India, Dec. 30 -- The year 2019 was a busy one in the data, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence markets. Yes, there was quite a bit of consolidation among some big players with Salesforce acquiring Tableau, Google acquiring Looker, Qlik acquiring Attunity, among others.

Meanwhile, although the year began with a lot of hype around machine learning getting going hard in the enterprise, that didn't really happen in such a big way in 2019. Indeed, Gartner's CIO survey showed that enterprises weren't growing as quickly in their efforts to get into production with advanced analytics technologies such as machine learning and other types of artificial intelligence.

Recognizing the opportunity, some longtime analytics player...