Data governance
Data governance processes manage the availability, usability, integrity and security of the data in enterprise systems. These processes rely on detailed internal data standards and policies that also control data usage. Learn about the latest data governance processes and strategies to ensure data is consistent, trustworthy and properly protected.
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27 Mar 2026
From core to edge: Strategies for scalable, compliant and agile IT
Edge computing is revolutionizing data processing, allowing organizations to reduce latency and enhance real-time insights. Follow these strategies for effective adoption. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Mar 2026
Data domain ownership, data mesh chart path to AI-ready data
That AI initiative won't get off the ground without timely, reliable data. Bringing technology and team practices into sync reduces delays and boosts data readiness. 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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Feature
26 Mar 2026
How big data collection works: Process, methods, challenges
Before big data can be used in analytics and AI applications, data teams must collect it from various sources. Here's how to create and manage an effective collection process. Continue Reading
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News
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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23 Mar 2026
Q&A: The gap between AI ambitions and data readiness
Ataccama CEO Mike McKee discusses why most organizations aren't ready for AI, why ROI failures are largely a people problem and what the data management industry keeps overlooking. Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2026
Data lineage documentation matters for enterprise reliability
Data lineage is critical to enterprise success. Tracing a data asset's journey through pipelines helps improve data quality, speeds up corrections and builds trust in analytics. 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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Feature
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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17 Mar 2026
SLM vs. LLM: Rightsize data architecture to optimize AI use
It doesn't need to be a binary choice. Enterprises are warming up to smaller AI models to meet compliance and cost needs while reserving large models for complex jobs. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2026
Data lakehouse ransomware recovery strategies for AI
Attackers target the metadata your data intelligence platform needs to function. Understand where your AI risks are and what it takes to restore service after an incident. 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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Tip
10 Mar 2026
Build trust on a federated governance model
Follow this practical blueprint to adopt a modern data governance approach that aligns people, processes and platform to deliver measurable results from AI across the business. Continue Reading
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News
09 Mar 2026
Alation automates governance with latest AI-powered suite
Outcome-based governance, including the newly launched Curation Automation, turns time-consuming data management tasks over to agents and could be a differentiator for the vendor. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Mar 2026
15 top data catalog software tools to consider using in 2026
Organizations can use numerous tools to build and manage data catalogs. Here are 15 prominent ones that data leaders should consider for their data management needs. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
09 Mar 2026
Key requirements for data and analytics governance platforms
Successful governance platforms require business and IT alignment, user-friendly design and scalable architecture to tie governance to measurable outcomes. 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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Tip
06 Mar 2026
How to optimize data storage governance
Data governance manages the availability, usability, integrity and security of data. Follow these best practices for governance as it relates to data storage. Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Mar 2026
Data governance responsibilities now belong in the C-suite
To improve business outcomes, leadership must move beyond IT controls and adopt a playbook that treats data as a shared enterprise asset with clear roles and policies. 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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Feature
03 Mar 2026
AI data governance guidance that gets you to the finish line
As organizations dive into AI adoption, many realize the first real bottleneck is not the model but how to prepare their information so it can be used effectively in AI workflows. Continue Reading
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News
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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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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20 Feb 2026
Experts share practices to overcome AI data readiness
Enterprise AI ambitions can stumble without strong data fundamentals. Here's how to pick, organize and maintain data so systems behave reliably and projects move to production. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2026
Data and AI governance must team up for AI to succeed
AI applications won't produce reliable results -- and could create compliance and business ethics risks -- without strong data governance processes underpinning them. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2026
How to secure sensitive data when offboarding employees
Establish a multi-phased approach that turns a risky situation into a managed process with several departments working in coordination to ensure a smooth exit. Continue Reading
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News
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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Opinion
17 Feb 2026
The future of AI depends on better data, not bigger models
AI's competitive advantage is shifting from model scale to data quality. Organizations that invest in governance and infrastructure build more reliable, defensible systems. 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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Definition
17 Feb 2026
What is a data retention policy?
