Data Quality Articles
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a provider of enterprise IT management solutions, is releasing SaaS Manager Plus, a SaaS management solution for enterprises to streamline their SaaS ecosystems. SaaS Manager Plus will integrate with Zoho apps and other widely utilized applications.
Posted May 16, 2024
The Department of Labor announced the release of a far-reaching set of principles that provide employers and developers, that create and deploy artificial intelligence, with guidance for designing and implementing AI in ways that enhance job quality and protect workers' rights. These new guidelines were developed as a result of President Biden's Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
Posted May 16, 2024
ScienceLogic, a provider of automated IT operations, is unveiling Autonomic IT—business-accelerating capabilities that combine data, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation to enable enterprises to focus on innovation. With support from the ScienceLogic SL1 platform, enterprises can achieve improved, global hybrid cloud visibility, significantly reduce IT complexity and costs, diagnose root cause faster, and leverage automation to slash manual effort as they progress towards the full realization of Autonomic IT, according to the company.
Posted May 15, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is introducing dbt Cloud enhancements designed to help businesses turn data into a competitive advantage as companies' data volumes explode and the need for trustworthy, high-quality data increases. "Accurate and timely data is crucial, which is why we've delivered a standardized way to quickly build reliable, holistic, and high-quality data pipelines at scale," said Luis Maldonado, VP of product at dbt Labs. "These new features take this even further, significantly improving data workflows and AI workloads, all while empowering more users with powerful business insights."
Posted May 15, 2024
Anomalo, the complete data quality platform company, is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, along with making its platform available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Anomalo provides organizations with a way to monitor the quality of the data stored or managed in Google Cloud's BigQuery, AlloyDB, and Dataplex without writing code, configuring rules, or setting thresholds.
Posted May 15, 2024
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, and Oracle announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute Virtual Machines (VMs). Red Hat OpenShift is a leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes for architecting, building, and deploying cloud-native applications.
Posted May 15, 2024
Oracle is introducing Oracle Code Assist, an AI code companion, to help developers boost velocity and enhance code consistency. Powered by large language models (LLMs) running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and optimized for Java, SQL, and application development on OCI, Oracle Code Assist is planned to provide developers with context-specific suggestions that can be tailored to an organization's best practices and codebases. Oracle Code Assist will also be designed to be used to update, upgrade, and refactor code written in most modern programming languages, according to the company.
Posted May 15, 2024
Oracle is releasing Oracle Database 23ai, Oracle's converged database, as a broad range of cloud services—including Oracle AI Vector Search and more than 300 additional major features focused on simplifying the use of AI with data, accelerating app development, and running mission-critical workloads. The new AI Vector Search capabilities enable customers to securely combine search for documents, images, and other unstructured data with search on private business data, without moving or duplicating it.
Posted May 15, 2024
In today's world where data reigns supreme, the role of Database Administrators (DBAs) extends far beyond just maintaining databases. DBAs play a crucial role in overseeing the entire lifecycle of data within organizations, from its inception to disposal. This is called data lifecycle management. But let's define data lifecycle management (or DLM) in a bit more depth.
Posted May 15, 2024
Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is further expanding the global coverage and capabilities of its data enrichment and geo addressing portfolio, introducing Address Fabric and Property Attributes. According to the company, these products underscore Precisely's continued commitment to helping customers easily unlock greater location-based context from their data, enabled by its identifier, the PreciselyID.
Posted May 14, 2024
Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, is partnering with Dell Technologies, via the Extended Technologies Complete program, to bring affordable and innovative hybrid cloud solutions. The Wasabi-Dell collaboration addresses aims to offer flexible, efficient hybrid cloud solutions enabling users to optimize their data management processes while simultaneously reducing overall costs, according to the companies.
Posted May 14, 2024
Richard Schiller, senior product manager at Quest Software, and John de Saint Phalle, senior product manager at Precisely, joined DBTA's webinar, Cloud Migration Best Practices: Success Factors and Pitfalls to Avoid, to offer their expertise on how to successfully migrate to the cloud by navigating risks, requirements, best practices, and solutions.
