keboola

How to Consolidate Reporting Across Multiple ERPs Without Migrating Any of Them

Jul 29, 2026 By On this page In Keboola
Most multi-entity businesses do not choose their accounting systems. They inherit them. A new acquisition brings Xero. The legacy entity has been on Dynamics for eight years. The Czech subsidiary runs on ABRA Flexi and nobody is going near it. Your US portco uses QuickBooks, your UK one uses Sage Intacct, and the newest deal came with a NetSuite instance that the previous owner had half-implemented. You are not looking at a technology problem. You are looking at the reality of how groups grow.
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ClearML

Why AI Sovereignty Is an Operational Problem

Jul 28, 2026 By Frank La Vigne In ClearML
AI sovereignty has become one of those phrases that sounds precise until someone asks what it actually means. For one federal agency, sovereignty means keeping sensitive data inside accredited boundaries. For another, it means running open-weight models in a FedRAMP-authorized private cloud. In defense and intelligence settings, it may mean operating inside an air-gapped environment at IL5 or IL6.
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qlik

Beyond the Budget: The AI Decisions That Only Humans Can Make

Jul 28, 2026 By James Fisher In Qlik
Earlier this month I spent time with a group of senior executives discussing the economics of AI: what it actually costs, where the value is and is not materialising, and what the organisations that are getting returns are doing differently from the ones that are not. That conversation encapsulates why this series is called Beyond the Budget. Not because cost does not matter. It does. But because the budget is where the consequences show up.
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yellowfin

From Dashboards to Decision Flows: Embedded Analytics That Trigger Action

Jul 28, 2026 By Hagop Panosian In Yellowfin
Teams have more dashboards than ever. They also have more dashboard fatigue. Metrics are easy to display. Decisions are harder. A chart can show a drop in revenue, but it rarely tells a product leader what to do next. That gap is why many teams stay stuck in review mode instead of action mode. This is where decision-centric analytics changes the pattern. The goal is not more visibility. The goal is faster recognition, better understanding, and clear follow-through when something changes.
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yellowfin

Conversational Analytics in 2026: Where Natural Language Search Helps

Jul 28, 2026 By Hagop Panosian In Yellowfin
In 2026, asking a BI tool, “What happened to revenue last quarter?” feels almost effortless. That ease is the appeal of conversational analytics. It turns plain language into charts, metrics, and short explanations. It sits inside the broader world of augmented analytics, where AI helps people ask better questions and move faster. But speed can hide problems. If the metric is vague, the calendar is wrong, or access rules are loose, a fast answer can still be the wrong answer.
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Why Trusted Data Is the New AI Moat (w+ Rick Kranz from the AI Marketing AUtomation Lab)

Jul 28, 2026 By Databox: AI-powered analytics that answers back In Databox
Rick Kranz has built over 100 AI automations for his community and clients — he has no reason to defend Databox. But when he tried to run his AI analysis without the Databox MCP, it just stopped working. In this episode, Rick and Pete break down exactly why: the semantic layer, the metric definitions, and the standardized math that make an AI's answer trustworthy instead of a guess. If you've ever wondered why connecting five random MCP servers to Claude doesn't give you the same results as a purpose-built data layer, this is the episode.
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thoughtspot

Advancing ThoughtSpot's Commitment to Apache Ossie (Incubating), the Next Chapter of OSI

Jul 28, 2026 By Francois Lopitaux In ThoughtSpot
When the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative launched last year, it set out to solve a problem every data leader recognizes: the same business metric gets defined a dozen different ways across a company's BI tools, warehouses, and now, AI agents. "Monthly active users" in the CRM rarely matches "monthly active users" in the warehouse, and every new AI copilot added to the stack makes the gap more visible, not less. That initiative has just taken its most consequential step yet.
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Ep 80 | Decision Logic: The Difference Between an Answer and a Decision

Jul 27, 2026 By Cloudera, Inc. In Cloudera
Ask an AI system a question, and you'll get an answer. Decision logic determines whether you should trust it. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Darlene Newman, Innovation Lead at Duczer East, to explore the hidden layer that helps AI move from pattern matching to practical decision-making.
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