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The world of Business Intelligence and Analytics is evolving quickly. Increasingly, the emphasis is on real-time Business Intelligence to enable faster decision making, and on Data Visualization, which enables data patterns to be seen more clearly. Key technologies involved in preparing raw data to be used for Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytics – including ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load), CDC (Change Data Capture), and Data Deduplication – support a wide range of goals within organizations.



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OpenText is releasing the latest version of ValueEdge, an innovative modular, cloud-based DevOps, and value stream management (VSM) platform. According to OpenText, ValueEdge23 includes new capabilities that build on the platform's existing functionality, enabling chief technology officers (CTOs) to accelerate speed-to-value eliminating the typical waiting, wasting, and wondering in the development process. 

Posted March 30, 2023

Google Cloud and MongoDB significantly expanding their joint commitment to powering data-driven transformations with a multi-year extension of their partnership. The partnership expansion includes plans to double the scope of Google Cloud infrastructure that MongoDB needs to support accelerating adoption of Atlas.

Posted March 30, 2023

Ermetic, the cloud infrastructure security company, is offering automated capabilities that enable customers to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations, and risky or excessive privileges in Kubernetes clusters through its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).

Posted March 30, 2023

SnapLogic, a provider of intelligent integration and enterprise automation, is now available in the Google Cloud Marketplace, offering both line-of-business and IT teams with the ability to accelerate and automate the process of moving data in and out of Google Cloud to help surface critical business insights that improve decision-making. Additionally, the company has successfully achieved a Google Cloud Ready - AlloyDB designation.

Posted March 29, 2023

It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Wednesday, May 10.

Posted March 29, 2023

Jitterbit, a global provider for empowering transformation through automation, is acquiring Zudy, a leading no-code/low-code application development platform provider for enterprise organizations. This acquisition expands on Jitterbit's existing capabilities in the no-code/low-code application development space, further demonstrating the company's commitment to providing a best-in-class suite of tools and services for integrating and automating business processes, according to the company.

Posted March 27, 2023

Semarchy, a master data management and data integration leader, is introducing new capabilities to enable organizations to capitalize on their data that include integration with Microsoft Azure, new visibility and control for MDM workflows, and simplified data integration infrastructure deployment through Docker images.

Posted March 27, 2023

T-Systems will now have the ability to provide its customers with cloud access to IBM's quantum systems, including multiple quantum computers powered by the 127-qubit IBM Eagle processor. The Deutsche Telekom IT subsidiary will embark on the path to providing access to this technology, as well as insights on how it can be applicable to its customers' businesses. In addition, T-Systems will offer dedicated quantum know-how and training.

Posted March 27, 2023

Cleveland Clinic and IBM officially unveiled the first deployment of an onsite private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States, dedicated to healthcare research with an aim to help Cleveland Clinic accelerate biomedical discoveries. Quantum computing is a rapidly emerging technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that today's most powerful supercomputers cannot practically solve. The ability to tap into these new computational spaces could help researchers identify new medicines and treatments more quickly, according to IBM.

Posted March 27, 2023

Keepit, a leader in cloud data protection and management, announced that all of its data centers located in the Americas and EMEA are now powered by 100% renewable energy. Keepit operates 10 data centers across the U.S., Canada, Germany, the U.K., and Denmark. The data centers are powered by energy sources that fall under local renewable energy guarantee schemes: GoOs (Guarantees of Origins) in the EU, REGOs (Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin) in the U.K., and RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates) in the U.S. and Canada.

Posted March 27, 2023

LiquidStack, a provider of liquid immersion cooling for data centers, announced it has received an investment from Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator. The investment will help further support the adoption of LiquidStack's solutions and significantly reduce data center carbon footprint, water consumption, e-waste, and environmental impact, while creating additional value for both Trane and LiquidStack customers.

Posted March 27, 2023

Amplitude, Inc. announced it is expanding its suite of product features for Amplitude Experiment to better support data leaders as they improve their organization's experimentation practices. Built upon Amplitude's Digital Analytics Platform and natively integrated with Amplitude Analytics, Amplitude Experiment helps data leaders unite analytics, experimentation, and new program management capabilities to scale their experimentation programs faster and further, according to the vendor.

Posted March 24, 2023

Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is joining NVIDIAs DGX-Ready Software program, simplifying the deployment and management of AI for customers. Dataiku has been selected for the exclusive, invite-only program because of its tested and certified solutions that pair with NVIDIA DGX systems, allowing NVIDIA customers and partners to easily implement advanced analytics and AI.

Posted March 23, 2023

Redis, the real-time data platform, is releasing RedisJSON 2.0, enabling customers to easily modernize existing applications and create entirely new digital experiences requiring real-time access and processing of JSON document files. According to the company, this new version now comes with native indexing, querying, and full-text search capabilities, powered by RediSearch, reducing complexity for developers and all coming at the speed of Redis.