Posted May 14, 2024
Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, is acquiring APIIDA's federated API management business and API management assets from Cloud Software Group, allowing enterprises to deliver business value through API products in one end-to-end platform. According to the company, both these acquisitions accelerate Boomi's roadmap for providing solutions to the most pressing API management challenges that companies face today.
Posted May 13, 2024
AppOmni, a pioneer of SaaS security posture management (SSPM), is releasing AppOmni Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM), a unique solution set that strengthens security in modern infrastructures by bridging a critical gap in network-centric zero trust (ZT) architectures. By extending zero trust principles to applications and SaaS environments, AppOmni provides the visibility and control needed to manage and mitigate cyber risks from both internal and external threats, according to AppOmni.
Posted May 13, 2024
Broadcom Inc. is launching its Automic Automation solution as a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, providing the same features as the Automic Automation on-premises solution with the added benefits of a service. With advanced workload automation and workflow orchestration capabilities, Automic SaaS will unify and simplify automation across mainframe, distributed, and hybrid cloud environments, while freeing up resources normally absorbed by infrastructure management so they can focus on more strategic automation projects, according to Broadcom.
Posted May 10, 2024
StarTree, the cloud-based real-time analytics company, is offering new observability and anomaly detection capabilities in StarTree Cloud, alongside vector search capabilities in Apache Pinot. Additionally, the company announced the general availability launch of StarTree ThirdEye, offering advanced anomaly detection, as well as the introduction of a write API facilitating real-time sync for ELT pipelines, and integrations with leading visualization platforms, including Tableau and Grafana.
Posted May 10, 2024
At the annual Data Summit conference, Bharath Vasudevan, head of product, erwin, Quest, led the session, "Making AI Ethical & Explainable," considered how consistent, clean, and curated datasets are key in bridging the gap between data and the real-world, enabling AI to transcend "magic" and ground itself in transparent truth.
Posted May 09, 2024
Are you taking a hard look at your cloud costs this budgeting season? Is your IT budget getting eaten up without a good ROI to show for it? Do you need to justify your cloud expenses and business cases to leadership? At Data Summit 2024, Michael Agarwal, director and global practice leader, site reliability engineering, cloud and NoSQL databases, Datavail, discussed cloud cost optimization strategies, tips, and best practices during his session, "Cloud Cost Optimization: Strategies, Tips, & Best Practices."
Posted May 09, 2024
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted May 09, 2024
Time series analysis plays a crucial role in enhancing the capabilities of AI by providing valuable insights into temporal patterns, trends, and dependencies within datasets. At Data Summit 2024, Salochina Oad, ML engineer, U.S.Xpress, Inc. held her session, "Empowering AI Through Time Series Analysis."
Posted May 08, 2024
At the annual Data Summit conference, the session "Data Fabric Key Enablers," led by John Bagnall, senior product manager, Matillion, illustrated how ETL plays an integral role in data fabric implementation, enabling enterprises to easily and efficiently manage, integrate, and analyze data from diverse sources.
Posted May 08, 2024
Ranjeeta Bhattacharya, senior data scientist, BNY Mellon, and Yetkin Ozkucur, director for professional services and presales, Quest, led the annual Data Summit session, "Putting Generative AI to Work," assessing the ways in which GenAI-based enterprise applications can be set up for success based on both development and data best practices.
Posted May 08, 2024
There is no doubt that data mesh principles resonate with so many data professionals, particularly those looking to move beyond brittle, monolithic architecture. However, adopting data mesh can seem daunting, due to both a scarce but improving ecosystem of tools, as well as organizational change management. At Data Summit 2024, Elliott Cordo, CEO/founder/builder, Data Futures, LLC, presented "From Daunting to Doable: The Evolution of Data Mesh."
Posted May 08, 2024
The combination of Apache Flink, Apache NiFi, and Apache Kafka for building real-time data processing pipelines is extremely powerful, as demonstrated by Timothy Spann, principal developer advocate, streaming, Cloudera and future of data meetup, startup grind, AI Camp, during his Data Summit 2024 session, "Building Real-Time Pipelines With FLaNK."
