Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
Teradata is introducing new features and productivity enhancements to ClearScape Analytics, that are designed to enable innovative organizations to maximize the ROI of their AI/ML investments and boost data science productivity.
Posted September 19, 2024
SurrealDB, the ultimate multi-model database, is debuting the next iteration of its database solution, centered on further simplifying the lives of developers. SurrealDB 2.0 adds a series of new functionalities, incorporating both user requests and advancements in stability, performance, security, and data management capabilities.
Posted September 19, 2024
Firebolt is offering a next-generation Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW) that delivers low latency analytics with drastic efficiency gains, reflecting continuous feedback from users and real-world use cases. According to the company, data engineers can now deliver customer-facing analytics and data-intensive applications (data apps) more cost-effectively and with greater simplicity.
Posted September 18, 2024
Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, is announcing a series of new capabilities for Confluent Cloud, forwarding the company's mission of delivering a comprehensive data streaming platform that meets its users where they are. These latest updates—support for Table API, extending Apache Flink to Java and Python developers; private networking for Flink; a Confluent extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code); and Client-Side Field Level Encryption—each serve to make stream processing and data streaming more accessible and secure, according to Confluent.
Posted September 18, 2024
Gearset, a leader in Salesforce DevOps solutions, is acquiring Clayton, a cutting-edge code analysis platform designed specifically for Salesforce. The strategic acquisition is Gearset's first, following years of rapid growth fueled by a $55 million growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners.
Posted September 18, 2024
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, announced it has created a new blueprint for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI (GenAI) to support the deployment and scaling of enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Posted September 18, 2024
Oracle is introducing the first zettascale cloud computing clusters accelerated by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is now taking orders for the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud—available with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. According to Oracle, the maximum scale of OCI Supercluster offers more than three times as many GPUs as the Frontier supercomputer and more than six times that of other hyperscalers.
Posted September 18, 2024
Oracle is offering new AI capabilities within the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite that will help customers successfully execute complex tasks, automate workflows, and drive efficiency. Extending the comprehensive generative AI capabilities already embedded across the suite, the latest AI innovations include more than 50 new AI agents and a range of AI capabilities that assist with authoring, advice, and recommended actions.
Posted September 18, 2024
The lines between entities within an Entity-Relationship Diagram [ERD] represent an interdependency between the involved entities. In a normalized designed, this interdependency is both semantic and functional, as in, "a HOUSE has one-or-more DOORs," "an ORDER has one-or-more ORDER LINEs," or "a STUDENT enrolls in zero-to-many CLASSes." These object pairings would have a line drawn between them in an ERD representation. There also would be markings from whatever notation one is employing, designating the "one" side of the relationship and the "many" side of the relationship.
Posted September 18, 2024
Salesforce is introducing Tableau Einstein, a reimagined, AI-powered, visual analytics platform that includes Agentforce, opening up the power of business intelligence (BI) and analytics to everyone that wants to make data-driven work scalable, efficient, and more valuable.
Posted September 17, 2024
CIQ is releasing an all-in-one solution for proactive infrastructure oversight called Ledger Pro—built to help organizations track critical changes, ensure compliance, and save time and money on system management.
Posted September 17, 2024
Redpanda, the all-in-one streaming data platform, is unveiling a variety of new AI integrations available within Redpanda Connect, a lightweight yet powerful integration framework written in Golang offering a collection of sources, sinks, and processors that power real-time data and AI pipelines. By expanding AI connectivity with cloud availability—as well as launching a series of other innovations—Redpanda continues to help customers integrate disparate systems in the blink of an eye, according to the company.
Posted September 16, 2024
SmartBear, a leading provider of software quality and visibility solutions, is updating its BugSnag error and real user monitoring solution to include OpenTelemetry-native performance insights and distributed tracing. According to the company, this new functionality empowers developers to proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and systemic issues with a truly comprehensive view of application performance, increasing responsiveness and enhancing overall customer experience.
Posted September 16, 2024
The concept of risk is more complex than it is typically perceived. When Mark Zuckerberg said that "the biggest risk is not taking any risk," he was referring to the age-old risk versus innovation dynamic. Innovation certainly requires some level of risk, but is it possible that minimizing risk can actually lead to more risk?
Posted September 16, 2024
Crunchy Data, a provider of trusted open source Postgres technology and products, is debuting Crunchy Bridge for Analytics to provide enhanced spatial data analytics capabilities, making it one of the easiest-to-use and most powerful platforms for working with geospatial data.
Posted September 13, 2024
Operant AI, provider of the Runtime AI Application Protection Platform, announced it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to accelerate team and product expansion bringing unprecedented transparency and active cloud-native protection to all APIs, AI, and cloud applications with a particular focus on securing the entire data-in-use lifecycle as it flows through every layer of modern application environments.
