Data Integration Articles
Zendesk, Inc. is launching Sunshine, an open and flexible customer relationship management (CRM) platform built completely in the public cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Zendesk Sunshine enables businesses to connect and understand all their customer data, wherever it lives, and gives their developers the ability to build and deploy customer apps and services faster.
Posted December 03, 2018
Syncsort, a provider of enterprise software, is acquiring EView Technology, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based provider of software for integrating mainframe and IBM i data into leading enterprise IT management platforms, including ServiceNow.
Posted December 03, 2018
Syncsort, a provider of Big Iron to Big Data software, is acquiring EView Technology, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based provider of software for integrating mainframe and IBM i data into leading enterprise IT management platforms, including ServiceNow. The acquired products and expertise build on Syncsort's leadership in the growing Big Iron to Big Data market, expanding the number of next-generation platforms Ironstream delivers critical mainframe and IBM i data to for advanced analytics.
Posted November 29, 2018
Qubole, the data activation company, is unveiling a solution that runs on Amazon SageMaker, allowing data scientists to harness the power of machine learning. The solution uses Qubole Notebooks and Apache Spark to explore, cleanse, and prepare data, while leveraging the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build, train, and deploy ML models at any scale.
Posted November 29, 2018
C3 is releasing version 7.8 of its platform, delivering improvements for developers, data scientists, and end users. The update introduces a new C3 Integrated Development Studio, (C3 IDS), enhanced security, improved performance and scalability, new model management capabilities, updated machine learning pipelines, local Docker development environments, and other features across the suite of SaaS C3 Applications. In addition, new virtual data lake support enables organizations to use the C3 Platform to connect to multiple, existing local data stores (e.g., Oracle Database, SAP HANA, SQL Server, AWS S3, Azure Blob, Apache HDFS, Apache Hbase, Postgres, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB, and MongoDB) while providing developers and data scientists a virtual unified data access layer.
Posted November 29, 2018
Datical, a provider of database release automation solutions, is introducing a new feature that will allow Liquibase users access to Datical's platform for automating database releases. The millions of software professionals that use the Liquibase open source project can upgrade to an solution offering efficiency, speed, and risk reductions for all database deployments without having to change their existing process or workflow, according to Datical.
Posted November 28, 2018
SAP is expanding SAP Leonardo's machine learning capabilities based on its upgraded SAP Conversational AI service, enabling companies to build increasingly sophisticated corporate chat bots easily. SAP is also investing in intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) that is intended to help SAP automate repetitive processes across its portfolio. And SAP plans to release smart application design capabilities in the SAP Analytics Cloud solution.
Posted November 28, 2018
SAP is introducing SAP Cloud Platform innovations that will allow customers to connect their demand chain to their supply chain, meet new privacy and security regulations, and provide an exclusive cloud environment for their critical applications.
Posted November 28, 2018
SAP is acquiring Contextor SAS, a provider of robotic process automation (RPA) integrations, to help SAP accelerate the development and expansion of its SAP Leonardo Machine Learning portfolio. Contextor's RPA technology relieves business software users from performing repetitive tasks and enables both attended and unattended RPA within and across applications.
Posted November 28, 2018
SAP is acquiring Qualtrics, a provider of the experience management (XM) software category that helps organizations to thrive in today's experience economy. Together, SAP and Qualtrics aim to accelerate the new XM category by combining experience data and operational data to power the experience economy.
Posted November 28, 2018
As cloud adoption gains traction, one of the obvious questions is whether to simply lift and shift or also modernize an application's data tier. Modernization can mean many things. In the simplest form, modernization may involve upgrading to newer versions or incorporating a new feature set such as consolidation in Oracle using the multitenant option. At the other end of the spectrum, it might involve a complete re-envisioning, involving a move to a cloud-native data storage service.
Posted November 28, 2018
Reltio, provider of modern master data management for customer 360, has introduced its newest release, version 2018.3 of Reltio Cloud that includes that Data Quality Confidence Indicator for business users and enhancements for data connectivity and self-service to improve IT productivity.
Posted November 26, 2018
Attunity, a provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, has launched Attunity for Data Lakes on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a new solution to automate streaming data pipelines on AWS.
Posted November 26, 2018
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is releasing new features for its SaaS-based DevOps portfolio consisting of Pingdom, AppOptics, Papertrail, and Loggly.
Posted November 21, 2018
With new features available in the IBM Cloud Migration Factory, IBM Services is introducing new automation tools to reduce the time of moving and modernizing an organization's infrastructure, data, applications, and workloads. The new services are aimed at helping to accelerate the complex process of migrating and modernizing applications to cloud and adopting a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy.
