Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
Innovative enterprise tech startups are emerging to tackle both new and longstanding challenges and problems in ways never thought possible. Many of these companies have fresh approaches to accelerate digital transformation, expand AI and analytics initiatives, streamline DevOps, improve data observability, and more. Here are 16 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2021.
Posted April 29, 2021
Qlik is expanding its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) by launching a collaborative solution that will help enterprises drive more value from SAP data with cloud analytics. Customers can now seamlessly and easily leverage Qlik Data Integration to deliver real-time, analytics-ready data from their SAP systems into AWS, accelerating and enabling cloud data warehousing, data lakes, and machine learning initiatives.
Posted April 28, 2021
IBM and SAP continue to assist companies through their digital transformations, upping their commitment to clients more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. SAP and IBM look to continue to co-create and enhance solutions as businesses operate in this new normal, complementing their collaboration on cloud and RISE with SAP.
Posted April 28, 2021
SAP is introducing new service components of the SAP HANA Cloud database that allow customers to handle ever-growing amounts of transactional and analytical data in data-intensive, highly regulated industries. The new services in SAP HANA Cloud are a core component of SAP Business Technology Platform aimed at providing users with a high-performance, cloud-native data management environment that supports increased scalability and flexibility, on-demand provisioning, and consumption-based pricing.
Posted April 28, 2021
Esri, a global leader in location intelligence, is advancing it partnership with SAP by announcing the certification and support for SAP's database-as-a-service offering and key component of SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP HANA Cloud. With this capability, Esri and SAP are accelerating customer adoption of cloud-based location intelligence platforms with a high-performance environment that scales to the largest enterprises.
Posted April 28, 2021
The next update to Entrinsik's Informer platform is coming soon, according to Madhavi Chandra, director of Informer product management. In a recent blog post, she outlined some of the new features to bolster data governance and business workflows that customers can expect from the upcoming release.
Posted April 28, 2021
Zumasys is releasing the latest version of jBASE, making it easier than ever to modernize MultiValue applications. With the release of jBASE 5.8, licensing options now include flexible CPU and SaaS-based models, the migration routes from other PICK databases have been vastly simplified, and the in-line operating system approach means even more scalability, speed, and stability.
Posted April 28, 2021
Oracle has announced that trusted GoldenGate technology is now available as an automated, fully-managed cloud service that customers can use to help ensure that their valuable data is always available anywhere they need it and analyzable in real time. The new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) GoldenGate service provides customers with a real-time data fabric platform to design, execute, orchestrate, and monitor their data replication and streaming data events.
Posted April 27, 2021
From machine learning and automation to hybrid and multi-cloud environments, technology trends continue to reshape the practice of database management. As a result, database professionals face new challenges and opportunities. Today, the average database team is tasked with managing more databases, bigger databases, and a greater variety of databases—from the ground to the cloud.
Posted April 27, 2021
Actian has announced the availability of its Avalanche hybrid cloud data warehouse on the Google Cloud Marketplace. The Avalanche data warehouse is delivered as a turnkey, fully managed service that utilizes Google Kubernetes to deploy in minutes and is easy to scale up and down based on business need.
Posted April 27, 2021
Ardoq, a SaaS company reinventing Enterprise Architecture (EA) for today's digital enterprise, is providing new features for its Engagement Platform that changes how organizations approach enterprise architecture models.
Posted April 27, 2021
Automox, a cloud-native endpoint management provider, announced it has secured $110 million in Series C funding to accelerate its vision to modernize IT operations with a comprehensive, cloud-native platform. The new funding will be used to expand the enterprise functionality of Automox's platform and build out its sales go-to-market function. The company also expects to add over 100 new roles over the course of the calendar year.
Posted April 27, 2021
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, is releasing RMM Central, a unified remote monitoring and management solution for managed service providers (MSPs).
Posted April 27, 2021
BigID, a leading data intelligence platform for privacy, protection, and perspective, is introducing BigID.me, a freemium, pay-as-you-go, privacy-on-demand SaaS for companies without dedicated privacy offices. BigID.me enables organizations of all sizes to automate and intuitively manage the customer privacy experience, preferences and consent management, and privacy requests, according to the vendor.
Posted April 26, 2021
Zadara, a leader in edge cloud services, is launching its Federated Edge program, introducing a new, fully managed, distributed cloud architecture that unlocks new use cases and revenue models. Federated Edge is a consortium of MSPs, powered by Zadara's Edge Cloud Services, including zCompute and zStorage.
Posted April 23, 2021
Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced it has completed its acquisition of Inphi Corporation, creating a U.S. semiconductor powerhouse positioned for end-to-end technology leadership in data infrastructure.
