Mike Leone

VP & Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy covering the intersection of data, analytics, and AI. Love bleeding edge tech, Boston sports and family time.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

I've joined @MoorInsStrat as VP & Principal Analyst covering data, analytics, governance, and storage — and where AI intersects them all.

Grateful to learn the playbook from @PatrickMoorhead and the MI&S team.

Sat down with Erin Zehr for my first piece on why I made the move: https://t.co/nglrQmTlSy

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

@Snowflake And it's the interoperability play. Horizon Context spans PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Tableau, Power BI, dbt. Same business definitions across the whole data estate. That adds a whole lot of substance to @Snowflake's openness story.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

Biggest announcement here at #SnowflakeSummit is @Snowflake's Horizon Context. May be a hot take, but I'll defend it.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

Most agentic AI failures trace back to ungoverned context. CoCo and CoWork are great agents. Horizon Context is the catalog-level business context that makes them trustworthy. Defensible agents need a defensible foundation.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

@Snowflake CoWork is what happens when you build a productivity tool from the data foundation up. Different starting point than most other agents in this fight that started at the productivity layer. #AgenticAI #SnowflakeSummit

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

Been tracking Cortex Code's product evolution for over a year. Today's rebrand to @Snowflake CoCo packs an Agent SDK, Desktop app, and scheduled execution. CoCo is now a platform for building agents on top of governed enterprise data. #SnowflakeSummit

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

Ready to rock Day 2 at #SnowflakeSummit. Lots of announcements today from @Snowflake. Will do my best to cover the big ones.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

@Snowflake Good news is I think the market is catching up based on what we saw in their last quarter. So much interoperability talk today too. Cool to see.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

I've watched @Snowflake get hammered on 'open' for years. The Iceberg and Polaris work since 2024 is the actual answer to that critique, and most of the market is still grading them on 2023 vibes.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

@Snowflake says there are four components to the agentic enterprise. Data. Models. Apps. Control plane. Three of them they're happy for you to mix and match. The fourth one, the Agentic Control plane, is something they'd very much like to own. #SnowflakeSummit

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

Ready for the #SnowflakeSummit keynote!

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

Excited for the keynote with @NetApp at #NetAppINSIGHT

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

Great research project working with @HitachiVantara on enterprise #GenAI strategy and adoption. Regardless of an organization's approach...#cloud or #onpremises, commercial or open-source #LLMs, #finetuning or #RAG...one element remains paramount in the #GenAI movement: TRUST.

[Hitachi Vantara @HitachiVantara]

🔍📊 The report is in 📄 In partnership with @ESG_Global, we surveyed 800 #IT leaders to shed light on enterprise #GenAI and top barriers to successful adoption.

Click through ➡️ for a glimpse into the eye-opening findings & get the full survey results: https://t.co/FwZIgF1VZ🔍📊 The report is in 📄 In partnership with @ESG_Global, we surveyed 800 #IT leaders to shed light on enterprise #GenAI and top barriers to successful adoption.

Click through ➡️ for a glimpse into the eye-opening findings & get the full survey results: https://t.co/FwZIgF1VZ🔍📊 The report is in 📄 In partnership with @ESG_Global, we surveyed 800 #IT leaders to shed light on enterprise #GenAI and top barriers to successful adoption.

Click through ➡️ for a glimpse into the eye-opening findings & get the full survey results: https://t.co/FwZIgF1VZ🔍📊 The report is in 📄 In partnership with @ESG_Global, we surveyed 800 #IT leaders to shed light on enterprise #GenAI and top barriers to successful adoption.

Click through ➡️ for a glimpse into the eye-opening findings & get the full survey results: https://t.co/FwZIgF1VZ🔍📊 The report is in 📄 In partnership with @ESG_Global, we surveyed 800 #IT leaders to shed light on enterprise #GenAI and top barriers to successful adoption.

Click through ➡️ for a glimpse into the eye-opening findings & get the full survey results: https://t.co/FwZIgF1VZ🔍📊 The report is in 📄 In partnership with @ESG_Global, we surveyed 800 #IT leaders to shed light on enterprise #GenAI and top barriers to successful adoption.

Click through ➡️ for a glimpse into the eye-opening findings & get the full survey results: https://t.co/FwZIgF1VZa

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

@Qlik’s heritage is in #analytics and they’re continuing to invest in ways to deliver on the promise of self-service analytics. #AI and #GenAI are the enablers. It’s great seeing their acquisition of @kynditech come to life at #QlikConnect

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

@Qlik announced Qlik Answers, which delivers GenAI-driven answers within their platform with all the security and governance required. I really like their focus on unstructured data too, with so much untapped knowledge in the business from unstructured content. #QlikConnect

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

My favorite announcement from #QlikConnect was the @Qlik Talend Trust Score for AI. They are extending their #data quality, #metadata & #governance capabilities into dashboards with metrics on #diversity, #security, timeliness, discoverability, #accuracy, and #LLM readiness.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

@qlik announced Qlik Talend Cloud, which serves as the culmination of bringing Qlik and Talend together to deliver the speed, quality, and AI readiness needed to cease the #AI opportunity. #QlikConnect

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

@qlik has done a great job of integrating Talend. They’ve rationalized overlapping tech, adjusted leadership based on the potential value of delivering a trusted data foundation, and are focused on providing differentiated capabilities in an end-to-end platform. #QlikConnect

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

Excited to get started with @qlik at #QlikConnect. I’m most excited to see their vision for Kyndi, as well their over arching story of #data, #analytics, #AI, and #GenAi come to life in a cohesive way for so many customers.

[Mike Leone @LeoneDataAI]

A great callout from @MichaelDell during the keynote at #DellTechWorld. @esg_global @TechTarget worked with @Dell to conduct an economic study evaluating the cost of #LLM #inferencing on-prem vs. #publiccloud. Massive opportunity for cost savings of as much as 75%.