Posted September 13, 2024
With more and more use cases for AI and all its branches taking shape, big data is surging in relevance as the backbone of these projects—prompting DBAs, IT, data scientists, and more to take a closer look at the information being fed into their forecasts and models. To support organizations in navigating through new challenges and a rapidly evolving big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly presents 2024's "Big Data 75," a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data.
Posted September 12, 2024
Zoho Corporation, a leading global technology company, is releasing a new version of Zoho Analytics—Zoho's self-service BI and analytics platform introducing new AI and ML capabilities. Among more than 100 other enhancements, Zoho Analytics now enables diagnostic insights, predictive analysis, and automated report and dashboard generation.
Posted September 12, 2024
Vantiq, a leader in real-time intelligent platforms for smart applications, and Blaize, Inc., a provider of purpose-built, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled edge computing solutions, are collaborating to create an AI-enabled chip loaded with intelligent software and unmatched computing power, all at an accessible price point.
Posted September 12, 2024
In today's world where data reigns supreme, the role of 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. Nevertheless, a frequent criticism of many DBAs is that they can be difficult to interact with. The truth of the matter is that DBAs can be curmudgeons possessing technical knowledge but limited people skills.
Posted September 12, 2024
Rocket Software released Rocket UniVerse 14.1.1, featuring enhanced performance, security, and modernization. Emma Breslin from the Rocket Software MultiValue (MV) team offered an inside look at what makes this version a must-have upgrade for current users.
Posted September 12, 2024
RDM Infinity is now an official U.S. reseller partner of Prosol Group, a nearly 40-year veteran in the MultiValue software industry—marking a major milestone for both companies, as it brings Prosol's innovative MultiValue platform, MVsharp, to businesses across the United States. MVsharp is designed to modernize legacy MultiValue systems, offering a straightforward path to upgrade without requiring a complete system overhaul.
Posted September 12, 2024
TP-Link Systems Inc., a leader in networking and smart home solutions, is releasing Omada Cloud Essentials, a simplified, free cloud management option designed for surveillance networks, small businesses, hostels, and large homes. Omada offers a flexible cloud management architecture, including on-premises Hardware Controller, on-premises Software Controller, and Cloud-Based Controller (also known as Omada Cloud).
Posted September 11, 2024
Vultr, one of the world's largest privately held cloud computing platforms, is partnering with GPU-accelerated analytics platform provider HEAVY.AI to integrate Vultr's global NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure into its operations—enabling HEAVY.AI to interactively query and visualize massive datasets.
Posted September 11, 2024
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading data orchestration and observability platform powered by Apache Airflow, is unveiling the private preview of Astro Observe, a capability designed to let users set and track SLAs to ensure on-time delivery of quality data. By offering an actionable view of the data supply chain and extending the power of Astronomer to data operations, Astro Observe empowers enterprises to build, run, and observe data pipelines as code with ease.
Posted September 10, 2024
Amplitude, Inc., a leading digital analytics platform, is unveiling Amplitude Made Easy, a new, radically simple platform experience designed to make digital analytics easy for everyone. Spurred by the rampant difficulties of both beginning analytics journeys and deriving tangible value from them, Amplitude's latest release offers a revamped user experience and new capabilities for better analytics.
Posted September 10, 2024
Auvik, an award-winning IT solutions provider, is making enhancements to its Auvik Network Management (ANM) solution, enabling a more customized user experience with greater flexibility. Auvik is offering three new capabilities: Northstar, a troubleshooting tool based on network path visualization; a new monitoring collection agent that runs natively on ARM64-based hardware; and an updated alerting engine, which allows for additional customized settings for alerts and notifications.
Posted September 09, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Data Security and Governance for the AI Era, to showcase top solutions and best practices for navigating the space of data security and governance, especially as it faces increasing investment in cloud and AI technologies.
Posted September 09, 2024
Scala Data Centers, the leading Latin American platform of sustainable data centers in the Hyperscale market, and Serena, a global leader in clean energy investments, are announcing one of the largest renewable energy supply agreements in Latin America.
Posted September 09, 2024
Blue Owl Capital Inc. (Blue Owl), Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP), and PowerHouse Data Centers (PowerHouse) are announcing the first phase of a $5 billion joint venture (JV) development partnership focused on the development of large-scale AI/HPC data centers for CoreWeave, Inc. (CoreWeave).
Posted September 09, 2024
IBM is adding a new feature update to watsonx.ai that delivers an open framework, giving users access to a catalogue of built-in models and patterns that can be seamlessly extended through a "build your own model" capability. Users can now do even more with IBM's enterprise AI studio; they can upload and deploy their own custom foundation models across software and SaaS environments.
Posted September 09, 2024
CloudCasa by Catalogic, a leader in multi-cloud application resilience and mobility for Kubernetes, is introducing significant enhancements to its CloudCasa platform, focusing on advanced backup capabilities, extended Azure support, and comprehensive Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) features. According to Catalogic, these capabilities address the complex needs of diverse Kubernetes environments.
