Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
May 6, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: May 6, 2025. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
AppSignal, the provider of actionable insights into developers' applications, is announcing the close of its Series A funding round led by Elsewhere Partners—having raised $22 million. The funds will be directed toward accelerating AppSignal's global expansion, driving its delivery of streamlined, easily scalable application performance monitoring (APM) solutions for mid-market organizations.
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Neuro-Symbolic AI Solutions, is introducing AllegroGraph v8.4, offering an enhanced AI-powered natural language query interface.
Pulumi, the infrastructure as code (IaC) leader, is announcing Pulumi IDP, an internal developer platform designed to help enterprises accelerate their cloud infrastructure and software delivery at scale.
Salt Security, a leader in API security, is releasing the Salt Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to offer enterprise teams a novel access point of interaction with their API infrastructure, leveraging natural language and artificial intelligence (AI). Built on the open MCP standard, Salt's MCP Server enables AI agents to discover, understand, and analyze API behavior with contextual awareness and enterprise-grade precision.