Data science and analytics
As businesses' data volumes continue to expand, data science has become vital for to inform decision making, strategic planning and marketing techniques. Learn about the latest data science and analytics techniques businesses are incorporating to help identify opportunities to streamline processes, identify potential business ventures and improve customer service.
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11 May 2026
Alation intros AI governance suite to ensure compliance
As enterprises launch agents and other cutting-edge applications into production, remaining compliant with evolving regulations is challenging. Continue Reading
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08 May 2026
MongoDB adds new vector, performance capabilities to aid AI
With enterprise data workloads feeding AI pipelines, the longtime database vendor is evolving -- along with competitors -- by building capabilities for cutting-edge development. Continue Reading
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07 May 2026
Teradata's latest targets putting agentic AI into production
As many enterprises prepare to move past experimenting with agents, the vendor's new platform is purpose-built to help users move pilots into production. Continue Reading
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06 May 2026
Tableau in transition as AI forces BI vendors to evolve
With its new context layer for AI, the vendor is attempting a needed evolution as agents and other cutting-edge tools reduce enterprise reliance on traditional analytics. Continue Reading
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05 May 2026
New Tableau leader talks vendor's evolution in era of AI
With longtime data and analytics providers pivoting to find their role within AI workflows, Mark Recher takes over during a time of transition for the vendor. Continue Reading
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05 May 2026
Tableau repositions for AI, unveils new knowledge layer
The Agentic Analytics Platform is designed to help users operationalize contextually relevant data for agents and demonstrates the vendor's ongoing evolution. Continue Reading
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04 May 2026
SAP acquisitions of Dremio, Prior Labs target AI development
The tech giant's latest purchases add a data lakehouse that enables users to access data across systems and tabular foundation models that fuel predictive AI. Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2026
Qlik's Capone departs after eight years as CEO
With AI the dominant trend in data and analytics, the vendor's leader leaves after guiding it through its cloud transition and additions of data integration and AI capabilities. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2026
Qdrant boosts performance, reliability to meet AI needs
As customers look to move past experimentation and put pilots into production, the vendor's new features better prepare its platform for modern enterprise workloads. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2026
Latest SAS capabilities focus on fostering reliable AI
Features including an MCP server and a framework for developing agents aim to enable trustworthy AI-powered analysis while also helping the vendor catch up to its competition. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2026
Actian targets secure, compliant AI with new vector database
The vendor's portable database enables organizations in heavily regulated industries to build AI tools without risking accidental data exposure or regulatory violations. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2026
GoodData joins agentic AI development mix with Agent Builder
Automatic connections to relevant data through a context layer and a no-code development interface aim to simplify building context-aware, cutting-edge applications. Continue Reading
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22 Apr 2026
Google unveils data cloud purpose built for agentic AI
Features including a Knowledge Catalog and cross-cloud lakehouse are aimed at enabling customers to deploy multi-agent systems and could be a competitive edge for the tech giant. Continue Reading
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21 Apr 2026
Snowflake updates further goal of being control pane for AI
Agentic capabilities that execute workloads based on natural language prompts and access to new data sources facilitate the vendor's ambition to become a hub for agentic systems. Continue Reading
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20 Apr 2026
Redis unveils Feature Form to improve AI, ML workloads
Unified batch and streaming pipelines and multi-tenant capabilities that allow teams to isolate work in shared database instances highlight new ML management environment. Continue Reading
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17 Apr 2026
Data quality, fast failures and quick wins key to AI success
Despite many organizations struggling to realize value from their development initiatives, best practices can help, according to industry experts at Domo's annual user conference. Continue Reading
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15 Apr 2026
How business leaders can make a data-literate culture stick
Data literacy is an ongoing, interactive process. With executive support, a data-literate culture eases backlogs, improves AI outcomes and fosters better decision-making. Continue Reading
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14 Apr 2026
Latest Qlik tools target helping users achieve AI goals
New analytics, data engineering and governance capabilities are aimed at enabling customers to successfully build and deploy agents and other advanced applications. Continue Reading
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14 Apr 2026
Starburst intros AI assistant to boost analysis, exploration