Posted May 08, 2024
The vast majority of current GenAI projects will fail, not because of inherent flaws in large language models (LLMs), but because of misconceptions about how to use them and the lack of capabilities needed to successfully design, develop, and operationalize GenAI-driven applications. At Data Summit 2024, Kjell Carlsson, head of AI strategy, Domino Data Labs, presented his session, "Shatter the Seven Myths of GenAI to Operationalize Impact," debunking the most harmful myths that set up projects for failure.
Posted May 08, 2024
Doug Laney opened Data Summit 2024 with a look at Infonomics in the era of AI. Laney, innovation fellow, data and analytics strategy, West Monroe, and Author of Infonomics and Data Juice, visiting professor at University of Illinois Gies College of Business, shared insights from his best-selling book, Infonomics, about how organizations can actually treat information as an enterprise asset.
Posted May 08, 2024
Wayne Eckerson, president, Eckerson Group, led the annual Data Summit pre-conference workshop, "Constructing Your Data Strategy: A Business & Technical Foundation for Success at Data Summit 2024," to explore the fundamentals of crafting an actionable, executable data strategy that aligns with businesses' unique needs, culture, and data maturity.
Posted May 07, 2024
Machine learning is primarily concerned with accuracy and pattern recognition, while natural language processing (NLP) is concerned with computer-human language interactions, specifically how to program computers to process, and analyze large amounts of natural language data. At Data Summit 2024, Christy Bergman, developer advocate, Zilliz, presented how to use an open source vector database to power GenAI chatbots, ecommerce recommenders, and similarity search-based apps during her workshop, "Taking Advantage of Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing."
Posted May 07, 2024
Semantic layers stand out as a key approach to solving business problems for organizations grappling with the complexities of managing and understanding the meaning of their data. At Data Summit 2024, Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge and Sara Nash, principal consultant, Enterprise Knowledge LLC, discussed "Building the Semantic Layer of Your Data Platform," during their workshop session.
Posted May 07, 2024
Rocket Software, Inc., a global technology leader in modernization software, announced it has closed on the acquisition of the Application Modernization and Connectivity (AMC) business of OpenText, formerly part of Micro Focus. Rocket Software now offers customers modernization software solutions spanning the mainframe to the cloud.
Posted May 06, 2024
IBM is introducing new storage capabilities that give clients choice and control in the data center to maximize performance. A new IT life cycle management option called IBM Storage Assurance provides access to IBM FlashSystem hardware and software innovations to help protect clients' investments from day one. IBM Storage Assurance supports the new IBM FlashSystem 5300 also announced today, as well as the FlashSystem 7300 and FlashSystem 9500.
Posted May 06, 2024
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion. HashiCorp's suite of products provides enterprises with extensive Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and Security Lifecycle Management capabilities to enable organizations to automate their hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Posted May 06, 2024
Data insights have never been more vital to business operations than they are today. Line-of-business (LOB) teams rely on data insights to drive sustainable growth, lead business operations, and understand customer behaviors and needs. The growing demand for data analytics has spurred a flourishing $31 billion-plus industry of established and emerging tech companies—but is the data analytics tech stack working for enterprises? Despite years of investment and effort, research indicates that 95% of businesses still struggle with operational challenges around data and analytics, leaving only 5% with the competitive advantage data-driven decision making delivers.
Posted May 06, 2024
Oracle is introducing new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) to help marketers, sellers, and service agents accelerate deal cycles. The new AI capabilities will help organizations generate more sales faster by automating time-consuming tasks and enabling front office professionals to target, engage, and serve buyers more precisely.
Posted May 01, 2024
Oracle is expanding its commitment to create a safer and more secure healthcare ecosystem by launching the Autonomous Shield initiative to simplify and accelerate Oracle Health EHR migrations to OCI at no additional cost. In the nearly two years since the Cerner acquisition, Oracle has invested tens of thousands of engineering hours and millions of dollars to enhance its core clinical applications and improve cybersecurity for its customers in the healthcare industry.
