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18 Jul 2025
News brief: Cyberattack trends signal security arms race
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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18 Jul 2025
Data-driven AI: how AWS partners and customers operate
By Esther ShittuFrom the Ocean Cleanup to Dine Brands, a key factor is driving how these enterprises apply AWS’ technology to their applications and needs.
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18 Jul 2025
Entities report several large healthcare data breaches to OCR
By Jill McKeonMillions of individuals were impacted by the most recent healthcare data breaches reported to HHS.
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21 Jul 2025
Interview: Alexandra Willis, director of digital media and audience development, The Premier League
By Mark SamuelsDigital media is core to engaging nearly two billion fans of Premier League football around the world, with data analytics and AI playing an ever-more important role
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18 Jul 2025
DWP accused of shielding AI deployments from public scrutiny
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAmnesty International and Big Brother Watch say Department for Work and Pensions’ ‘unchecked’ and opaque use of AI in the UK benefits system treats claimants as suspicious and is shielded from public scrutiny
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17 Jul 2025
Estimated 96% of EMEA financial services sector not ready for DORA
By Brian McKennaResearch from data backup provider Veeam indicates that vast majority of European financial services firms do not feel ready to meet the resiliency requirements of the EU’s DORA act
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17 Jul 2025
Ataccama targets business users with latest AI capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest update makes data lineage accessible to business users, enabling them to trust their data and make decisions without consulting trained experts for assistance.
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17 Jul 2025
Terrorist potential of generative AI ‘purely theoretical’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK terror legislation advisor takes stock of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems to be adopted by terrorists, particularly for propaganda and attack planning purposes, but acknowledges the impact may be limited
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16 Jul 2025
Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform
By Aaron TanAs security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO
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15 Jul 2025
Microsoft, Databricks simplify synchronizing, sharing data
By Eric AvidonA new integration designed by the tech giant and data platform vendor eliminates the need for users to move or copy data to join it across platforms for better-informed analysis.
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15 Jul 2025
SnapLogic adds MCP support to aid agentic AI deployment
By Eric AvidonFollowing the launch of AgentCreator in 2024, the data integration vendor is adding support for the open standard to better enable customers to build and manage agentic tools.
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15 Jul 2025
Qdrant lowers vector database complexity to aid development
By Eric AvidonThe vendor now provides an integrated environment for operationalizing unstructured data to aid enterprises struggling with a profusion of tools to generate and manage vectors.
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15 Jul 2025
Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Ada Lovelace Institute examines how ‘market forces’ can be used to drive the professionalisation of artificial intelligence assurance in the context of a wider political shift towards deregulation
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14 Jul 2025
Technology fuels successful FCA fight against unauthorised financial services
By Karl FlindersThe UK finance regulator is using data and technology to identify websites and apps that could cause financial harm
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14 Jul 2025
AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs
By Aaron TanAs organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president
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11 Jul 2025
UK to create ‘governance framework’ for police facial recognition
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHome secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed UK will regulate police facial recognition, citing police reticence to deploy systems without proper governance, but declined to say if any new framework will be statutory
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11 Jul 2025
UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation
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10 Jul 2025
Oracle, AWS partner for cloud database boost
By Shane SniderOracle Database@AWS combines the companies' tools to eliminate costly and complex data pipeline buildouts while adding to its collection of agreements with hyperscalers.
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09 Jul 2025
NAO says government should employ data analytics to tackle fraud
By Cliff SaranThe National Audit Office recommends public bodies share and manage data in a way that prevents fraud and saves taxpayers’ money
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08 Jul 2025
Knime updates framework for agentic AI development
By Eric AvidonThe open source analytics vendor is keeping up with competitors by providing features aimed at enabling users to create cutting-edge applications capable of autonomous action.
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08 Jul 2025
Denodo unveils DeepQuery to provide AI-powered deep analysis
By Eric AvidonThe data virtualization specialist's new GenAI feature lets users dig deep into their data to discover the reasons underlying what's happening within their organization.
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08 Jul 2025
Interview: Steve Riley, head of IT operations and service management, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1
By Mark SamuelsAs the British Grand Prix rolled into Silverstone for the annual jamboree of Formula One motor racing, we caught up with the Mercedes F1 team to find out how technology has advanced in the year since the last race
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08 Jul 2025
Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks
By Mark SamuelsThe clothing manufacturer’s IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack – and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy
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08 Jul 2025
NHS trust accused of ‘at best cavalier, at worst deceitful’ behaviour after deleting emails
By Tommy GreeneA London hospital trust faces allegations it withheld key evidence from a tribunal hearing after one of its directors attempted to destroy more than 90,000 emails
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07 Jul 2025
Interview: Antony Hausdoerfer, group CIO, The AA
By Mark SamuelsThe vehicle recovery specialist is looking to artificial intelligence and connected vehicle technology to enhance customer experience and get drivers back on the road in the shortest possible time
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07 Jul 2025
Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘crimes of apartheid and genocide’
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07 Jul 2025
Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology
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07 Jul 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeMoves this past week at BCS, 8x8, Leaseweb, Alteryx, CyberArk and TrafficGuard
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04 Jul 2025
Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore
By Aaron TanThe Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters
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03 Jul 2025
How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future
By Aaron TanThe Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages
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02 Jul 2025
Qlik adds trust score to aid data prep for AI development
By Eric AvidonBy measuring dimensions such as diversity and timeliness, the vendor's new tool helps users understand if their data is properly prepared to inform advanced applications.
