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  Logo image courtesy of ThoughtSpot Today, analytics is not about data, reports, and dashboards anymore. It is not even about insights. It seems ThoughtSpot is aiming for something bigger: agents that think, act, and close the loop, all on your data stack. If the last few years in analytics were about self-service and natural language, 2025 is clearly about something new: AI agents. Not just tools that explain business, but ones that act on its behalf, and ThoughtSpot, the company that once positioned itself as the Google of BI, is now doubling down on that vision with the launch of its Agentic Analytics Platform. This is not just rebranding. It seems to be a strategic repositioning, backed by AI agents, real-time cloud-native architectures, and native integrations, especially with Databricks and Snowflake . It is also a signal that ThoughtSpot wants to move way beyond charts and dashboards and instead become a living, breathing part of the new enterprise decision loop. ...

As we get deeper into an era of new software platforms both, big players and newcomers are industriously working to reshape or launch their proposed new-generation analytics platforms, especially aiming to appeal to the growing community of new information workers or “data scientists” ㅡa community always eager to attain the best possible platform to “crunch the numbers”ㅡ, examples include those including Teradata with its new analytics platform or Cloudera with its Data Science Workbench . So now the turn is for IBM, which recently unveiled its Integrated Analytics System . IBM’s new offering represents the company’s unified data system aimed to provide organizations with easy, yet sophisticated platform for the development of data science within data from on-premises, private, public of hybrid cloud environments. The new offering coming from the “Big Blue” company is set to incorporate a myriad of data science tools and functionality features as well as the proper data managem...