Posted March 23, 2023

Domino Data Lab is announcing updates to its platform that will drive accessibility to open source tools and techniques—including Ray 2.0, MLflow, and Feast's feature store for machine learning (ML)—allowing enterprises to see tangible value from their AI, sooner; the announcement also features the launch of Domino Cloud, the fully-managed MLOps Platform-as-a-Service, and the general availability of Domino's hybrid and multi-cloud Nexus capability.

Posted March 23, 2023

Postman is announcing the general availability of Postman Flows, a low-code tool to enable those without extensive programming experience to create API applications.

Posted March 22, 2023

DuploCloud is announcing the general availability of its on-prem solution that improves Kubernetes implementation for mid-market and enterprise organizations.

Posted March 22, 2023

Oracle is releasing Java 20, the latest version of the programming language and development platform, delivering thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including platform enhancements that will help developers improve productivity and drive innovation and growth across their organizations.

Posted March 22, 2023

Snow Software, a global leader in technology intelligence, is releasing Snow SaaS Management, a new version of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) management solution that supports IT leaders' need to take control of their sprawl, manage surprise SaaS costs, mitigate compliance and security risks, and optimize overall spend.

Posted March 22, 2023

Organizations rely heavily on SAP systems and applications to run crucial business processes; securing these systems against cyber-attacks is vital. While several cybersecurity frameworks exist to manage cyber risks, they use generic wording that is hard to apply to application security and lack specific guidance to cover SAP environments. As a result, organizations must select the right frameworks to enhance their security posture and streamline complex security operations to safeguard critical assets from attacks.

Posted March 22, 2023

Zebra Technologies Corporation, an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, is releasing Zebra Picking Plus, an Application Programming Interface (API) for SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), designed to help organizations run their warehouse operations more efficiently.

Posted March 22, 2023

SAP is offering new key data innovations and partnerships that give customers access to mission-critical data, enabling faster time to insights and better business decision-making. SAP announced the SAP Datasphere solution, the next generation of its data management portfolio, which gives customers easy access to business-ready data across the data landscape.

Posted March 22, 2023

SAP security provider SecurityBridge is adding the Management Dashboard for SAP security to the SecurityBridge Platform, combining all SAP data aspects and presents the information through a customizable, single pane of glass security dashboard view. With the Dashboard, organizations can now benefit from analyzing live monitoring, static configuration validation, patching, interface traffic statistics, and code security information in one place.

Posted March 22, 2023

DataRobot is releasing DataRobot AI Platform 9.0, featuring deeper partner integrations, AI Accelerators, and redesigned service offerings, all centered on helping organizations derive value from their AI investments. The DataRobot AI Platform allows customers to leverage Value-Driven AI, a unique and collaborative approach that improves how organizations run, grow and optimize their business, according to the vendor.

Posted March 22, 2023

Rocket Software will present its roadmap for Q2 2023 during an upcoming livestream highlighting its MultiValue products. The livestream will include updates on Rocket UniVerse, Rocket UniData, Rocket D3, jBASE, OpenQM, AccuTerm, and MultiValue tools including the MultiValue Integration Server (MVIS) and the MV Experiences (MVX) as well as new e-Learning.

Posted March 22, 2023

Evoke from BlueFinity allows MultiValue technologists to create native and web apps that are as modern as any app on a phone, tablet, or desktop. Evoke enables users to integrate MV data and legacy code, meaning faster to market with lower development cost and easier enhancement and modification, according to the vendor. Users can utilize tools such as chatbots, AI, ChatGPT, graphs, signature panels, retail card views, component libraries and much, much more without becoming a specialist in those technologies.

Posted March 22, 2023

Entrinsik is releasing Informer 5.7, adding a new user interface that simplifies Informer with intuitive ways to navigate, design, and utilize the tool from the home screen. Also, Informer 5.7 features an enhanced workflow which has been redesigned to feel natural and provide a consistent experience, increasing the ease and effectiveness of accessing, analyzing, sharing, and automating data.

Posted March 22, 2023

Observability by definition is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. In other words, a system's behavior is determined from its outputs—information obtained by certain measures. Though observability as a term has been used for many years, the modern understanding originates in software observability, which is the ability to collect data about program execution, internal states of modules, and communication between components.

Posted March 22, 2023

KX is expanding its partnership with Microsoft, now offering kdb Insights Enterprise on Microsoft Azure. According to KX, this represents an industry-first Data Timehouse, a new class of data and AI management platform designed for temporal data generated by digital transformation.

Posted March 21, 2023

Splunk, Inc. is unveiling new updates to the company's unified security and observability platform designed to increase the safety and resilience of its customers' digital enterprises. With enhancements to both Splunk Mission Control and Splunk Observability Cloud, organizations will be better equipped to mitigate cybersecurity threats in the midst of their digital transformation efforts.

Posted March 21, 2023

DBTA recently held a webinar, "Six Steps to Data Democratization Using APIs," joined by Todd Wright, senior product marketing manager at Progress, and David Loshin, principal consultant at Knowledge Integrity, to explore how APIs can be leveraged to increase data democratization and continuous accessibility while enabling self-service reporting and maintaining data protection and compliance.

