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Dig into our latest guides, webinars, whitepapers, and best practices that help you leverage data for tangible, scalable results.

How Novo Nordisk Unlocks Pharma Commercial Ops Efficiencies with AI Analytics

Novo Nordisk’s Director of Field Systems, Frank Armenante, recently shared his experience leveraging Tellius’ AI-powered analytics for commercial pharma effectiveness in a webinar with our friends at PMSA.

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PepsiCo: Transforming Global Consumer Insights with AI-Powered Analytics

PepsiCo's teams were struggling with manual reporting processes and siloed data across hundreds of thousands of sources, making it difficult to gain timely consumer insights. Using Tellius, they revolutionized their analytics approach.

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Pelmorex: Revolutionizing Revenue Analytics with AI-Driven Insights

Pelmorex, the weather analytics firm behind The Weather Network, was struggling with manual processes. Leveraging Tellius, Pelmorex transformed their analytics approach to become a more agile, data-driven firm.

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MilliporeSigma: Leveraging AI-Powered Analytics for Actionable E-Commerce Insights

MilliporeSigma saw an opportunity to drive revenue and operating efficiencies for the B2B team’s direct sales channel using AI-powered analytics.

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Pharmacyclics, an AbbVie Company: Enabling Self-Service Analytics with Tellius

Pharmacyclics, an AbbVie company, sought to empower more members of its commercial team to make better and faster data-driven decisions. The IT team used Tellius to up their analytics game.

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Novartis: Delivering Augmented Intelligence at Scale

Learn how Axel Goris, Global Visual Analytics Lead at Novartis, is helping deliver augmented intelligence at scale for the multibillion-dollar pharma firm.

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eBay Supercharges Decision-Making Process with Self-Service Analytics

Learn how the e-commerce giant is using powerful self-service analytics and data exploration from Tellius to navigate its vast oceans of data.

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Fortune 100 Company Eliminates Reporting Bottlenecks

The IT ops team at a major CPG company is using Tellius' decision intelligence platform to proactively identify risks before incidents occur.

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Haleon Builds Insights-Driven Organization with Decision Intelligence

Learn how GSK spin-off Haleon—the world's largest consumer healthcare company—is building an insights-driven company using decision intelligence to increase brand growth and drive efficiency and agility.

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FCA Empowers Users with Self-Service Analytics and Decision Intelligence

FCA (the Fellowship of Christian Athletes) is empowering users to go beyond traditional BI capabilities while saving 100+ hours/month of manual data reporting to reliably make better data-informed decisions.

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Top 10 Financial Services Firm Accelerates Credit Risk Analysis with Guided Insights

Read how guided data insights helps a Top 10 financial services firm save 1000s of hours in productivity and more than $700k in mitigated credit losses per month.

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Augmented Analytics Transforms Marketing at Global Law Firm

Read how augmented analytics helps a top global law firm gain a competitive advantage by creating a data-driven culture.

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Seneca College Improves Student Success with Augmented Analytics

Read how Canada's largest college overcame challenges with their BI system and reduced time-to-insight from days to minutes.

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2023 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Analytics & BI Platforms

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Guide to AI Analytics for Life Sciences

Explore how top life sciences teams use AI-powered analytics + AI Agents to improve HCP targeting, market access, brand insights, and operational efficiency.

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Ultimate Guide to Self-Service Analytics

Learn how AI and augmented analytics are revolutionizing every part of supply chain management—from planning, to sourcing, to manufacturing, to logistics.

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Enhancing Field Force Effectiveness with AI Analytics

Learn how pharma companies are using AI analytics to reach and influence HCPs, determine brand performance drivers, and stay on top of competitive and market dynamics.

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The Updated Guide to Decision Intelligence

Learn how Decision Intelligence breaks down the artificial barriers in tools, processes, and teams, allowing anyone to quickly and collaboratively answer what, why, and how-type questions of their unaggregated data to ultimately make better decisions.

