Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
American political instability leading to monthly "will they, won't they" back and forth about tariffs, is looking to begin to affect the overall tech sector, potentially impacting the progress of AI advancements, upending data center operations, and semiconductor chips. For U.S. tech firms looking to sidestep the effect of tariffs and future-proof their infrastructure, homegrown innovation is crucial, believes JB Baker, vice president of products at ScaleFlux.
Posted May 14, 2025
When most people hear "fleet management," they immediately think of trucks, delivery vehicles, or rental cars being tracked and maintained by a central organization. Traditional fleet management involves tracking vehicle locations, monitoring driver behavior, scheduling maintenance, and optimizing routes—all to maximize operational efficiency and minimize costs across distributed physical assets.
Posted May 13, 2025
Wayne Eckerson, president, Eckerson Group, led the annual Data Summit pre-conference workshop, "Data Democratization: How to Build a Self-Service Strategy That Empowers Business Users and Eliminates Data Bottlenecks," discussing practical, time-tested approaches to data democratization, helping to eliminate data bottlenecks while effectively anticipating business needs.
Posted May 13, 2025
Classiq announced it has raised $110 million in Series C funding, one of the largest finance rounds for a quantum software company—enabling the expansion of the company's global footprint to broaden its leading role in national quantum initiatives and as a cornerstone of the quantum ecosystem.
Posted May 13, 2025
John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst, Radiant Advisors, led the annual Data Summit pre-conference workshop, "Architect Your Enterprise Data Future: Building Strategic Modern Data Platforms," exploring a proven four-step methodology for translating business goals into architectural realities, assessing various nuances associated with cultivating a modern data infrastructure.
Posted May 13, 2025
Continuent, a leading provider of solutions for business-critical applications using MySQL and MariaDB databases, is releasing Tungsten Dashboard version 8, delivering significant improvements in operational efficiency, security, and user experience to further simplify the way administrators interact with their database clusters in real time.
Posted May 13, 2025
Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, is introducing Actian Data Observability, leveraging AI and machine learning for comprehensive data quality monitoring as well as anomaly detection and resolution. According to the company, by ensuring high data quality and trustworthiness, Actian helps enterprises accelerate AI initiatives, increase the speed of innovation, and reduce risk.
Posted May 13, 2025
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and AI, is launching Qlik Cares, a reimagined and expanded program aimed at transforming how the company supports nonprofits.
Posted May 12, 2025
Testsigma, a leading cloud-based testing platform, is adding autonomous testing capabilities to its automation suite—powered by AI coworkers that collaborate with QA teams to simplify testing, speed up releases, and elevate software quality.
Posted May 12, 2025
BlueVoyant, a leader in integrated cybersecurity, is debuting its Continuous Optimization for Microsoft Security (COMS) offering, improving security outcomes, helping customers stay ahead of cyberthreats, and minimizing technology costs.
Posted May 12, 2025
HCLSoftware, a global leader in enterprise software solutions, in partnership with Salt Security, is releasing HCL AppScan API Security—enabling organizations to effectively manage all their API assets and ensure they continue to deliver business value without introducing increased levels of risk.
Posted May 09, 2025
Assured Data Protection (Assured), a prominent IT managed services provider (MSP) for cloud data protection solutions, is releasing Innovation Team—a strategic initiative aimed at expanding the company's market-leading disaster recovery (DR), backup, and cyber resiliency services with the addition of new technologies.
Posted May 09, 2025
Addressing the challenges facing database administrators, IBM is unveiling the Db2 Intelligence Center, an AI-powered database management platform for streamlining and enhancing Db2 management.
Posted May 08, 2025
Coralogix, a cross-stack observability platform provider, is introducing Continuous Profiling, an advanced capability that delivers real-time visibility into application performance without any code changes or production impact. The solution seamlessly integrates with Coralogix logs, metrics, and traces to help engineering teams pinpoint and resolve bottlenecks in minutes, the company said.
Posted May 08, 2025
StorMagic, simplifying on-site virtualization, is rolling out its new three-tiered global Channel Partner Program, designed to help partners grow revenue and deliver flexible, reliable virtualization solutions for on-site applications and data.