Posted November 19, 2018
Sigma Computing is launching a better way explore and understand data stored in cloud data warehouses, providing access to Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift and other cloud data warehouses. Despite billions of dollars invested in data analytics tools in recent years, two-thirds of people still use Microsoft Excel to manipulate data. Sigma aims to change that with a better cloud analytics solution.
Posted November 19, 2018
Kyvos Insights, a big data analytics company, is releasing Kyvos Version 5, delivering enterprise-class OLAP with instant response times and unlimited scalability. The update provides businesses with a cloud native way to elastically scale and draw intelligence from exponentially growing data workloads, allowing enterprises to glean critical insights from today's largest data sets while also enabling real-time queries to be run on data as soon as it arrives.
Posted November 16, 2018
Veritas Technologies, provider of enterprise data protection, is unveiling Veritas Predictive Insights, a new solution that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver always-on proactive support. Utilizing years of encrypted event data from thousands of Veritas appliances, Veritas Predictive Insights' cloud-based AI/ML Engine monitors system health, detects potential issues, and creates proactive remediation before problems can occur.
Posted November 16, 2018
BlueData, provider of container-based software, and H2O.ai, an open source leader in AI, will partner to advance AI and machine learning (ML) deployments. The collaboration includes integration of H2O.ai's full suite of products - including open source H2O, H2O Sparkling Water for machine learning with Spark, and the automated H2O Driverless AI - with the container-based BlueData EPIC software platform.
Posted November 14, 2018
Snowflake Computing, a data warehouse built for the cloud, is introducing two new performance features - automatic clustering and materialized views - that will optimize query performance, eliminating the manual work associated with other data warehouse solutions. When combined, these features can deliver an exponential increase in performance, generating even faster and deeper insights from all of an organization's data by all of its business users.
Posted November 14, 2018
FogHorn, a developer of edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial IoT applications, is collaborating with Dell EMC OEM Solutions to deliver end-to-end industrial IoT (IIoT) edge computing solutions.
Posted November 14, 2018
SnapLogic, provider of an integration platform, has announced SnapLogic Data Science, a new self-service solution to accelerate the development and deployment of machine learning with minimal coding.
Posted November 14, 2018
Cloudability, a provider of cloud financial management and operations, is integrating its cloud cost management platform with monitoring and analytics platform provider, Datadog. This integration will help customers achieve cloud excellence by delivering performance efficiency recommendations that are cost optimized, a key requirement of financial cloud management and cloud agility.
Posted November 14, 2018
Arun Murthy—CPO and co-founder of Hortonworks—who will also serve as CPO at Cloudera after the merger is complete—recently shared his thoughts on what's ahead for 2019. According to Murthy, data at the edge, AI, IoT, open source, and cloud will all factor in strongly in organizations' plans for analytics and governance.
Posted November 12, 2018
ScyllaDB, the real-time big data database company, is releasing Scylla Open Source 3.0, introducing new production-ready capabilities. The company also previewed Scylla support for concurrent OLTP and OLAP, an industry first that enables simultaneous transactional and analytical processing.
Posted November 09, 2018
MarkLogic Corporation, a NoSQL database provider, will offer a complete cloud services portfolio, running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The portfolio will give enterprise customers fast, flexible and cost-effective access to operational data hubs and dynamic query services that are essential for breaking down data silos and putting corporate data to work, according to MarkLogic.
Posted November 09, 2018
MapR Technologies has announced a new product release and a free assessment service that provides a comprehensive understanding of a customer's current data environment and the best practices to achieve a clear path to support AI, cloud, containers, and IoT deployments. Additionally, the company has introduced its "Clarity Program."
Posted November 08, 2018
Dell Boomi, a provider of cloud integration and workflow automation software, is updating its integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with new features that will connect and work with a variety of use cases.
Posted November 08, 2018
Oracle is acquiring DataFox, whose cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data engine and derived business content provide company-level information and insightful data to optimize business decisions. The combination of Oracle and DataFox is expected to enhance Oracle Cloud Applications with an AI-derived company-level data and signals, enabling customers to reach better decisions and business outcomes.
Posted November 07, 2018
Data security was top of mind for Oracle CTO Larry Ellison when he took the stage to announce Cloud Computing - Generation 2 in his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2018.
