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KDDI Corporation, one of Japan's top three telecommunications carriers and the operator of the "au" mobile phone service, announced it has chosen Oracle Database to modernize its online payment brand, au PAY, and customer loyalty program, au Ponta Points Program. By working with Oracle, au Pay payment processing is now five times faster than before, while au Ponta Points Program's processing performance has improved by 200%, according to the company. In addition, Oracle helps KDDI meet changing customer needs by enabling it to develop new services and applications 30% faster.
Posted March 01, 2023
Observability by definition is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. In other words, a system's behavior is determined from its outputs—information obtained by certain measures. Though observability as a term has been used for many years, the modern understanding originates in software observability, which is the ability to collect data about program execution, internal states of modules, and communication between components.
Posted March 01, 2023
IBM announced that it is committed to continuing to strategically invest in three operating environments on IBM Power: AIX, IBM i, and Linux. For example, IBM just rolled out the availability of Hyper Protect Crypto Services for AIX and Linux on Power Virtual Server.
Posted February 27, 2023
A recent report by IBM found that workers are having difficulties pursuing roles related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) across different industries. At the same time, online training and digital credentials are emerging as a recognized pathway to opportunity as respondents plan to seek new jobs in the year ahead.
Posted February 27, 2023
StarlingX—an open source edge computing and IoT cloud platform optimized for low-latency and high-performance applications—is releasing version 8.0 of its platform, combining Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and more to create a full-featured cloud software stack.
Posted February 24, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is releasing Baffle Multi-Tenant Data Security, making SaaS applications and their underlying databases even easier to protect with record-level encryption. According to the company, this solution ensures that any SaaS provider meets the most stringent privacy regulations and gives their customers complete protection and control of their data. As a result, the SaaS vendor gains a competitive advantage and the ability to monetize enhanced data security.
Posted February 23, 2023
While the emerging constellation of next-generation data architectures—fabric, mesh, and cloud—is extremely appealing, it's still full of unknowns. These approaches present opportunities for greater data democratization, but also increased complexity. Understanding the distinctions between data fabric and mesh are also important before moving to this architecture.
Posted February 23, 2023
SAP is releasing the SAP Signavio Process Explorer solution, offering the organization and centralization of collective knowledge from thousands of transformation projects delivered by SAP and its partner ecosystem. According to SAP, customers will be able to execute more quickly and with greater confidence by referencing more than 7,000 process models, capability maps for 20 business domains, value accelerators for 13 industries with more to come, and process metrics and product recommendations.
Posted February 22, 2023
Hexaware Technologies is expanding its membership in the SAP PartnerEdge program to include the Sell track, with the goal of selling many SAP products, including RISE with SAP. This expansion is in addition to its existing participation in the Service track. Participation in the Sell track will help Hexaware accelerate the sales cycle and deliver more comprehensive SAP portfolio solutions, in a flexible model that will help transform business outcomes, according to the vendor.
Posted February 22, 2023
Medius Sverige AB, a provider of AP automation, announced that its Medius Spend Management solution has achieved SAP certification for integration with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The integration helps organizations enjoy an autonomous solution to capture and digitize invoices, automatic invoice coding and approval routing using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, with mobile capability to review and approve invoices and payments on the go.
Posted February 22, 2023
SAP and Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, is expanding their partnership to significantly increase SAP's use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This collaboration aims to enhance intelligent business operations, support cloud transformation across industries, and drive holistic IT innovation, according to the vendors.
Posted February 22, 2023
In 2023, companies will live and die by their data strategies. Massive increases in information generation, the cloud, and innovative technologies will be top of mind for database managers, all while an uncertain economy continually threatens budgets. For companies to build and maintain exciting applications that customers love while increasing the bottom line, they need to plan, adapt, and execute effective strategies for their data and databases.
Posted February 22, 2023
A short treatise on three mistakes organizations commonly make when designing or extending governance programs. Loosely inspired by discussions about (but not written by) ChatGPT. Decision rights—who needs to make what decisions—are the crux of governance. Success is not determined by the seniority of your governance council(s) or how many data stewards you have. Successful governance hinges on understanding how decisions are effectively made and made effective.
