Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
As everyone pushes for real-time analytics, more responsive online services, and more protection against cybercrime, data resiliency has moved front and center. Put simply, data must be available at all times. This requires a shift in conventional thinking toward data resiliency strategies in recognition of the fact that it is no longer a technical issue; it's a business issue.
Posted April 07, 2022
Airbyte, creators of an open-source data integration platform, is releasing its cloud service for data movement in the U.S. "With Airbyte Cloud, we remove the headache of building and maintaining custom data infrastructure by providing a simple, economical way for enterprises to move data as needed," said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte.
Posted April 07, 2022
Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, is acquiring Gamma Soft, a market innovator in change data capture (CDC), adding Gamma Soft's enterprise-class change data capture technologies will help customers streamline their data modernization initiatives, including cloud migrations, and support advanced, real-time analytics use cases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Posted April 07, 2022
With data increasing at a rapid pace and more companies seeing the need to compete on analytics, there is also more awareness of the essential role of data literacy. As the amount of data created everyday continues to explode, businesses are looking for every advantage they can get to adapt to changing market headwinds
Posted April 07, 2022
Google unveiled a variety of new services and innovations that allow customers to work with limitless data, across all workloads, and extend access to everyone. These new enhancements were revealed during its Data Cloud Summit.
Posted April 06, 2022
Ascend.io, the Data Automation Cloud, announced it has received $31 million in Series B funding, enabling the company to scale go-to-market efforts and expand into new geographies, as well as extend Ascend's Data Automation Cloud to support full multi-cloud data mesh automation.
Posted April 06, 2022
DBI Software, a provider of best-in-class performance monitoring, tuning, and trending tools for IBM Db2 LUW and SQL Server databases, has announced the release of version 7 of its Database Performance Web Suite.
Posted April 06, 2022
Sumo Logic, the SaaS analytics platform to enable reliable and secure cloud-native applications, is introducing a new milestone in innovation for Sumo Logic Observability with the release of Sumo Logic OpenTelemetry Distro Collector (OT Distro). The OT Distro Collector is designed to simplify and democratize the collection of logs, metrics, traces, and metadata from modern cloud applications.
Posted April 06, 2022
Confluent, Inc., the data streaming platform to set data in motion, is forming a new strategic partnership with Microsoft, adding greater investments across technology integrations, solution development, and go-to-market activities. With this commitment, Confluent and Microsoft aim to reduce the operational burden of managing data streams in Azure and speed up real-time application development in the cloud.
Posted April 05, 2022
Equalum, a best-in-class provider of data integration and ingestion solutions, is releasing its Continuous Data Integration Platform (CDIP) Version 3.0, available for on-prem, hybrid, or cloud-based operations. The platform supports real-time streaming use cases as well as batch ETL, replication, and tier one change data capture.
Posted April 05, 2022
Dagger, the DevOps platform that orchestrates the delivery of applications to the cloud, is launching the public beta of its product along with announcing the closing of a $20 million Series A funding round.
Posted April 04, 2022
Hivelocity, the leading Bare Metal Cloud Company, is partnering with cloud provider Ridge, enabling users to deploy cloud-native applications anywhere their customers are.
Posted April 04, 2022
SingleStore, the single database for data-intensive applications, is partnering with IBM to offer SingleStoreDB with IBM, designed to provide enterprises with a one-stop shop that can empower them to take advantage of SingleStore's database technology with IBM.
Posted April 04, 2022
Standard SQL defines four isolation levels that can be set using the SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL statement: Serializable, Repeatable Read, Read Committed, and Read Uncommitted. Although all of the popular relational DBMSs support isolation level, the exact naming and implementation will vary.
Posted April 04, 2022
LambdaTest, a leading end-to-end cloud-based test orchestration platform, announced it has closed a deal on $45 million in a venture round, enabling the company to further the innovation that will push the boundaries of cloud-based test orchestration in terms of execution speed, performance and reliability.
Posted April 01, 2022
Swim, developer of an open core platform for continuous intelligence at scale, is releasing Swim Continuum 4.1, introducing a new UI framework optimized for large-scale streaming applications. Its new, high-performance UI framework is able to continuously update the application UI with streaming data from millions of backend objects, unlike other UI frameworks that are hobbled by REST and render UI components on a request/response basis.
Posted April 01, 2022
The OpenNMS Group, Inc., a subsidiary of NantHealth, Inc., is releasing OpenNMS Meridian 2022 with improved features such as enhanced security and more.
