Microsoft ’s purchase of Revolution Analytics last week is the wrong way for the brainy crew in Redmond to embrace the R language for data science and analytics. The deal represents a strong step ...

When it came to analytics services, I wrote off Microsoft long ago. At the time it was vying with Google for internet supremacy among consumers, as an attempted extension of its ubiquitous operating ...

Microsoft today unveiled Azure Purview, a new data governance solution in public preview. Additionally, the company announced that Azure Synapse Analytics is now generally available. Azure Purview ...

Ever since the first version of Power BI went into preview about two years ago, Microsoft has been on a cloud data and analytics tear. Microsoft's cloud-based Hadoop offering, HDInsight, went into ...

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Revolution Analytics, an open-source analytics company with a strong focus on the highly popular R programming language for statistical computing.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft today made good on its promise to offer simpler, more efficient ...

Following the acquisition of text analysis company, Equivio, Microsoft has now announced that they plan to acquire Revolution Analytics which is the leading commercial provider of software and ...

Microsoft quietly made available this week a new family of R Server data-analytics products. Thanks to a tweet from Tero Alhonen, I found listings on MSDN for a family of new Microsoft R Server ...

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company’s corporate ...

Microsoft announced Thursday that it will be acquiring VoloMetrix, a Seattle-based company that provides analytics to help businesses better understand how their organization works. According to a ...