In business settings, data retention is a concept that encompasses all processes for storing and preserving data, as well as the specific time periods and policies businesses enforce that determine how and for how long data should be retained. Continue Reading
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13 Feb 2026
How to cut data loss risks when employees leave
How an employee leaves influences what data they might take. Organizations can implement several practical methods to protect code, client information, and other assets. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2026
What executives look for in a data quality platform
Data quality strategy now functions as a governance and risk discipline, with executives weighing metrics, ROI accountability and data trust as indicators of enterprise reliability. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2026
Residual access failures put data at risk
Stop breaches that start with orphaned accounts. This guide identifies offboarding weak spots and gives leaders a practical checklist to close gaps fast and prove compliance. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2026
How to navigate data sovereignty for AI compliance
As AI systems consume data for training and decision-making, businesses must navigate complex regulations, geopolitical boundaries and vendor risks. Continue Reading
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News
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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Tip
31 Jan 2026
What to know about synthetic data as a business advantage
Synthetic data mimics real data without sensitive information. It offers cost-effective options and competitive advantages for AI training, software testing and data monetization. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Jan 2026
Choose an enterprise backup architecture that fits risk
Weigh the trade‑offs among on‑premises, backup as a service and hybrid backup, and use a clear framework to choose the approach that fits your organization. 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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Opinion
27 Jan 2026
The trust-at-speed paradox: Most data governance wasn't built for AI
Agentic AI operates autonomously, exposing gaps in governance, data quality and accountability. Executives must address these limits to manage risk and move AI into production. 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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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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Feature
23 Jan 2026
Data Technologies outlook on 2026: The year of data is here
Data will be the backbone of success in 2026. As AI reshapes data management, organizations must balance innovation with ethics, governance and high-quality data to thrive. Continue Reading
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Feature
13 Jan 2026
How data lineage became a boardroom metric
Data lineage has moved beyond a technical function, becoming a board-level signal of how well organizations govern, audit and explain their data across complex environments. Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Jan 2026
2026 will be the year data becomes truly intelligent
As AI moves into production, enterprises are redefining data management around shared meaning, operational trust and system coherence rather than standalone capabilities. Continue Reading
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Feature
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
How AI changes data governance roles and responsibilities
Data governance is a team effort, though recent AI developments have caused data and AI teams to converge. As a result, organizations have created new roles in these teams. 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
How to build a data catalog: 10 key steps
A data catalog helps business and analytics users explore data assets, find relevant data and understand what it means. Here are 10 important steps for building one. 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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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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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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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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18 Nov 2025
A dozen data storage acronyms you should know
There are many acronyms people use in the data storage space. The following are 12 of the more commonly appearing acronyms. Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2025
Alation unveils agentic AI suite for governing critical data
CDE Manager includes agents that set standards and establish rules to help enterprises to connect data to key operations and govern such data to ensure it can be trusted. 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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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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Opinion
30 Oct 2025
Why data semantics matters for context-aware systems
Data semantics organizes context, relationships and logic across enterprise data to create systems that understand how information connects and informs decision-making. Continue Reading
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News
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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23 Oct 2025
How AI governance manages risk at scale for enterprises
Effective oversight of AI systems requires more than technology. It relies on defined roles, coordinated risk protocols and tight collaboration across data and model teams. Continue Reading
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Definition
23 Oct 2025
What is a data governance policy?