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Ultimate Guide to Supply Chain & Procurement Analytics

Learn how AI and augmented analytics are revolutionizing every part of supply chain management—from planning, to sourcing, to manufacturing, to logistics.

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Guide to Enhancing Field Force Effectiveness with AI Analytics

Learn how pharma companies are using AI analytics to reach and influence HCPs, determine brand performance drivers, and stay on top of competitive and market dynamics.

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Guide to AI-Driven Analytics for CPG Companies

Learn how CPG companies can increase organizational analytical agility, improving decisions related to pricing, assortment strategy, personalization, and much more with Tellius.

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Guide to AI-Driven Analytics for Ecommerce

Learn how ecommerce companies improve conversion, increase CLTV, and optimize marketing with AI-driven analytics.

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Guide to AI-Driven Analytics for Financial Services

Learn how financial institutions are improving portfolio profitability, reducing risk, and getting customer insights faster and easier with AI-driven analytics.

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Tellius: 4X Visionary Analytics Platform!

Tellius has been named a Visionary for the 4th year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics & BI Platforms. Why? Because we’re not just stopping at dashboards. We’re moving the industry forward with: - GenAI-powered conversational analytics - Agentic flows that connect insight to action - An end-to-end platform built for enterprise-grade governance The future of business intelligence isn’t just pretty charts. It’s intelligent decisions—made faster.

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October 8, 2024

IDC Names Tellius As An IDC Innovator In Business Intelligence And Decisioning Software Solutions

IDC’s Senior Research Analyst, Raymond Huo, compiled a list of innovators in the Business Intelligence and Decisioning Software spaces. These companies were listed as emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or a groundbreaking business model. Among these companies was Tellius!

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October 8, 2024

Top 10 Financial Services Firm Accelerates Credit Risk Analysis with Augmented Data Insights

Read how guided data insights helps a Top 10 financial services firm save 1000s of hours in productivity and more than $700k in mitigated credit losses per month.

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October 8, 2024

Predict & Reduce Customer Churn using Machine Learning

Read how one company identified at-risk customers and reduced churn with the help of automated intelligence and embedded machine learning.

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October 8, 2024

3 Ways to Discover Better Analytical Insights

Most companies have much more data than they analyze. Here are 3 ways to discover better analytical insights to make better business decisions.

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October 8, 2024

5 Reasons Your Business Intelligence Solution is Failing You

Here are the five obvious and not-so-obvious ways that your BI solution is holding your company back. Who wants to settle for "business as usual?"

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October 8, 2024

Business Intelligence and Customer Experience - Retail’s new “Power Couple”

Few sectors experience change as relentlessly as the retail industry, and with customer demands in constant flux, keeping up with...

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October 8, 2024

How search-driven analytics can improve healthcare

Doctors are pretty smart people, and it’s not a lack of want that historically denied them better insights to their...

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September 30, 2024

AI Analytics: Supercharging Decision-Making with Generative AI

Using the power of machine learning, AI analytics is a powerful tool that can help businesses uncover valuable insights so they can make faster data-driven decisions to stay ahead of the curve. Let’s explore strategies and tactics for deploying AI analytics for a competitive advantage.

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September 27, 2024

AI Analytics: The Ultimate Guide

Using the power of machine learning, AI analytics is a powerful tool that can help businesses uncover valuable insights so they can make faster data-driven decisions to stay ahead of the curve. Let’s explore strategies and tactics for deploying AI analytics for a competitive advantage.

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September 25, 2024

Tellius and Databricks Partner to Deliver AI-powered Decision Intelligence for the Data Lakehouse

Tellius, the AI-driven decision intelligence platform, today announced a partnership with Databricks to give joint customers the ability to run Tellius natural language search queries and automated insights directly on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, powered by Delta Lake, without the need to move any data.

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September 25, 2024

Gartner Magic Quadrant Report 2022: Tellius named in Top 20 Visionary Analytics Software Vendors

Tellius was recently named a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics & BI Platforms. We believe we were named a Visionary because of our vision of building a unified platform that enables anyone, regardless of their analytical skills, to get insights into “what” is happening, “why” metrics changed, and “how” to improve business outcomes at cloud scale.

