Oct 25, 2024

By Tim King , Executive Editor at Solutions Review Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of October 25, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items. For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam , a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI. Top Data Management News for the Week Ending October 25, 2024 Airbyte Enhances Databricks Integration Airbyte enables organizations to replicate data from any source into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform in minutes, with post-load transformation capabilities. This integration allows organizations to efficiently manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data efficiently, ensuring timely access to insights necessary for informed decision-making. Alation Launches Season 3 of Data Radicals Podcast The new season, hosted by Satyen Sangani, Alation’s CEO and co-founder, focuses on AI’s transformative power to unlock business value, featuring firsthand accounts and practical insights from leaders and practitioners implementing AI in their organizations. This season will explore how organizations leverage trusted data and AI to drive innovation and realize new business opportunities. Ataccama Unveils New AI Agent for Data Management Utilizing powerful AI-powered tools, it acts as a dedicated data companion to automate a wide range of data quality configurations including bulk DQ rule creation, intelligent DQ rule mapping, and automated DQ evaluation, and answer queries for finding data assets to help business and technical users. Cloudera Partners with Snowflake By leveraging Cloudera to build and manage Iceberg tables, Snowflake customers can make a single, consistent, and accurate view of their data available for their BI users without moving or copying data to other systems. They can take advantage of Cloudera’s true hybrid architecture and even provide easy access to on-premises data sources by leveraging Apache Ozone. Datorios Unveils New Apache Flink Observability Tools Apache Flink is a critically important part of the real-time agentic AI infrastructure. It is used to combine and shape data from across the enterprise, giving AI agents the data and understanding they need to take action. With businesses becoming increasingly dependent upon AI systems, it is essential to be able to observe the inner workings of Flink programs in order to understand what decisions agentic AI systems take. Data Quality Co-op Nabs $1.25 Million to Launch New Platform Inspired after trailblazing companies that improved large markets through increased transparency like Verisk Analytics for insurance and Integral Ad Science for digital ads, DQC’s platform aggregates data quality signals across multiple sources. By offering industry-wide norms and quality measurement, it allows businesses to compare their data quality with broader standards and take proactive measures against fraud. Denodo Unveils New Agora Cloud Service With Agora, customers can offload infrastructure management and platform operations to Denodo, accelerating access to data for end users while saving organizations time on day-to-day tasks. This enables businesses to attain more of their strategic business goals, so they can stay agile in an ever-changing market. Dremio Secures Elite Partner Status with Snowflake This designation recognizes that Dremio adheres to Snowflake’s performance, reliability, and security standards. It also recognizes Dremio for accelerating the digital transformation efforts of customers who seek to fully leverage the performance, flexibility and near-infinite scalability of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Flatfile Adds AI Tools to Data Exchange Platform The Fall 2024 release includes new AI data transformation and data migration functionality that enables users to process massive data sets 10x faster than before. With the new products, companies are able to manage end-to-end data preparation workflows in the Flatfile Data Exchange platform, while enhancing performance, security and efficiency. Graphwise: Semantic Web Company Merges with Ontotext Semantic Web Company brings expertise in knowledge engineering, semantic AI and intelligent document processing, while Ontotext brings the most versatile graph database engine and state-of-the-art AI models for linking and unifying information at scale. Lingk Launches New Data Agent Product Family Built on top of Lingk’s award-winning Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), the new Data Agents promise to eliminate traditional technical bottlenecks, accelerate integration project delivery, and significantly reduce operational costs. Melissa Launches Restful Service DataGen API Integrated as a single API, DataGen offers address details from 240+ countries and territories. Companies can quickly develop consumer profiles featuring a range of demographic attributes, including residential information such as length of residence, age ranges, new homeownership, or new movers. ServiceNow Drops New Workflow Data Fabric ServiceNow also announced Zero Copy connectors to optimize the company’s integration capabilities so customers can turn data into instant, AI-powered action. Additionally, ServiceNow announced a strategic partnership with leading systems integrator Cognizant as the first partner to bring Workflow Data Fabric to market for customers. Reltio Unveils New Dynamic Segmentation With Reltio’s data unification and management capabilities, organizations can achieve a rich understanding of each customer, including its behavioral data, to deliver more personalized and relevant experiences. Stibo Says: Leaders Rushing AI Adoption The report covers survey insights from 500 U.S. business leaders (director-level and above) across multiple sectors, including retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), manufacturing, banking, insurance and life sciences. The survey found that 32 percent of business leaders admit they have rushed AI adoption, while 58 percent acknowledge a lack of AI ethics training. Additionally, 86 percent express a desire for more training on how to responsibly use AI. Expert Insights Section Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros . The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools. SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Seiner: Flawless Beats Being Lawless in Data Governance (and Politics) In data governance, just like in politics, the approach you take can make or break your reputation, your efficiency, and ultimately your success. Let’s explore why being flawless (the Non-Invasive Data Governance  way) beats being lawless (the command-and-control or traditional approaches) every time. SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Joe Perez: From Atomic Warfare to Data Warfare This story of the Centurion Tank serves as a compelling metaphor for the world of data analytics. Just as the tank weathered the storm of an atomic explosion and emerged stronger, organizations today harness the power of data analytics to navigate through the chaos of information overload and make strategic decisions that can determine their future. Let’s explore four core principles of data analytics that echo the journey of our “Atomic Tank,” revealing not just the mechanics of data but also the profound impact it can have when wielded effectively. SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Is Data Quality the CIO’s AI Dilemma? I’ve seen and read so many articles on data quality over the last year or so, and of course this is down to the introduction of AI specifically LLMs etc., which makes data quality, suddenly the hot topic that everyone is moaning, I mean discussing! I’ve seen a lot of talk on LinkedIn about how many companies have stood up Lakehouses over the years and are now in the pursuit of clean data for AI tools. Free Event on October 29 – Impetus, Copa Airlines, Databricks & Expert Moderator William McKnight on Modernizing Workloads and Unifying Data Governance With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has  partnered with Impetus, Copa Airlines, Databricks, and William McKnight  on why enterprises are migrating their data warehouse workloads to Databricks to leverage its unified, scalable platform that enhances analytics and reduces operational costs and provides superior performance and price-performance to competitors like Snowflake.