Data Quality Articles
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
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
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
KNIME, the open source data analytics and AI company, is releasing its AI companion, K-AI, enabling users to co-create powerful data workflows with AI. According to the company, K-AI will answer questions, make recommendations, and extend or build whole data workflows based on user prompts. The AI companion speeds up the time to insight, while giving users complete transparency into and control over what AI is doing.
Posted December 19, 2024
Nuon Inc. announced it has secured $16.5 million in funding and is providing an early access release of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform. Nuon is currently powering a few dozen AI and data infrastructure companies already using the platform to deliver BYOC solutions. The company plans to launch general availability by late Q1 2025.
Posted December 19, 2024
I once wrote an article titled "Do Your Metrics Matter?" It was inspired by the joy of sitting in an airplane, at the gate, going nowhere fast for close to 2 hours. All the while the airline app was proclaiming an on-time departure. Having ample time to discuss this perceived error with the crew, I learned that the closed aircraft door equaled departure. Departed, it turned out, was not an indication of a flight in motion but a process gone awry (a circumstance that may persist to this day, for what it's worth).
Posted December 19, 2024
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is adding a variety of enhancements to EDB Postgres AI, empowering enterprises to deploy secure, flexible AI-driven applications in a sovereign, hybrid environment.
Posted December 19, 2024
Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, is announcing an expansion of its partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, with the aim of accelerating data migration and modernization in the cloud. By leveraging Cirata's professional services and Data Migration as a Service (DMaaS) solution, enterprises benefit from the ability to seamlessly transition to Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform, propelling their data and AI initiatives.
Posted December 19, 2024
Linkerd, created by Buoyant, is releasing Linkerd 2.17, a new version of Linkerd that introduces several major new features to the project: egress traffic visibility and control; rate limiting; and federated services, a powerful new multicluster primitive that combines services running in multiple clusters into a single logical service. This release also updates Linkerd to support OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing.
Posted December 18, 2024
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), and SAP announced GROW with SAP on AWS, which will allow customers of all sizes to rapidly deploy SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution while leveraging the reliability, security, and scalability of the world's most broadly adopted cloud.
Posted December 18, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is expanding its AI-ready data integration capabilities, delivering new enhancements across SAP, Databricks, and Snowflake. According to the company, these advancements empower enterprises to streamline data workflows, accelerate AI deployment, and gain faster insights, ensuring that business intelligence is built and scaled on quality, real-time data running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted December 18, 2024
Avantra, a leading provider of AIOps for SAP, is releasing Avantra 25, the latest edition of its renowned observability and automation platform. Poised to transform SAP systems with new levels of efficiency and flexibility, Avantra 25 is the first edition to integrate fully with the Avantra AIR cloud product and brings a wealth of new features and functionality, according to the company.
Posted December 18, 2024
Acceldata, the leader in all-in-one enterprise data observability, is debuting its newly expanded AI-powered data reconciliation capabilities that fortifies enterprises with trusted data, at scale. Bringing the necessary data integrity for managing complex, modern data ecosystems, Acceldata's new capabilities ensure data is accurate, consistent, and audit-ready across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Posted December 18, 2024
The Nashville Metro Government is implementing Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for finance and HR to support its mission of delivering exceptional services to its growing population. With Oracle Fusion Applications, Nashville Metro Government will transform operational efficiency to better meet the current and future needs of its workforce and constituents.
Posted December 18, 2024
Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, is releasing data connectors for Oracle databases and Workday for large-scale, high-performance, secure and reliable movement of data for users of Airbyte Self-Managed Enterprise and Airbyte Teams.
Posted December 18, 2024
In today's competitive business environment, empowering your teams with data-driven decision-making is essential. However, amid an organization's vast sea of data, the process of effectively navigating through this abundance of information is daunting. In fact, the likelihood of human error while sorting through such data volumes for key insights is virtually guaranteed, further complicating the already daunting task at hand.
Posted December 18, 2024
The MultiValue skills gap can be a growing challenge for businesses relying on MultiValue technology. However, there are practical solutions to address this issue. In a recently released two-part roundtable discussion, industry experts share valuable strategies for attracting, hiring, training, and retaining new developers in the MultiValue space.
