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Meltano spins out from GitLab to advance DataOps platform

Douwe Maan, founder and CEO of Meltano, outlines the new data startup's approach as it raises seed funding to advance an open source ELT system. Continue Reading

After sluggish revenues, Cloudera goes private in $5.3B deal

Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to expand its SaaS capabilities by exiting the public markets and acquiring startups Cazena and Datacoral to bring new self-service features. Continue Reading

Building a big data architecture: Core components, best practices

To process the infinite volume and variety of data collected from multiple sources, most enterprises need to get with the program and build a multilayered big data architecture. Continue Reading

Data prep in browser highlights Tableau BI platform update

New data preparation capabilities highlight the release of Tableau 2020.4, which was unveiled on Dec. 15 and includes a version of Tableau Prep Builder for the browser. Continue Reading

Isima emerges with bi(OS) converged data platform

Startup launches with the general availability of a converged platform that offers the promise of integrating multiple data management and analysis steps into a single offering. Continue Reading

Yellowbrick CEO outlines hybrid path to cloud data warehouse

Neil Carson, co-founder and CEO of Yellowbrick, details the state of data warehouse market and outlines use cases for hybrid on-premises and cloud deployments. Continue Reading

Building a strong data analytics platform architecture

A strong analytics platform is key to meeting demands in a data-driven business. Read on for the key components your platform architecture should include. Continue Reading

Top -- and bottom -- 5 Apache Kafka use cases

Apache Kafka has many applications in big data, but what enterprise use cases are the best fit for the tool? Experts discuss where Kafka works best for your data. Continue Reading

Databricks bolsters security for data analytics tool

Databricks looks to bridge the gap between on-premises controls and the cloud with data analytics security policies in the company's latest platform update. Continue Reading

Hazelcast Jet 4.0 boosts event streaming data platform

The vendor's real-time event streaming platform gets a boost as the newest version adds support for Python machine learning models to help make sense of the data deluge. Continue Reading

Grafana Labs observability platform set to grow

Raj Dutt, co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, provides insight into what his company is doing and where it's headed, now that it has raised new money and is seeing new use cases for its data observability technology. Continue Reading

Stibo Systems advances multidomain MDM system

The new Stibo Systems 9.2 update expands the MDM platform's features with Sisense business intelligence integration and machine learning capabilities. Continue Reading

Cloudera Data Platform to debut, as big data fortunes waver

The interim CEO of Cloudera is cautiously optimistic about growth prospects as the big data vendor acquired Arcadia Data and planned to bolster its own cloud platform. Continue Reading

11 real-time data streaming roadblocks and how to overcome them

Experts detail common challenges that IT teams encounter when deploying and managing real-time data streaming platforms and offer advice on how to address them. Continue Reading

Building leaner, meaner BI data sources

As business intelligence analysis and reporting platforms become increasingly important in the enterprise, so does the data that feeds them. Are your BI data sources up to par? Continue Reading

Information Builders CEO on cloud-first approach, machine learning

Information Builders' new CEO, Frank Vella, said the company's focus on cloud and machine learning will help it solidify a firm position in today's BI and analytics market. Continue Reading

New Information Builders CEO targets modern CX, development

In Q&A, new CEO Frank Vella discusses how Information Builders is modernizing its WebFocus platform to make it easier to use and changing the vendor's internal culture. Continue Reading

Slow to gain traction, AI apps on the verge of explosion

From chatbots ("Can I help you?") to killer bots ("I'll be back."), artificial intelligence runs the gamut of applications and emotions like no other technology. It's been nearly 70 years since AI first came into consciousness with humankind, yet only recently has it made serious inroads into business and consumer markets, mainly riding the coattails of its offshoot, machine learning.

AI's other offspring -- deep learning, cognitive computing, image recognition and natural language processing -- show plenty of promise but have barely left the womb. Yet market research and industry foot soldiers tell us AI is on the cusp of explosive growth in practically every major industry.

Along those lines, the February issue of Business Information opens with our editor's note, which provides a good dose of common sense and advice for businesses not to throw caution to the whirlwind of hyperbole surrounding AI. Companies anxious to apply AI, particularly machine learning, to their operations for fear they'll fall behind the competition, must first do their homework and separate fact from fiction, all the while keeping in mind that implementing AI apps is difficult and requires time, expense and the right kind of data.

Our cover story takes the issue of good data one step further and examines the very real dangers that bias in machine learning data sets can create. Data scientists have their work cut out for them identifying and pinpointing bias, especially since nearly all data inherently contains bias. In another feature, we look at the usefulness of today's AI tools, which, except for some niche AI apps, are not very useful, but they come with a whole lot of promise as a soon-to-be transformative force in business operations.

Also in this issue, a major components manufacturer uses AI apps to transform its assembly line process, cognitive computing can help improve a doctor's bedside manner, the benefits of AI and machine learning entice healthcare organizations to move to the cloud and humankind's range of reactions to AI's unlimited potential parallel those of the atomic age.

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2007 data management products of the year

Find out the best two data management products in the categories of business intelligence, data quality, data integration and data warehouses. Continue Reading

Are performance dashboards the new face of BI?

TDWI's fall conference featured a keynote presentation about performance dashboards as dynamic improvement to scorecards or 'flat' dashboards. Continue Reading

Informatica offers new edition

Informatica announced the PowerCenter Advanced Edition, bundling its PowerCenter 7.1, PowerAnalyzer 5.0 and SuperGlue 2.1 into one package and at a reduced price. Continue Reading

Coast Guard takes flight with BI

The U.S. Coast Guard turned to a new BI implementation to coordinate its nationwide aviation program and get its planes in the air. Continue Reading

Is IBM offering BI?

The DB2 group is calling itself a BI vendor, but its lack of sophisticated query and reporting tools dispute that. On the other hand, its data warehousing and data mining tools offer a convincing argument. Continue Reading