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September 25, 2024

Modern Data Stack Essentials: AI Analytics & Decision Intelligence

Data-driven organizations should not be content with the same old approaches to data consumption. In the modern data stack, each layer plays a key role in your organization’s goals to get better insights from vast amounts of data and to proactively uncover new opportunities for growth.

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September 25, 2024

Making BI More Human with AI

Humans are curious, collaborative, and intelligent. Our business systems are the exact opposite — they require us to think and communicate more like a machine to get what we want. To answer the question posited earlier, this gentleman’s BI experience was likely lacking humanity.

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September 25, 2024

Guided Insights: Product Deep Dive

Chris details how Guided Insights provides a unique, modern, and intelligent way for organizations to get faster answers from their data.

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September 25, 2024

AI-driven Marketing Analytics for Improved ROI

Learn how one company increased their ROI much faster with AI-powered segmentation and targeted campaigns compared to traditional methods.

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September 19, 2024

5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Launching a Self-Service Analytics Program

Here are some common pitfalls we've seen for organizations launching a self-serve analytics vision—and how to avoid them to maximize your odds of success.

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September 19, 2024

Rethinking GenAI and Business Intelligence

Learn how generative AI is revolutionizing the business intelligence landscape expanding analytics accessibility to non-technical users.

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September 19, 2024

Tellius Fall 2023 Trifecta: Deciphering AI, Turbocharging Insights, and Expanding Data Horizons

In this new Tellius release, we’re helping customers dig into the why behind the what in their data by demystifying AI, turbocharging data insights, and expanding data connectivity.

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September 19, 2024

GenAI for BI & Analytics Roundup

Here's a roundup of GenAI offerings we’ve seen announced or launched in the business intelligence and broader analytics market.

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September 19, 2024

Explainable AI Charts: Unlocking the Mystery Behind AI Models

The explainable AI charts introduced in our fall 2023 release allow us to see the reasoning behind a machine learning model's predictions.

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September 19, 2024

Unleashing the Power of Data: Tellius and Google Cloud Join Forces for Enhanced Analytics

This new Tellius and Google Cloud collaboration opens the doors to diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive insights, powered by AI and ML.

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September 19, 2024

A Roadmap to Self-Service Analytics, Informed by Self-Driving Cars

Self-driving cars. Self-service analytics. There are some interesting parallels to draw & lessons to be learned about the future of analytics.

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September 19, 2024

The Future of Self-Service Analytics: Perspectives from Gartner Data & Analytics 2023

Self-service analytics is enabling business users to run queries and create reports on their own with limited help from IT. However, the term has evolved quite a bit over the past decade. Here's what we learned from Gartner's summit.

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September 19, 2024

Introducing Tellius Copilot: The Future of Augmented Analytics

We are excited to announce the launch of Tellius Copilot—your perfect companion for smart decision-making. Tellius Copilot takes the platform’s industry-leading augmented analytics capabilities to the next level by leveraging the power of GPT.

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September 19, 2024

Tellius and SDG Group Announce Partnership to Accelerate the Journey from Data to Insights

Tellius and SDG Group have announced a new partnership for organizations looking to transform and unlock the full power of their data.

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AI-Powered Pharma & Life Sciences

Learn how to converse with enterprise pharma data, analyze faster + deeper, and automate workflows with AI agents.

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AI-Powered Inventory Optimization

Learn how the Tellius AI-powered analytics platform augments your ability to optimize your inventory levels.

How Tellius Compares to Tableau

Curious how Tellius compares to Tableau for self-service analytics? Check out this overview with a detailed feature comparison.

AI-Powered Supply Chain Analytics

Learn how Tellius can help companies gain a holistic, data-driven view of key drivers impacting supply chains for greater efficiency and lower cost.

