Data Integration Articles
Entrinsik's annual Entrinsicon 2025 is arriving earlier than expected due to demand and venue availability. The new dates are Tuesday, September 16th through Thursday, September 18th, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the Marriott Crabtree Valley. It's an opportunity to receive cost-effective, in-depth education delivered by Entrinsik's developers, support teams, and customers, and the most advantageous way to remain up-to-date with the latest upgrades and functionality.
Posted January 22, 2025
Rocket Software announced the latest enhancements to the Rocket U2 System Builder Extensible Architecture version 6.6.2. This release brings a host of improvements and fixes that enhance the functionality and reliability of the platform.
Posted January 22, 2025
Kore Integrate is the perfect platform to improve Data Quality Management, said Maxwell Dallinga in a recent blog post by Kore Tech. Data quality management is a process to ensure that data is reliable and effective. It's the pillar upon which AI sits in order to give accurate information.
Posted January 22, 2025
A surrogate is, "One appointed to act in place of another." A surrogate key is appointed to act in place of a natural key. Why? Well, one could argue that surrogate keys existed since the beginning of the computer. As the computer uses internal addresses for finding everything, and in the early days that usage had to be explicitly managed by those programming. It wasn't until relational theory came along that the concept of using data values as identifiers arose and were functionally implemented.
Posted January 22, 2025
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, announced general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a new edition of Red Hat OpenShift that provides a dedicated way for organizations to access the virtualization functionality already available within Red Hat OpenShift.
Posted January 21, 2025
Appfire, a leading global provider of software that enhances, extends, and connects the world's leading platforms, announced that 7pace Timetracker for Jira is live in the Atlassian Marketplace—giving Atlassian customers using the app an advanced time-tracking solution for teams that have outgrown legacy time tracking solutions.
Posted January 21, 2025
BMC is releasing a variety of updates to the BMC AMI portfolio, breaking new ground in enabling what is possible on the mainframe from a new approach to secondary data storage to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances productivity and efficiency.
Posted January 21, 2025
Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, is introducing LogRhythm Intelligence Copilot, a generative AI-powered feature delivering actionable insights to empower security teams and accelerate workflows. According to the company, this release solidifies Exabeam as a trusted innovator, providing real AI to automate cybersecurity while competitors under-deliver.
Posted January 20, 2025
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, is expanding its strategic collaboration with Micron Technology, Inc., a global leader in memory and storage solutions, to enable high-capacity and energy-efficient solutions that hyperscalers require using Micron G9 QLC NAND for future DirectFlash Module products.
Posted January 20, 2025
IBM and SAP announced the upcoming release of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, designed to make it the fastest and easiest path for IBM Power customers to accelerate their ERP transformation. Together, IBM and SAP aim to help organizations more seamlessly transition and modernize their on-premises ERP environments to the cloud and support AI-powered business processes, the companies said.
Posted January 20, 2025
President Joe Biden issued an executive order to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, calling for leasing federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments to host gigawatt-scale AI data centers and new clean power facilities. The move aims to address enormous power needs in a short time frame.
Posted January 20, 2025
A day in the life of a DBA (database administrator) can be quite hectic. The DBA is required to maintain production and test environments while at the same time keeping an eye on active application development projects, attending strategy and design meetings, helping to select and evaluate new products, and keeping legacy systems robust and stable, while ensuring access from new systems.
Posted January 20, 2025
New approaches to data architecture and data management are key toward enabling AI across the enterprise. In DBTA's latest webinar, Modernizing Your Data Management Strategy for the AI Era, experts discuss emerging technologies and best practices for supporting AI with a robust, end-to-end data strategy.
Posted January 17, 2025
Orchid Security, an emerging leader in identity-first security orchestration, announced it has raised $36 million in seed funding, enabling the company to continue its work using Large Language Models (LLMs) to address the longstanding challenge of managing fragmented identity systems in large enterprises.
Posted January 17, 2025
MariaDB announced the general availability of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025, the latest major release of its enterprise database solution that now supports AI applications in addition to a full range of transactional, analytical, and semi-structured tools.