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02 Jul 2025
DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer
By Stéphane LarcherSpecialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025
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30 Jun 2025
Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI
By Stephen WithersAt its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents
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27 Jun 2025
Ciaran Martin: AI might disturb attacker-defender security balance
By Brian McKennaThe founder of the National Cyber Security Centre spoke with Computer Weekly at Infosecurity Europe 2025 about how artificial intelligence might disturb the attacker-defender security equilibrium
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27 Jun 2025
MPs propose ban on predictive policing
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonMPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems
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25 Jun 2025
Confluent platform update targets performance, simplicity
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest release replaces its coordinating technology to make its tools easier to use and updates its Control Center for more efficient streaming data workloads.
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24 Jun 2025
New Actian features target data discoverability, reliability
By Eric AvidonAutomatically embedded data governance, data product registration on a data marketplace platform and a natural language interface aim to make trusted data easier to discover.
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24 Jun 2025
Teradata extends AI development to on-premises environments
By Eric AvidonFor enterprises concerned about cloud cost control and data sovereignty, the longtime vendor's new platform enables users to build advanced AI tools in their own systems.
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20 Jun 2025
As Ocient matures, vendor names new CEO to drive growth
By Eric AvidonAs the vendor moves from its startup to growth phase, John Morris, who has significant experience leading companies as they mature, is taking over to guide its evolution.
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20 Jun 2025
Election workers’ data stolen in cyber breach of Oxford City Council
By Brian McKennaOxford City Council election workers had personal information stolen by cyber attackers in an attack over the weekend of 7-8 June. The council has stated that most disrupted systems are back online
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20 Jun 2025
UK data reforms become law
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy
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20 Jun 2025
Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo on data management, all-flash and tariffs
By Antony AdsheadWe spoke to the Pure CEO about Enterprise Data Cloud and how it can offer insight and management across all its storage, plus a catch-up on the death of the HDD and tariff uncertainty
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18 Jun 2025
Workday UK head Dan Pell: Managing AI agents requires system of record
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at Workday’s Elevate 2025 event in London, its UK and Ireland general manager discussed what it will mean to manage digital labour
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17 Jun 2025
EnterpriseDB targets AI development with latest update
By Eric AvidonA low-code/no-code interface and data observability across hybrid environments address the challenges enterprises face moving AI projects beyond development and into production.
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17 Jun 2025
SingleStore boosts database performance to meet AI needs
By Eric AvidonWith AI development and deployment imposing greater workload demands on data management systems than traditional analytics, the vendor's latest update targets efficiency at scale.
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15 Jun 2025
Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with AI copilot
By Stephen WithersThe company’s Assist for CX tool aims to help organisations act on customer feedback, with one Australian airline already using it to slash insight times from months to hours
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13 Jun 2025
CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI
By Bill GoodwinAlan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing the use of AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications
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13 Jun 2025
ThoughtSpot evolving as BI becomes driven by AI
By Eric AvidonRecent releases, including the Agentic Analytics Platform and Agentic Semantic Layer, demonstrate that the vendor continues to be creative amid the changing analytics industry.
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12 Jun 2025
Agentforce London: 78% of UK companies use agentic AI, says Salesforce
By Brian McKennaSalesforce released Digital Labour Trends survey data to coincide with its Agentforce London 2025 event that found 78% of UK organisations are using agentic AI
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11 Jun 2025
Latest Databricks tools use AI to simplify AI development
By Eric AvidonFueled by user feedback, the vendor's newest features include a framework that automates building agents and a no-code interface for creating the pipelines that feed applications.
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06 Jun 2025
More reasoning, interoperability key to future of agentic AI
By Eric AvidonAs agents evolve from hype to reality, research and industry must collaborate to improve agents' recall and ability to work together so that they can realize their full potential.
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06 Jun 2025
UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition
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05 Jun 2025
FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store
By Aaron TanThe supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet
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05 Jun 2025
UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPeople experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy
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04 Jun 2025
Investigatory powers: Guidelines for police and spies could also help businesses with AI
By Bill GoodwinComputer Weekly talks to Muffy Calder, technology advisor to the UK’s investigatory powers commissioner, about privacy, intrusion and artificial intelligence
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04 Jun 2025
Snowflake continues to add AI, boost Cortex capabilities
By Eric AvidonFeatures that enable users to develop agents, coupled with the integration of agentic capabilities into the vendor's own platform, show the vendor's growth beyond data management.