Built with capabilities that enable it to reason, act and observe, AIDA improves on text-to-SQL translation tools to provide contextually aware query responses. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2026
Snowflake broadens open-source embrace, ups Iceberg support
To make data more interoperable across systems and usable for AI, the vendor is participating in projects that address data quality, integration, governance and discovery. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2026
AI, analytics push data-in-use protection up priority list
As sensitive data moves into AI pipelines, organizations must evaluate how to protect it during processing and what safeguards IT platforms provide for data in use. Continue Reading
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01 Apr 2026
Domo drives customer excitement with latest AI capabilities
New features including an MCP server keep the vendor current with industry trends and have users imagining what's possible with agentic AI. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2026
Redpanda launches streaming engine optimized for AI
By integrating workload types, the vendor is simplifying data streams for AI while also differentiating itself from its closest competitors. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2026
Top data preparation challenges and how to overcome them
Data preparation is a crucial but complex part of analytics and AI applications. Don't let these seven common challenges send your data prep processes off track. Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2026
Build a data literacy program to fit company needs
Want better decisions? Invest in a role-based data literacy program that aligns training to workflows, builds trust in metrics and improves execution on business goals. Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2026
As AI advances, Domo is evolving to meet customer needs
Once viewed as an analytics specialist, the vendor's product development plans are now focused on helping users build agents and other applications that can be trusted and deployed. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2026
Domo adds new governance tools to improve data access
With AI applications taking on more business workflows, new capabilities are aimed at enabling system administrators to ensure the appropriate use of data. Continue Reading
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25 Mar 2026
Domo doubles down on AI with latest platform additions
New features such as an AI Library, a framework for building agents and an MCP server are all aimed at better enabling customers to operationalize their AI initiatives. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2026
Oracle AI Database update aims to ease developing agents
New vector indexing capabilities and prebuilt agents are designed to simplify building cutting-edge applications and could help differentiate the tech giant from competitors. Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2026
How to build an effective big data strategy
Big data initiatives won't deliver business benefits without a comprehensive strategy to guide data management and analytics work. Here's how to build one. Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2026
ThoughtSpot domain-specific Spotter agents target AI success
With many enterprises struggling to successfully develop AI tools, the vendor's latest capabilities help AI applications access the context they need to be production-ready. Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2026
Snowflake intros SnowWork to automate tasks with AI
The platform, which is now in research preview, is designed to provide users with agent-powered collaboration capabilities that can automate actions and workflows. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2026
Good governance key to reducing high AI project failure rate
Better governance of cutting-edge applications and the data that feeds them are key to overcoming development obstacles, Databricks exec Craig Wiley said in a recent interview. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2026
8 benefits of using big data for businesses
Big data is a valuable resource for improving business processes and driving innovation. Here are eight ways big data applications benefit companies. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2026
Qdrant raises $50M in funding to fuel vector database growth
With VCs cautious about investing in data management providers, the financing, which will be used for R&D and go-to-market initiatives, serves as validation of the vendor's vision. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2026
GoodData's Context Management aims to make AI trustworthy
The new context layer includes semantic modeling and governance to make data consistent and discoverable for AI and could help the vendor distinguish itself from some competitors. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2026
Teradata updates vector indexing suite to aid AI development
New capabilities including hybrid search and support for multi-modal embeddings are aimed at helping users access the data needed by agents and other cutting-edge applications. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2026
CData targets development success with Connect AI update
The vendor's latest launch takes a three-pronged approach toward helping users move pilots into production and could be a competitive differentiator if it delivers on its promise. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2026
10 predictive analytics platforms for enterprises in 2026
The leading products have evolved into autonomous ecosystems that use AI agents and natural language to accommodate users at every skill level and accelerate decision-making. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2026
Insightsoftware unifies semantic layer, governance to aid AI