Posted April 01, 2022
It is easy to attribute catastrophic outcomes and insidious, unintended side effects to failures of governance. Or, more often, to a lack of governance. In practice, however, all organizations are governed, either formally or informally. Formal governance involves discretely defined accountability and expectations encoded in principles, policies, and processes. Informally—and more influentially—organizations are governed by the behaviors and norms modeled and rewarded by their leadership and peers.
Posted April 01, 2022
Many organizations still remember the sting of being a victim of the dreaded patent trolls. Patents were granted to encourage, recognize, and reward innovation. Awarding the inventors with a well-defined degree of exclusivity for a period of time improves their chances of both financial reward and the recouping their initial investment.
Posted April 01, 2022
With the push to automate increasingly complex data environments, along with a greater need to spur collaboration to deliver more effective and timely analytics capabilities, organizations are turning to DataOps as well as a series of related "Ops" methodologies. Will DataOps—eventually conjoined with DevOps, AIOps, and MLOps—help businesses compete in the digital era? Industry observers point out that these approaches are promising, but a lot of work lies ahead to achieve true collaborative and automated innovation in the data management space.
Posted April 01, 2022
IT executives are struggling to source skills that enable cloud and edge adoption, which has been the largest barrier to deploying cloud-based technologies. To help address the problem, Google announced in October that it will help more than 40 million people build cloud skills. With this pressing issue in mind, Rahul Pradhan, head of cloud products, engineering, Couchbase, recently reflected on the impact the skills shortage is having on DevOps teams, and how organizations can address this issue.
Posted March 31, 2022
To drive significantly greater productivity and efficiency for increasingly complex chip designs, Synopsys is introducing a new cloud-optimized electronic design automation (EDA) deployment model. Synopsys Cloud provides access to the company's cloud-optimized design and verification products, with pre-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure to address higher levels of interdependencies in chip development.
Posted March 31, 2022
A lot of digital ink has been spilled over the hottest topic in data integration today: the data mesh. But is the data mesh truly achievable for a modern enterprise? And is it truly novel, or simply a rehashing of older paradigms and techniques? DBTA held a webinar with Paul Lacey, Sr. director of product marketing, Matillion who discussed what a decentralized approach to data management could look like in practice.
Posted March 31, 2022
Datafold, a data quality platform that automates the most tedious parts of data engineering workflows, is partnering with dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, to provide a new integration to deliver trusted data faster. Datafold has automated test coverage for analytics engineers which can now be added into a company's CI/CD workflow in one click with dbt Cloud or with a Python SDK for dbt Core.
Posted March 30, 2022
BMC, a provider of software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise (ADE), is introducing new operations management features and capabilities to its BMC Helix solution. The updates are designed to increase decision-making accuracy and accelerate mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) through early detection, operational intelligence, and resource optimization.
Posted March 30, 2022
GoodData, a provider of data and analytics infrastructure, is offering new dashboard plugins that enable enhanced capabilities for dashboards customization without the need of GoodData support. With the creation of dashboard plugins, GoodData customers are able to tailor their default dashboards experience with custom code based on the low-code GoodData.UI SDK for custom application development.
Posted March 30, 2022
Talend, a provider in data integration and data governance, is offering Talend Data Catalog 8, an automated data catalog providing enhanced proactive data governance capabilities.
Posted March 29, 2022
ScaleOut Software is introducing support for Redis clients in ScaleOut StateServer Version 5.11, available as a community preview. With this release, Redis users can harness the company's flagship distributed caching product to connect to a cluster of ScaleOut servers and execute Redis commands.
Posted March 29, 2022
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Wednesday, May 11. Winners will be showcased in a special section on the DBTA website and in the August 2022 issue of Database Trends and Applications magazine.
Posted March 28, 2022
PlanetScale, the serverless database powered by MySQL and Vitess, is introducing PlanetScale Rewind, an "Easy Button" to undo schema migrations that enables users to recover in seconds from changes that break production databases. PlanetScale Rewind lets users almost instantly revert changes to the previous healthy state without losing any of the data that was added, modified, or otherwise changed in the interim.
Posted March 28, 2022
Shoreline.io, the Incident Automation company, announced it has raised $35 million in Series B funding, enabling the company to expand the team and deliver prepackaged solutions for the many commonplace problems encountered by engineers in the public cloud.
Posted March 28, 2022
RapidAPI, provider of an API Hub that enables millions of developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs, announced it has raised $150 million in Series D funding, enabling the company to continue to scale its API Hub, adding more capabilities to help developers create and collaborate on APIs - following its release of API Testing tools and acquisition of API development tool, Paw. This recent round puts the company at a $1 billion valuation.
