, Digital Applications

Confluent Enables Enterprises to Operate in Real Time

Posted by Matt Aslett on 14 August 2024

I have written on multiple occasions about the increasing proportion of enterprises embracing the processing of streaming data and events alongside traditional batch-based data processing. I assert that, by 2026, more than three-quarters of enterprises’ standard information architectures will include streaming data and event processing, allowing enterprises to be more responsive and provide... Read More

Topics: Streaming Data Events, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Market Observations on AI Governance

Posted by David Menninger on 01 August 2024

Having just completed our AI Platforms Buyers Guide assessment of 25 different software providers, I was surprised to see how few provided robust AI governance capabilities. As I’ve written previously, data governance has changed dramatically over the last decade, with nearly twice as many enterprises (71% v. 38%) implementing data governance policies during that time. With all this attention on... Read More

Topics: AI, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

The Evolving Strategic Needs for Successful AI and ML

Posted by Matt Aslett on 30 July 2024

The artificial intelligence and machine learning landscape was profoundly altered by the emergence of generative AI into the mainstream consciousness during 2023. The widespread availability of GenAI models and cloud services has lowered the barriers to individuals and enterprises engaging with AI for various use cases, including generating content, querying data, writing code, preparing data for... Read More

Topics: Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Who Poisoned the AI Watering Hole: Adversarial Threats in AI

Posted by Jeff Orr on 09 July 2024

Embracing artificial intelligence technologies opens doors for innovation and efficiency. Alongside these opportunities, however, come risks. Threat actors are keenly aware of the potential impact of AI systems and are actively exploring ways to manipulate them. In this Analyst Perspective, I explore the world of adversarial machine-learning threats and provide practical guidance for securing AI... Read More

Topics: Digital Technology, DevOps and Platforms, AI and Machine Learning

ServiceNow Puts AI to Work at Knowledge 2024 Conference

Posted by Jeff Orr on 17 June 2024

ServiceNow is a global software provider that has developed a cloud computing platform that helps organizations manage digital workflows for enterprise operations. The provider uses its annual Knowledge user conference to educate customers and showcase product announcements. Ventana Research had the opportunity to attend the Knowledge 2024 event and provides this analyst perspective to summarize... Read More

Topics: IT Service Management, Digital Technology, natural language processing, AI and Machine Learning

Data Operations Improves Trust in Data for Analytics and AI

Posted by Matt Aslett on 12 June 2024

Enterprises are embracing the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver improvements in productivity and efficiency. As they move from initial pilots and trial projects to deployment into production at scale, many are realizing the importance of agile and responsive data processes, as well as tools and platforms that facilitate data management, with the goal of improving trust in the... Read More

Topics: data operations, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Google Advances Cloud Data Platforms and Analytics Services with GenAI

Posted by Matt Aslett on 05 June 2024

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has significant implications at all levels of the technology stack, not least analytics and data products, which serve to support the development, training and deployment of GenAI models, and also stand to benefit from the advances in automation enabled by GenAI. The intersection of analytics and data and GenAI was a significant focus of... Read More

Topics: Analytics, AI, natural language processing, AI and Machine Learning

Data Observability Improves Trust in Data for Decision-Making

Posted by Matt Aslett on 22 May 2024

I recently wrote about the development, testing and deployment of data pipelines as a fundamental accelerator of data-driven strategies as well as the importance of data orchestration to accelerate analytics and artificial intelligence. As I explained in the recent Data Observability Buyers Guide, data observability software is also a critical aspect of data-driven decision-making. Data... Read More

Topics: Analytics, data operations, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Oracle Demonstrates Embedded AI for Productivity Gains

Posted by Robert Kugel on 21 May 2024

Oracle held an industry analyst summit recently where the focus was on artificial intelligence (AI) and embedded AI. At the event, Oracle demonstrated progress in adding useful AI-enabled capabilities to its business applications, especially in finance and accounting, supply chain, HR and revenue management. To put this into context, across the software industry, AI is already at work in many... Read More

Topics: Office of Finance, Analytics, Business Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, AI and Machine Learning, Order-to-Cash