With many enterprises struggling to develop AI tools, the vendor's Simba Intelligence feature set is designed to feed agents and other applications trustworthy, transparent data. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2026
Confluent adds A2A support to fuel multi-agent AI networks
Including the open protocol enables users to build an orchestrated network of collaborative agents and could help the vendor distinguish itself from its closest competitors. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2026
Yellowfin boosts analytics suite with new NLQ capabilities
The vendor's latest update adds features that bring it more in line with competitors that have been faster to move beyond traditional BI to power their platforms with AI. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2026
18 top big data tools and technologies to know about in 2026
Numerous tools are available to use in big data applications. Here are 18 popular open source big data technologies, with details on their key features and use cases. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2026
Web data search specialist Nimble raises $47M to fuel growth
By raising funding when AI developers are dominating VC interest, the startup shows that there is a need for agents and other AI tools to include context from external sources. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2026
New Databricks tool targets streaming data cost, complexity
With Zerobus Ingest, the vendor is providing a service that differentiates it from competitors by reducing the tools required to ingest real-time data to its lakehouse platform. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2026
ThoughtSpot boosts agentic push with Analyst Studio update
A data prep agent and caching capabilities aimed at helping users control spending help the vendor stand out from its peers as it evolves toward becoming an agentic data platform. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2026
Streaming specialist Redpanda adds governance to AI suite
New Agentic Data Plane features enable users to create a governance layer for agents and could help the vendor differentiate itself from its closest competitors. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2026
Graphwise aims to boost AI accuracy with GraphRAG launch
With standard RAG pipelines proving unreliable, the vendor's new feature uses knowledge graphs to add needed context to the data retrieval process that fuels AI outputs. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2026
SurrealDB raises $23M, launches update to fuel agentic AI
Though funding isn't flowing as freely into data management as it once was, the startup is attracting interest by focusing on enabling customers to unify data for AI development. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2026
What is data visualization?
Data visualization translates information into charts, maps or other graphics to show patterns, trends and outliers in a way that can be grasped quickly. Continue Reading
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16 Feb 2026
18 data science tools to consider using in 2026
Numerous tools are available for data science applications. Read about 18, including their features, capabilities and uses, to see if they fit your analytics needs. Continue Reading
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11 Feb 2026
6 essential big data best practices for businesses
These best practices can help data leaders create an effective big data strategy that meets an organization's analytics needs and delivers valuable business benefits. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2026
Qlik launches agentic experience to fuel AI-powered analysis
The vendor's latest capabilities, including an insight-generating agent and an MCP server, show that it is evolving to keep pace with current trends in data and analytics. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2026
PII masking a differentiator for Aerospike's NoSQL database
By adding native protection of personally identifiable information, the vendor is simplifying system administration while simultaneously pushing the NoSQL market. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2026
Databricks launches PostgreSQL Lakebase to aid AI developers
Resulting from the $1B acquisition of Neon, the database built for AI workloads -- including separate compute and storage -- is now integrated with the vendor's broader platform. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2026
Pentaho update aids data integration, semantic modeling
The vendor's latest platform update aims to speed, simplify and better govern workloads to help customers build a trusted foundation for AI development. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2026
Snowflake launches new AI tools, unveils OpenAI partnership
New features such as an agent-powered code generator and automated semantic modeling simplify developing cutting-edge applications and improve the vendor's competitive standing. Continue Reading
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28 Jan 2026
Alteryx launches in-warehouse data prep tool for BigQuery
Live Query for BigQuery eliminates the need to move data between systems, saving customers from spending on data egress and reducing the risk of security leaks. Continue Reading
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28 Jan 2026
Domo adds App Catalyst to platform to aid AI development
By combining natural language code generation with enterprise-grade security and governance, the vendor aims to help customers more successfully build cutting-edge applications. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2026
New Snowflake suite simplifies data, AI for energy sector
Energy Solutions joins the vendor's spate of industry-specific offerings and includes partner-built applications and pre-modeled datasets that accelerate data-driven initiatives. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2026
Teradata's AgentStack aims to simplify building, managing AI