Posted May 01, 2024
Oracle announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supercluster is now available in the Oracle U.S. Government Cloud region to help address sovereign AI. Building on the expansion of their partnership, Oracle and NVIDIA are helping U.S. government customers train and deploy AI solutions with access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's more than 100 services, including its generative AI services running on high-performance accelerators such as NVIDIA H100 and NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, as well as ultra-low-latency networking, and secure storage.
Posted May 01, 2024
Cycode, a provider of Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), announced it has finalized its acquisition of Bearer, an AI-powered SAST and API discovery company, empowering Cycode to deliver a comprehensive suite of new application testing capabilities that ensures safer, accurate, and frictionless code security management.
Posted April 30, 2024
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, is releasing AllegroGraph 8.1, a Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform that incorporates ChatStream, a natural language query interface for querying a neuro-symbolic application.
Posted April 29, 2024
Global security leader Forcepoint is introducing Forcepoint Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), driven by artificial intelligence (AI), delivering real-time visibility, easing privacy compliance, and minimizing risks for data stored in multi-clouds and networks, including endpoints. According to the company, Forcepoint DSPM harnesses innovative AI-mesh technology to swiftly identify data risks, such as obsolescence, improper access, and misplaced files.
Posted April 29, 2024
Fortanix, a leader in data-first cybersecurity and pioneer of Confidential Computing, is releasing Key Insight, helping organizations proactively manage data exposure risks due to a lack of visibility and control of their cryptographic posture. According to the company, Key Insight delivers visibility of keys across multi-cloud environments and enables organizations to identify risks and future-proof data security against the looming threat of the post-quantum computing era.
Posted April 29, 2024
At Data Summit 2024, you'll hear the innovative approaches the world's leading companies are taking to solve today's key challenges in data management. The 11th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 8-9, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, with pre-conference workshops taking place on May 7, 2024. The program is now available for review and a variety of pass options are available to suit individual requirements.
Posted April 29, 2024
JFrog Ltd. the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, is offering a new machine learning (ML) lifecycle integration between JFrog Artifactory and MLflow, an open source software platform originally developed by Databricks.
Posted April 26, 2024
MetaRouter, the trailblazers in Server-Side Tag Management, is releasing Advanced Consent Enforcement, aiming to address the critical challenge of aligning consent categories with data collection and routing strategies. With the proliferation of services and tooling designed to leverage visitor traffic data, enforcement of user consent assertions across a siloed technology landscape continues to challenge organizations' compliance and IT teams alike, according to the company.
Posted April 26, 2024
Satori, the industry's leading data security platform, announced further integrations with Collibra, a leading data intelligence platform, providing users with unified and cohesive data management and governance, compliance, and security so that organizations are AI-ready. Integrating Satori and Collibra accelerates secure data access for Collibra users and relieves the burden on data teams by automating tasks such as locating sensitive data and applying security policies, according to the companies.
Posted April 25, 2024
Cisco, the leader in security and networking, revealed a new approach to securing data centers and clouds in response to the increasing demands the AI revolution has put on IT infrastructure—introducing Cisco Hypershield. According to the company, with this unprecedented innovation, Cisco is tipping the scales in favor of defenders, building on its recent announcements to accelerate AI infrastructure with Cisco's ethernet switching, silicon, and compute portfolio.
Posted April 25, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is introducing a strategic realignment of the organization designed to accelerate the company's growth plan, including its ability to respond to market opportunities with a focus on hybrid cloud and generative AI.
Posted April 25, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, in an effort to make AI more approachable, is launching the AI Accelerator, designed as an introduction for companies looking to explore the possibilities AI and AI-driven analytics can offer. Qlik's AI Accelerator, available to new and existing customers, offers a direct path for rapid integration, simplifying businesses' initial forays into AI.
Posted April 24, 2024
ScienceLogic, a leader in automated IT operations, is introducing updates to its SL1 AIOps platform that enable operations teams to rapidly identify and respond to issues within hybrid cloud application stacks, accelerating mean time to repair (MTTR). Fueled by customer requests for a more streamlined and customizable operator experience than currently available on the market, the updated SL1 interface brings mission-critical information front and center to streamline operations in high-pressure situations, according to the company.
Posted April 24, 2024