Data teams and their business-side colleagues now expect—and need—more from their observability solutions than ever before. Modern data stacks create new challenges for performance, reliability, data quality, and, increasingly, cost. And the challenges faced by operations engineers are going to be different from those for data analysts, which are different from those people on the business side care about. That’s where DataOps observability comes in.

Business intelligence (BI) involves converting data into valuable insights using software and services. It influences a company’s strategic and tactical business preferences. BI tools access and analyze data sets and show analytical results in the form of reports, graphs & charts, dashboards, summaries, and maps. This process provides in-depth insight into the situation of the business.

The move to the cloud continues at a fast pace and if your organization embraces the future of operational reporting, then you need a plan to ensure consistent enterprise-wide reporting during your cloud journey. A top challenge of cloud migration is the need to produce consolidated reporting and analytics that cover all your Oracle ERP instances.

Snowflake customers leverage the Data Cloud to bring all their data together and capitalize on the near-infinite resources of the cloud. But how can this data be used to look ahead? How can we use yesterday’s evidence to plan for tomorrow? The answer—time series forecasting. Time series forecasting is one of the most applied data science techniques in business. It is used extensively in supply chain management, inventory planning, and finance.

2022 was without a doubt a landmark year for business intelligence (BI) and analytics. With continued development of innovative and sophisticated technologies such as contextual analytics, analysis of our business data is more accessible than ever before. Many of these same trends will continue to grow into 2023, but the data analytics space is ever evolving.

Happy New Year from the Yellowfin team, and welcome to our 2023 wrap-up! Following a year full of product feature updates, company changes and new initiatives, this blog provides a helpful summary for all our customers and followers on our future 2023 product roadmap for the Yellowfin embedded analytics suite, and a look back at last year’s biggest news.

For the past 30 years, the primary data source for business intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools has generally been either a data warehouse or a data mart. But as enterprises today struggle to cope with the growing complexity, scale, and speed of data, it’s becoming clear that the data tools of 30 years ago weren’t designed to handle the enterprise data management challenges of today - especially with the growing variety and amounts of data that enterprises are generating.