Posted February 16, 2023
Oracle is introducing a new Oracle Utilities Network Management System feature to help utilities navigate the fast-evolving energy grid and rapidly expanding distributed energy resources (DERs). New automated grid management and built-in AI will enable utilities to better orchestrate and control DER and grid-edge devices, boost network visibility with real-time insights, and provide a unified user experience across multiple platforms, according to Oracle.
Posted February 15, 2023
Oracle and Uber Technologies, Inc., are forming a seven-year strategic cloud partnership to accelerate Uber's innovation, help deliver new products to market, and drive increased profitability. As Uber continues to grow and enter new markets, it is increasingly important for the business to focus resources on its core strengths and strategic initiatives. By migrating some of the company's most critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Uber will be in a position to modernize its infrastructure while also accelerating its path to profitability, according to the vendors.
Posted February 15, 2023
dbt Labs, a provider of analytics engineering, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Transform, the innovator behind the modern data stack's semantic layer, enabling dbt Labs to accelerate development of the dbt Semantic Layer to provide greater flexibility to organizations of all sizes seeking metric consistency across their stack.
Posted February 14, 2023
IBM and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center announced a collaboration to use IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) technology to discover new insights in NASA's massive trove of Earth and geospatial science data. The joint work will apply AI foundation model technology to NASA's Earth-observing satellite data for the first time.
Posted February 13, 2023
IBM is acquiring StepZen Inc, developer of a GraphQL server with a unique architecture that helps developers build GraphQL APIs quickly and with less code. The acquisition of StepZen's innovative technology for GraphQL API creation complements the innovations IBM is driving in API Connect to enable businesses to build better digital experiences for their clients, according to IBM.
Posted February 13, 2023
Data analytics—and the people who make it happen—has emerged as the centerpiece of enterprises as they advance through the turbulent months ahead. Many of these efforts are gelling around the formation of dedicated C-level leaders, such as chief data officers and chief data analytics officers (CDOs and CDAOs, respectively).
Posted February 09, 2023
Designing a database is not a magic trick—the design process does not involve trap doors, mirrors, or unseen wires holding things up. Sometimes database designers and data architects fail to think ahead as their designs are composed. Rather than checking on each item, the designer believes that whoever provided them the requirement "knew what they were doing."
Posted February 09, 2023
Today, nobody argues about the importance of data. It is a given that data must be collected, managed, and analyzed to conduct business successfully in the modern era. But all too often the meaning of the data is not being preserved. This can result in large stores of data that are difficult to interpret and use in any meaningful manner. Situations that create unusable data can be minimized with appropriate metadata management. But this requires effort and time, and therefore metadata is frequently ignored (much like documentation).
Posted February 09, 2023
Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped carrying a wallet when leaving the house. Almost all shops supported—often insisted on—touchless payments, so there was no need to carry around paper money, and since my phone was fully able to perform touchless payments, my phone became all I needed to navigate the commercial world. I'm sure most of you have had a similar experience.
Posted February 09, 2023
It's time to submit nominations 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.
Posted February 09, 2023
Microsoft is introducing a new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser, available in preview now at Bing.com, to deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience, and the ability to generate content. The company hopes these tools can serve as an AI copilot for the web. The announcement comes on the heels of Google's new AI and the explosion of ChatGPT.
Posted February 08, 2023
Google is launching an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, called Bard. The company is opening Bard up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks. Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses, according to the company.
Posted February 07, 2023
FireCompass announced the company has secured $7 million in funding to revolutionize Red Teaming and Attack Surface Management. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Cervin and Athera Venture Partners (previously Inventus Capital) along with existing investor BIF (Bharat Innovation Fund). The investment will be used to expand FireCompass' operations across U.S. and international markets and bring on new talent.
Posted February 06, 2023
Oracle announced that Oracle Aconex for Defense has become the first construction and engineering project management and collaboration software to earn Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 4 (IL4) provisional authorization. This recognition signifies that the software meets the security requirements for the processing and storage of controlled unclassified information, enabling the Department of Defense (DOD) agencies and their delivery partners to access, share, and collaborate on construction and engineering mission information at a heightened security level.
