Five Minute Briefing - MultiValue
June 24, 2026
A comprehensive monthly publication filled with news and insight serving the MultiValue database community.
News Flashes
Insurance agencies are struggling with their dashboards, but Entrinsik Informer can provide the layer of observability teams need. In a recent blog post by Scott Allen, Entrinsik showcases Informer's ability to surface insights. Dashboards have become central to how insurance agencies track performance. They promise visibility, control, and faster decision-making, and in many ways, they deliver on that promise. However, many agencies are beginning to recognize that most dashboards show data, not direction, Allen writes.
To help bring new resources and innovation to light, each year, Database Trends and Applications magazine showcases the DBTA 100—a list of forward-thinking companies seeking to expand what's possible with data for their customers. As AI ripples through industries, several top MultiValue companies prove their staying power as they continue to land on the list again this year, including Kore Technologies, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software.
For years, MultiValue technology occupied an unusual place in the industry. Companies that depend on it often loved it because it allowed small teams to build highly adaptive business systems with remarkable speed, wrote Jay LaBonte, founder and chairman, MultiValue World Foundation, and president, Paradigm Systems, in a recent post.
Think About It
In many environments, there is a quiet compromise that gets made every day. It rarely shows up in project plans or architecture diagrams. No one formally approves it. But it happens, nonetheless. "Good enough" SQL gets promoted to production.