Mar 28, 2025

By Tim King , Executive Editor at Solutions Review Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of March 28, 2025. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items. For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam , a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI. Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of March 28, 2025 5000fish Unveils Yurbi 12 White Label Analytics Designed specifically for software vendors and SaaS providers, Yurbi Version 12 empowers organizations to seamlessly integrate dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics into their applications. It eliminates the high costs, excessive complexity, or security vulnerabilities often associated with traditional BI tools. AWS Adds AI Agents to QuickSight BI Platform The new offering opens up the opportunity to make every user an analyst who can dive deeply into data and go hands-on with spreadsheets and datasets. This capability was originally demonstrated during re:Invent last year in preview and is now generally available. Databricks Brings Anthropic Claude Models to its Data Intelligence Platform Combined with Databricks Mosaic AI, the landmark deal brings Anthropic’s world-class Claude models directly to over 10,000 companies, alongside their business-critical, proprietary data. Anthropic’s newest frontier model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet — the first hybrid reasoning model on the market and the industry leader for coding — is now available via Databricks on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Firebolt Unveils New FireScale Benchmark for AI Analytic Workloads Firebolt ran the FireScale benchmark on Firebolt as well as other cloud data warehouses (CDWs) such as Snowflake, Redshift and BigQuery. The results prove Firebolt to be a clear leader in CDWs in delivering low latency, high concurrency and the best price-performance for data-intensive AI applications. Expert Insights Section Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools. NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring Hyoun Park: The Plummeting Cost of AI They discuss how AI model training costs have plummeted from $50 million to potentially just $50 in compute costs, the shift toward smaller specialized models rather than massive foundation models, and what these developments mean for enterprise AI adoption. The conversation explores how affordable AI will accelerate agent development and the challenges of orchestrating multiple AI agents to work together effectively. Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Who Should Be Responsible for AI Governance? The panel explores different leadership models, the importance of cross-functional collaboration, and practical approaches to defining roles and responsibilities. They draw parallels to established information governance practices while addressing the unique challenges of AI. Essential viewing for organizations developing AI governance structures that balance innovation with risk management. Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Does AI Fundamentally Change Data Architecture? Our data architecture experts discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming enterprise data systems. The panel explores why organizations need to bring AI operations closer to data, the growing importance of semantic layers, and the rise of graph-based approaches. They address challenges in metadata management, data fragmentation, and the need for shared language across organizational silos. Essential viewing for data professionals planning AI-ready architectures. New on Solutions Review Thought Leader by Robert Eve: Mind the Gap! Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI If you are among the four million people who ride London’s Tube daily, you are undoubtedly familiar with its ubiquitous warning: Mind The Gap. That warning came to mind recently when I read a thought-provoking article, “The Gorilla in the Quadrant: Why Your Data and AI Governance Strategy Needs More Than Gartner’s Report,” by my friend and fellow Solutions Review Expert David Sweenor. New on Solutions Review Thought Leader by Monica Kay Royal: How to Be a Data Analyst in the Age of AI The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought both excitement and confusion to the world of data analysis. If used appropriately, AI can be used as a superpower but it can only be as good as what you put into it. It’s important to understand how to use AI to your advantage, which requires you to explore where you should be leveraging AI to augment vs automate your work.