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6 essential data engineer skills for modern data environments

As AI automates more tasks handled by data engineers, the role is shifting from pipeline building to strategic skills that keep modern architectures adaptable.

By Chris Tozzi • Oct. 15, 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.

By Robert Sheldon • Oct. 15, 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.

By Stephen Catanzano • Oct. 15, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 14, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 14, 2025

What is an entity relationship diagram (ERD)?

An entity relationship diagram (ERD), also known as an entity relationship model, is a graphical representation that depicts relationships among people, objects, places, concepts or events in an information technology (IT) system.

By Jacqueline Biscobing, Paul Kirvan, Katie Terrell Hanna • Oct. 14, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 13, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 9, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 7, 2025

What is data as a service (DaaS)?

Data as a service (DaaS) is an information provision and distribution model in which data files -- including text, images, sounds and videos -- are made available to customers over a network, typically the internet.

By Scott Robinson, Alexander Gillis • Oct. 7, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 1, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 1, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 1, 2025

Data intelligence isn’t just a buzzword

Data intelligence is more than a trend. It represents the future of how organizations will operate by connecting structured and unstructured data for smarter decisions.

By Stephen Catanzano • Sept. 30, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 29, 2025

Databricks partners with OpenAI to boost AI development

GPT-5 is now the primary model for the data platform vendor's users. In addition, the partners will collaborate to improve model performance for real-world applications.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 25, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 23, 2025

5 knowledge graph use cases in data fabric architecture

Knowledge graphs in data fabrics enable semantic layers, cross-domain modeling, operational intelligence, enterprise search and intelligent metadata management.

By Robert Sheldon • Sept. 23, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 23, 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.

By Jacob Roundy • Sept. 23, 2025

Cisco and Splunk are teaching AI to anticipate system failures

Cisco and Splunk use machine data to train a new time-series foundation model that surfaces hidden issues and creates a durable competitive edge.

By Torsten Volk • Sept. 22, 2025

Vector database vendor Pinecone eyes future under new CEO

After establishing the value of its technology under founder Edo Liberty, Ash Ashutosh takes over to lead the vendor as it enters a phase focused on growing the business.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 18, 2025

MongoDB adds MCP server, expands AI development capabilities

While the database vendor isn't breaking new ground with its updated features, they combine to provide customers with valuable tools that will help to build modern applications.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 17, 2025

Microsoft adds new AI development, OneLake tools to Fabric

New features such as MCP support and simplified access to data stored across multiple clouds simplify developing agents and keep the tech giant's platform competitive.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 16, 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.

By Nick Barney, Melanie Luna, Mary Pratt • Sept. 16, 2025