Data Quality Articles
AI—both generative and machine learning/statistical—is essentially dead in the water without well-vetted, timely, quality data. This is holding back AI efforts more than anticipated, a recent survey finds. Data issues hampering AI were explored in a recent survey released by Precisely and Drexel University, which exposed widespread data trust issues and its impact on data and AI initiatives. Data quality and governance have hampered organizations for decades, and such deeply rooted distrust in the data is now being reflected in their embrace of AI output.
Posted October 10, 2024
Software development has come a long way in the past few decades, but data management hasn't. It's time to change that. Despite automation becoming more ubiquitous, many engineering teams are still managing databases manually—a practice that can be time-consuming and complex, slowing down developers and impeding overall productivity. Additionally, current models force database administrators (DBAs) to work within silos, which creates logjams and communication lapses. It also leaves more room for error.
Posted October 10, 2024
Zumasys, a leader in innovative ERP solutions, is announcing significant progress in migrating customers from the PICK MultiValue platform to Rover ERP, a modern, web-based ERP system. To date, Zumasys has successfully completed 10 customer migrations, with an additional 5 currently in progress, totaling 15 signed deals. This achievement, reached in just under three years, reaffirms Zumasys' commitment to helping businesses modernize and thrive in a competitive marketplace, the company said.
Posted October 10, 2024
Rocket Software is offering seven key initiatives for success in 2025 as the year draws to a close. By focusing on key practices in the fourth quarter, clients can enhance their operations, secure data, and foster talent within their team. According to Rocket Software, by planning strategically, upgrading systems, and investing in your team's growth, you'll be well-prepared to meet the challenges of the new year.
Posted October 10, 2024
Database administration is a technical discipline, and it almost goes without saying that DBAs should be armed with significant technical knowledge. And this column typically covers the many diverse technology issues facing DBAs. However, there are non-technical qualities and aspects to the DBA role that are not as frequently discussed. So, this month we will proffer some guidance on non-technical areas for DBAs to focus on to make them more valuable to their employers!
Posted October 10, 2024
In today's digital landscape, delivering exceptional user experiences has become a top objective for businesses across industries. As applications and digital touchpoints increase, understanding user behavior within these platforms is crucial for driving product innovation and business growth. However, collecting, managing, and reporting on user data has traditionally been a complex and resource-intensive endeavor, often requiring significant engineering resources.
Posted October 10, 2024
A healthy democracy depends on free and fair elections, which must also be believed to be fair. Most reputable accounts indicate that the U.S. 2020 presidential election was free of significant voter fraud. However, large segments of the population believe the election was unfair, and consequently, faith in democracy has been undermined. The results of the upcoming 2024 election—however it is determined—are bound to face challenges and disputes.
Posted October 10, 2024
Picture this: A doctor receives an emergency call late at night. A patient has been brought into the emergency room with severe symptoms, and immediate access to their medical history is crucial. Within seconds, the doctor accesses the patient's electronic health records, seamlessly pulling up a comprehensive view of their health history. Thanks to a secure and reliable database, the doctor can make informed decisions quickly, potentially saving the patient's life.
Posted October 10, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is debuting a series of new features for dbt Cloud, the control plane for enterprise data stacks. These latest enhancements serve to empower users across the various stages of the analytics development lifecycle, adhering to One dbt, the company's mission of delivering a single, unified dbt experience regardless of an enterprise's infrastructure, data platform, or cloud.
Posted October 09, 2024
Egnyte, a leading provider of cloud-based content collaboration and governance solutions, announced it has been granted five United States Utility Patents this year that address complex data governance and compliance challenges. According to the company, these patents reinforce its commitment to innovation in data privacy and cloud storage management.
Posted October 08, 2024
Grafana Labs, the company offering open and composable operational dashboards, is adding a variety of updates to its platform including advancements in AI/ML for observability, significant enhancements to the fully managed Grafana Cloud observability platform, and the launch of Grafana Labs' new startup program.
Posted October 07, 2024
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is debuting the latest iteration of MicroStrategy ONE, the fully cloud-native AI/BI platform for solving some of the world's toughest data challenges. The newest version centers on the power of generative AI (GenAI) to make enterprise data and insights more readily available to all employees, including the less-technical frontline.
Posted October 07, 2024
Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, is expanding Darktrace / CLOUD to support Microsoft Azure environments, leveraging Microsoft's virtual network flow logs for agentless deployment. Also available for AWS deployments, Darktrace / CLOUD is built from the ground up for cloud defense. It leverages Darktrace's unique Self-Learning AI to monitor cloud assets, containers, and users, and correlate that activity with identity and network data from across an organization's digital ecosystem.
Posted October 07, 2024
WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, announced that the WEKA Data Platform has been certified as a high-performance data store for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners. With this certification, NVIDIA Cloud Partners can now leverage the WEKA Data Platform's performance, scalability, operational efficiency, and ease of use through the jointly validated WEKA Reference Architecture for NVIDIA Cloud Partners using NVIDIA HGX H100 systems.