Posted November 07, 2018
IBM is buying Red Hat, a provider of open source cloud software, in a $34-billion acquisition. The result of the acquisition is IBM taking a greater role in the fast-growing hybrid cloud market. The agreement is subject to Red Hat shareholder and regulatory approval, and is expected to close in the latter half of 2019.
Posted November 05, 2018
Morpheus Data is rolling out enhancements to its next-gen multi-cloud management platform (CMP) in support of hybrid IT projects. The Morpheus next-generation CMP bridges this gap by simplifying hybrid IT management across clouds, assuring compliance, and providing developers resources on demand.
Posted November 05, 2018
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is introducing a new view into cloud environments to help DevOps professionals gain unmatched visibility across the internal aspects of cloud environments. The enhanced functionality within SolarWinds' products Pingdom, AppOptics, Papertrail, and Loggly can be used individually to provide visibility into cloud-based infrastructure and application performance or used together as a DevOps toolkit to maintain 360-degree visibility into cloud monitoring.
Posted November 05, 2018
Quest Software is launching the new Spotlight Cloud, offering users features such as 24/7 performance monitoring, instant diagnostics, and powerful tuning to ensure consistent performance and high availability across Microsoft SQL Server database environments.
Posted November 01, 2018
While AI and machine learning cannot—yet—turn back time, cognitive technologies can analyze data in ways that were previously unattainable. Manual modeling on past failure patterns executed by "data scientists" is nothing new, but data analysis performed by AI-powered platforms builds cognitive learning which not only can learn from past failure patterns but more importantly learn to detect issues not known or seen before.
Posted November 01, 2018
Before the end of the decade, the number of connected objects is projected to expand greatly. According to several different analysts, the number of connected objects by 2020 could be as low as 26 billion or as high as 50 billion. But even the low end of that range is quite large. Indeed, connectedness is becoming commonplace and accepted across a wide spectrum of services and applications.
Posted November 01, 2018
NetApp, a provider of hybrid cloud solutions, is updating a variety of its products including ONTAP 9.5, MAX Data, StorageGRID SG6060, NetApp Solution Support for FlexPod, and Flash Performance Guarantee. These new data services and solutions further extend the NetApp Data Fabric across edge, core, and cloud, to enable organizations to fully realize the promise of artificial intelligence.
Posted October 29, 2018
Mesosphere, the multi-cloud automation platform company, is releasing Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mesosphere DC/OS 1.12, and the public beta of Mesosphere Jupyter Service (MJS). Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine is the only software platform that delivers pure Kubernetes-as-a-Service on multi-cloud and edge with high-density resource pooling, yet without the need for virtualization.
Posted October 29, 2018
Infogix, a provider of data management tools, has acquired DATUM, a provider of data governance software and strategic services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Posted October 25, 2018
Tableau Software is releasing new product integrations with industry leading technology providers, from mapping to data cataloging, that extend Tableau's powerful analytics capabilities to better fit customers' needs. Tableau's partner program expansion plans feature new certification and training programs to help increase the number of skilled partner employees, in order to ensure customer success with Tableau.
Posted October 24, 2018
Delphix, a provider of DataOps solutions, is extending its partnership with Datical, a provider of database release automation platforms, to create new DataOps tools.
Posted October 24, 2018
Talend is making major updates to its Talend Data Fabric platform, the company's unified, data platform for data integration across multi-cloud and on- premise environments.
Posted October 24, 2018
SAP is releasing the latest update to SAP Data Hub, helping to build agile, data-driven pipeline applications. SAP Data Hub allows customers to build, execute, orchestrate and govern flow-based pipelines, providing the maximum reuse of existing data developments while encompassing digital innovations.
Posted October 24, 2018
Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a provider of end-to-end integration and low-code application development platforms and IT consulting services, has achieved SAP-certified integration with SAP S/4HANA, enabling Magic's customers to optimize business processes through automation.
Posted October 24, 2018
Lenovo is releasing a hyperconverged system certified by SAP for SAP HANA HCI. The certification uses Nutanix AHV, the first hypervisor certified for production SAP HANA on Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
Posted October 24, 2018
The data lake has become accepted as an important component of a modern data architecture, enabling a wider variety of data to be accessed by users. Yet, challenges persist. Recently, John O'Brien, CEO and principal advisor, Radiant Advisors, talked about the cultural transformation underway as companies increasingly realize the power of data, and the tools and technologies helping them to expand what is possible.
Posted October 24, 2018
At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle launched Oracle Blockchain Applications Cloud, a new suite of use-case-specific SaaS applications to enhance traceability and transparency throughout the supply chain.
Posted October 23, 2018