Featuring capabilities for developing, deploying and governing agents, the vendor's new suite addresses many of the problems enterprises face when trying to launch agentic systems. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2026
GoodData launches MCP server to fuel AI-powered analysis
By connecting its platform and customers' AI tools, the vendor is enabling users to automate the analytics workflow and speed insight generation. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2026
ScyllaDB adds vector search to managed database platform
The feature's direct integration in the X Cloud platform is aimed at simplifying AI development by eliminating the need for customers to add specialized databases. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2026
ScyllaDB X Cloud update addresses database cost, performance
Features such as autoscaling and advanced compression are designed to help customers reduce spending on their data management, analytics and AI initiatives. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2026
Big data analytics and business intelligence: A comparison
BI and big data analytics support different types of analytics applications. Using them in complementary ways enables a comprehensive data analytics strategy. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2026
MongoDB launches latest Voyage models to aid AI development
With many enterprises struggling to build advanced applications, new embedding and reranking models improve data retrieval to make agents and other tools more effective. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 2026
Sisense targets embedding AI with latest new features
Tools such as an MCP server and a natural language assistant demonstrate the vendor's evolution toward artificial intelligence as the interface for analytics. Continue Reading
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12 Jan 2026
The top 2026 data conferences to plan enterprise strategy
This guide lists events that can help data leaders assess how AI fits into their current architecture and identify improvements needed to meet future data demands. Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2026
Top trends in big data for enterprises in 2026
As AI systems mature, organizations must evaluate models, infrastructure and governance frameworks that balance cost, compliance and performance this year and beyond. Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2026
Snowflake storms into IT monitoring with Observe acquisition
Historically focused on data management and AI development, the vendor is adding infrastructure observability capabilities in a move that could differentiate it from competitors. Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2026
New Databricks tool aims to up agentic AI response accuracy
With enterprises struggling to successfully develop agents using traditional RAG pipelines, the vendor's new Instructed Retriever offers an alternative. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2026
Snowflake boosts Google partnership, integrates Gemini 3
By making the tech giant's LLM natively available in Cortex AI, the data cloud vendor is adding yet another significant tool to its evolving development suite. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2026
Data science applications across industries in 2026
Industries like healthcare, retail and finance use data science applications to improve diagnostics, optimize operations, forecast trends and prevent fraud. Continue Reading
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29 Dec 2025
4 trends that will shape data management and AI in 2026
The tendencies that influence the next 12 months build on what began last year, including rising mergers and acquisitions and the need to simplify developing and deploying agents. Continue Reading
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23 Dec 2025
What is a data scientist? What do they do?
A data scientist is an analytics professional who collects, analyzes, and interprets data to transform it into actionable insights that can facilitate decision-making. Continue Reading
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22 Dec 2025
4 trends that shaped data management, analytics in 2025
With each relating to agentic AI development, tendencies included nearly universal support for MCP and rising emphasis on semantic modeling, among others. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2025
Databricks adds $4B funding round; IPO could be next
With a valuation well over $100 billion and strong revenue growth from both data management and AI, the vendor could be preparing to go public. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2025
EnterpriseDB updates WarehousePG with features that fuel AI
The PostgreSQL database specialist's data warehouse update targets AI development by adding predictable pricing, real-time data processing and improved governance capabilities. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2025
ThoughtSpot automates full platform with new Spotter agents
With agents for data modeling, dashboard development and embedding applications, the vendor is simplifying processes that have historically slowed analytics workflows. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2025
Couchbase adds agentic AI development suite to Capella DBaaS
AI Services, which includes an integration with Nvidia and governance capabilities -- among other features -- represents the vendor's growth beyond its database roots. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2025
IBM acquiring Confluent to boost AI development capabilities
The purchase of a streaming data platform complements the tech giant's existing tools by enabling developers to build agents using real-time information. Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2025
Snowflake, Anthropic boost partnership with $200M commitment