Posted January 16, 2025
The Data Group is unveiling Omega, a breakthrough solution designed to address fragmented and scattered data across multiple cloud-based SaaS applications. According to the vendor, Omega reimagines how businesses manage their data, providing a streamlined, central data hub that brings all their critical information together, making it easily accessible, secure, and under their full control.
Posted January 16, 2025
Since the early days of hardware and software, major vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, SAP, and others have leveraged vendor lock-in as a strategic approach to gain customer advantage. This tactic shifts the balance of power to vendors, enabling them to expand and retain their business base.
Posted January 16, 2025
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI, is acquiring Upsolver, a pioneer in real-time data streaming and Apache Iceberg optimization, deepening Qlik's ability to provide enterprises with end-to-end, open, and scalable solutions that unify data integration, analytics, and AI under a single platform.
Posted January 15, 2025
The interest surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has never been higher, but AI agents are the next wave of innovation enterprises need to prepare for. An AI agent is a fully automated program with complex reasoning capabilities and memory that uses an LLM to solve problems, creates its own plan to do so, and executes that plan.
Posted January 15, 2025
dbt Labs, a pioneer in analytics engineering, is acquiring SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a next-generation data transformation technology—enabling dbt Labs to integrate SDF's powerful multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt.
Posted January 14, 2025
Thoras.ai announced the successful closure of a $5 million seed funding round, enabling the company to scale its AI-driven platform to redefine how enterprises achieve reliability, uncover root causes, and prevent costly downtime—offering a bold new vision for scalable, adaptive observability.
Posted January 14, 2025
The months and years ahead promise to be an interesting time in the data analytics space.AI and machine learning are already making their mark, elevating analytics—and its front-end sibling, business intelligence. End users are seeing their capabilities expand in new directions, with an ability to ask questions they did not even consider with earlier technology iterations. Industry leaders are tracking a range of developments that are defining analytics and BI in the year ahead.
Posted January 13, 2025
Articul8 AI (Articul8), a generative AI (GenAI) enterprise software company, is releasing A8 Essential, an innovative self-service GenAI product that empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data. According to the company, A8 Essential fills the unmet need in the market to build complex, domain-specific, enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Posted January 13, 2025
Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, is announcing a partnership with Cloudian, the leader in S3-compatible object storage, to deliver a unified management solution for unstructured data at scale.
Posted January 10, 2025
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud through the availability of its Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) on Google Cloud. Built on the foundation of Informatica's AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), CDGC provides customers with a robust data governance and catalog solution that helps increase data trust, data democratization, and data delivery for Google Cloud customers.
Posted January 09, 2025
A lot of SAP customers and consultants look at SAP BW/4HANA as a "lower-class" SAP system. Something for "someone else" to worry about. They forget about all the work that went into setting up their company's data warehouse in SAP BW/4HANA, or further back, like some of my early SAP consulting projects on BW7 and BW3.5.
Posted January 09, 2025
While the generative AI (GenAI) revolution is rolling forward at full steam, it's not without its share of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The great promises that can be delivered through large language models (LLMs) are tainted by concerns over hallucinations, bias, data security, "black-box" decisioning, and outdated information.
Posted January 09, 2025
After more than 2 decades of writing for DBTA, this will be my final column. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to engage with you on databases and emerging technologies. As with all good things, this journey must end, and I want to use this moment to reflect on the changes we've witnessed during the past 20 years and look ahead to the future.
Posted January 09, 2025
Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English Language in the mid-1970s. It's survived and thrived through the dot-com era and the proliferation of cloud technology. In essence, SQL is a technology that evolves.
Posted January 09, 2025
In 2025, preventing risks from both cybercriminals and AI use will be top mandates for most CIOs. Ransomware, in particular, continues to vex enterprises, and unstructured data is a vast, largely unprotected asset. AI solutions have moved from experimental to mainstream, with all the major tech companies and cloud providers making significant investments in building turnkey generative (GenAI) and AI solutions for enterprise customers.
Posted January 09, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 09, 2025
To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements. Several MV leaders including Kore Tech, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software continue to make an impact and again top this list.
