Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
September 5, 2019
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: September 5, 2019. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
BigID has raised $50 million in Series C funding to help enterprises comply with global privacy regulation and meet their data protection needs, bringing its funding to nearly $100 million raised in the last 18 months. The company also released a new version of its platform, BigID Enterprise, which builds on its AI innovations in data analysis for privacy
Redgate is releasing SQL Monitor 9.1, with new features including an expanded API to help fine-tune alerting through Microsoft PowerShell and a unique permissions function. These updates support tightened security and compliance by providing a drill-down view of who has access to monitored databases and servers, and their permissions level.
StreamSets, Inc., provider of a DataOps platform for modern data integration, is releasing StreamSets Transformer, a drag-and-drop UI tool to create native Apache Spark applications. Designed for a wide range of users — even those without specialized skills — StreamSets Transformer enables the creation of pipelines for performing ETL, stream processing and machine-learning operations.