Posted May 08, 2025
Sid Probstein, CEO, SWIRL, led the Data Summit session, "Uncovering Data You Know is There But Can't Find," exploring the ways in which LLMs can dramatically improve document retrieval.
Posted May 08, 2025
Nilanjan Chatterjee, senior staff data architect, AMD, led the Data Summit session, "Becoming an Insights-Driven Enterprise," guiding attendees through the ways that data observability can be effectively harnessed to power the highest standards of business data, for AI use cases and beyond.
Posted May 08, 2025
Data governance is transforming the world of business and IT as organizations increasingly acknowledge and embrace the importance of data in the modern world. And this transformation significantly impacts database administration. From regulatory compliance to data quality and security, DBAs must navigate an evolving landscape where effective data management is a key business priority. The rise of data governance introduces new responsibilities but also presents unique challenges that DBAs must address.
Posted May 08, 2025
In the realm of data modeling, many-to-many relationships are often considered an "odd duck." Unlike one-to-one or one-to-many relationships, which can be directly implemented in physical database schemas, many-to-many relationships must remain in the abstract, the conceptual, the supernatural, and never the physical. This insubstantial nature makes them troublesome for greener data modelers.
Posted May 08, 2025
Recognizing both the value and the limitations of Pick, BinaryStar Systems announced the development of MYRA, an AI-powered solution built to preserve what works and modernize what doesn't. According to the company, MYRA intelligently analyzes legacy Pick applications, extracts core business logic, and reconstructs them as modern, maintainable systems utilizing Node.js, Python, and MongoDB.
Posted May 08, 2025
Entrinsik, a leader in business intelligence and data analytics solutions, announced that the California Lutheran University (CLU) is using Entrinsik Informer AI as the base of its cutting-edge AI assistant aimed at redefining how institutions support students and faculty.
Posted May 08, 2025
Rocket Software announced it has moved its UniData-based app, Rocket Business Connect (RBC) to AWS. To further improve RBC's disaster recovery plan, the Rocket team decided to transition RBC to AWS. Being in the AWS cloud gives Rocket the ability to automatically fail over within a region. The company can also manually failover across regions with only minor configuration changes.
Posted May 08, 2025
Neo4j, a leading graph database and analytics company, is introducing Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics, a new serverless offering that can be used with any data source and with Zero ETL (extract, load, transfer)—delivering the power of graph analytics to users of all skill levels.
Posted May 07, 2025
Dremio, the intelligent lakehouse platform, today announced the launch of the Dremio MCP Server, a solution that brings AI-native data discovery and query capabilities to the lakehouse and enables AI agents to dynamically explore datasets, generate queries, and retrieve governed data in real time.
Posted May 07, 2025
DBTA's latest webinar, Enabling Self-Service for Data Democratization, gathered experts to explore the technologies and best practices shaping how enterprises achieve true data democratization amid its steep requirements.
Posted May 07, 2025
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence, is acquiring the Qloud Cover Migration technology from Stretch Qonnect, a long-standing Qlik Elite Solution Provider—rebranding the automated solution as the Qlik Analytics Migration Tool.
Posted May 07, 2025
GT Clocks, a leading provider of timeclocks and an Oracle partner, announced that GT Time is now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and integrates with Oracle Time and Labor, part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM).
Posted May 07, 2025
Migrating your Oracle database to AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) can be daunting, but with the right planning and execution, it can significantly improve performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Posted May 07, 2025
Oracle announced it has added new trade management capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to help organizations manage the complexities of import tariffs and trade agreements. Available now, the latest updates to Oracle Fusion Cloud Global Trade Management enable customers to automate global supply chains processes, increase order shipment visibility, and enhance supply chain decision-making.
Posted May 07, 2025
Oracle announced it has optimized its first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centers. Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed and ready for customer use on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop and run next-generation reasoning models and AI agents.
Posted May 07, 2025
Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with trying to save space. Instead, the desire is to prevent maintenance anomalies. The normalization process involves stepping through the evaluation of normal forms that decompose a data structure into multiple structures based on the needs of these normal forms.
