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September 2026
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Trends and Applications
Organizations have invested millions in analytics and modern BI platforms that promise faster, smarter decisions. Yet for many organizations, the insights are incomplete pictures of their business because mainframe and legacy systems grounded in decades worth of valuable data are difficult for modern analytics tools to reach.
From AI assistants and customer-facing analytics to operational intelligence platforms and real-time decisioning systems, modern data applications are creating new opportunities to drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.
Most companies have dashboards: bar charts, pie charts, and heatmaps arranged across a screen like a flight cockpit. Yet no one knows what to do when they land. Dashboards are passive. They tell you what's happening, but they don't guide you on what to do next. That gap between observation and action is where millions of dollars in revenue quietly disappears.
Enterprise companies persist in making significant investments in data warehouses, cloud solutions, and business intelligence tools, but numerous executives still doubt the figures generated by those systems. A well-structured Data Trust Framework fills a void that conventional data validation approaches miss: It makes the distinction between a pipeline that operates effectively and a report that executives genuinely trust.
High availability and disaster recovery are critical for cloud databases, but not all HA architectures deliver the same level of resilience when failures occur. DBTA recently held a webinar, Beyond Hyperscaler HA: Building Resilient Cloud Databases, with MariaDB experts who looked at the limitations of traditional hyperscaler DBaaS HA approaches and explained how modern database architectures can minimize disruption and maintain application availability.
Columns - DBA Corner
Over the years, I've had hundreds of conversations that started something like this: "Our data is pretty good." Sometimes the statement is made with confidence. Sometimes it's accompanied by a shrug. Occasionally it's followed by, "Sure, we have a few duplicate records, some missing values, and a little inconsistency here and there, but nothing serious."
MV Community
Entrinsik is launching Informer Apps and Informer GO, giving organizations new ways to rapidly build business applications within a governed environment. According to Entrinsik, Informer can honor existing data governance, security, and access controls or provide the foundation organizations need to establish them, helping ensure AI-powered solutions are built on trusted data from the start.
Rocket Software is announcing the availability of AccuTerm 8.1.3, introducing support for custom environment variables in the IO Server, providing greater flexibility for customer deployments. In addition to these updates, the Web Client has been further aligned with the Desktop version through support for the VBA Command() function.