AI-Powered Pharma Market Access

Learn how pharma market access teams can make better-informed access, pricing, and product launch decisions

How Tellius Compares to Power BI

Curious how Tellius compares to Power BI for self-service analytics? Check out this overview with a detailed feature comparison.

Conversational Al & Insights on the Snowflake Data Cloud

The combination of Tellius & Snowflake unlocks scalable advanced analytical capabilities for your entire organization with a seamless, easy-to-set-up connection to the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Buyer's Guide to Field Sales Analytics

If you are in the market for a field sales analytics solution, here are some key considerations and questions for potential providers to help with the selection process.

AI-Powered Shopper Insights

With Tellius, CPG shopper insights teams can unlock tremendous value for marketing, sales, product, category management, and more

AI-Powered Self-Service Analytics

Leverage the power of AI to eliminate organizational bottlenecks, increase analytics agility and enable your organization to become truly data-driven

AI-Powered Pharma Supply Chain Analytics

Enable pharma QA and supply chain teams to make better-informed demand forecasting, quality control, inventory, and operational decisions

AI-Powered Pharma Revenue Management

Learn how Tellius creates a single source of truth for sales, pricing, reimbursement, formulary placement, competitive, and HCP prescription data so pharma teams can identify key drivers of change.

AI-Powered Pharma Manufacturing Analytics

Enable teams to avoid OOS product failures, stop adverse trends & forecast risks through ML/AI-based pattern & anomaly detection

AI-Powered Payer Analytics

Enable life sciences payer analytics and rebates teams to make better-informed contracting and reimbursement decisions by connecting disparate data sources

AI-Powered Omnichannel Analysis

Enhance overall business performance with a 360-degree view of your customers

AI-Powered Net Revenue Management Analytics

Learn how Tellius can help optimize revenue generation and profitability while enhancing overall business performance.

AI-Powered Financial Planning & Analysis

Gain a holistic, data-driven view of key drivers impacting financial performance for greater efficiency and lower cost

AI-Powered Marketing Analytics

Optimize marketing strategies and enhance business performance with more informed, data-driven decisions

AI-Powered Category Management

Understand what's driving changes in your categories faster and easier than ever

AI-Powered HR Analytics

Learn how Tellius can help attract, select, retain, and grow talent more efficiently with AI-powered analysis.

AI-Powered Field Sales Analytics

Life sciences field sales and home office teams can track field activities, market dynamics, sales drivers, opportunities, and more

AI-Powered Brand Insights

Life sciences brand analytics teams can rapidly analyze data, spot trends and anomalies, and apply advanced analytics without an army of data scientists

AI Agents: The fastest way to put GenAI to work

Want to see how the platform’s evolved? 
Dive into our previous releases for a quick look at the enhancements, feature rollouts, and design updates that paved the way for Tellius today.

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Tellius 5.3

Want to see how the platform’s evolved? 
Dive into our previous releases for a quick look at the enhancements, feature rollouts, and design updates that paved the way for Tellius today.

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Tellius 5.2

Tellius 5.2 introduces an adaptive conversational interface with feedback and learnings, enabling two-way dialogue with your cloud-scale data in natural language.

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Tellius AI Agents: Driving Real Analysis, Action, + Enterprise Intelligence

Tellius AI Agents transform business intelligence with dedicated AI squads that automate complex analysis workflows without coding. Join our April 17th webinar to discover how these agents can 100x enterprise productivity by turning questions into actionable insights, adapting to your unique business processes, and driving decisions with trustworthy, explainable intelligence.

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Demo: AI Agents for Pharma & Life Sciences

AI agents can be extremely powerful in doing complex analysis, finding insights about your business, and doing multi-step workflows. What once took days—if not weeks—for analysts, we can now do in a matter of minutes, all in the platform.

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Tellius for Ecommerce and Retail Companies

See how Tellius helps ecommerce and retail companies get faster business insights from their transactional, customer, and marketing data.