Posted October 07, 2024
The EY organization is expanding its collaboration with IBM to leverage software from Apptio, an IBM Company. EY strategy and consulting experience, used in concert with Apptio software, can help enable organizations to focus their resources on their strategic priorities at all levels of the organization, according to the vendor.
Posted October 07, 2024
To help clients embrace generative AI, IBM is extending its high-performance computing (HPC) offerings, giving enterprises more power and versatility to carry out research, innovation and business transformation. With the general availability of NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU instances on IBM Cloud, businesses will have access to a powerful platform for AI applications, including large language model (LLM) training.
Posted October 07, 2024
BMC's latest "2024 BMC Mainframe Survey" is now available, revealing the state of the mainframe is strong, with a bright outlook, thanks to emerging technologies and continued digital transformation. The mainframe's speed, processing capacity, and security continue to make the platform a key component of the ever-changing IT landscape.
Posted October 07, 2024
In today's world where data reigns supreme, the role of DBAs extends far beyond just maintaining databases. DBAs play a crucial role in overseeing the entire lifecycle of data within organizations, from its inception to disposal. Nevertheless, a frequent criticism of many DBAs is that they can be difficult to interact with. The truth of the matter is that DBAs can be curmudgeons possessing technical knowledge but limited people skills.
Posted October 07, 2024
Quadrant Information Security (Quadrant), a leading provider of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions, is introducing a new service, Quadrant Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), to help organizations systematically manage and reduce the risks associated with the ever-expanding attack surfaces in complex enterprise IT environments.
Posted October 03, 2024
MongoDB is releasing MongoDB 8.0, offering significant performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. Architectural optimizations in MongoDB 8.0 have significantly reduced memory usage and query times, and MongoDB 8.0 has more efficient batch processing capabilities than previous versions.
Posted October 03, 2024
Crowdbotics, pioneer of CodeOps as the new standard methodology for software development, is adding new capabilities to its AI-powered application development platform, aimed at addressing the most significant challenges in the application development industry.
Posted October 02, 2024
Oracle Health is providing electronic health record (EHR) innovations that will help clinicians streamline routine tasks and deliver more efficient, informed patient care. According to Oracle, with the new capabilities, caregivers can more quickly and easily update and access critical patient information from practically anywhere to help increase efficiency and reduce burden.
Posted October 02, 2024
Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the launch of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering that allows customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. Oracle Database@AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS, offering simplified database administration, billing, and unified customer support.
Posted October 02, 2024
Oracle is releasing Java 23, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform, delivering thousands of improvements to help developers increase productivity and drive innovation. Additional enhancements to the platform's performance, stability, and security will help organizations accelerate business growth, according to Oracle.
Posted October 02, 2024
Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, is launching eLxr Pro, its commercial enterprise Linux offering to address the needs of cloud-to-edge deployments. Expanding the company's industry-leading Linux portfolio, eLxr Pro delivers long-term commercial support and services to the recently launched open source eLxr project distribution, according to the company.
Posted September 30, 2024
Observe, Inc., the SaaS observability company, is launching "Project Voyager," its most significant product update yet that introduces an AI Investigator along with OpenTelemetry-Native APM and Snowflake Observability, enabling Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to troubleshoot incidents faster and improve customer experience.
Posted September 27, 2024
Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, is launching a plethora of technologies that make virtually any data even more accessible for analytics and GenAI (generative artificial intelligence). Airbyte is introducing Airbyte 1.0, available as Airbyte Open Source and the Airbyte Cloud online service, the Airbyte Marketplace with more than 300 data connectors, an AI Assistant to create data connectors, support for LLMs and Gen AI workflows, and the general availability of Airbyte Self-Managed Enterprise for on-premises deployments.
Posted September 27, 2024
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is unveiling a series of contributions to PostgreSQL 17 that forward the database as an effective option for large-scale data analytics and AI workloads, according to EDB. This release—which was driven by over 200 developers world-wide—reflects the growing popularity and significance of Postgres, as well as EDB's long-standing commitment to the PostgreSQL community.
Posted September 26, 2024
Firebolt is offering a next-generation Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW) that delivers low latency analytics with drastic efficiency gains, reflecting continuous feedback from users and real-world use cases. According to the company, data engineers can now deliver customer-facing analytics and data-intensive applications (data apps) more cost-effectively and with greater simplicity.
Posted September 26, 2024
Operant AI, provider of the Runtime AI Application Protection Platform, announced it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to accelerate team and product expansion bringing unprecedented transparency and active cloud-native protection to all APIs, AI, and cloud applications with a particular focus on securing the entire data-in-use lifecycle as it flows through every layer of modern application environments.
Posted September 26, 2024
SAP announced it has successfully completed its acquisition of WalkMe Ltd., a leading digital adoption platform company listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market that enables seamless workflow execution across business software applications, improving user experience and adoption and supporting business transformation.
