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Last April FloQast, an American maker of accounting software, published something unusual: a detailed engineering post on Amazon Web Services’ machine-learning blog, co-authored with AWS personnel, explaining precisely how its AI-powered transaction-matching feature works under the hood. The post described cloud infrastructure, model selection, and the specific technique (generating matching rules from user-supplied examples) that powers its AutoRec product.

Learn how to use BigQuery to analyze Gemini Enterprise usage logs, audit compliance, and build Looker dashboards at scale for your organization.

Looking back on 2025, one idea anchors everything we set out to accomplish: make data accessible and trusted so organizations can generate better decisions for their business, their customers, and the world.

Amazon’s recent pivot on the Selling Partner API is an encouraging reminder that developer pushback can breach walled gardens.

For years, the "Data-Driven" dream has looked a lot like a crowded screen. We built dashboards for every department, every KPI, and every niche project. But as we reached "peak dashboard," a frustrating reality set in: we were drowning in visualizations but starving for immediate insights.

For more than a decade, I have argued that the most valuable skill in a data-driven organisation is not access to information. It is the judgment to know when that information is wrong. AI has made that skill more important, not less. When I wrote about AI literacy in 2023, the pushback I heard most often was that the technology was not yet good enough for the question to matter. Now it is. AI can generate answers, summaries, recommendations, code, analysis, and increasingly, actions.