Would You Ask a Chef To Cut With a Bending Blade? | Longview Tax

Chef Laurent trained under Ducasse. Her knife work was flawless. Then the blade bent before it touched the meat. She was told the proper knives were being used elsewhere. These had worked "well enough" before. Well enough is a difficult standard to cook by. It's a worse one for filing taxes. Your tax team knows the feeling. Fragmented data. Manual reconciliation. Every close cycle a race against "well enough.".

What It Takes to Build an AI Agent as a First-Class Product

In June 2026, the highest-grossing law firm in the world committed $500 million to build its own AI platform. The firm put more than 180 engineers and data scientists and over 250 of its lawyers on the effort. It chose to build because general-purpose tools could not execute their transactions or reason over their massive institutional knowledge. That is the bill for a first-class AI product built from scratch.

The Frozen Excel Preference

There is a pattern showing up in finance teams that almost nobody is writing about, because it runs counter to the narrative. Finance leaders at organisations with messy, ungoverned data have made a deliberate choice: they prefer working with a frozen Excel snapshot over connecting AI to their live financial data. Not because they are afraid of technology. Not because they distrust AI as a concept.

Qlik Named a Leader. Again. For the 16th Year. For Us, AI Was Never an Afterthought.

We are excited to share that Qlik has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics & Business Intelligence Platforms, recognized for both our Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Download the complimentary report here. Sixteen years. Our Sweet Sixteen, if you're counting. I'd argue it's less a milestone for us and more a proof point.

Where AI Capital Is Flowing: Insights From The Snowflake-Crunchbase Report

At Snowflake Summit 2026, Gene Teare from Crunchbase and Harsha Kapre, Director at Snowflake Ventures, discuss their joint report examining AI investment trends and capital formation in the data ecosystem. Learn how the market has evolved from 2021's broad exuberance to concentrated investment in AI-ready infrastructure, governance, and agentic applications. Discover what signals indicate a startup is truly enterprise-ready versus experimental, and explore the next phase of capital formation in the agentic AI economy.

MAR-Pricing trap your data teams do not know about

Most data teams think MAR pricing is predictable and manageable. You pay for rows that change, your pipelines keep running, and the monthly bill should be easy to understand. But teams on the pricing model learn the reality 6 months in. If you’re on the MAR model this is a must watch (before you get your next bill spike). Dan Murphy explains why MAR mechanics are designed to break.

Welcome to the Era of Action: A Message from Ketan Karkhanis

ThoughtSpot has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. We’re celebrating this milestone while building for tomorrow, as we shift from the Era of Reporting into the Era of Action. Hear a message from our CEO Ketan Karkhanis on what this shift means for our customers and partners, and how companies can win in this next era of AI BI.

How to Become an AI-Native Team

A year ago we announced that Databox is becoming an AI-first company. At the time, that mostly meant what it meant for many companies in 2025: AI becoming a strategic priority. Teams were encouraged to experiment and adopt new tools, as it was clear that AI wasn’t a trend we could ignore. That was the easy part. What’s become clear over the last year is that there’s a significant difference between being AI-first and being AI-native.