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May 8, 2025
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Trends and Applications
Sid Probstein, CEO, SWIRL, led the Data Summit session, "Uncovering Data You Know is There But Can't Find," exploring the ways in which LLMs can dramatically improve document retrieval.
Wayne Eckerson, president, Eckerson Group, led the annual Data Summit pre-conference workshop, "Data Democratization: How to Build a Self-Service Strategy That Empowers Business Users and Eliminates Data Bottlenecks," discussing practical, time-tested approaches to data democratization, helping to eliminate data bottlenecks while effectively anticipating business needs.
Nilanjan Chatterjee, senior staff data architect, AMD, led the Data Summit session, "Becoming an Insights-Driven Enterprise," guiding attendees through the ways that data observability can be effectively harnessed to power the highest standards of business data, for AI use cases and beyond.
Columns - Database Elaborations
In the realm of data modeling, many-to-many relationships are often considered an "odd duck." Unlike one-to-one or one-to-many relationships, which can be directly implemented in physical database schemas, many-to-many relationships must remain in the abstract, the conceptual, the supernatural, and never the physical. This insubstantial nature makes them troublesome for greener data modelers.
Columns - DBA Corner
Data governance is transforming the world of business and IT as organizations increasingly acknowledge and embrace the importance of data in the modern world. And this transformation significantly impacts database administration. From regulatory compliance to data quality and security, DBAs must navigate an evolving landscape where effective data management is a key business priority. The rise of data governance introduces new responsibilities but also presents unique challenges that DBAs must address.
MV Community
Recognizing both the value and the limitations of Pick, BinaryStar Systems announced the development of MYRA, an AI-powered solution built to preserve what works and modernize what doesn't. According to the company, MYRA intelligently analyzes legacy Pick applications, extracts core business logic, and reconstructs them as modern, maintainable systems utilizing Node.js, Python, and MongoDB.
Entrinsik, a leader in business intelligence and data analytics solutions, announced that the California Lutheran University (CLU) is using Entrinsik Informer AI as the base of its cutting-edge AI assistant aimed at redefining how institutions support students and faculty.
Rocket Software announced it has moved its UniData-based app, Rocket Business Connect (RBC) to AWS. To further improve RBC's disaster recovery plan, the Rocket team decided to transition RBC to AWS. Being in the AWS cloud gives Rocket the ability to automatically fail over within a region. The company can also manually failover across regions with only minor configuration changes.