Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
May 28, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: May 28, 2025. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Ataccama, the data trust company, is releasing Ataccama ONE data trust platform v16.1, introducing powerful data lineage and connectivity capabilities, including enhanced diagram export for audit and compliance use cases and improved lineage visualization tools. Additionally, the platform update also expands pushdown processing for cloud platforms, such as Azure Synapse and Google BigQuery.
DataStax announced its acquisition by IBM is officially closed, allowing the companies to "scale to new heights" and accelerate production AI and NoSQL data at scale. With Astra DB, Hyper-Converged Database, and now watsonx.data, DataStax will provide seamless access to both unstructured and structured data for production AI, according to the company
Salesforce, the world's leading AI CRM, is acquiring Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, for approximately $8 billion in equity value, net of Salesforce's current investment in Informatica. According to the companies, the planned acquisition will enhance Salesforce's trusted data foundation critical for deploying powerful and responsible agentic AI.