After first partnering in 2024 to make Claude models available in Cortex AI, the companies plan to collaborate on agentic AI development and marketing strategies. Continue Reading
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03 Dec 2025
Informatica tightens bond with AWS's AI development tools
New features optimized for joint customers include MCP servers to connect governed data with foundation models and a framework for developing agents on the tech giant's platform. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2025
Latest AWS data management features target cost control
As the volume and complexity of enterprise data estates increase, and the size of data workloads grows due to AI development, the tech giant aims to help users reduce spending. Continue Reading
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25 Nov 2025
One year of MCP: Support a must for data management vendors
With most AI development initiatives focused on agentic AI, failure to provide the framework for easily connecting agents with relevant data is now a competitive disadvantage. Continue Reading
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24 Nov 2025
Microsoft helps Premier League fuel fan experience with AI
A new app built by England's top soccer division using the tech giant's data management and development capabilities draws on decades of data to deliver personalized insights. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2025
Precisely intros AI capabilities to simplify data quality
The data integrity specialist's new features, including a conversational interface and a fabric for connecting governed assets, address the growing emphasis on high-quality data. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2025
Snowflake integrates with Nvidia to speed AI/ML workloads
Adding data science libraries featuring GPUs to the vendor's development suite aims to exponentially improve the performance of application workloads. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2025
New Microsoft tools connect AI agents with proper data
Semantic modeling to unite enterprise data and automated pipeline capabilities to feed applications with relevant information aim to give autonomous tools appropriate context. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2025
Ng: Biggest benefit of AI may be unlocking unstructured data
Tech entrepreneur Andrew Ng says that in addition to autonomous action, one of the most beneficial applications of AI is enabling easy access to valuable unstructured data. Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2025
Dremio Cloud: An autonomous lakehouse powered by AI agents
The new platform automates complex data preparation and pipeline management tasks that fuel AI development and could be a differentiator for the vendor. Continue Reading
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07 Nov 2025
15 common data science techniques to know and use
Data scientists use statistical and analytical techniques to analyze data sets. Here are 15 popular classification, regression and clustering methods. Continue Reading
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06 Nov 2025
Ataccama automates data quality with agentic AI-fueled suite
The new version of the vendor's platform automates tasks previously performed by humans to substantially reduce the time it takes to ensure that data can be trusted. Continue Reading
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04 Nov 2025
Snowflake delivers slew of AI tools, introduces new ones
The newly released tools simplify access to enterprise data and enable deeper analysis through natural language to address challenges in AI development and data utilization. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2025
New Databricks tools target successful agentic AI development
With enterprises struggling to build agents, new Agent Bricks features address accuracy and governance to help move development projects from pilot to production. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2025
Streaming specialist Confluent unveils AI development suite
In addition to a unified environment for building and deploying agents, the vendor launched a private cloud version of its platform and integrations that simplify data preparation. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2025
Informatica launches agents, adds new AI development tools
Prebuilt agents for data quality and other data management tasks and a development framework featuring MCP support highlight the vendor's Fall 2025 platform update. Continue Reading
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28 Oct 2025
Streaming vendor Redpanda buys SQL engine, unveils AI suite
With the Agent Data Plane, which features newly acquired SQL database capabilities, the specialist is expanding beyond its roots and adding tools to train and govern AI agents. Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2025
What is data analytics (DA)?
Data analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets to find trends and draw conclusions about the information they contain. Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2025
Immuta adds provisioning prowess to speed insight generation
Featuring automation capabilities, the new tools dramatically reduce the time it takes to operationalize governed data and could help differentiate the vendor from its peers. Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2025
Couchbase ups database vector search, indexing capabilities
The vendor's update takes a three-pronged approach to storing and searching vectorized data to make building AI tools trained on massive amounts of relevant information faster. Continue Reading
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16 Oct 2025
Snowflake, Palantir team to simplify AI, insight generation
Native integration between the vendors' platforms aims to simplify and speed development of AI and analytics tools for current joint customers -- and to attract new ones. Continue Reading