Data Modeling Articles
As organizations scale their AI and analytics efforts, a data architecture that is "up to snuff" is even more critical to business success. Data teams are being asked to deliver faster insights, stronger governance, and AI-ready data, all while keeping costs and complexity in check.
Posted February 23, 2026
Qdrant is releasing platform version 1.17.0—updating search latency, introducing relevance feedback query, and deploying greater operational observability. This release introduces a new Relevance Feedback Query as a scalable, vector-native approach to incorporating relevance feedback.
Posted February 23, 2026
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, announced that Cortex Code CLI, Snowflake's AI coding agent for local development environments, is expanding beyond Snowflake-native workflows to support any data source across systems, starting with dbt and Apache Airflow (now generally available).
Posted February 23, 2026
BMC, a global leader in software solutions, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help companies orchestrate application workflows and data pipelines at scale.
Posted February 23, 2026
IBM is unveiling the next generation of IBM FlashSystem, co-run by agentic AI, ushering in a new era of autonomous storage. By enhancing FlashSystem's existing AI capabilities with agentic AI, IBM is redefining resilience through sustained protection, autonomous threat analysis, and customized recovery recommendations, the company said.
Posted February 23, 2026
Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, is expanding Cloudera AI Inference and Cloudera Data Warehouse with Trino to on-premises environments, enabling customers to harness advanced AI and analytics directly from within their data centers.
Posted February 23, 2026
As agentic AI continues to expand across the IT landscape, many processes are being automated. However, some processes are still better managed by humans than by machines. Rather than thinking of applying AI wherever possible and over-automating, leaders should think about the most beneficial uses of the technology and begin implementation of the technology in those areas first before expanding further.
Posted February 23, 2026
Selector, a leader in AI-driven observability and network intelligence, announced it has secured $32 million in a recent funding round, enabling the company to accelerate AI innovation, product development, global go-to-market expansion, and customer success.
Posted February 20, 2026
Liquibase, a leader in Database Change Governance, announced the release of Liquibase Secure 5.1, extending modeled Change Control to Snowflake—enabling enterprises to govern Snowflake control plane changes with the same rigor and automation they already apply to schema evolution, closing a critical gap in data platform security, compliance, and AI readiness.
Posted February 20, 2026
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, announced that Solace, the real-time data and agentic AI company, has joined Kong's Premium Technology Partner Program.
Posted February 19, 2026
Oracle announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to consolidate and migrate select on-premises workloads to the cloud. OCI will support CMS' modernization efforts by providing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for the agency's mission-critical systems.
Posted February 18, 2026
Cisco is introducing a variety of enhancements to its security portfolio to help enterprises adopt agentic AI with confidence—combining agent protection, interaction governance, and resilient connectivity for AI-driven workflows.
Posted February 17, 2026
Black Duck, a leader in AI-powered application security, is offering a powerful set of enhanced Black Duck Polaris Platform integrations across all major source code management (SCM) platforms—including GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket.
Posted February 17, 2026
The role of the database administrator (DBA) has never been static. From the early days of punch cards and mainframes to today's cloud-native, AI-assisted environments, DBAs have always had to evolve. But as we step into 2026, the definition of a "great DBA" is shifting in ways that go beyond technical prowess.
Posted February 12, 2026
For decades, every major technological breakthrough has sparked fear about job loss. From steam engines to computers, new tools were once seen as threats to human work. But each wave of innovation brought transformation, not extinction. Work did not disappear—it evolved. Today, AI and digital technologies are raising similar concerns. Headlines often focus on what machines can replace, rather than what they enable.
Posted February 12, 2026
BlueFinity's Evoke platform is helping seasoned MultiValue and Microsoft Developers, as well as new Pick Programmers and citizen developers, create new business apps and modernize legacy applications in a fraction of the time and cost of long-hand coding.
Posted February 12, 2026
In 2026, data engineering isn't just about managing data—it's about building intelligent systems that power business strategy. Companies are moving beyond batch warehouses to real-time, cloud-native ecosystems that deliver insights instantly.
Posted February 11, 2026
Datadog, Inc., the AI-powered observability and security platform for cloud applications, is introducing Feature Flags—unifying feature management with observability to help engineering teams release new functionalities fast without compromising reliability. The product is now generally available and integrates natively across Datadog APM and RUM.
Posted February 10, 2026
Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is launching StreetPro Discover, a new dataset designed to help organizations unlock the value of street data for conversational AI systems.
Posted February 10, 2026
IBM announced it is being selected to support the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, with a ceiling of $151 billion, encompasses a broad range of work areas that allow for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility.
Posted February 09, 2026
IBM announced it's soliciting a global request for proposals (RFP) for the next cohort of the IBM Impact Accelerator focused on AI for transformative education and workforce development. The program invites nonprofits or government organizations, including academic institutions, to collaborate with IBM on developing solutions that help people learn more effectively, navigate career transitions, and access the jobs needed to build economic resilience.
Posted February 09, 2026
SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability, and IT management software, is revitalizing its partner program—introducing new benefits, enablement, and demand generation investments designed to help partners scale, compete more effectively, and deliver stronger customer outcomes. The announcement was made at SolarWinds' 2026 Partner Summit.
