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Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake in August

The August Snow Report is LIVE Two GA launches for CoCo, warehouse tuning that handles itself, and World Tour in 23 cities. What's new CoCo Desktop is GA A native IDE inside your governed Snowflake environment, so it knows your data models and access policies from day one. Up to 2X faster on complex tasks with 51% fewer tokens than third-party assistants. Cloud Agents are GA Run agentic workflows from your browser in Snowsight. Start with a prompt, close your session, and the agent keeps working on Snowflake's managed infrastructure.

AgentSpot Retail Use Case - Dealership Inventory and Pricing App

Traditional dashboards and static reports are not built around the person reading them. In this video, we introduce Data Apps in AgentSpot, a new surface alongside Agents and Workflows, and walk through a Used Car Lot Operations App built for a regional dealership manager. It pulls from ThoughtSpot data models and Slack conversations into a single narrative, scopes every app to the viewer's own credentials so people only see the data they have access to, and supports real interactivity like KPI card drill downs, custom filters, and what if pricing analysis.

What's New and Improved in Astera 11.2

A faster, efficient, more capable Astera with same licensing cost Astera 11.2 is available now for every product on the platform: Centerprise, ReportMiner, EDI Connect. High-volume jobs process up to 2x faster, extraction templates are generated under five seconds with AI-powered Auto-Generate Layout, and Dataflows can run a full retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline without a separate tool. The release also simplifies deployment, and adds email-driven workflow triggers.

Claude + MCPs Isn't a Semantic Layer: What Breaks When You Analyze Your Business Without One

Ask Claude for your average sales cycle today. Ask again next Tuesday. Same prompt, same MCPs, same playbook. There is a real chance the two numbers do not match. The reason is not exciting, and it costs you decisions. If you have wired Claude to your CRM, product, and finance tools through MCPs and given it a detailed playbook, you are already ahead of most companies asking whether AI can analyze the business. The gap between that and running the company off the answers is real, though.

Yellowfin BI 9.18 Brings Conversational Analytics You Can Trust

We are happy to announce the general availability of version 9.18 of Yellowfin BI, our business intelligence and embedded analytics platform. This release marks a step forward in how organizations and ISVs can combine the power of modern AI models with an auditable data analysis process.

Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake in August

The August Snow Report is LIVE Two GA launches for CoCo, warehouse tuning that handles itself, and World Tour in 23 cities. What's new CoCo Desktop is GA A native IDE inside your governed Snowflake environment, so it knows your data models and access policies from day one. Up to 2X faster on complex tasks with 51% fewer tokens than third-party assistants. Cloud Agents are GA Run agentic workflows from your browser in Snowsight. Start with a prompt, close your session, and the agent keeps working on Snowflake's managed infrastructure.

The Times They Are A-Changin' - Just Not on SAP's Terms

Bob Dylan wrote those words in 1964 about a world in flux - where the old rules were being quietly rewritten, and the people who hadn't noticed yet were about to find out the hard way. He wasn't thinking about enterprise data architecture. But if you've been following SAP's moves on data access, extraction, and platform strategy over the past two years, those words might be landing a little closer to home than usual.