Posted April 23, 2021
RapidAPI, a next-generation API platform that enables developers and enterprises to manage thousands of APIs, has raised $60 million in its Series C funding round, enabling the company to support an influx of new developers to its platform. The funds will be used to support the onboarding of leading API providers to the public marketplace and the expansion of the API platform, including RapidAPI's Enterprise Hub to serve the rapidly-growing enterprise customer base.
Posted April 22, 2021
Storage cloud company Backblaze, and Jamf (JAMF)—the standard in Apple enterprise management—is entering a joint solution partnership to make Backblaze backup and data protection services available with ease in the Jamf admin ecosystem. Paired with the announcement from Backblaze of updates to Mass Deployment tools to streamline commands for installs and updates of its backup app, these improvements offer a step change in ease for IT Administrators tasked with safeguarding computers, servers, NAS, or Veeam data.
Posted April 22, 2021
TigerGraph, provider of a graph analytics platform, announced that the company has now attained broad support across all cloud providers, becoming accessible with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and now, GCP. Additionally, the company is offering new connectors for Snowflake and Tableau, meaning users can access relationship analytics directly from their Snowflake and Tableau dashboards.
Posted April 21, 2021
Kyligence, originator of Apache Kylin and a leader in intelligent data analytics, announced the company has closed $70 million in Series D funding to continue powering its global expansion and rapid customer adoption. With this investment, Kyligence will keep fueling its rapid growth in research and development of its products to support innovative cloud-native and machine learning advances.
Posted April 21, 2021
Digital Asset, the creators of the Daml multi-party application platform, announced it has raised over $120 million in Series D funding, allowing the company to expand its team and enhance its product portfolio with a new interoperability protocol that enables data to seamlessly interact across blockchains and traditional databases.
Posted April 21, 2021
Oracle and SailGP, an international yacht racing league, have expanded their data analytics platform leading into the second season. SailGP taps Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to deliver real-time data to each of SailGP's eight national teams as well as to broadcast partners and fans worldwide. New features added this season will improve team performance and give fans a crew's-eye view of the action..
Posted April 21, 2021
Oracle has announced that ServiceNow now supports Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enabling customers to access and manage OCI resources via their existing ServiceNow Service portal and the ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM) Visibility application.
Posted April 21, 2021
In an era of rapid digital transformation, companies that fail to effectively manage and leverage their data assets will find themselves falling behind. Speed, scalability and flexibility are critical tenets of modern data strategies and require technologies and processes that are responsive to the business.
Posted April 21, 2021
The cloud is changing the way businesses use data and at the same time, the way we use data is changing the cloud. Organizations are adopting multiple cloud data platforms to maximize data's value, but in doing so are often increasing complexity for data engineering and DataOps teams that may stifle the very reason for investing in those platforms.
Posted April 20, 2021
Redis Labs is sharing its view of the future of Redis as a real-time data platform, transforming the way applications are built, deployed, and run to allow companies to reimagine the digital experiences they deliver to their customers
Posted April 20, 2021
Dataiku, a provider of leading AI and machine learning platforms, announced a new investment from Snowflake Ventures, the venture arm of Snowflake, further deepening the companies' partnership. Together, Dataiku and Snowflake deliver enterprise-ready AI capabilities that enable customers to easily and quickly build, deploy, and monitor all types of data science projects, including machine learning and deep learning, according to the vendors.
Posted April 20, 2021
The FIDO Alliance is launching the FIDO Device Onboard (FDO) protocol, a new, open IoT standard that enables devices to simply and securely onboard to cloud and on-premise management platforms. Through this standard, the FIDO Alliance addresses challenges of security, cost, and complexity tied to IoT device deployment at scale.
Posted April 20, 2021
AuditBoard, providers of innovative cloud-based platform transforming how enterprises manage their compliance and risk programs, is being relaunched as CrossComply, reflecting the solution's distinct capabilities to streamline managing compliance across frameworks, controls, policies, and more, across the enterprise. CrossComply is one of four solutions available within AuditBoard's integrated GRC platform, which streamlines and simplifies audit, risk, and compliance programs for large organizations.
Posted April 19, 2021
GoodData, a leading global analytics company, is releasing a new cloud-native analytics platform offering, GoodData.CloudNative (GoodData.CN), representing step one in the definition and implementation of the new Data as a Service (DaaS) category and ecosystem.
Posted April 19, 2021
BMC, a provider of software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, is introducing several new offerings and integrations within the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and BMC Compuware portfolios.
Posted April 19, 2021
SambaNova Systems, the company building the industry's most advanced software to run AI applications, is receiving $676 million in Series D funding, empowering the company to use its latest injection to aggressively challenge legacy competitors.
