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The 2025 Spotfire Energy Forum: Visual Data Science and Energy
Spotfire has a powerful product that has diverged from typical BI offerings. They frame it as "Visual Data Science", and a review of their 2025 Energy Forum offers a peek into what its capabilities are, as well as its complexities. VI's Senior Spotfire Developer Timothy Kohler shares his thoughts.
Zack's venturing out of his engineering bubble and into enemy territory, presenting to the Dallas Petroleum Accountants Society over lunch at Brookhaven College. (Just kidding, accountants aren't the enemy. Finance is!) Come join us!
A new long-term support release is out! The last one was in 14.0 in Nov-2023, so there are a big bunch of upgrades to things like Action Mods, the new O&G-specific visualizations, etc.
Another month, another batch. More Copilot rollouts, improvements to embedding Power BI in PowerPoint, and some creature-comforts for visualizations like button slicers and tables.
PrePad raises $2.8mm
PrePad, a D&C planning software focused on cost estimation, announced a Seed round of $2.8mm back in April, bringing their total funding to $3.7mm. Participants include Devon and Chevron, as well as some of the team members that built Enersight.
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