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25 May 2023
What are the 4 different types of blockchain technology?
Public, private, hybrid or consortium, each blockchain network has distinct pluses and minuses that largely drive its ideal uses -- and will determine which one is best for you. Continue Reading
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18 May 2023
Permissioned vs. permissionless blockchains: Key differences
Deciding whether people need permission to be on your blockchain network is just the first big architectural decision in deploying distributed ledger technologies. Continue Reading
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17 May 2023
5 tips to successfully implement blockchain for businesses
When implementing blockchain, organizations should consider what problem they're trying to solve and how blockchain technology will add lasting value. Continue Reading
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17 Apr 2023
5 must-know blockchain trends for 2023 and beyond
The 'crypto winter' dampened interest in cryptocurrency and proved the need for regulation, but blockchain continues to advance. These trends should set the tone. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2023
Top 9 blockchain platforms to consider in 2023
Get the lowdown on the major features, differentiators, strengths and weaknesses of the blockchain platforms getting the most buzz -- and real-world deployments. Continue Reading
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15 Dec 2022
8 data integration challenges and how to overcome them
These eight challenges complicate efforts to integrate data for operational and analytics uses. Here's why, plus advice on how to deal with them. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2022
Reverse ETL vendor Census raises $60M
Census raises new money as the vendor ramps up its operations to help organizations get data from data warehouses to power large-scale business applications. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2022
Starburst brings in $250M to advance data mesh aspirations
The vendor continues on its path toward an initial public offering, as demand for its open source Trino-based data lake query engine platform grows. Continue Reading
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18 Jan 2022
Fivetran updates data integration platform with dbt Core
With automated data transformations and new data lineage visualization graphs, Fivetran is looking to make building data pipelines easier for data users. Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2022
10 big data challenges and how to address them
Bringing a big data initiative to fruition requires an array of data skills and best practices. Here are 10 big data challenges enterprises must be ready for. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2021
Data forecast for 2022: Data quality and cloud convergence
Expect data quality to be a top area of investment and activity next year as the need to trust data for operations, insight and machine learning will only continue to grow. Continue Reading
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13 Dec 2021
SnapLogic raises $165M to fund AI data integration
The data integration vendor's fundraising success shows the growth the iPaaS and RPA markets have seen in recent years, with a steady pace of investment and acquisitions. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2021
NFL's Raiders use analytics to engage new customer base
The franchise's move to Las Vegas forced it to modernize its analytics stack as it engaged a new fan base and cultivated the unique opportunities present in Sin City. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2021
Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada DataOps suite
Hitachi Vantara integrated its data management technologies into a new product suite intended to help organizations with data operations. Data governance is coming next. Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2021
Talend updates data fabric with more collaboration
With its summer 2021 update, data integration vendor Talend boosted its data sharing and integration features to help business users share trusted data sources. Continue Reading
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06 Aug 2021
Why City Furniture embraced data virtualization
With data coming from on-premises and cloud sources and spanning legacy systems, databases and even flat files, City Furniture faced problems bringing all its data together. Continue Reading
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25 Jun 2021
Fivetran looks to Teleport Data for database replication
Fivetran is expanding its data integration capabilities with data validation technology that takes a different approach than change data capture for database replication. Continue Reading
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16 Jun 2021
Healthcare device maker boosts production with data quality
One of the world's biggest ventilator manufacturers ramped up production during the pandemic by improving its own data health to better understand and optimize operations. Continue Reading
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10 Jun 2021
Blockchain for businesses: The ultimate enterprise guide
Enterprise blockchain projects can easily run aground without the right navigational tools. Our in-depth guide will help ensure safe passage. Continue Reading
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08 Jun 2021
Advanced SQL skills boost data scientists' value
Learning advanced SQL skills can help data scientists effectively query their databases and unlock new insights into data relationships, resulting in more useful information. Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2021
8 blockchain security risks to weigh before adoption
Blockchain and smart contracts have their own unique vulnerabilities. But poor code testing, cryptographic keys and generic network attacks will get you, too. Continue Reading
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27 May 2021
5 challenges with blockchain adoption and how to avoid them
Organizations tend to face the same hurdles when they try to implement blockchain. Knowing what they are could be the first big step to overcoming them on the road to success. Continue Reading
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25 May 2021
8 blockchain-as-a-service providers to have on your radar
You don't have to build your blockchain project from the ground up. These cloud-based service providers can provide the infrastructure, networking and development tools you need. Continue Reading
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25 May 2021
6 alternatives to blockchain for businesses to consider
Technologies like cloud storage and distributed databases provide some of blockchain's data-integrity and reliability advantages with fewer performance, efficiency and cost issues. Continue Reading
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11 May 2021
K2View updates DataOps platform with data fabric automation
A data operations platform vendor is bringing new capabilities to its data platform that will help organizations more easily integrate and automate the movement of data. Continue Reading
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21 Apr 2021
Oracle brings GoldenGate data integration service to cloud
