Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
Globant, a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers leverage RISE with SAP to modernize their on-premises SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) and migrate to the cloud. Globant and AWS are helping their joint customers leverage RISE with SAP—a managed cloud offering of solutions, infrastructure, and services—to streamline migration of their legacy SAP ERP to AWS with more speed and confidence, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024
Tricentis, a global leader in AI-powered continuous testing and quality engineering, is acquiring SeaLights, a SaaS-based, software quality intelligence platform. SeaLights further increases Tricentis' market leadership in quality intelligence by adding expanded capabilities for unparalleled visibility and insights into code and tests throughout the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024
Following a series of mergers and acquisitions in Europe, CENIT Group is now expanding its presence in North America with a 60% stake in U.S. company Analysis Prime—a global leader in SAP planning and analytics. With this acquisition, CENIT Group is diversifying its SAP business and achieves a major input of expertise in the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) field, according to the vendor.
Posted July 24, 2024
Eventually the day comes when an existing data mart or warehouse needs to be re-examined. Maybe new workloads are desired, new business models arise, a new platform is considered, or new supporting tools in the environment are wanted. Especially when a new platform is part of the equation, many in charge think first of "lift and shift" as the approach. Taking as much existing data and processes as possible and keeping them virtually unchanged as things are moved onto new foundations is almost always the cost-saving approach—for the immediate short term.
Posted July 24, 2024
Rocket Software's MultiValue (MV) platform is engineered to help its customers pivot their legacy systems into the future, ensuring that modernization is not just integrated but a driving force for growth. Patrick Payne, a Rocket MultiValue evangelist, addresses cloud enablement, specifically transitioning to the cloud with confidence in a newly released report.
Posted July 24, 2024
Kore Tech, formally known as Kore Technologies, is launching a new brand and website—focusing not just on MultiValue but continuing to expand its ERP reach. "We are proud to announce the launch of our new brand and website as we evolve in a new phase of growth for Kore. This is more than a fresh look; it's a commitment to innovation and excellence in providing technology solutions that help clients drive growth and profitability," said Kore.
Posted July 24, 2024
After the successful launch of Entrinsik Informer AI earlier this year, the company is looking ahead to the future of AI Assistants. Informer AI offers real-time assistance with Help Center AI, enhances scripting and querying capabilities through Copilot AI, and empowers users to create digital assistants in seconds.
Posted July 24, 2024
Database administration is a demanding career that is constantly morphing to include more and different job requirements. Being a DBA requires technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple, detailed tasks at the same time. This means that in the world of database administration, stress is an unwelcome, yet common companion.
Posted July 24, 2024
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is announcing that it will host Meta's Llama 3.1—a collection of multilingual open source large language models (LLMs)—in Snowflake Cortex AI, the solution providing instant access to industry-leading LLMs. With Snowflake's AI research team having optimized Llama 3.1 405B for both inference and fine-tuning, this offering pairs Meta's powerful, open source LLM with Snowflake's inference system stack for real-time, high-throughput inference.
Posted July 23, 2024
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is offering the general availability of Identity Continuity, an addition to its Maverics Identity Orchestration platform that ensures business continuity and uninterrupted application access. The solution seamlessly fails over from a primary cloud Identity Provider (IDP) to a secondary IDP, using an on-premises IDP or cloud-to-cloud failover capabilities, according to Strata.
Posted July 23, 2024
Backed by its majority owner STG, Alveo, a leading provider of cloud-based market data management software, has completed its merger with Gresham Technologies (Gresham)—creating a market leading provider for data automation and optimization of mission-critical data, post-trade processes, and external reporting.
Posted July 22, 2024
Heeler Security Inc., a pioneering startup in the application security space, is announcing the results of its recent Seed Series funding round, having raised $8.5 million. Led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from Storm Ventures, this funding will be directed toward product innovation and expanding enterprise teams, propelling the company's ambition of remediating today's complex security challenges.
Posted July 22, 2024
After a system update pushed by CrowdStrike on Friday upended government services, emergency call centers, banks, airlines, hospitals, and other businesses, most systems are up and running as normal now. CrowdStrike is actively assisting customers affected by a defect in a recent content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts were not impacted. The issue has been identified and isolated, and a fix has been deployed. This was not a cyberattack, the company stressed.