Posted March 24, 2022
Alluxio, the developer of the open source data orchestration platform for data driven workloads such as large-scale analytics and AI/ML, is now enabling the integration of NetApp StorageGRID with Alluxio's Data Orchestration Platform. The combined solution will help enterprises accelerate adoption of the cloud and optimize their resource spend for a modern data platform ready for enormous scale, according to the vendors.
Posted March 24, 2022
Domo is introducing several key enhancements to its cloud-based platform to make it easier than ever to put data to work for everyone, enhancing the speed, scale, and user experience (UX). Included in these platform enhancements are new functionality in Domo Multi-cloud, a new Governance Toolkit and updates to Universal Data Modeling, making it easier to understand, engage and leverage data across any organization, according to the vendor.
Posted March 24, 2022
NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, is collaborating with Cisco to release with FlexPod XCS, the evolution of FlexPod providing one automated platform for modern applications, data and hybrid cloud services.
Posted March 24, 2022
Google Cloud and VMware, Inc. are expanding their partnership to help customers accelerate app modernization and cloud transformation as customers will now be able to use the VMware Cloud Universal program to take advantage of Google Cloud VMware Engine.
Posted March 24, 2022
SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE, a provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations in the SAP environment, announced it is moving to the cloud with RISE with SAP. The cloud move is part of a transformation program that SNP launched in January this year. As part of the program, the IT company will also integrate Datavard, which it acquired last year, and drive forward its own digitalization strategy by introducing various measures.
Posted March 23, 2022
After finding several vulnerabilities during a routine release, SAP has published 17 new and updated Security Notes on its March Patch Day (including the notes that were released or updated since last Patch Tuesday). This includes four HotNews Notes and one High Priority Note.
Posted March 23, 2022
Miracle Software Systems, Inc. announced it has achieved SAP gold partner status in the SAP PartnerEdge program, indicating the company's exceptional delivery capabilities, extensive competency working with SAP, and ability in driving business value to its customers.
Posted March 23, 2022
SAP announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake of Taulia, a leading provider of working capital management solutions. "With Taulia now an official part of our solution portfolio, we can help companies gain financial flexibility and stability and contribute to making supply chains more resilient," said Luka Mucic, CFO of SAP.
Posted March 23, 2022
Zumasys recently helped a customer navigate through the Amazon direct fulfillment process, leveraging the power of open APIs and IMACS. "Zumasys has spent the last decade building the most experienced, capable bench of MultiValue professionals in the industry. We are here to help," said Elvin Wytko, senior software developer at Zumasys.
Posted March 23, 2022
Northwest Title, a company with experience in complex real estate transactions of all types?including residential, commercial, and land development—recently chose Entrinsik Informer for the transformation of its business.
Posted March 23, 2022
A New Zealand insurance services provider needed to modernize its existing IT infrastructure to support growing accessibility demands. The company chose Rocket Software to modernize its document management system.
Posted March 23, 2022
Junk data is any data that is not governed. Junk data starts to accumulate when individuals make copies of data from a larger dataset for a particular use case, make changes to it, and then do not integrate those changes into the larger set. By taking the time to invest in data integrity upfront, a company can ensure the quality and security of its data assets are appropriately available to the business ultimately saving time and money.
Posted March 21, 2022
Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure, data management, analytics, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., has introduced new Lumada DataOps capabilities for automated, AI-driven data operations for all enterprise customers and Lumada Industrial DataOps, providing advanced analytics capabilities for industrial use cases.
Posted March 16, 2022
Rockset, the real-time analytics company, now supports real-time data ingestion from Azure Blob Storage, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Service Bus—enabling customers to ingest, transform, and analyze real-time data from their Azure data lake or event stream.
Posted March 16, 2022
Anyone investing in an SAP ERP solution running on Oracle Linux is clearly serious about ensuring that their critical line of business systems run smoothly, predictably, and efficiently. It should go without saying that those operations will be consistently accessible and run without unexpected interruption. Saying nothing, though, would be a mistake, for there's nothing magical about Oracle Linux that inherently guarantees high availability (HA) for an SAP landscape. Without proper planning and an infrastructure configured for HA, that big investment is vulnerable.
Posted March 16, 2022
Bharti Airtel (Airtel), a communications solutions provider, has chosen Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Management (SCM) to digitize and simplify its finance, planning, and supply chain processes. Airtel, which operates in 17 countries across South Asia and Africa, provides a range of consumer telecom services to more than 480 million customers, including 4G/4.5G broadband, fixed lines, fiber with speeds up to 1 GBps, and streaming services that span music and video, digital payments, and financial services.
Posted March 16, 2022