A data governance policy is a documented set of guidelines for ensuring an organization's data and information assets are managed consistently and used properly. Continue Reading
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News
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
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Tip
15 Oct 2025
10 data governance challenges that can sink data operations
No organization can successfully use data without data governance. Address 10 data governance challenges to avoid financial loss, derailed operations and reputation damage. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Oct 2025
Data contracts help build trustworthy data products for AI
Data contracts establish clear expectations between data producers and consumers, turning governance into a continuous, automated process that builds trust for AI. Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2025
Oracle launches new platform to streamline AI development
The suite, which combines capabilities from OCI and other platforms, will help Oracle compete with rivals providing similar feature sets for building agents and other AI tools. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2025
DBT Labs targets costs with data engine, adds AI agents
The new capabilities, revealed amid news that the vendor is merging with Fivetran, include an updated engine that lowers data transformation expenses and task-specific agents. Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2025
Fivetran, DBT Labs merge to add complementary capabilities
The deal brings together data movement and data transformation platforms that help developers build AI and analytics applications. Continue Reading
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09 Oct 2025
Starburst's latest targets agentic AI development
The data lakehouse vendor continues to expand beyond its roots in data mesh, adding features such as an MCP server and access to vector stores that enable users to build agents. Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2025
New AI-powered suite boosts Teradata's CX capabilities
Autonomous Customer Intelligence features agents and other tools aimed at enabling the vendor's users to gain greater insight into their own customers to improve business outcomes. Continue Reading
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Definition
03 Oct 2025
What is data culture? A guide for data-driven organizations
Data culture is a set of principles regarding how an organization handles its data. Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2025
Mooncake acquisition boosts Databricks database capabilities
Five months after purchasing PostgreSQL specialist Neon and turning its tech into Lakebase, the data platform vendor is adding new database capabilities to aid AI development. Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2025
Databricks boosts data security with AI-powered suite
With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, the vendor's new set of features includes agents, AI-powered dashboards and integrations with specialists. Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2025
Development suite continues Alation's foray into agentic AI
Once a metadata management specialist, the vendor is keeping up with the competition by adding an environment for developing agents. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Sep 2025
Snowflake's AI capabilities fueling music data specialist
Luminate, which provides the data for Billboard's music charts and informs other entertainment industry clients, is developing agents using the data platform vendor's tools. Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2025
New consortium to aid AI by standardizing semantic modeling
An open standard for defining data would simplify data integration and discovery to reduce one of the barriers preventing organizations from successfully developing AI tools. Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2025
Teradata unveils AgentBuilder to aid agentic AI development
Like many of its competitors, the longtime data management and analytics vendor is adding tools, such as an MCP server, to help customers build advanced applications. Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Sep 2025
What is data lineage? Techniques, best practices and tools
Organizations can strengthen data governance by mapping data lineage across systems. Learn how tools help to simplify tracking, compliance and lifecycle visibility. Continue Reading
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Definition
16 Sep 2025
What is data stewardship?
Data stewardship is the management and oversight of an organization's data assets, which helps provide business users with high-quality, easily accessible and consistent data. Continue Reading
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News
09 Sep 2025
Monte Carlo's Agent Observability targets reliability of AI
The vendor's new feature enables users to define acceptable AI outputs and trace outputs that don't meet organizational standards back to source data so they can be addressed. Continue Reading
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Definition
09 Sep 2025
What is data migration? Definition, strategy and best practices
Data migration is the process of transferring data between data storage systems, data formats or computer systems. Continue Reading
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Tip
08 Sep 2025
5 steps for sustainable data management
Data management practices that embrace sustainability principles can streamline data processes, improve data protection and reduce energy consumption. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Sep 2025
How AI is transforming data recovery for the modern era
Today's data recovery tools integrate AI models to analyze file systems, data structures, historical patterns and emerging threats to improve storage, protection and restoration. Continue Reading
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Definition
05 Sep 2025
What is RHIA (Registered Health Information Administrator)?
A registered health information administrator (RHIA) is a certified professional who oversees the creation and use of electronic health records (EHRs). Continue Reading
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Tip
27 Aug 2025
Compare Azure Government vs. Azure's commercial cloud
Microsoft's Azure Government and global cloud offerings serve different customers and have different compliance requirements. See how they compare to make the right choice. Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Aug 2025
Azure Local aims to answer shifting needs of the enterprise
Microsoft looks to provide a consistent Azure-style experience with its latest infrastructure offering for organizations that face challenges with data sovereignty and compliance. Continue Reading
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News
21 Aug 2025
Latest from Vast Data aims to simplify, speed AI development
SyncEngine has the potential to be a differentiator for the vendor, combining capabilities usually performed by specialized tools to provide pipelines with relevant information. Continue Reading
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Opinion
20 Aug 2025
How AI-powered governance enables scalable AI deployment
AI-powered governance tools help organizations move AI from trials to production by automating compliance, mitigating risks and safeguarding brand reputation. Continue Reading
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News
19 Aug 2025
Alation unveils agentic AI-powered query capabilities
By accessing a knowledge layer consisting of curated data products and metadata, Chat with Your Data provides more accurate responses than the vendor's previous capabilities. Continue Reading
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Definition
13 Aug 2025
What is data quality and why is it important?
Data quality measures a data set's condition based on factors such as accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness and validity. Continue Reading
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Tip
12 Aug 2025
Top data quality management tools in 2025
Data quality management tools provide profiling, cleansing and monitoring features that keep enterprise data accurate and consistent across analytics and governance efforts. Continue Reading