Data Navigator Uses NLP for Queries

A new AI-based data "navigation" system is billed as the first analytics platform to use natural language processing to generate SQL queries from spoken requests. The result is a sort of virtual assistant for data analysts. Promethium, a data management startup based in Menlo Park, Calif., said this week its NLP-generated SQL queries can be used to assemble data across different systems and platforms. The navigation system is based on the company's AI and machine learning-driven contextual automation tool. The software can be used to locate data, then present it in form that is most useful to business analysts.