Posted January 09, 2025
Oracle is introducing Oracle Exadata X11M, the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platform, delivering a variety of performance improvements across AI, analytics, and online transaction processing (OLTP). Combining intelligent power management with the ability to run mission-critical workloads faster and on fewer systems helps customers achieve their energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
Posted January 08, 2025
Ireckonu, a leading provider of hospitality digital solutions, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that Ireckonu CORE Middleware and Customer Data Platform (CDP) is now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and integrated with OPERA Cloud via the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP).
Posted January 08, 2025
Nashville General Hospital (NGH), Middle Tennessee's public safety-net hospital serving Davidson County and Nashville, Tennessee, is using Oracle Health CommunityWorks to better support its clinical, financial, and operational needs. Unifying its clinical operations with the new centralized and integrated electronic health records (EHR) across the 150-bed hospital and more than 20 outpatient and clinic settings enables NGH to automate several manual processes and replace disparate legacy systems and devices, simplifying the clinician and patient experience.
Posted January 08, 2025
Oracle Database 23ai is the next long-term support release and offers over 300 new features. Originally named Oracle Database 23i, it was rebranded to Oracle Database 23ai with a heavy focus on artificial intelligence (AI). To optimize many of the database's key functions, Oracle Database 23ai uses AI for improved timing estimates and resource costings. There are also new features such as AI Vector Search to allow data queries on semantics and not keywords.
Posted January 08, 2025
Cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for organizations everywhere as 2025 begins. In 2024 alone, hackers attacked hospitals and other health care organizations, telecom giants, supply chains, and more. Even government entities haven't been spared in these attacks. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats in 2025.
Posted January 07, 2025
Blitzy, the emerging leader in System 2 AI, is announcing the launch of the Blitzy Platform, the company's agentic solution that promises to revolutionize the way enterprises build software applications.
Posted January 06, 2025
Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (Duos), through its operating subsidiaries Duos Edge AI, Inc., and Duos Energy Corp., is partnering with the Pampa Energy Center (PEC) to develop high-density Data Center Development Parks powered by up to 500MW of natural gas self-generation, supplemented by up to 200MW of wind turbine generation, and alternative fuel sources for redundancy.
Posted January 06, 2025
IBM's proposed plan to acquire HashiCorp, a leading cloud software company, is now under investigation by U.K.'s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA. The CMA is seeking to determine whether the acquisition could reduce market competition.
Posted January 06, 2025
NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. announced it has invested in Ayar Labs, Inc. through its managed fund with the aim of driving advancements in optical I/O technologies, accelerating practical applications of innovative solutions, and fostering the creation of new value in the field.
Posted January 03, 2025
Peer Software is now offering advanced capabilities in the latest version of its flagship solution Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS), designed to meet data management requirements of complex globally distributed storage environments.
Posted January 02, 2025
Salt Security, a leading API security company, is announcing a new collaboration with CrowdStrike that focuses on protecting APIs from evolving attacks while addressing the need for integrated security solutions. The companies' product integration—which merges the strengths of the Salt Security API Protection Platform and the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM—works to amplify API visibility, threat detection, and resolution from within the CrowdStrike NG-SIEM.
Posted December 23, 2024
Vectra AI, Inc., a leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is partnering with Lumifi, a leading managed detection and response (MDR) technology company, now integrating Vectra AI Network Detection and Response (NDR) into Lumifi's service offerings to provide customers with greater visibility into their networks, insights into attacker behavior, and the ability to stop network-based attacks early in their progression.
Posted December 23, 2024
BattleFin Group, Inc, a market leader and pioneer in the alternative data discovery industry, is acquiring Exabel, an alternative data analytics platform, solidifying BattleFin's global leadership in both data discovery and data intelligence markets.
Posted December 20, 2024
AI innovation in the big data space shows no signs of slowing down, with companies rushing to adopt or create their own solutions based on AI, automating redundant tasks, and spinning up all kinds of use cases to justify spending big bucks in the area. Here, tech experts share their predictions for AI in 2025.
Posted December 20, 2024