Posted September 25, 2024
New Relic, the intelligent observability platform, is supporting RISE with SAP to help enterprises accelerate and future-proof cloud transformation. In close partnership with SAP, New Relic offers a best-of-breed observability solution—New Relic Monitoring for SAP Solutions—that unifies monitoring across the entire SAP landscape.
Posted September 25, 2024
Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, assisted with one of the largest transformation projects in Bridgestone's history—its migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The company's goal was to remove siloes across the organization by consolidating business processes across its SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) system into one SAP S/4HANA Cloud instance allowing the company to improve operational efficiency, data accuracy and set the stage for future growth, automation, and innovation in the tire and mobility sectors.
Posted September 25, 2024
Camunda, a leader in process orchestration, announced that it is delivering an integration with SAP to tame complexity and increase flexibility for SAP environments. The integration will help SAP users seamlessly orchestrate SAP workflows across all of their people, systems, and devices. Using Camunda's SAP integration, teams will be able to boost business and IT alignment to increase agility, accelerate development, and reduce risk in SAP S/4HANA migrations, according to the company.
Posted September 25, 2024
Last month, Revelation put out the call for participants to take part in OpenInsight 10.2.2 Evaluation. Unless any major issues are found, this is planned to become the official 10.2.2 release, according to the company. OpenInsight 10.2.2 is designed primarily as a maintenance update, and as such contains mostly stability and performance enhancements.
Posted September 25, 2024
Rocket Software is introducing an innovative tool for its UniVerse and UniData systems: the Rocket U2 Auto License Python Script. In today's fast-paced tech environment, manual processes are often seen as a bottleneck. This is especially true when it comes to software installations and upgrades. This is where the new U2 Auto License Python Script comes in, according to the company. With this tool, Rocket Software is making it easier than ever to manage and automate licensing for UniVerse and UniData systems.
Posted September 25, 2024
Entrinsik is releasing Informer 5.10, boosting Informer AI Assistants, improving data accessibility and security, along with data analytics, visualization, and reporting. Informer 5.10 enhances data accessibility and security by introducing Integrations, a new way for users to connect from Informer to outside APIs through OAuth.
Posted September 25, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the new generation of the Hitachi EverFlex infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) portfolio, reinforcing its commitment to enhancing IT operations.
Posted September 24, 2024
Gresham Technologies, a global leader in innovative financial technology solutions, which recently completed its merger with Alveo, is rebranding to "Gresham." According to the company, this change marks a significant milestone in the organization's evolution and highlights Gresham's commitment to a future of innovation and customer success as it embarks on this new chapter.
Posted September 24, 2024
DataOps.live, The Data Products Company, is offering a new range of AIOps capabilities that provides end-to-end lifecycle management of AI workloads from development to production. Centered around Snowflake Cortex and AWS Bedrock, these latest AIOps capabilities enable data engineers, data product owners, and data scientists to easily and quickly build and operationalize AI-driven data products with unparalleled consistency, scalability, and governance, the company said.
Posted September 23, 2024
IBM is introducing IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering (Rhapsody SE), a web-based solution for systems engineering teams that empowers them to deliver smarter, more complex, and more competitive solutions to their end users. IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering is based on several key technologies that allow customers to use the benefits of complexity while mitigating its associated risks.
Posted September 23, 2024
IBM is acquiring Kubecost, a leading Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization software company, to show its commitment to growing in the FinOps space. The addition of Kubecost to IBM's FinOps solutions deepens IBM's support for FinOps teams, DevOps teams, and the open-source community, according to the company.
Posted September 23, 2024
IBM is introducing the next generation of IBM Storage DS8000, generally available on October 25, 2024, that is designed to harness the full power of IBM Z. IBM Storage DS8000 plays a critical role as an integrated storage solution for IBM Z, offering comprehensive data protection, security, and business continuity capabilities.
Posted September 23, 2024
Syncari, a leader in data unification and automation, announced that Syncari Autonomous Data Management (ADM) is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling Google Cloud customers to utilize Syncari ADM to start modernizing their data management practices to achieve key business goals.
Posted September 20, 2024
Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, is launching its new database platform, Percona Everest, now generally available to the public. Percona Everest is an open source, cloud-native database platform designed to deliver similar core capabilities and conveniences provided by database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings but without the burden of vendor lock-in and associated challenges, according to the company.
Posted September 20, 2024
Teradata is introducing new features and productivity enhancements to ClearScape Analytics, that are designed to enable innovative organizations to maximize the ROI of their AI/ML investments and boost data science productivity.
Posted September 19, 2024
Gearset, a leader in Salesforce DevOps solutions, is acquiring Clayton, a cutting-edge code analysis platform designed specifically for Salesforce. The strategic acquisition is Gearset's first, following years of rapid growth fueled by a $55 million growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners.
Posted September 18, 2024
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, announced it has created a new blueprint for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI (GenAI) to support the deployment and scaling of enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Posted September 18, 2024