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04 Jun 2025
European Commission should rescind UK data adequacy
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonCivil society organisations have urged the European Commissioner to not renew the UK’s data adequacy, given the country’s growing divergence from European data protection standards
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04 Jun 2025
Interview: Manish Jethwa, chief technology officer, Ordnance Survey
By Mark SamuelsThe UK mapping service has moved on a long way from paper maps as it now looks to use artificial intelligence to understand, interpret and derive insights from geographical data
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04 Jun 2025
Infosecurity 2025: SMEs feel on their own in the face of cyber attacks
By Brian McKennaProject findings to be presented at Infosecurity Europe 2025 highlight vulnerability of SMEs to cyber attack
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03 Jun 2025
Snowflake acquisition of Crunchy Data adds Postgres database
By Eric AvidonThe deal, which comes shortly after rival Databricks also purchased a PostgreSQL database vendor, adds open source capabilities aimed at better enabling AI development.
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03 Jun 2025
AI tools highlight latest swath of Snowflake capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe vendor is developing a natural language interface that unites disparate data types and an agent that makes data scientists more efficient, among other features.
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03 Jun 2025
AI tools highlight latest swath of Snowflake capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe vendor is developing a natural language interface that unites disparate data types and an agent that makes data scientists more efficient, among other features.
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02 Jun 2025
Infosecurity 2025: NCA cyber intelligence head spells out trends
By Brian McKennaWill Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, sketches out cyber criminal trends as ransomware and other attack varieties become democratised beyond Russophone, skilled software developers
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29 May 2025
Sapphire 2025: BASF evolves business with move to SAP S/4Hana
By Brian McKennaGermany-based global chemical giant BASF has elected to move its SAP IT estate to S/4Hana private cloud to evolve its business in uncertain times
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29 May 2025
Monte Carlo adds observability for unstructured data
By Eric AvidonWith AI tools requiring large amounts of high-quality input to be accurate, the vendor is making it easier to monitor all types of information as users build modern applications.
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28 May 2025
UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public
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28 May 2025
Sisense unveils new suite of AI-powered capabilities
By Eric AvidonFeaturing a natural language interface and autonomous capabilities to augment human analysis, the vendor's toolkit simplifies developing and embedding advanced applications.
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28 May 2025
ANZ firms spending more on data management
By Stephen WithersNearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds
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27 May 2025
Salesforce pays $8bn for Informatica to underpin agentic AI play
By Alex ScroxtonSalesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy
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27 May 2025
Interview: Richard Masters, vice-president of data and AI, Virgin Atlantic
By Mark SamuelsThe airline’s data chief is applying his expertise as a PhD in astrophysics to the nitty-gritty details of using artificial intelligence to improve customer experience
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23 May 2025
Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAn equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory
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21 May 2025
Sapphire 2025: SAP mints business AI flywheel with Palantir on board
By Brian McKennaSAP CEO Christian Klein put economic and geopolitical uncertainty at the centre of the opening keynote at the supplier’s global Sapphire event in Orlando
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21 May 2025
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
By Antony AdsheadVast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities
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21 May 2025
Capital One pushes out data tokenisation
By Cliff SaranOrganisations using the Databricks and Snowflake platforms will be able to use Capital One’s Databolt tool to secure their data
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20 May 2025
New Microsoft database, analytics tools target agentic AI
By Eric AvidonNew features across the tech giant's broad array of BI and data management offerings, including Fabric and OneLake, provide developers with tools for agentic AI development.
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20 May 2025
Alation boosts agentic AI with Numbers Station acquisition
By Eric AvidonThe acquisition adds capabilities such as Chat that enable users to embed agents in workflows to complement the vendor's existing plans for agentic development.
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19 May 2025
Addition of new AI capabilities shows Starburst's growth
By Eric AvidonThe open source data lakehouse vendor continues to evolve beyond being a data mesh specialist with the additions of agentic tools, a development environment and a data catalog.
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15 May 2025
Qlik evolves to keep up with latest AI, analytics trends
By Eric AvidonThe longtime BI vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base to keep current with what's happening in GenAI and agentic development, analytics, and data management.
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15 May 2025
Smart ball analytics proves value in rugby
By Brian McKennaWelsh professional rugby player Dan Biggar gives his thoughts on the role of data analytics in his sport, at an event where the Sportable smart ball was demonstrated
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14 May 2025
Alteryx One launch aims to unify, simplify vendor's platform
By Eric AvidonThe updated version of the data integration vendor's platform aims to make it easier to prepare data for AI and analytics, while new GenAI tools further simplify data preparation.
