Menlo Ventures surveyed roughly 500 U.S. enterprise decision-makers in 2025 and found that 76% of enterprise AI use cases are now purchased rather than built internally, up from 53% purchased the year before. The market has swung hard toward buying. That makes the case for a custom harness a much narrower one than it was […]
CSA Research surveyed 8,709 consumers across 29 countries and found that 76% prefer buying products with information in their own language, and 40% will never buy from a website in another language at all. That statistic drives most of the business case for Arabic localization, and it is almost entirely a consumer story. For companies […]
Both platforms sit as Leaders in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence, and both carry nearly identical 4.4-star ratings on Gartner Peer Insights, Power BI from 3,232 reviews, Tableau from 3,983. That parity is exactly why the decision is hard: this is not a case of one platform being objectively better, it […]
Every AI agent conversation in 2026 eventually collapses into a formula: Agent equals Model plus Harness. Databricks put it plainly in its own engineering research: most operational agent failures trace back to the harness, not the model underneath it. Almost everything written about AI harnesses so far is aimed at developers building one. Almost nothing […]
Accenture and Qlik surveyed 9,000 employees across nine countries and found that data-related friction costs organizations more than five working days, 43 hours, per employee every year, with only 21% of employees confident in their own data skills. Most companies respond to that number by opening access to everything. That is the wrong fix, and […]
Fivetran’s 2026 Data Connectivity Report and dbt Labs’ State of Analytics Engineering 2026 survey, both published in April 2026, landed on the same number from different angles: 53% of enterprise data engineering time now goes to maintaining existing pipelines instead of building new capability. Meanwhile Gartner puts the failure rate for data migration projects at […]
Ask five research firms for the AI adoption rate and you get five different numbers, but the gap that matters is inside a single survey. McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI found 88% of organizations use AI in at least one business function, yet only 6% report significant enterprise-wide impact from it. MIT’s Project NANDA went […]
