How Cross Joins Are Killing Your Dashboard Performance

Your analytics team built a report. It worked fine in development, but when it went into production, users began to complain about loading time. Your team has checked the database and looked at the dashboard configuration, but nobody can find the problem. There’s a good chance the cause is a cross join, and there’s an even better chance it’s executing in the wrong place.

Logi Symphony Surges Ahead of Tableau in New Info-Tech Report

The results of Info-Tech’s Head-to-Head: Business Intelligence & Analytics – Enterprise are in. In the report, Info-Tech and SoftwareReviews evaluated 360 verified enterprise end-user reviews to set benchmarks for vendor capabilities, product experience, and the full customer relationship. The study evaluates 11 areas amongst software vendors that are especially critical to making and fostering strong, long-term relationships between software providers and their customers. These include.

Would You Ask a Chef To Cut With a Bending Blade? | Longview Tax

Chef Laurent trained under Ducasse. Her knife work was flawless. Then the blade bent before it touched the meat. She was told the proper knives were being used elsewhere. These had worked "well enough" before. Well enough is a difficult standard to cook by. It's a worse one for filing taxes. Your tax team knows the feeling. Fragmented data. Manual reconciliation. Every close cycle a race against "well enough.".

What It Takes to Build an AI Agent as a First-Class Product

In June 2026, the highest-grossing law firm in the world committed $500 million to build its own AI platform. The firm put more than 180 engineers and data scientists and over 250 of its lawyers on the effort. It chose to build because general-purpose tools could not execute their transactions or reason over their massive institutional knowledge. That is the bill for a first-class AI product built from scratch.

Qlik Named a Leader. Again. For the 16th Year. For Us, AI Was Never an Afterthought.

We are excited to share that Qlik has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics & Business Intelligence Platforms, recognized for both our Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Download the complimentary report here. Sixteen years. Our Sweet Sixteen, if you're counting. I'd argue it's less a milestone for us and more a proof point.

Where AI Capital Is Flowing: Insights From The Snowflake-Crunchbase Report

At Snowflake Summit 2026, Gene Teare from Crunchbase and Harsha Kapre, Director at Snowflake Ventures, discuss their joint report examining AI investment trends and capital formation in the data ecosystem. Learn how the market has evolved from 2021's broad exuberance to concentrated investment in AI-ready infrastructure, governance, and agentic applications. Discover what signals indicate a startup is truly enterprise-ready versus experimental, and explore the next phase of capital formation in the agentic AI economy.

MAR-Pricing trap your data teams do not know about

Most data teams think MAR pricing is predictable and manageable. You pay for rows that change, your pipelines keep running, and the monthly bill should be easy to understand. But teams on the pricing model learn the reality 6 months in. If you’re on the MAR model this is a must watch (before you get your next bill spike). Dan Murphy explains why MAR mechanics are designed to break.