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Top Data & Business Intelligence Platforms 2026

By 2026, all-in-one data platforms will dominate because they deliver faster time-to-value, built-in governance, and AI copilots that actually work. Orchestration-only tools remain powerful for engineering-heavy teams, but most organizations will move to managed platforms that reduce incidents, simplify compliance, and accelerate insight delivery.

Ep 43 | Mike Walsh Returns: Are AI Agents the New Workforce?

Fresh off his keynote at Cloudera’s EVOLVE NYC, futurist and author Mike Walsh returns to The AI Forecast to share bold insights on the rise of AI agents and what they mean for business, culture, and society. In this wide-ranging conversation, Mike explores how AI is evolving from simple automation into a limitless digital workforce, and why the real disruption lies in the second- and third-order consequences of this transformation.

Index Engines and Hitachi Vantara Advance Enterprise Cyber Resilience with AI-Driven, SLA-Backed Clean Data Recovery Innovation

Hitachi Vantara: Ransomware Detection powered by CyberSense® Uniquely Delivers 99.99% Accurate Data Corruption Detection and Guaranteed Clean Data Recovery at Up to Twice the Speed of Alternatives, Minimizing Downtime and Risk.

Snowflake: The Platform For The AI Era

The age of AI has arrived, bringing unprecedented opportunities and complex new challenges. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud is the unified platform and connected ecosystem built for this new era of innovation. Our platform empowers organizations to break down silos, activate their data and build powerful AI applications with speed and trust. Join us and discover why Snowflake is the place where data does more.

Coming Soon - Passing Dynamic Selections - Taking Action On Your Data - Qlik Automate & Qlik Cloud

In the works: Part 4 of the Do More with hashtag#Qlik Taking Action on Your Data series! This chapter dives into how you can be proactive with your analytics — dynamically passing discovered insights from Qlik Analytics into Qlik Automate. Qlik automations can trigger any backend process — helping you close the loop between insight and action. From notifications and approvals to system updates and workflows, you’ll see how intelligent, action-driven dashboards can do more than visualize data — they can actually move business forward.

Snowflake: The Platform For The AI Era

The age of AI has arrived, bringing unprecedented opportunities and complex new challenges. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud is the unified platform and connected ecosystem built for this new era of innovation. Our platform empowers organizations to break down silos, activate their data and build powerful AI applications with speed and trust. Join us and discover why Snowflake is the place where data does more.

Ep 42 | AI as a New Class of Risk with Ojas Rege

AI as a New Class of Risk with Ojas Rege. AI is changing the way businesses operate. But without trust, governance, and accountability, progress stalls. Ojas Rege, SVP & GM, Privacy & Data Governance at OneTrust joins The AI Forecast to explore how organizations can balance innovation with responsibility. He and host Paul Muller unpack why AI represents a “new class of risk,” what it means to design privacy and governance into systems from the very beginning, and how curiosity and context fuel better decision-making with data.