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Data Modeling

Data Modeling and Database Design and Development – including popular approaches such as Agile and Waterfall design - provide the basis for the Visualization, and Management of, Business Data in support of initiatives such a Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Security, and other enterprise-wide data-driven objectives.



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Bharath Vasudevan, VP of product, Quest Software, led the Data Summit session, "Getting Your Data AI-Ready," to explore the ways in which organizations can build resilient data strategies that improve data quality, visibility, and trust while reducing development time, enhancing decision making, and fostering collaboration.

Posted May 14, 2025

Parul Gupta, software engineer, led the Data Summit session, "Realizing the Promise of Machine Learning," taking a look at the nuances of AI fairness and bias, and how constraints will play a major role in developing ethical AI systems. 

Posted May 14, 2025

At Data Summit's opening keynotes, John Lewis, CKO, Explanation Age LLC, Shiva Pullepu, vice president, AI and industry solutions, CrateDB, and Sami Akbay, VP, product management, insightsoftware, each examined the many new paradigms shaping the world of data, from data storytelling to real-time data unification and the way generative AI (GenAI) is transforming business intelligence (BI). 

Posted May 14, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Couchbase and Arize AI are partnering to bring robust monitoring, evaluation, and optimization capabilities to AI-driven applications—delivering a powerful solution for building and monitoring Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent applications at scale.

Posted April 28, 2025

In Achieving Trusted Data: Data Quality, Data Governance and MDM Trends, one of DBTA's latest webinars, data management experts examined the current best practices and key solutions for modernizing data management, as well as potential opportunities and present challenges—both amplified by advanced analytics and AI.

Posted April 28, 2025

Datatonic, a leading cloud data and AI solutions provider, is acquiring Syntio, a specialist in data engineering, to bolster Datatonic's enterprise service offerings and global delivery capabilities with deep data engineering skills including data ingestion, data transformation, and business intelligence.

Posted April 28, 2025

Experts in agentic AI joined DBTA's webinar, in partnership with Enterprise AI World, The Rise of Agentic AI: The New Era of Autonomous Intelligence, to discuss major advancements, concerns, and challenges regarding this next AI craze, offering solutions and best practices that will determine agentic AI's success.

Posted April 25, 2025

Aaron Jensen, senior solutions engineer, Perforce Delphix, and Vikram Kulkarni, senior director of solution engineering, Perforce Delphix, joined DBTA's webinar, Speed Up DevOps Velocity: How to Automate Data for Fast, Quality Releases, to offer their expertise on overcoming common data challenges with actionable strategies that cultivate fast, compliant DevOps pipelines.

Posted April 24, 2025

DoiT, a global leader in enterprise-grade FinOps and cloud intelligence, is releasing DoiT CloudFlow, a powerful automation action engine within the DoiT Cloud Intelligence platform that streamlines cloud management by automating actions on FinOps recommendations including rightsizing or migrating workloads, scheduling resources, tagging assets, and more.

Posted April 24, 2025

For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern database technologies and cloud-based solutions, legacy databases remain deeply embedded in mission-critical operations.

Posted April 24, 2025

AnswerRocket, a pioneer in enterprise AI solutions since 2013, has announced its acquisition of Cognitive Spark, a specialized data science firm with a focus on innovating advanced machine learning algorithms and AI solutions for the enterprise.

Posted April 23, 2025

SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers can now gain a powerful competitive edge with full access to SAP Build, helping developers create, extend, and automate business applications faster using AI-powered, code-first, and low-code tools. SAP Build has been designed as the optimal way to extend SAP S/4HANA Cloud and other business applications, according to the company.

Posted April 23, 2025

It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Friday, May 30.

Posted April 18, 2025

Today, the media, with rare exceptions, often shifts its attention between the latest visible "shiny object" in the observable universe and the most dramatic recent tragedy. In doing so, it frequently neglects important stories that genuinely deserve sustained coverage or fails to bring attention to matters of greater significance.

Posted April 17, 2025

The rise of "data mesh" as a buzz phrase in the data management world has generated significant interest, but is it the right approach for your organization? While data mesh has its proponents, many organizations may find it exacerbates the challenges it aims to solve rather than eliminating them.

Posted April 17, 2025

InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database, announced the general availability of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, the latest products developed on its redesigned InfluxDB 3 engine.

Posted April 16, 2025

What does it take to deliver superior data services and capabilities in today's enterprises? With the rise of AI and machine learning (ML)—and their data-heavy workloads—data managers are actively seeking greater scalability and adaptability in their environments.

Posted April 16, 2025

Now that the hype behind AI is receding, tech CEOs face intensifying pressure to deliver innovation while managing rising levels of enterprise risk. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2025.

Posted April 16, 2025

Oracle is releasing Java 24, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform—delivering thousands of improvements to help developers maximize productivity and drive innovation. Java 24 (Oracle JDK 24) offers enhancements to the platform's performance, stability, and security to help organizations accelerate their business growth, Oracle said.

Posted April 16, 2025

NVIDIA announced it is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas.

Posted April 14, 2025

As today's database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database management. When DevOps teams and DBAs combine effective automation with Microsoft SQL Server use, it allows organizations to experience better server monitoring and increase server performance while removing common hurdles to software development.

Posted April 10, 2025

Prophecy is launching Prophecy 4.0, the latest version of its AI-driven data integration platform for pipeline development, deployment, and automation—addressing the needs of analysts in the business, delivering self-service, production-ready data preparation that operates within guardrails defined by central IT.

Posted April 08, 2025

That is why enterprises must investigate the AI-readiness of their data, regardless of their adoption journeys. In DBTA's latest webinar, Is Your Data Ready for GenAI? Why You Must Know!, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst, Radiant Advisors, and Joshua Èrhardt, director, data and AI marketing, Informatica, examined the current state of generative AI (GenAI) as well as how organizations can effectively prepare for its inevitable implementation.

Posted April 07, 2025

Zuken Inc. announced an agreement with IBM to join the IBM Research AI Hardware Center as a commercial member to further support development for next-generation chips.

Posted April 07, 2025

Harper, bringing next-level web performance to a digital-first world, is releasing version 4.5 of its global application delivery platform, including several new features for building, scaling, and running high-performance data-intensive workloads, providing the addition of Binary Large Object (Blob) storage for the efficient handling of unstructured, media-rich data, i.e., images, real-time videos, and rendered HTML.

Posted April 04, 2025

In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, strategic financial planning must be closely interlinked with infrastructure efficiency. As per Gartner's forecast, global IT spending is expected to rise by over 8%, fueled by enterprise adoption of cloud, AI, automation, and cybersecurity technologies. With budget planning cycles on the horizon, organizations must not only assess where to invest—but also how to eliminate inefficiencies. This is where Oracle rightsizing becomes critical.

Posted April 02, 2025

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