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14 May 2025
Databricks adds Postgres database with $1B Neon acquisition
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest purchase comes six months after it raised $10B in funding. By adding PostgreSQL database capabilities, it aims to better enable users to build AI applications.
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14 May 2025
Boomi launches agentic AI development tools, support for MCP
By Eric AvidonThe longtime iPaaS vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base with the additions of Agentstudio, agents that simplify integration and change data capture capabilities.
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14 May 2025
Informatica to build agents, foster agentic AI development
By Eric AvidonWith agents now a major trend in data management, the vendor plans to join the fray by developing agentic capabilities and providing customers with the tools to do the same.
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14 May 2025
Qlik unveils agentic AI capabilities, launches lakehouse
By Eric AvidonAn insight generation tool and capabilities that unlock unstructured data are among the longtime analytics vendor's latest features, while a data lakehouse represents expansion.
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14 May 2025
UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonElectronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groups
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08 May 2025
Oracle NetSuite’s Goldberg: Autonomous AI next applications phase
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteConnect 2025 in London, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence in ERP is evolving
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08 May 2025
Data streaming matures, cultural shift is key
By Stephen WithersConfluent’s Tim Berglund warns that a cultural transformation towards creating valued data products is vital even as the technology for data streaming is maturing
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07 May 2025
ServiceNow digs deeper into data for AI with Data.world buy
By Beth PariseauServiceNow will fold in metadata collection and data catalog tools from the data governance specialist to fuel its agentic AI ambitions.
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07 May 2025
SAS update targets responsible agentic AI development
By Eric AvidonThe longtime independent analytics vendor's latest Viya platform update includes Intelligent Decisioning, a set of governance-infused capabilities for developing agents.
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07 May 2025
ServiceNow K25: McDermott vaunts agentic AI platform as revolutionary
By Brian McKennaAt its Knowledge 25 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas, ServiceNow painted an orchestrated agentic AI future for its Now platform and targeted CRM as prime field for growth
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07 May 2025
Latest Neo4j release aims to simplify graph technology
By Eric AvidonPrebuilt algorithms that reduce the complexity of queries and connectivity to any data source are designed to make graph-based analysis accessible to a broader audience.
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06 May 2025
Snowflake launches auto industry-specific AI capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe latest AI Manufacturing Data Cloud update adds features aimed at helping auto manufacturers deal with massive amounts of data being created by the industry's evolution.
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06 May 2025
Data issues cost Australian businesses nearly A$500k annually
By Aaron TanResearch reveals Australian organisations are losing an average of nearly half a million dollars annually due to poor data integrity, hindering their ability to leverage AI and eroding their competitive edge
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06 May 2025
Interview: Joe Depa, global chief innovation officer, EY
By Mark SamuelsAccounting firm EY is focused on ‘AI-ready data’ to maximise the benefits of agentic AI and enable the use of emerging frontier technologies for its business and clients
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02 May 2025
Fivetran adds reverse ETL with acquisition of Census
By Eric AvidonThe data integration specialist's purchase provides users with complementary capabilities that enable them to send transformed data back to applications where decisions are made.
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02 May 2025
Government and Ofcom disagree about scope of Online Safety Act
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonMPs heard different views from the online harms regulator and the UK government about whether and how the Online Safety Act obliges platforms to deal with disinformation
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30 Apr 2025
How AI can attack corporate decision-making
By Cliff SaranAs AI gets embedded in corporate systems, experts warn of emerging security risks caused by influencing retrieval augmentation systems
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30 Apr 2025
StarTree aims to simplify AI development with new features
By Eric AvidonThe database vendor plans to add support for Model Context Protocol and automated vector embedding capabilities to make it faster and easier to benefit from agentic AI.
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30 Apr 2025
StarTree aims to simplify AI development with new features
By Eric AvidonThe database vendor plans to add support for Model Context Protocol and automated vector embedding capabilities to make it faster and easier to benefit from agentic AI.
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29 Apr 2025
Acceldata launches agentic AI-powered anomaly detection
By Eric AvidonThe data observability specialist's new feature uses agentic AI to ensure that the data used to inform analytics and AI tools is high quality and won't lead to poor decisions.
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29 Apr 2025
Edinburgh University evaluation of NHS AI Lab finds early promise
By Brian McKennaA report into the NHS AI Lab from the University of Edinburgh identifies early signs of return on investment amid barriers to scaling and implementation
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29 Apr 2025
VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features
By Yann SerraVeeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup
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28 Apr 2025
Pharma leaders see AI revolutionising medicine
By Aaron TanPharmaceutical industry experts at Gitex Asia 2025 discuss how AI is revolutionising drug discovery, from accelerating clinical trials and diagnosing rare diseases to validating traditional medicines