Posted July 22, 2024
Momento, the real-time data platform founded by the engineering team that built DynamoDB, is announcing the completion of its Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, having raised $15 million. Emboldened by its mission to both streamline and increase the efficacy of developers, Momento's funding will enable the company to continue to deliver hassle-free infrastructure at a global scale. This release also announces the GA of Momento Topics, a massively scalable pub/sub messaging service optimized for real-time, many-to-many communication, according to the vendor.
Posted July 19, 2024
A faulty update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor caused a global IT outage on Microsoft systems Friday, causing international flights to be grounded, knocking banks offline and media outlets off air. Further compounding the situation, several states in the U.S. are reporting disruptions to emergency services. The bug has affected many stock exchanges, supermarkets, government services, and even hospital and healthcare systems. Users are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, which is causing their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly.
Posted July 19, 2024
Code42 Software, Inc., the leader in data loss and insider threat protection, is announcing the launch of its Proactive Risk Identification and Severity Model (PRISM), a three-dimensional context analysis solution for surfacing risk-related insights across data, users, and destinations. Providing a manageable data protection workflow for security analysts, PRISM is engineered to help save analysts time in an otherwise overburdened field.
Posted July 18, 2024
Infragistics, a leading global provider of tools and solutions to accelerate design and development, is introducing an array of new features in App Builder, the essential cloud-based WYSIWYG drag and drop low-code software tool. Known for its flexibility and efficiency, React is growing in popularity within the development community. With this added feature, App Builder now provides users the ability to generate production ready code across every major web framework, Infragistics said.
Posted July 18, 2024
Census, the data activation and reverse ETL platform, is announcing its acquisition of Fulcrum, an AI-led growth platform for business teams. This acquisition aims to deliver AI-driven data collaboration between data and business teams, integrating Fulcrum's technology into the Census platform.
Posted July 18, 2024
CTERA, a leader in hybrid cloud data management, announced it has raised $80 million in primary and secondary funding that will enable the company to double down on hybrid cloud and expand into data intelligence.
Posted July 18, 2024
OpenText is launching a solution to speed the triage and remediation of vulnerabilities throughout the stages of code development—dubbed OpenText Fortify Aviator. The platform is an AI-powered code security solution that saves developers significant time by enabling faster and easier auditing and remediation of static application security testing (SAST) vulnerabilities—all within a single solution. Fortify Aviator empowers teams to release secure software faster and with greater confidence, according to OpenText.
Posted July 17, 2024
In our last article, we discussed several great companies of Western civilization and why a poignant few of them, that were building game-changing technology, disappeared. Metaphorically they can be envisioned as having been buried in the proverbial Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, never to be seen again.
Posted July 17, 2024
The Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) announced it has launched an automated process to make new enterprise Linux sources available almost immediately after each release of new versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). OpenELA's rapid response demonstrates the utility of the organization as a resource for independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware vendors (IHVs), processor manufacturers, independent developers, and others who need rapid, reliable, and secure access to enterprise Linux sources to create their downstream builds, according to the vendor.
Posted July 17, 2024
Oracle announced that Palantir's Foundry Platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) are certified on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with being generally available across all Oracle's distributed cloud deployment options. Oracle's distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and sovereign AI capabilities, combined with Palantir's leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, help businesses and governments accelerate their AI initiatives, according to the vendors.
Posted July 17, 2024
Oracle is releasing Exadata Exascale, an intelligent data architecture for the cloud that provides extreme performance for all Oracle Database workloads—including AI vector processing, analytics, and transactions—at any scale. According to Oracle, Exadata Exascale reduces costs for organizations of any size to take advantage of Oracle Exadata's e built-in performance, reliability, availability, and security capabilities.
Posted July 17, 2024
Deloitte and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating on a multi-year strategic agreement to help clients around the world scale their generative Artificial Intelligence, data and analytics, and quantum computing capabilities by using AWS services.
Posted July 16, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing Qlik Talend Cloud, a streamlined integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation. Underpinned by trusted Qlik and Talend technologies, trusted by some of the world's largest brands, Qlik Talend Cloud is designed to facilitate responsible enterprise AI adoption, according to the company.
Posted July 16, 2024
As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning consistently stands out as a vital component of this transformation.
Posted July 16, 2024
Intel is unveiling a new tank design along with immersion cooling solutions for data centers, signifying a potential leap in cooling efficiency for powering data centers. Through its ongoing collaboration with Intel, ExxonMobil's Data Center immersion fluids have played a crucial role in enabling Intel's solution to overcome technical limitations showcasing the potential use of hydrocarbon based single phase immersion cooling for future chip designs.