Posted April 16, 2021
Tecton, the enterprise feature store company and primary contributor to Feast, is releasing Feast 0.10, the first feature store that can be deployed locally without dedicated infrastructure. The new release makes it possible for data scientists to reap the benefits of a functionally complete feature store with no infrastructure overhead or maintenance.
Posted April 16, 2021
Crate.io, developer and supplier of CrateDB, is releasing CrateDB Edge, allowing Crate.io customers to capture and analyze data at the data source, regardless of geographical location or whether there is cloud or internet accessibility. CrateDB Edge brings the capabilities of CrateDB Cloud—Crate.io's managed database-as-a-service8to edge locations for the first time.
Posted April 15, 2021
Dell Technologies has announced plans to spin off its 81% equity ownership interest in VMware, resulting in two standalone companies. Dell Technologies said it is poised to further capitalize on the rebound in infrastructure and PC spend, new cloud operating models driving as-a-service growth, compute moving to the edge, and customers' longer-term digital transformation initiatives.
Posted April 15, 2021
Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, is releasing version 2.5 of its Data Orchestration Platform featuring access via POSIX and S3 interfaces, enabling data platform teams to accelerate data pipelines for both business intelligence and model training.
Posted April 15, 2021
Data is a critical company asset that has continued to grow exponentially for over a decade. However, to create game-changing business value, data not only needs to be analyzed, but it needs to be utilized.
Posted April 15, 2021
As IoT devices and applications continue to proliferate, the centralized, cloud-based model used by many enterprises is taking a back seat in favor of moving data and processes closer to the edge to increase their flexibility, agility, and accessibility. With more and more organizations adopting real-time capabilities and 5G networks on the rise, 2021 is poised to be a banner year for digital transformation opportunities. However, challenges remain, from the well-tread issues of speed and scalability, to data security and governance.
Posted April 14, 2021
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) today announced that QCI's Qatalyst constrained optimization is now available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), for both classical and quantum computers. The SaaS service eliminates the need for complex quantum programming. It empowers subject matter experts (SMEs) to submit their complex optimization problems to Qatalyst, which leverages the power of quantum-ready computational software on classical processors to provide solutions.
Posted April 14, 2021
Privacera has announced a technology partnership with Dremio aimed at helping joint customers have rapid, self-service analytics across all cloud data lakes with consistent access control policies and rich audits of data usage to comply with industry and privacy regulations.
Posted April 13, 2021
Meroxa is releasing its real-time data Platform as a Service, the Meroxa platform, designed to empower data teams with the tools they need to build real-time infrastructure in minutes, not months. By reducing complexity and enabling self-service capabilities, Meroxa frees teams to spend less time on mundane tasks and more time focusing on impactful projects.
Posted April 13, 2021
With the 1-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown just behind us, there has been a lot of dialogue regarding what different industries have experienced over the past year. Acknowledging this dubious anniversary, we sat down to collect our thoughts and share a few advisements with respect to our small corner of the legal and tech industry.
Posted April 13, 2021
Streamlit, providers of the framework for machine learning and data science, is introducing Streamlit for Teams, the company's first commercial product, allowing data scientists to instantly deploy and share apps with teammates, clients and other stakeholders.
Posted April 12, 2021
Time-series databases show much promise for developers looking to collect, visualize, process, and alert time series data. Yet several questions remain such as: why do you need a specialized database for time-series data, what should you consider when looking for a time-series database, and how to get started with a minimal amount of time and effort? DBTA held a webinar with Al Sargent, senior director of product, InfluxData, who discussed how to evaluate the various time series databases on the market and get started fast.
Posted April 12, 2021
Digitate, an autonomous enterprise software provider, is releasing ignio AIOps for Azure in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling customers to drive their digital transformation on cloud with Azure. ignio AIOps for Azure offers more efficiency and observability to Azure cloud, making it a necessity for managing activity and overall productivity, according to the vendor.
Posted April 12, 2021
In the future, 2021 may be viewed as a sharp turning point when companies recovered from the dramatic changes of 2020 and moved from surviving to thriving. Recently, John O'Brien, CEO and principal advisor, Radiant Advisors, spoke with BDQ about the challenges and opportunities for organizations as they emerge from the seismic shifts of the past year.
Posted April 09, 2021
Swarm64, a provider of database acceleration solutions for the PostgreSQL open source database, is forming a partnership with EDB, a leading contributor to PostgreSQL, to help companies reduce IT costs. Swarm64 DA has successfully completed the EDB GlobalConnect Technology Partner certification process for use with EDB Postgres Advanced.
Posted April 08, 2021
Securiti, a provider of AI-powered data privacy and security, is partnering with Cisco Investments to work with Cisco and help their customers solve the challenge of multi-cloud and edge security, privacy and compliance. The move comes after Cisco Investments gave funding to Securiti.
Posted April 08, 2021