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Before you build your first enterprise AI app

No need to panic if you haven’t jumped into the crazy world of AI development yet. Find a problem to solve and get your data in order first.

Dec 15, 2025 8 mins

Analytics Data Quality Data Science

R language is making a comeback – Tiobe

Tiobe index of programming language popularity index has the R language for statistical computing back in its top 10.

Dec 8, 2025 3 mins

Data Science Python R Language

Why data contracts need Apache Kafka and Apache Flink

Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key capabilities.

Dec 2, 2025 11 mins

Analytics Big Data Data Management

How to ensure your enterprise data is ‘AI ready’

For organizations introducing AI agents into employee workflows and customer experiences, data risk cannot be an afterthought. Here are seven practices to ensure your enterprise data is ready for AI.

Dec 2, 2025 12 mins

Business Intelligence Generative AI Machine Learning

Four important lessons about context engineering

Four big lessons, seven practical tips, three useful patterns, and five common antipatterns we learned from building an AI CRM.

Nov 27, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering Generative AI

Getting the enterprise data layer unstuck for AI

For enterprises, proprietary data is a source of competitive advantage. Take these four steps to ready it for AI-powered applications and agents.

Nov 26, 2025 9 mins

Analytics Big Data Generative AI

Snowflake to acquire Select Star to enhance its Horizon Catalog

The enhancements in Horizon Catalog would allow enterprises to build context for AI-driven applications and autonomous agents from data stored outside Snowflake.

Nov 25, 2025 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

Improving annotation quality with machine learning

Treating annotation as a data understanding problem, rather than a labeling workflow challenge, can systematically drive down error rates and reduce the time and cost of producing high-quality data sets.

Nov 20, 2025 9 mins

Data Engineering Generative AI Machine Learning

Google BigQuery gets managed AI functions to simplify unstructured data analysis

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools.

Nov 14, 2025 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

Snowflake to acquire Datometry to bolster its automated migration tools

Company plans to integrate Datometry’s technology into SnowConvert AI.

Nov 11, 2025 3 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing