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The world of Business Intelligence and Analytics is evolving quickly. Increasingly, the emphasis is on real-time Business Intelligence to enable faster decision making, and on Data Visualization, which enables data patterns to be seen more clearly. Key technologies involved in preparing raw data to be used for Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytics – including ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load), CDC (Change Data Capture), and Data Deduplication – support a wide range of goals within organizations.



Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles

Platform9, the enterprise private cloud company, announced that its newest release of Private Cloud Director adds new AI hardware support and feature integration to address top IT requirements for modern cloud to edge application management.

Posted August 14, 2025

Rubrik, Inc., the Security and AI company, is launching Agent Rewind, powered by Predibase AI infrastructure, to empower organizations to undo mistakes made by agentic AI. This release follows the closing of Rubrik's acquisition of Predibase and provides visibility into agents' actions and enabling enterprises to rewind those changes to applications and data.

Posted August 14, 2025

This summer, I traveled to Bordeaux to explore French wine straight from the source. Coming from the tech world—with limited knowledge of the region (Left Bank? Right Bank? I barely knew the difference)—I was eager to understand what makes Bordeaux wines so revered worldwide. One concept I kept hearing about was "terroir," a uniquely French term that refers to the combination of soil, climate, terrain, and even local traditions that give each vineyard its distinct character. I was curious to see how this intricate relationship between nature and human touch shapes the wines and how, in today's high-tech age, tradition and innovation intersect in Bordeaux.

Posted August 14, 2025

Junk dimensions are often misunderstood and avoided. And they should not be. Junk dimensions offer a strategy to remain true to dimensional intentions and to better focus one's design and sometimes provide new insights into your data. The junk dimension is a collection of data items that may not relate to each other at all, although all relate to the fact at hand.

Posted August 14, 2025

Organizations consistently struggle to manage what are known as "long-tail" data connectors. These are connectors that are less used and not available on many legacy data integration platforms. As a result, often organizations have had to build their own custom pipelines and, worse yet, maintain and rebuild those as data sources changed over time as requirements evolved.

Posted August 14, 2025

The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) has always been dynamic, evolving alongside shifts in technology, data strategies, and business needs. But in 2025, the DBA's responsibilities are transforming at an unprecedented pace. No longer just the custodian of databases, today's DBA must be a data strategist, an automation expert, a cloud integrator, and even a business enabler.

Posted August 14, 2025

If you've worked in any data-centric role, you've probably experienced the effects of the proverbial "mandate from on high." Someone in the C-suite decides it's time to hop on the latest shift in the tech landscape—whether generative AI, hybrid cloud infrastructure, or remote work—and now it's time for the entire tech department to make it happen.

Posted August 14, 2025

In partnership with Enterprise AI World, DBTA's latest webinar, Unlocking Enterprise Value: Making Strategic AI Investments That Deliver, featured the expertise of Shawn Isinhue, global head of business value services, Moveworks, exploring how to align AI initiatives with business impact through a potent mix of technical, operational, and human capabilities.

Posted August 13, 2025

Picus Security, a leading security validation company, is partnering with ThreatConnect to offer its Risk Quantification Module, aiming to deliver a transparent, validation-first approach to cyber risk measurement. At the heart of this new module is ThreatConnect's Risk Quantifier (RQ), which powers the financial modeling engine behind Picus' real-time risk insights.

Posted August 13, 2025

CyberHeed, the company redefining cybersecurity compliance with agentic AI, is introducing powerful new AI capabilities that reduce cybersecurity compliance workloads—designed to streamline critical tasks from documentation to evidence and actionable insights, the company's new AI system transforms how organizations manage Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) processes.

Posted August 13, 2025

MongoDB, Inc. is introducing a range of product innovations and AI partner ecosystem expansions to help customers build accurate, trustworthy, and reliable AI applications at scale. According to the company, by providing industry-leading embedding models and a fully integrated, AI-ready data platform—and by assembling a world-class ecosystem of AI partners—MongoDB is giving organizations everywhere the tools to deliver reliable, performant, cost-effective AI.

Posted August 12, 2025

Codien is introducing its new AI agent designed to simplify and accelerate the transition from legacy test automation frameworks, such as Protractor and Selenium, to the modern Playwright framework. Developed by the team at Cognida.ai, Codien also streamlines the creation of new Playwright tests using natural language, according to the company.

Posted August 12, 2025

Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, is offering FinOps Center, a new capability in Cribl.Cloud that brings enterprises a clear, unified view of how data flows through their systems, what it costs, and what it's worth.

Posted August 11, 2025

Apiiro, a leading Agentic Application Security Platform, is introducing the AutoFix Agent,  an AI Agent for AppSec that auto-fixes design and code risks using runtime context tailored to your environment. The agent operates natively in developers' integrated development environments (IDEs), agnostic to IDE via a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) connection, the company said.

Posted August 11, 2025

SpyCloud, a leader in identity threat protection, is making enhancements to its SaaS Investigations solution, introducing the integration of advanced AI-powered insights that mirror the tradecraft of SpyCloud's seasoned investigators.

Posted August 11, 2025

Flex announced a new power shelf system to fast-track 800 VDC power architectures and support the growing demands of AI infrastructure, AI factories, and data centers. The Flex power shelf system provides industry-leading efficiency for NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems while preparing for the transition to 800 VDC data center power infrastructure to support the deployment of 1 megawatt IT racks, the company said.

Posted August 11, 2025

IBM is releasing its annual "Cost of a Data Breach Report," revealing AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance. While the overall number of organizations experiencing an AI-related breach is a small representation of the researched population, this is the first time security, governance, and access controls for AI have been studied in this report, which suggests AI is already an easy, high value target.

Posted August 11, 2025

Datavault AI Inc., a leader in AI data experience, announced the expanded commercialization of its flagship AI agents—DataScore and DataValue—built with IBM watsonx.ai. IBM has also committed AI engineering talent and deep technical expertise over multiple years to help Datavault expand and accelerate the impact of its offerings for clients.

Posted August 11, 2025

Intruder, a leader in attack surface management, is releasing Autoswagger—a free, open-source tool that scans OpenAPI-documented APIs for broken authorization vulnerabilities. According to the company, Autoswagger automatically detects authorization weaknesses in APIs and discovers sensitive endpoints not requiring authentication where the application fails to check for a valid API token.

Posted August 08, 2025

AppSignal, the provider of actionable application insights for developers, is unveiling native OpenTelemetry (OTel) support for its application performance monitoring (APM) product suite, democratizing OpenTelemetry for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).

Posted August 08, 2025

Tessell, the multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform, announced that it has successfully achieved Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 4.1 certification, the most rigorous standard for securing cardholder data globally.

Posted August 08, 2025

ThreatLocker, a leader in endpoint security and Zero Trust solutions, is rolling out a new feature for ThreatLocker customers, Defense Against Configurations (DAC)—giving IT and security teams a comprehensive, real-time view of vulnerabilities in their environment.    

Posted August 07, 2025

NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now a supported external storage option for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Posted August 07, 2025

Redpanda, the real-time data platform that powers agentic and operational applications, is introducing Redpanda 25.2, simplifying Iceberg adoption for enterprise users and including support for Databricks Unity Catalog—allowing enterprise customers to turn streaming event data into queryable Iceberg tables in Databricks.

Posted August 07, 2025

The amount of data and its complexity has been growing at a rapid clip and shows no sign of stopping. To contain this data, organizations have been introducing different types of database platforms alongside relational solutions. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!

Posted August 06, 2025

FluidCloud, a pioneer in portable cloud infrastructure, is emerging from stealth with $8.1 million in seed funding, introducing its platform designed to help enterprises break free from vendor lock-in with infrastructure that's portable in minutes, fully visible and resilient by design.

Posted August 06, 2025

Calero, a leading provider of Technology Business Management solutions, is introducing a new SaaS Management offering designed to meet the urgent needs of today's organizations—providing solutions for visibility, control, and optimization. Whether organizations need visibility, control, or optimization, the Calero SMP offering provides a proven, cost-effective solution from a company with staying power and a three-decade history of success, the company said.

Posted August 06, 2025

Foundry is rebranding itself as Mithril, reflecting its mission to simplify access to distributed AI compute. According to the company, "the Mithril brand embodies the platform's mission: transforming powerful but traditionally rigid AI infrastructure into a fluid, universally accessible resource for AI practitioners."

Posted August 06, 2025

Many organizations struggle balancing budget constraints with managing essential resources and server maintenance. One option for minimizing waste and cutting costs is AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers, executing code in response to events, and automatically managing the underlying compute resources. 

Posted August 06, 2025

Oracle announced it evaluated MCP and has integrated it into its core developer tools, making the Oracle Database immediately available on any platform supporting MCP. This integration is made available via our modern command line to the Oracle Database, Oracle SQLcl.

Posted August 06, 2025

Veza, the identity security company, is introducing Veza for Oracle Applications, a new offering to unify and secure access governance across complex Oracle environments, including Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (JDE), Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, and Oracle Databases. The platform aims to address long-standing gaps in Oracle access governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), Veza said.

Posted August 06, 2025

Bloom Energy, a global leader in power solutions, announced that it will deploy its fuel cell technology at select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers in the U.S. to support the growing demand for OCI's AI and cloud computing services. Bloom Energy will deliver highly reliable and cost-efficient onsite power for an entire data center within 90 days, according to the vendor.

Posted August 06, 2025

Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they're treated as "set it and forget it" structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, and machine learning workloads—so too must our approach to indexing.

Posted August 06, 2025

Rapid7, Inc., a leader in threat detection and exposure management, is launching Incident Command, a new next-gen SIEM extending the capabilities of its Command Platform, purpose-built to transform how security teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats.

Posted August 05, 2025

Qbeast, the next-generation data optimization platform, announced it secured $7.6 million in a recent seed round, enabling the company to expand its team, broaden product support across more analytics use cases, and double down on the company's mission to make open data platforms faster, simpler, and more cost-efficient.

Posted August 05, 2025

Cloudbrink, a leader in high-performance secure connectivity, is offering a suite of identity management services and an integration with CrowdStrike to its Personal SASE platform. Combined, these services allow customers to manage both the authentication and authorization of users from one single console with a unified policy engine, according to Cloudbrink.

Posted August 04, 2025

OpenText, a leading information management company, and TELUS, a world-leading communications technology company, are introducing the OpenText and TELUS Canadian Sovereign Cloud—empowering Canadian organizations and government agencies with access to enterprise-grade cloud computing and AI capabilities while ensuring complete data sovereignty. This means every application, dataset, computation, and network operation remains securely within Canadian borders, according to OpenText and TELUS.

Posted August 04, 2025

LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based platform for AI-powered data center transformation, announced the availability of Edwin AI, LogicMonitor's AI Agent for ITOps (IT Operations), in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace.

Posted August 01, 2025

Observe Inc., the AI-powered observability company, announced it secured $156 million in a Series C funding round, enabling Observe to continue investing in product development, AI innovation, and global hiring. As enterprises adapt to a new world where every system, service, and agent generates actionable data, Observe is emerging as the leader in AI-powered observability at cloud scale, the company said.

Posted August 01, 2025

Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, is announcing an investment of $200 million over the next three years, driving the growth, reach, and impact of its global partner ecosystem, according to the company.

Posted July 31, 2025

Numecent, a leader in application containerization and cloud-native application delivery, announced that its Cloudpaging Player now supports Windows on Arm (WoA)—making the company one of the first application virtualization and container management solution providers to extend native support to Windows on Arm devices.

Posted July 31, 2025

Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity leader, announced its plans to acquire CyberArk, a leader in Identity Security—marking Palo Alto Networks' entry into identity security.

Posted July 31, 2025

CloudBolt Software, The Cloud ROI Company and a recognized leader in cloud cost management, is forming a strategic distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, amplifying global access to CloudBolt's Cloud Management and Augmented FinOps Platform.

Posted July 31, 2025

Payara, provider of fully managed cloud-native solutions for running and managing Java applications, and Azul, a company 100% focused on Java, are partnering to help enterprises modernize their Java applications with a codeless, lift-and-shift migration solution, reducing infrastructure and cloud costs and boosting performance and scalability.

Posted July 31, 2025

Varonis Systems, Inc., a data security leader, is releasing Varonis Next-Gen Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), a new approach to database security that deploys quickly and prevents data breaches while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Posted July 30, 2025

Qdrant, a leading provider of high-performance, open-source vector search, is offering a private beta of Qdrant Edge, a lightweight, embedded vector search engine designed for AI systems on devices such as robots, point of sales, home assistants, and mobile phones.

Posted July 30, 2025

In DBTA's webinar, Achieving Unified Analytics: Top Tools and Strategies, experts offered their insights on achieving unified analytics, defined by reimagining traditional data architectures with modern data platforms, tools, and approaches.

Posted July 29, 2025

Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity leader, officially completed its acquisition of Protect AI, a leader in securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and models—Palo Alto Networks' commitment to securing the next generation of technology infrastructure.

Posted July 29, 2025

Parasoft, a global leader in AI-driven software testing solutions, is introducing a variety of autonomous testing capabilities to its flagship testing solutions, including SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP. According to the company, new functionality includes first-to-market agentic AI-driven virtual service generation, which reduces the time and expertise required to create comprehensive test environments.

Posted July 29, 2025

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