Oracle is making its GoldenGate real-time data technology available on its second-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform, as well as enabling multi-cloud operations. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2021
Flatfile looks to be universal translator for data loading
Startup raises new funding to help advance its vision for making it easier for business users to extract, load and transform data from one source to another. Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2021
Precisely looks to boost data integrity software platform
Precisely is getting an infusion of capital as it moves forward with its decades-long business mission to help organizations use data effectively to make key decisions. Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2021
Talend to be acquired by Thoma Bravo for $2.4 billion
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo reached an agreement to acquire Talend, an analytics vendor whose platform enables users to integrate data from disparate sources. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2021
Airbyte set to advance open source data integration platform
The CEO of a data integration startup explains how he is looking to grow the technology and community behind the vendor's open source data extract and loading platform. Continue Reading
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11 Feb 2021
Talend CEO talks about vendor's growth strategy
With its cloud business a primary driver of growth, Talend is progressing toward the goal of increasing annual revenue from $250 million to $1 billion. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2021
Hazelcast Jet 4.4 brings SQL to stream processing engine
Hazelcast Jet brings new SQL query capabilities to the stream processing platform that will enable developers to continuously query streaming data without interrupting data flow. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2021
Fivetran data connectors boost enterprise data integration
An enterprise data integration vendor is building out its suite of data connectors with updates for organizations to create data pipelines for business processes and analytics. Continue Reading
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22 Dec 2020
Ascend aims to ease data ingestion with low-code approach
Data platform vendor Ascend has announced a new low-code approach to building out data pipelines on cloud data lakes to accelerate analysis and insights. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2020
Varada accelerates data virtualization with Presto
The new Varada Data Platform combines data virtualization with the open source Presto SQL query engine to help enable rapid searches on cloud data lakes. Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2020
Maintaining data integrity key for data quality
Maintaining data integrity through improved communication and data literacy is paramount for organizations in the enterprise seeking to ensure data quality and trust. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2020
Informatica update improves cloud data management
Informatica is out with its fall 2020 update, integrating capabilities from its July acquisition of Compact Solutions that advance its enterprise data catalog. Continue Reading
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23 Oct 2020
GoodData adds self-service modeling tools to analytics suite
New self-service data modeling tools are the latest additions to the GoodData platform as the vendor overhauls its platform in an attempt to enable more users. Continue Reading
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08 Oct 2020
Denodo Platform 8.0 expands data virtualization features
The updated platform from Denodo looks to help organizations via enhanced features that connect and query disparate sources of data across different environments. Continue Reading
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24 Sep 2020
Talend evolves enterprise data integration efforts
The CTO of Talend outlines the path the data integration vendor has taken in recent years as the market for big data has evolved along with the need to treat data as an asset. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2020
New Qubole Pipelines Service targets streaming data
Data lake vendor Qubole unveiled a data pipeline service, a new tool designed to enable organizations to manage their increasing amounts of streaming data. Continue Reading
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18 Aug 2020
Informatica CEO outlines digital transformation challenges
Informatica chief Amit Walia gives insight into what organizations need most to enable digital transformation and why enterprise data management is at the foundation. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2020
5 leading data virtualization tools offer integration strategy
Learn which features and capabilities your organization should consider in order to select the data virtualization platform that will best fits its needs. Continue Reading
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12 Aug 2020
K2View takes aim at DataOps with new funding
K2View CEO and co-founder talks about how his company's micro-database fabric approach to user data aims to improve data management by consolidating data in one place. Continue Reading
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07 Aug 2020
Top 7 data catalog use cases for enterprises
From data lake modernization to data democratization, there are many benefits to a data catalog. Experts talk about the top ways data catalog adoption can benefit enterprises. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2020
Data accuracy vendor boosts MDM data quality
Naveego's latest platform update introduces a new user interface that looks to make it easier for users to integrate different data sources while ensuring data quality. Continue Reading
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07 Jul 2020
Informatica expands enterprise data catalog capabilities
Informatica brought new features to its enterprise data catalog, including Data Asset Analytics, a tool to help organizations understand the value of their data. Continue Reading
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30 Jun 2020
Fivetran raises $100M to advance enterprise data integration
The co-founder and CEO of Fivetran talks about what the vendor is doing to help organizations meet the challenges of enterprise data integration. Continue Reading
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23 Jun 2020
Databricks AI in next-generation transportation
Virgin Hyperloop turned to Databricks to horizontally scale out and speed up its processes as it works to create a new form of transportation. Continue Reading
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18 May 2020
Grafana 7.0 from Grafana Labs expands data visualization
Distributed tracing data joins log metrics in Grafana 7.0 release, providing users with more ways to connect, observe and visualize data coming from different services. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2020
Matillion Data Loader goes GA: No-code tool addresses data ingestion
Matillion's new tool debuts a SaaS approach to help connect and load data from disparate sources without requiring organizations to conduct data transformations. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2020
Splice Machine 3.0 integrates machine learning capabilities, database
Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine, provides insight into what his distributed SQL database company is doing and where it's headed with its new 3.0 update. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2020
Pros and cons of the 4 best IPaaS software options
Integrating with your cloud data? Choosing between IPaaS software and vendors can be difficult. Here is a breakdown of four of the top-choice vendor offerings on the market. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2020
Talend Data Fabric Winter '20 update brings data inventory
Talend's Winter '20 Data Fabric milestone update integrates a new data inventory capability alongside enhanced data pipeline designer capabilities. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2020
AtScale's Adaptive Analytics 2020.1 a big step for vendor
AtScale's new update is centered around data virtualization for analytics and marks a significant overhaul of the data engineering vendor's platform. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 2020
Boomi acquisition of Unifi Software nets data management
Dell Boomi expands its data integration software portfolio by acquiring Unifi Software, providing data preparation and data catalog capabilities. Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2020
Former SAP Concur exec Christal Bemont named Talend CEO
Talend named Christal Bemont its new CEO on Thursday after Mike Tuchen stepped down after six years in the role. Bemont comes to Talend following 15 years at SAP Concur. Continue Reading
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31 Oct 2019
Data silos and culture lead to data transformation challenges
Data continues to grow at a rapid rate, and users are faced with increasing complexity and challenges to make sense of it all in a way that helps improve business outcomes. Continue Reading
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11 Oct 2019
Data integration vs. ETL in the age of big data
Data integration provides a consistent view of business performance across multiple data sources, though it needs to keep up with the changing needs of organizations and the big data revolution. Continue Reading
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19 Sep 2019
Dremio Data Lake Engine 4.0 accelerates query performance
Dremio issues a new platform update, defining itself as data lake engine technology that looks to help users connect and query data faster in AWS and Azure. Continue Reading
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04 Sep 2019
Ascend releases Queryable Dataflows for building data pipelines
Ascend releases a technology preview of a capability that will enable data engineers to directly query dataflows, without the need for data to first be in a data warehouse. Continue Reading
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21 Aug 2019
SnapLogic boosts its data integration technology with AI
SnapLogic's latest update for its Intelligent Integration Platform aims to make it easier for users to benefit from data integration. Continue Reading
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30 Jul 2019
Hitachi Vantara updates Pentaho 8.3 to expand DataOps vision
Hitachi Vantara's new Pentaho update brings DataOps capabilities for data management to help organizations derive better data insights. Continue Reading
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24 Jul 2019
Key components of an effective data virtualization architecture
Experts break down which elements -- both technical and nontechnical -- are most crucial to successfully deploying and managing a data virtualization architecture. Continue Reading
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19 Jul 2019
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
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26 Jun 2019
How 4 organizations are breaking down data silos
Siloed data continues to inhibit enterprise efficiency. Here, IT professionals discuss problems their organizations are facing around data silos -- and how they're solving them. Continue Reading
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19 Jun 2019
A comparison of open source, real-time data streaming platforms
With so many real-time data streaming tools, how do you know which is right for your organization? Experts compare Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams, Flink and others. Continue Reading
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22 May 2019
Google, Informatica deepen ties around big data in the cloud
Google and Informatica have expanded their partnership and product integrations as enterprise customers seek to move large data sets into the cloud for processing and analytics. Continue Reading
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01 May 2019
Find the best data integration tools for your organization
Read analysis and comparisons of data integration tools to help you select the right platform from the leading commercial and open source products currently on the market. Continue Reading
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03 Apr 2019
Evaluate the features of data integration tools and software
Before you evaluate and select data integration tools and software, assess which must-have, should-have and nice-to-have features match your organization's needs. Continue Reading
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02 Apr 2019
Data integration platforms take users beyond ETL software
Discover how commercial data integration platforms help organizations manage and simplify the process of combining and sharing their increasing volumes of data. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2019
Users find data preparation tools vital to BI strategies
Data preparation isn't the sexiest topic, but it's critically important to IT and business users, according to a study by Dresner Advisory Services. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2019
Augmented data management draws more enterprise interest
With AI and machine learning, organizations are starting to augment their data management. This is changing the way enterprise users capture, govern and integrate data. Continue Reading
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28 Feb 2019
5 ways to manage multiple data sources for high-performance apps
Applications can pull from and work with data from multiple sources, as long as the app design incorporates these five fundamental data management and mapping techniques. Continue Reading
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27 Feb 2019
How to navigate the challenges of the data modeling process
Data modeling and curation can help businesses more efficiently use data they've collected. There are challenges, however -- beginning with ensuring data quality. Continue Reading
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27 Feb 2019
8 tips to improve the data curation process
A data curation and modeling strategy can ensure accuracy and enhance governance. Experts offer eight best practices for curating data. First, start at the source. Continue Reading
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13 Feb 2019
5 best practices for managing real-time data integration
Real-time data integration isn't like traditional data integration -- "it's moving, it's dirty and it's temporal," cautions one data pro. Experts offer up some best practices. Continue Reading