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Best Analytics Software in 2026

68 Analytics tools tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by velocity_score — a blend of release cadence and editorial spark count. Updated continuously as new releases ship.

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Weekly report · May 18, 2026

Analytics tools are dropping SQL-first authoring — prompt-as-authoring and AI agents are now first-class.

The sector spent the week loosening the grip of SQL as the universal authoring interface. Hex reorganized its product around an agent the user steers with prompts and grounds with context — repos, projects, semantic models, memory, guides. Lightdash shipped natural-language table calculations, treating analyst authoring as something an AI can co-pilot rather…

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