Posted May 07, 2025
AppSignal, the provider of actionable insights into developers' applications, is announcing the close of its Series A funding round led by Elsewhere Partners—having raised $22 million. The funds will be directed toward accelerating AppSignal's global expansion, driving its delivery of streamlined, easily scalable application performance monitoring (APM) solutions for mid-market organizations.
Posted May 06, 2025
Salt Security, a leader in API security, is releasing the Salt Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to offer enterprise teams a novel access point of interaction with their API infrastructure, leveraging natural language and artificial intelligence (AI). Built on the open MCP standard, Salt's MCP Server enables AI agents to discover, understand, and analyze API behavior with contextual awareness and enterprise-grade precision.
Posted May 06, 2025
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Neuro-Symbolic AI Solutions, is introducing AllegroGraph v8.4, offering an enhanced AI-powered natural language query interface.
Posted May 06, 2025
Graylog, the no-nonsense platform for Security, API protection, and IT Operations, is launching its Spring 2025 release of Graylog Security—pushing further past the limits of traditional SIEM.
Posted May 05, 2025
Blackpoint Cyber, a fast and effective Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, is introducing CompassOne, a Unified Security Posture and Response platform designed to help organizations take command of their entire cybersecurity posture—from visibility and prevention to response and recovery.
Posted May 05, 2025
Aashoo Saxena, vice president of product management, Informatica, joined DBTA's webinar, Modernize or Miss Out: Why Cloud Modernization is Key to Unlock AI Value, offering guidance in how adopting cloud-first strategies boosts innovation and ROI—both enabling and benefiting from AI initiatives.
Posted May 05, 2025
Box, Inc., a leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, and IBM are partnering to help organizations accelerate the adoption of enterprise-level AI for content-driven workflows using IBM watsonx and Box AI.
Posted May 05, 2025
IBM is creating a new Microsoft Practice within IBM Consulting, building upon a multi-year partnership aimed at delivering stronger and more measurable business outcomes for clients who are navigating complex AI, cloud, and security transformations.
Posted May 05, 2025
IBM announced plans to invest $150 billion in America over the next five years to fuel the economy and to accelerate its role as the global leader in computing. This includes an investment of more than $30 billion in research and development to advance and continue IBM's American manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers.
Posted May 05, 2025
Denodo, a leader in data management, is releasing Denodo Platform 9.2, offering new intuitive functionality to Denodo Platform 9.1, released in November, 2024, that builds on the Denodo Platform's semantic layer and logical data management capabilities.
Posted May 02, 2025
StarTree, the cloud-based real-time analytics company, is unveiling its newfound support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) and vector embedding model hosting, driving its ability to power real-time retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and conversational querying at incredible speed.
Posted May 02, 2025
Forcepoint, the global data security leader, is unveiling its comprehensive, AI-powered data security platform, Forcepoint Data Security Cloud. Designed to centralize visibility and control of data everywhere it's created, stored, or moved, Forcepoint Data Security Cloud consolidates a variety of solutions to deliver complete data understanding and protection.
Posted May 02, 2025
Socket, a leader in software supply chain security, is acquiring Coana, a top-tier static analysis and reachability engine built by leading security researchers from Aarhus University—boosting Socket's platform and positioning Socket as a leader in modern Software Composition Analysis (SCA).
Posted May 01, 2025
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is releasing Kyndryl Consult Data Security Posture Management utilizing Microsoft Purview, enhancing data protection, privacy, and risk mitigation capabilities to help organizations ensure that their data is secure, discoverable, and appropriately classified across complex, hybrid environments.
Posted May 01, 2025
Featuring the expertise of OpenText thought leaders, DBTA's webinar, The Future of Data, Analytics and AI Services in the Financial Services Industry, offered a wide array of considerations and strategies for adapting to the next evolution of financial services, aiming to turn technology and knowledge into a competitive advantage.
Posted April 30, 2025
Fiveonefour, a leader in data engineering solutions, is introducing Aurora, a suite of AI agents that automate engineering workflows that enable teams to rapidly productize and operationalize proprietary data. According to the company, Aurora is addressing the industry challenge of developing data-intensive applications swiftly and cost-effectively without having to scale talent linearly.
Posted April 30, 2025