Posted July 15, 2024
IBM and Microsoft are strengthening their cybersecurity collaboration to help clients simplify and modernize their security operations and manage and protect their hybrid cloud identities. As organizations embrace hybrid cloud and AI to drive innovation, they require advanced security capabilities to protect their most valuable data, according to the companies.
Posted July 15, 2024
Storj is acquiring Vald, ushering in a "new era" in distributed cloud innovation to seize the opportunity to accelerate innovation at-scale with integrated cloud storage and GPU solutions. According to the vendors, just as Storj disrupted the storage industry by enabling customers to use underutilized storage capacity in data centers in 100-plus countries worldwide, Valdi is disrupting the GPU industry, enabling customers to use available GPU compute cycles in data centers worldwide.
Posted July 15, 2024
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG after receiving all required regulatory approvals—bringing together leading capabilities in integration, API management, and data ingestion. The acquisition builds on IBM's extensive software portfolio, with StreamSets adding new data ingestion capabilities to IBM's AI and data platform, and webMethods bringing Integration Platform as a Service (iPaas) capabilities to IBM's Automation solutions.
Posted July 15, 2024
To help shed light on the ways organizations can overcome these continuing obstacles, experts joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving Unified Analytics: Next-Generation Data Platforms, to examine the latest and greatest solutions that promise to effectively modernize and unify enterprise analytics.
Posted July 12, 2024
Soda, the AI-enabled data quality company, announced it has secured $14 million investment from strategic partners and existing investors including Singular and Point Nine—enabling the company to continue its expansion across North America. The additional investment also empowers Soda to continue building a sustainable business model where company and market growth are tightly aligned, and further build Soda's global team, significantly expanding its New York city headquarters with experienced go-to-market talent to continue its growth in North America.
Posted July 12, 2024
GridGain is releasing version 9 of the GridGain Unified Real-Time Data Platform, building on the multi-dimensional data processing and analytics capabilities of version 8 to deliver the most stable, resilient, and high-performant solution for ultra-low latency data applications. Version 9 powers the extreme speed, scale, durability, and reliability critical to modern enterprise use cases and AI, according to the company.
Posted July 11, 2024
SAP platforms, used by 99 of the Fortune 100 companies and with over 280 million cloud subscribers worldwide, are among the most reliable business applications. As SAP administrators, your role in maintaining the security of these platforms is crucial. However, the platform's popularity makes it a prime target for hackers to exploit Structured Query Language (SQL) injections and directory traversal vulnerabilities, which are only two specific risks in a much larger group.
Posted July 11, 2024
Rocket Software recently announced a special 4-part series on the Importance of APIs for Modernizing Your MV App. Rocket principal product manager Hernando Borda is the host for this MultiValue (MV) roundtable event—delving into the transformative power of APIs and how they can bring significant value to MV applications.
Posted July 11, 2024
Entrinsik Informer Cloud has been pivotal in higher education, where transparency and accessibility are paramount. Public Facing Dashboards in Informer Cloud are designed to meet these needs, offering numerous benefits that enhance the educational experience for students, parents, staff, and executive leadership, according to Entrinsik.
Posted July 11, 2024
SPHERE, a leading provider of identity hygiene solutions, is introducing its latest offering, Intelligent Discovery—an innovative SaaS solution designed to support CyberArk PAM Solutions, both SaaS and Self-Hosted deployments to provide comprehensive and insightful discovery capabilities for privileged accounts.
Posted July 10, 2024
While AI has been the talk of science fiction-aficionados and tech-enthusiasts for many years, it wasn't until the tail-end of 2022 that AI entered the mainstream conversation with generative AI and the popularity of ChatGPT technologies. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.
Posted July 10, 2024
AttackIQ, a leading independent vendor of breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions and a founding research partner of the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), is debuting AttackIQ Mission Control, a new capability for enterprise customers engineered to streamline and improve AttackIQ Enterprise BAS deployments for large organizations.
Posted July 09, 2024
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 08, 2024
Cybersixgill, the global cyber threat intelligence data provider, is partnering with ThreatQuotient, a leading threat intelligence platform innovator, to enhance defenses for ThreatQuotient customers with access to Cybersixgill's threat intelligence and actionable insights.
Posted July 08, 2024