Google Expands AI Capabilities at Cloud Next ’24

Posted by David Menninger on 09 May 2024

The artificial intelligence (AI) market is exploding with activity, which is part of the reason we recently announced that we have dedicated an entire practice at Ventana Research to the topic. Large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) have taken the AI world by storm. In fact, we assert that through 2026, one-half of all AI investments will be based on generative rather than... Read More

Topics: AI, natural language processing, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Data Orchestration Automates and Accelerates Analytics and AI

Posted by Matt Aslett on 24 April 2024

I recently wrote about the development, testing and deployment of data pipelines as a fundamental accelerator of data-driven strategies. As I explained in the 2023 Data Orchestration Buyers Guide, today’s analytics environments require agile data pipelines that can traverse multiple data-processing locations and evolve with business needs. Given the increasing complexity of evolving data sources... Read More

Topics: Analytics, data operations, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

DataOps.live Enables the Development of Data Products

Posted by Matt Aslett on 10 April 2024

I wrote recently about the role that data intelligence has in enabling enterprises to facilitate data democratization and the delivery of data as a product. Data intelligence provides a holistic view of how, when, and why data is produced and consumed across an enterprise, and by whom. This information can be used by data teams to ensure business users and data analysts are provided with... Read More

Topics: Analytics, Data Ops, data operations, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Data Pipelines Integrate Data Processing and Enable AI

Posted by Matt Aslett on 02 April 2024

The development, testing and deployment of data pipelines is a fundamental accelerator of data-driven strategies, enabling enterprises to extract data from the operational applications and data platforms designed to run the business and load, integrate and transform it into the analytic data platforms and tools used to analyze the business. As I explained in our recent Data Pipelines Buyers... Read More

Topics: Analytics, data operations, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Data Intelligence: Fundamental to Data Architecture

Posted by Matt Aslett on 27 March 2024

As enterprises seek to increase data-driven decision-making, many are investing in strategic data democratization initiatives to provide business users and data analysts with self-service access to data across the enterprise. Such access has long been a goal of many enterprises, but few have achieved it. Only 15% of participants in Ventana Research’s Analytics and Data Benchmark Research say... Read More

Topics: Analytics, data operations, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Refocus on AI, Skill-Building for the Greatest Operational Impact

Posted by David Menninger on 21 March 2024

In the technology industry, 2023 will be remembered as the year of generative artificial intelligence. Yes, the world was made aware of GenAI when ChatGPT was publicly launched in November of 2022, but few knew the impact it would have at that point in time. Since then, GenAI has taken the world by storm, with vendors applying the technology to make it easier to ask questions about data, write... Read More

Topics: Artificial intelligence, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

AI Makes Accounts Receivable a Customer-Facing Organization

Posted by Robert Kugel on 20 March 2024

Artificial intelligence seems poised to change everything, although naturally a great deal of attention tends to be paid to the cool things it makes possible. AI can also make the humdrum less tedious and even transform the dullest of back-office operations into something more meaningful. For example, AI can take accounts receivable automation to the next level. Infusing AI into managing the... Read More

Topics: Office of Finance, AI, AI and Machine Learning, Order-to-Cash

As Interest in AI Scales, So Does Domino Data Lab

Posted by David Menninger on 13 March 2024

Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) is exploding driven in large part by the widespread interest in generative AI. ISG’s AI Buyer Behavior Survey reported that more than 6 in 10 participants have at least one AI application in production. However, despite the ease with which individuals can use AI as a result of natural language processing, creating and managing AI models is still a... Read More

Topics: Data Science, AI, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Teradata Encourages AI and Analytics Experimentation

Posted by Matt Aslett on 13 March 2024

Cloud computing has had an enormous impact on the analytics and data industry in recent decades, with the on-demand provisioning of computational resources providing new opportunities for enterprises to lower costs and increase efficiency. Two-thirds of participants in Ventana Research’s Data Lakes Dynamic Insights research are using a cloud-based environment as the primary data platform for... Read More

Topics: Analytics, AI, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Couchbase Addresses Real-Time Analytics

Posted by Matt Aslett on 27 February 2024

I have previously written about the impact of intelligent operational applications on the requirements for data platforms. Intelligent applications are used to run the business but also deliver personalization, recommendations and other features generated by machine learning and artificial intelligence. As such, they require a combination of operational and analytic processing functionality. The... Read More

Topics: Analytics, Artificial intelligence, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning