As agents assume more of the implementation and operational work, organizations will need to reconsider what data engineering is intended to deliver.

Organizations that treat BI as an operational system will be better positioned to build trusted foundations for the next generation of AI.

An unpopular opinion from someone who builds analytics for industrial operations every day: most companies in distribution, manufacturing, and marine transportation don't have an analytics problem.

SEATTLE, WA, September 9, 2026—TDWI Research has released a new original research report, the TDWI Blueprint Report: Next-Generation Analytics: From Semantic Layers to Generative BI, that introduces a ...

Generative AI is changing how organizations interact with data and analytics. Rather than navigating dashboards, writing SQL, or relying on predefined reports, business users can increasingly ask ...

Data teams spend enormous effort taming messy sources: deduplicating customer records, reconciling systems that disagree, backfilling gaps. Meanwhile one of the most valuable potential data sets in ...

It is a demanding time for data engineering. Many enterprises have already modernized their data platforms once by moving to the cloud, but the pipelines that fed those platforms often remained the ...

Typically, what most validation pipelines do when there’s a failure is report some kind of error code or even a line number and leave a human to make sense of what ...

Analytics teams already understand the cost of poor data. Bad definitions create conflicting dashboards. Missing fields create manual reconciliation. Stale records weaken forecasting. In agentic ...

Success with agentic AI will depend on much more than selecting the right language model. Organizations are moving beyond generative AI assistants to explore intelligent agents that can reason, plan, ...

SEATTLE, WA—TDWI Research has released a new original research report. Based on survey data and focus group data, the TDWI Blueprint Report: Building an AI-Ready Data Foundation explains a capability ...