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Tellius Kaiya GenAI Analytics

Powered by GenAI, Tellius Kaiya ensures that every chart is explained, every question is comprehensively answered, every search query is intelligently handled, and every key data preparation task is fully automated.

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Tellius for CPG Companies

See how Tellius helps accelerate analytics for consumer goods companies with AI-driven automated insights and natural language ad hoc data exploration.

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Tellius for Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Companies

See how Tellius helps pharmaceutical and life sciences companies get faster business insights from patient, clinical, and real world data.

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Field Force Analytics Demo

Watch as a pharmaceutical industry expert shows how leading pharma companies apply AI-driven approaches to improve field force effectiveness, brand insights generation, marketing strategies, and overall efficiency.

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Get To The 'Why?' with Diagnostic Insights: Doug Henschen of Constellation Research

Leading organizations are embracing diagnostic analytics to understand the whys behind outcomes and predictive analytics to see what's coming next.

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Stop Slicing & Dicing: Get Instant Answers with Guided Insights Driven by AI

Learn how organizations rely on automated insights to improve decision making, uncover reasons why performance has changed, and drive business outcomes with precision.

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Intro to Tellius AI-Driven Analytics

Learn how organizations discover and share insights from across their data sources with machine learning, automation, and natural language.

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Self-Service AI Analytics

Accelerate insight generation and take business intelligence to the next level with self-service Al-powered analytics.

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451 Research: The New Era of Decision Intelligence

Join Matt Aslett, 451 Research VP, Data, AI & Analytics, to learn how decision intelligence enables smarter business decisions with AI-Driven Guided Insights.

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Break the Boundaries of BI: Donald Farmer of Treehive Strategy

Donald Farmer discusses why data-driven organizations are moving beyond business intelligence and how companies are embracing AI-driven automation and natural language processing to gain faster insights from ever growing volumes of data

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10-Minute Product Demonstration

See how organizations get faster insights from complex data and simplify their analytics workflow with a unified approach to business intelligence and data science.

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Accelerating Insights-Driven Decision Making w/ Augmented BI : Boris Evelson

Industry leaders are accelerating their transformation to becoming insight-driven businesses through the use of augmented business intelligence (BI) and analytics.

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Credit Risk Insights for Financial Services Companies

See how Tellius can help financial services organizations understand credit risk and make predictions using automated and transparent machine learning.

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Data & Analytics Live!: Ensuring Continued Success in the Midst of Blurring Lines and Changing Roles

Watch this panel discussion Moderated by Chris Walker, Head of Product Marketing, Tellius from Corinium's recent Data & Analytics Live USA Virtual Event.

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How PepsiCo is Transforming Global Consumer Insights and Analytics with AI

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Agentic Apps: The fastest way to put GenAI to work

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Overcoming Pharma Sales Barriers with AI, with Novo Nordisk (Hosted by PMSA)

Join Novo Nordisk in a PMSA-hosted webinar to discover how leading pharmaceutical companies are harnessing AI to refine their commercial operations, improve field force effectiveness, and drive overall efficiency.

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Transforming Data & Analytics in 2024: Embracing the Paradigm Shift of Enterprise LLMs

2023 was a landmark year for GenAI and LLMs, setting the stage for a transformative 2024. Learn five ways to futureproof your data and analytics in the age of generative AI.

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The Pelmorex AI-Driven Analytics Journey

Discover how AI analytics is revolutionizing data-driven decision-making at Pelmorex, a global leader in weather and climate analytics.

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Tellius Fall 2023 Trifecta

The latest version of our AI-powered analytics platform has landed, and it's all about providing you with enhanced reasoning, speed, and control in your data analysis.

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The Modern Data Analytics Stack

Here's the blueprint for putting data insights in the hands of everyone in your organization, to impact every decision, from all your data.

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Tellius 5.3: Beyond Q&A—Your Most Complex Business Questions Made Easy with AI

Skip the theoretical AI discussions. Get a practical look at what becomes possible when you move beyond basic natural language queries to true data conversations.