Posted September 06, 2024
DiffusionData, a pioneer and leader in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, is releasing Diffusion 6.11, incorporating the latest developer-centric enhancements to the framework to speed and simplify development, reduce operational costs, and ensure reliable and efficient delivery of real-time data.
Posted September 06, 2024
InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, is providing new capabilities in the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite, simplifying time series data management at scale. InfluxData also announced the general availability of InfluxDB Clustered, its self-managed time series database for on-premises or private cloud deployments.
Posted September 05, 2024
In DBTA's webinar, Modern Data Architecture for AI, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, led experts through a thorough discussion of how to cultivate the right data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, from leading best practices to key technologies.
Posted September 04, 2024
Rubrik and Cisco are partnering to enhance organizations' cyber resilience and protect mission-critical data against cyberattacks. Rubrik will join Cisco's SolutionsPlus program, a strategic move where all of Rubrik's products—including its Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) offering—are added to Cisco's Global Price List.
Posted September 04, 2024
The Oracle Financial Services Risk and Finance solution has been deployed in one of the largest life insurers in the Australasian region to deliver the automation, data insights, and reporting capabilities it needed to be more efficient and achieve IFRS 17 compliance.
Posted September 04, 2024
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Communications Digital Business Experience, designed to help meet the unique needs of Communications Service Providers (CSPs). According to the company, the pre-integrated business support system (BSS) provides a comprehensive solution to help manage customer experiences and drive revenue at every stage of the customer journey.
Posted September 04, 2024
Tabnine, the originators of the AI code assistant category, is announcing several ecosystem updates that forward Tabnine's mission to help developers maintain control over code while future-proofing AI investments. These announcements—which include a new platform partnership with Broadcom Inc., an integration with IBM, and an extension of existing partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)—culminate in driving controlled, flexible, AI-powered coding for enterprises' infrastructures of choice.
Posted September 04, 2024
In Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one's ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a "universal translator" allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted September 04, 2024
Couchbase, Inc., the cloud database platform company, is announcing the official launch of Capella Columnar on AWS, bringing real-time operational and analytic workload enablement to AWS. Additionally, Couchbase is also debuting Couchbase Mobile with vector search, as well as Capella Free Tier, expanding the way Couchbase serves developers while reducing costs and simplifying operations.
Posted September 03, 2024
Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, is introducing universal microsegmentation capabilities to Calico designed to support a diverse range of workloads, including virtual machines (VM), containers, and bare metals. Calico provides a robust, dynamic, and high-performance network policy engine to perform segmentation across both on-premises and cloud deployments, according to the company.
Posted September 03, 2024
Experts from Quest Software joined DBTA's webinar, APM and DB Monitoring: Necessity or Overkill?, to offer key insights regarding the APM and DB monitoring spheres, illustrating how IT strategies can be reshaped to best accommodate the modern application and its business.
Posted September 03, 2024
Veeam Software, a leader by market share in Data Resilience, is releasing Veeam Data Platform v12.2 to broaden support for protecting data on an extensive range of new platforms while continuing to advance end-to-end cybersecurity. According to the company, this latest release combines data backup, recovery, and security capabilities with the ability to empower customers to migrate and secure data across new platforms.
Posted August 30, 2024
Anomali, an AI-Powered Security Operations Platform, is offering powerful new capabilities for Anomali Copilot to help security, and now IT departments, use the latest AI abilities to successfully defend, protect, and propel their organizations forward.
Posted August 30, 2024
Rezonate, a provider of identity-centric security solutions, is offering a new identity security solution for mid-market companies that proactively reduces the identity attack surface and improves compliance efforts in a fraction of the time of legacy IAM tools or manual methods.
Posted August 30, 2024
The consistent throughline of any business looking to stay competitive in an evolving market is extracting value from data—from key trends to relevant insights, prescriptive actions, and more. This is done through data applications, acting as enablers of productivity, efficiency, and innovation across the enterprise. However, due to the dichotomy of legacy systems, data silos, and poor data quality and the demands for real-time, scalable data, building effective data apps is a challenging—yet rewarding—feat.
Posted August 29, 2024
Broadcom Inc. unveiled VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, the future of VCF that will accelerate customers' transition from siloed IT architectures to a unified and integrated private cloud platform. VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will radically simplify the deployment, consumption, and operations of a secure and cost-effective private cloud, according to the vendor.
Posted August 29, 2024
Broadcom Inc is releasing Rally Anywhere, the on-premises offering of Rally, its enterprise agility platform designed to meet the unique needs of global organizations. According to the company, Rally Anywhere enables teams to plan, prioritize, manage, track, and measure at every level of the organization to deliver maximum customer value while remaining compliant with strict data sovereignty policies and heightened security demands.
Posted August 29, 2024