Posted December 18, 2024
Solace, a leader in powering real-time, event-driven enterprises, is adding micro-integrations to its event-driven integration and streaming platform, the Solace PubSub+ Platform, enabling lightweight event-driven integration modules that connect enterprise technologies—including legacy and SaaS applications, messaging services, databases, files, AI agents, etc—to an event-driven distribution layer, called an event mesh for information exchange in real-time.
Posted December 17, 2024
RapidCanvas, democratizing AI-driven business transformation, announced it has secured $16 million in a funding round for its AI agents, empowering the company to further support the automation of complex tasks traditionally performed by data scientists and engineers.
Posted December 17, 2024
Back in July, CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor that caused worldwide outages on Microsoft operating systems. Users experienced the BlueScreen of Death (BSOD) error, which caused their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly. The effects were immediately wide reaching: Doctors weren't able to diagnose patients, airports abruptly paused travel, and there were also disruptions to emergency services and responses. Government services, banks, and other businesses had to shut down.
Posted December 17, 2024
Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced it has closed a $600 million Series D funding round, enabling the company to advance its mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. With the latest fundraise, Crusoe will invest in expansion and growth across the value chain, including its data centers and Crusoe Cloud. Crusoe focuses on utilizing clean, abundant, and low-cost energy to power its computing resources and has over 15 gigawatts in development.
Posted December 16, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's special roundtable webinar, The Future of Analytics: Cloud Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, and More, to discuss how better, faster insights can be achieved through an assortment of modern systems that emphasize flexibility, scalability, and agility.
Posted December 13, 2024
Cloud remains important as ever as AI makes gains in the industry. Other key factors leading to the continued importance of the cloud include the increasing adoption of cloud services by businesses for cost-efficiency and scalability, advancements in cloud technologies, the growth of big data and analytics, and the rising need for remote work solutions. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2025.
Posted December 13, 2024
Graphiant, a provider of private, next-generation Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), is introducing its groundbreaking Data Assurance service, providing end-to-end control and visibility for data in motion throughout the entire business network.
Posted December 12, 2024
The beauty and joy of a relational database is the concept of relational closure—everything is a table. Beyond the eponymous table, query results are also "tables." Any query serves as a table to be queried by any other query, which is why queries may be nested almost infinitely within queries.
Posted December 12, 2024
Kore Integrate is perfect for implementing ERP integration effectively. Many manufacturers, distributors, and supply chain organizations use data integration tools to gain meaningful insights from their ERPs. In the latest blog post, Kore Tech explains how Kore Integrate is the perfect tool to integrate disparate systems.
Posted December 12, 2024
StorMagic, solving the world's edge data problems, is introducing version 2.0 of its SvHCI full-stack HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) solution, which is purpose-built for enterprise edge and small to medium-sized business (SMB) environments.
Posted December 11, 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 December 11, 2024
Tenable, the exposure management company, is debuting a series of new enhancements for Tenable Security Center, the world's #1 vulnerability management solution managed on-prem. Designed to promote exposure comprehension and overall visibility, the new features—vulnerability intelligence, risk prioritization, and web application scanning—forward a contextual, risk-based view of enterprise security and compliance posture for on-prem systems, according to Tenable.
Posted December 09, 2024
OpenText, a leading information management software and services company, is announcing a strategic partnership with Secure Code Warrior, a secure coding platform that sets the standards that keep our digital world safe. Aiming to power DecSecOps practices for a variety of organizations, this collaboration cultivates an environment of continuous upskilling, reduced risk, and elevated customer trust.
Posted December 09, 2024
IBM and AMD are collaborating to deploy AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud. This offering, which is expected to be available in the first half of 2025, aims to enhance performance and power efficiency for GenAI models such as and high-performance computing (HPC) applications for enterprise clients.
Posted December 09, 2024
Cockroach Labs is releasing CockroachDB 24.3, improving resilience and performance, while adding enterprise capabilities such as support of Microsoft's Active Directory and database triggers. According to the company, CockroachDB 24.3 also delivers a solution that enables customers with two data centers to experience the resilience benefits of distributed SQL that were formerly limited to three data center implementations.
Posted December 09, 2024
Syncari, a leader in data unification and automation, is announcing the general availability of powerful new capabilities in its Syncari Autonomous Data Management (ADM) platform that includes Unified Insights for real-time business intelligence (BI) and Auto Field Mapping for swift, consistent configuration.
Posted December 06, 2024