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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.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 4, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 3, 2025

30 of the best large language models in 2026

Behind the scenes influencing search for years, large language models have proliferated since the debut of ChatGPT and other chatbot interfaces. Wade through the LLM waters.

By Ben Lutkevich , Sean Kerner • Dec. 3, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 2, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 25, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 24, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 19, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 19, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 18, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 13, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 13, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 6, 2025

Explaining an AI bubble burst and what it could mean

As stock market turbulence sparks speculation of an AI bubble burst, the tech industry faces a critical shift, with inflated expectations turning to a review of AI's potential.

By Sean Kerner • Nov. 4, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 4, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 3, 2025

What is customer data integration (CDI)?

Customer data integration (CDI) is the process of defining, consolidating and managing customer information across an organization's business units and systems to achieve a "single version of the truth" for customer data.

By Jacqueline Biscobing, Katie Terrell Hanna • Oct. 31, 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.

By Stephen Catanzano • Oct. 30, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 29, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 29, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 28, 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.

By Kashyap Kompella • Oct. 23, 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.

By Paul Kirvan , Kinza Yasar , Craig Stedman • Oct. 22, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 21, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 21, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 16, 2025