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Tellius 5.1: Cut through the data noise to unveil context, trends, and anomalies

Watch our webinar introducing Tellius 5.1—your toolkit to unveil context, trends, and anomalies. Learn how the new features can help solve your real-world analytics challenges.

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Tellius 5.2: Conversational AI for Analytics, Done Right

Tellius 5.2 introduces an adaptive conversational interface with feedback and learnings, enabling two-way dialogue with your cloud-scale data in natural language.

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Tellius 5.0: How GenAI is Transforming Analytics Workflows

With Tellius 5.0, learn how embracing GenAI within your analytics processes can keep you ahead, agile, and adaptive in a competitive landscape. Watch this webinar to learn more.

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Tellius 4.2: Self-Service to the Next Level

Tellius 4.2 contains 40+ new features and enhancements to help customers get faster real-time insights from live data, create interactive data experiences, and drive easier onboarding and user adoption.

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Tellius 4.1: Better Decision-Making through Improved Context and Collaboration

With Tellius 4.1, our improved metadata layer allows analysts to establish context and empower business users with well-defined datasets via business-friendly data dictionaries. Join this webinar to learn more.

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Tellius 101: Maximize Your Analytics Value with Natural Language Search

Learn how the Tellius natural language search engine works, the anatomy of a search, best practices, and what the future of search looks like with the advent of GenAI.

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Tellius & Looker: AI-Driven Insights from Governed Data

With the Tellius AI-driven insights platform and the Looker flexible semantic layer, organizations have both a flexible, governed way to model their cloud data and the fastest way to generate instant, intelligent insights from that data.

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Taking Self-Service Analytics to the Next Level

Unlocking your data's potential through self-service analytics is powerful but tricky. Tools that were supposed to make things easier still take too much time, have too high a learning curve, and old habits die hard. Learn how AI can help.

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Next Generation BI: Transform Decision Making with Search and AI-Powered Analytics

Join Wayne Eckerson to learn how the new era of business intelligence promises to greatly simplify the use of analytics and increase levels of adoption, insight, and fact-driven behavior.

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Self-Service Analytics: The Next Era of Data Democratization with AI & ML

Learn how and why more organizations are modernizing their self-service offerings to enable more people to get answers to questions of their data.

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Shopper Insights Revealed: Identify Consumer Trends & Patterns Faster

See how AI-driven analytics helps consumer brands and sellers gain competitive advantages by answering data-driven questions like these faster and easier than ever.

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Live Demo: Introducing Tellius Copilot, Powered by GPT

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Leveraging AI-Powered Analytics for Pharma Brand Performance

Learn how an AI-powered analytics can perform diagnostics to discover the key drivers of your brand’s commercial performance.

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Guided Data Insights: Elevate the Level of Every Data Analyst & Business User

Learn how innovative companies turn to Guided Data Insights to get data intelligence across the organization faster and easier than ever.

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Get to the 'Why?' : Driving Action with Diagnostic Insights & Analytics Collaboration

Join Doug Henschen of Constellation Research and Chris Walker of Tellius as they discuss how to bridge the gap between BI and AI to drive better decisions and actions.

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Get Instant Insights From Snowflake Cloud Data with AI-Driven Decision Intelligence

With the Tellius decision intelligence platform alongside Snowflake's cloud data platform, organizations have both an easy way store, manage, and share data, and the fastest way to generate instant, intelligent insights from that data.

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Get Granular Shopper Insights Faster with AI-Driven Decision Intelligence

See how AI-driven decision intelligence helps consumer brands and sellers gain competitive advantages by answering data-driven questions like these faster and easier than ever.

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GenAI Analytics: Power Up Your Analysis with Tellius Kaiya

Watch us as we unveil our groundbreaking GenAI product, Tellius Kaiya. See how Kaiya enables your organization to move from business questions to answers faster than ever before.

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Faster Customer Analytics with Intelligent Insights

Data is key to driving revenue, strengthening relationships, and enhancing customer experience. Learn how intelligent analytics delivers faster insights from all your customer data.

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