Posted March 21, 2023

To explore how DBAs can effectively address this myriad of challenges, experts joined DBTA's webinar, "The Role of the DBA in 2023: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities," identifying the methods and strategies for overcoming the growing pains of a constantly evolving data environment.

Posted March 20, 2023

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is releasing Orchestration Recipes that will enable organizations to automate the migration from any legacy identity system to any cloud identity provider (IDP) without rewriting any code using the Maverics multi-cloud Identity Orchestration platform. The recipes support moving off outdated IDPs to more secure and flexible cloud identity systems like Okta, Microsoft Azure AD, AWS Cognito, and more.

Posted March 20, 2023

TrueFort, the lateral movement protection company, is launching the TrueFort Trust Partner Program for IT solution providers, systems integrators, consultants, MSPs/MSSPs, and ISVs. The program will deliver custom workload, lateral attack, and microsegmentation security solutions using a channel friendly model that allows partners to capitalize on new market opportunities to generate new recurring revenue streams.  

Posted March 20, 2023

SambaNova Systems is releasing the new SambaNova Suite, a collection of accurate generative AI models optimized for the enterprise, deployed on-premises or in the cloud.

Posted March 17, 2023

LicenseFortress, Inc., an independent software asset management provider, is introducing Database Insight as an add-on to the ArxPlatform, further strengthening its partnership with Application Performance Ltd. The ArxPlatform leverages intelligent, real-time software license compliance monitoring and alerting for Oracle, Microsoft, and VMware. The addition of Database Insight will provide optimization for how database licenses are used, as well as unlocking hosting and cloud platform savings, according to the company.

Posted March 17, 2023

The world is becoming increasingly digital every day and, as a result, even more data-driven. The datasphere is experiencing stunning growth, with 90% of all data being created over just the past two years. This explosive growth is something that will only continue in the future, and it's clear that as companies begin to amass more and more data, they need to take a hard look at their data management practices.

Posted March 16, 2023

Altair, a global provider of computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, is rebranding its entire data analytics and AI suite as Altair RapidMiner, uniting all data analytics technology into one platform, following the acquisitions of RapidMiner and World Programming. The Altair RapidMiner platform offers comprehensive end-to-end solutions from data ingestion and modeling to operationalization and visualization. Additionally, the platform is now available via Altair Units, delivering a new generation of frictionless AI capabilities to customers, according to the company.

Posted March 16, 2023

Census, provider of the Data Activation platform that syncs customer data from data warehouses to key business tools, announced a new integration and partnership with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. By adding Datadog monitoring, Census customers can track the health of real-time reverse ETL syncs using custom alerts and dashboards, according to the vendor.

Posted March 16, 2023

AI is advancing at a faster clip this year with the debut of several technologies boosting its usage. Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), for example, is the large-scale natural language technology that uses deep learn­ing to produce human-like text. AI expert and Erudit's chief science officer and co-founder, Ricardo Michel Reyes, discussed the growing use of AI in programming and whether or not its advance­ment is something that programmers should fear when it comes to their job security.

Posted March 15, 2023

CelerData is releasing the latest iteration of its enterprise analytics platform, CelerData Version 3, which continues to empower high-performance analytics in the enterprise.

Posted March 15, 2023

Grafana Labs is announcing its recent acquisition of Pyroscope, the open source, continuous profiling project company.

Posted March 15, 2023

In IT, few names are more significant than SAP and AWS. Countless organizations rely on SAP's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for running their mission-critical systems, while AWS holds an astonish­ing 33% share of the cloud services hosting market.

Posted March 15, 2023

UiPath, an enterprise automation software company, announced that data science teams using Amazon SageMaker, an end-to-end machine learning (ML) service, can now connect to UiPath to quickly connect new ML models into business processes without the need for complex coding. The UiPath Business Automation Platform makes it simple for data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts to automate deployment pipelines, reducing the cost of experimentation, and increasing the pace of innovation, according to the vendor.

Posted March 15, 2023

Globalstar Inc, a provider of connectivity to businesses and people worldwide, is working with Oracle NetSuite to support its vision to deliver the most reliable communication services. With NetSuite, Globalstar has been able to take advantage of an integrated business system to streamline and scale its international operations and reallocate time and resources to accelerate growth.

Posted March 15, 2023

Oracle announced that the University System of Georgia (USG) has joined Oracle Academy to advance technology education and help students develop career-ready expertise in cloud, software development, and business applications. Oracle Academy will work with USG to provide curriculum, cloud technology and professional development across the university system's 26 public colleges and universities serving over 334,000 students.

Posted March 15, 2023

AT&T Mexico is moving critical IT and business processes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to expand the benefits of mobile internet to more than 21 million subscribers and business customers. The move will impact customers in industries such as education, health, and banking nationwide. With OCI, the company will be able to manage OSS/BSS workloads, analytics, and databases more efficiently in the cloud, according to the company.

Posted March 15, 2023

This month, I want to take a higher-level view of database performance concepts and introduce a few themes that will likely follow you throughout your career working with database systems and applications. These themes should be viewed as guiding principles to keep in mind when confronted with database performance issues.

Posted March 15, 2023

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