Posted February 01, 2023
To help organizations increase the efficiency of global supply chains, Oracle is introducing new logistics capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM). The updates to Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) and Oracle Global Trade Management (GTM), part of Oracle Cloud SCM, help customers reduce costs, improve accuracy, automate regulatory compliance, and enhance logistics flexibility.
Posted February 01, 2023
KX, maker of kdb+, and EnterpriseWeb, a provider of telecom virtualization and automation solutions, are partnering to deliver network observability and automation solutions for performance-critical systems. Bringing together highly complementary technologies, KX and EnterpriseWeb offer an incredibly flexible and powerful closed-loop control mechanism that can be deployed on any system or distributed network, according to the vendors.
Posted January 26, 2023
Ensono, an expert technology advisor, innovation partner, and managed service provider, is releasing Ensono Envision Advisor, a multi-platform optimization solution combining data and guidance from certified expert engineers who offer unbiased actionable advice that enables optimization of a client's IT estate across cost, security, performance, availability, and reliability.
Posted January 26, 2023
SymphonyAI, a provider of high-value enterprise AI SaaS for strategic industries, is collaborating with Oracle to offer SymphonyAI solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using key services including Oracle Exadata Database Service, GPU-accelerated compute, and performance monitoring.
Posted January 26, 2023
Satori, a leading data security platform, is adding support for MongoDB, a scalable and flexible NoSQL document database used for high-volume data storage and processing. MongoDB users can now take advantage of Satori's data security platform to reduce risk, improve productivity, and ensure compliance.
Posted January 25, 2023
Forward Networks announced that it has secured $50 million in Series D funding, enabling the company to continue investing in its digital twin network modeling software that delivers security, reliability, and agility to large enterprise networks. The funding round, led by MSD Partners, L.P., includes new investors Section 32 and Omega Venture Partners as well as existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs), Threshold Ventures, A. Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. Additionally, Victor Hwang, managing director and co-head of MSD Growth, joins the Forward Networks board of directors.
Posted January 25, 2023
Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., is partnering with Model9, a leader in cloud data management for mainframe, to offer greater access, visibility, and value from critical data for enterprises with mainframes as their core business platform. This partnership is key for enterprises that utilize hybrid cloud environments, according to the vendors.
Posted January 23, 2023
Dremio, provider of an open data lakehouse platform, announced it is HIPAA compliant, reflecting the company's commitment to data security. Dremio also announced that it has renewed its SOC 2 Type II report, which now includes both Dremio Cloud and Dremio Software. Dremio meets the Information Security control requirements for a multitude of other compliance frameworks and certifications including ISO 270001 and GDPR.
Posted January 19, 2023
NS1, a provider of authoritative DNS solutions, is releasing DNS Insights, a DNS observability solution that unlocks improved reliability, real-time analysis, and cost control by collecting DNS and network metrics at the edge to empower networking professionals as they troubleshoot and optimize infrastructure at scale.
Posted January 18, 2023
Oracle is extending its comprehensive retail cloud platform to include the Oracle Retail Payments Cloud Service. With the solution, U.S. retailers can now accept the latest in contactless payment options, including debit/credit cards and Apple, Google, and Samsung Pay, without the hidden fees and unpredictable costs that erode the bottom line.
Posted January 18, 2023
Alation Inc., a provider of enterprise data intelligence solutions, is launching the Partner Program for Open Connector Framework to deliver connectivity to new data sources, aiming to build an ecosystem of partners to expand connectivity options using the Alation Open Connector Framework, an SDK to simplify the development of Alation connectors.
Posted January 16, 2023
DataStax, the real-time AI company, is acquiring Kaskada, a machine learning (ML) company that can train behavioral ML models and deliver the instant, actionable insights that fuel artificial intelligence (AI). According to the vendors, the addition of Kaskada to DataStax's portfolio of cloud services—which today includes the massively scalable Astra DB database-as-a-service built on Apache Cassandra and event streaming with Astra Streaming—will give organizations a single environment to easily and cost-effectively deliver applications infused with real-time AI, using an advanced ML/AI model proven by industry leaders such as Netflix and Uber.
Posted January 12, 2023
MongoDB is often found within a complete application stack that combines multiple technologies to deliver functionality to users both within and outside of the organization. Very often, organizations want to create automated workflows that propagate information automatically between disparate technologies.
Posted January 12, 2023