Posted February 06, 2026
Submissions for nominations are now open 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 users. The nominations period is open through March 6, 2026, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 06, 2026
NV5, a leading provider of geospatial software and services, is releasing GeoAgent, an agentic AI platform that automatically discovers and analyzes data and produces geospatial intelligence using natural language interaction.
Posted February 04, 2026
Oracle Financial Services is transforming banking with an enterprise-class suite of AI-infused applications, design tools, frameworks and pre-built AI agents. According to Oracle, with these advancements, banks can benefit from intelligent, conversational interfaces, and autonomous AI agents.
Posted February 04, 2026
Databricks announced the Databricks Lakebase is now generally available on AWS—introducing a new class of operational database that treats infrastructure as a flexible, on-demand service.
Posted February 03, 2026
Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, announced it is entering into a definitive agreement to acquire the Vertica analytics database from OpenText.
Posted February 02, 2026
Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity leader, announced it has completed its acquisition of Chronosphere with the goal of addressing a core challenge of the AI era: the inability to see and secure the massive data volumes running modern businesses.
Posted February 02, 2026
Platform Engineering Labs is updating formae, its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, adding beta support for four additional cloud providers and evolving formae into a platform designed to be extended directly by infrastructure builders.
Posted January 29, 2026
Whether you're an enterprise architect, a DBA, or an application developer, a recent DBTA webinar offered a clear path to reducing complexity and accelerating innovation with MariaDB Cloud.
Posted January 29, 2026
As Snowflake footprints expand, organizations are under growing pressure to prove value, control spend, and deliver consistent performance. But FinOps dashboards often miss the real problem: not just compute, but waste.
Posted January 29, 2026
SAP is introducing the demo data personalization add-on for SAP Demo Environment 2.0, a way to adapt and personalize demos in minutes while keeping backend systems untouched and preserving confidence across presales, sales, and IT stakeholders.
Posted January 28, 2026
SAP and Syngenta, a global leader in agricultural innovation, announced a multi-year strategic technology partnership to accelerate AI-assisted innovation across Syngenta's global operations. According to the companies, the partnership will embed artificial intelligence at the core of Syngenta's enterprise, modernizing operations and enabling accelerated innovation through advanced data analytics across the business—from manufacturing and supply chain to grower-facing products and services.
Posted January 28, 2026
Words such as "taxonomy" and "ontology" are often thrown around by data architects as if these terms were interchangeable. Generically, the ideas of taxonomy and ontology are similar, but not synonymous.
Posted January 28, 2026
Panaya, a leading enterprise testing and impact analysis platform, is introducing Seemore, its AI agentic layer designed to guide, analyze, fix, and test through every stage of ERP and CRM change.
Posted January 28, 2026
For insurance agencies, the line between operational success and legal risk often hinges on one critical factor: data security. Entrinsik Informer builds row-level security directly into its reporting and dashboard experience, so agencies don't need complex IT interventions or coding to stay secure.
Posted January 28, 2026
Are your developers wasting up to 40% of their time waiting for test data? This hidden bottleneck slows releases, kills innovation, and jacks up costs.
Posted January 26, 2026
Devart, a leading developer of database management software, is offering dbForge 2025.3, the latest update to its unified ecosystem of professional database tools—delivering expanded connectivity, full support for SSMS 22, Visual Studio 2026, MySQL 9.5, MariaDB 12.2, and Oracle Database 26i, along with UI/UX enhancements, broader SQL syntax coverage, and the introduction of dbForge AI Assistant within SQL Complete.
Posted January 26, 2026
AI represents a fundamental shift in how data is leveraged for competitive advantage. Yet, many enterprises are struggling with fragmented systems, siloed data, inconsistent governance and aging infrastructure. To unlock AI's potential, organizations must reimagine how data is captured, connected and consumed across the business. That means building a foundation where data is clean, contextual and continuously available for machine learning, analytics, and automation.
Posted January 23, 2026
Userful, a leading software-defined platform for enterprise-wide operational awareness and response, is unifying observability, security, visualization, and critical event management into a single operational command layer.
Posted January 23, 2026
Sumo Logic, a leading Intelligent Operations Platform, is introducing its new Snowflake Logs App and Databricks Audit App, giving customers robust visibility into their data pipelines, dependable security analytics, and faster troubleshooting across two of the industry's leading cloud data platforms.
Posted January 22, 2026
Kiteworks, empowering organizations to effectively manage risk in the use of private data, is debuting its Channel First Training and Certification Program—a comprehensive initiative designed to equip distributors, resellers, managed service providers (MSPs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), Global System Integrators, and other channel partners with the expertise needed to deliver services supporting market opportunities around private data exchange.
Posted January 22, 2026
Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, announced it is joining the Linux Foundation's newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member. The move aims to reinforce its commitment to enabling scalable, secure, and governed data connectivity for next-generation agentic AI systems, the company said.
Posted January 21, 2026
Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) announced it will replace its legacy health record systems with Oracle Health solutions to support innovation, optimize growth, and increase operational efficiency.
Posted January 21, 2026