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SingleStore agrees to growth buyout by private equity firm

The database specialist's management team will remain, with the investment from Vector Capital Management potentially enabling growth beyond what was previously possible.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 10, 2025

What is a pivot table? How to use in Excel and Sheets

A pivot table is a statistics tool that summarizes and reorganizes selected columns and rows of data in a spreadsheet or database table to obtain a desired report.

By Paul Kirvan, Sarah Lewis • Sept. 10, 2025

The race to build the ultimate data platform

Unified data platforms are driven by AI demands and efficiency goals to replace fragmented tools and enhance governance across enterprises.

By Stephen Catanzano • Sept. 10, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 9, 2025

What is autonomic computing?

Autonomic computing is a concept in computer science that refers to systems capable of managing themselves with minimal human intervention.

By Kinza Yasar • Sept. 8, 2025

Fivetran’s Tobiko Data acquisition aids data transformation

The purchase provides the data integration vendor with its own data transformation framework to augment capabilities it provides through integrations with third-party specialists.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 5, 2025

Neo4j’s latest targets graph database performance at scale

Infinigraph enables the vendor's platform to handle the scale of hybrid transactional/analytical processing workloads used to help inform AI and analytics applications.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 4, 2025

What is product analytics, and why is it important?

Product analytics is the process of gathering and transforming user-level data into insights that reveal how customers interact with specific products.

By Kate Brush, Katie Terrell Hanna • Aug. 27, 2025

DeepSeek explained: Everything you need to know

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI firm, is disrupting the industry with its low-cost, open source large language models, challenging U.S. tech giants.

By Sean Kerner • Aug. 25, 2025

What is Microsoft SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)?

Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) Server Integration Services (SSIS) is an enterprise platform for setting up data integrations and data transformations.

By Jessica Sirkin, Adam Hughes, Rahul Awati • Aug. 22, 2025

ESG data collection: Guide and best practices

Sustainability initiatives won't succeed without quality data. Following an ESG data collection framework and best practices ensures program and reporting success.

By George Lawton • Aug. 22, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 21, 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.

By Stephen Catanzano • Aug. 20, 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.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 19, 2025

Confluent joins agentic AI fray with Streaming Agents

The vendor's new environment for developing agents includes tool calling via model context protocol and connections with key sources such as LLMs and vector databases.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 19, 2025

Modern architecture, high-quality data key to AI development

An expert explains how components such as a shared foundation and protocols that ensure quality help foster real-time insights and AI-driven analysis.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 15, 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.

By Scott Robinson , Robert Sheldon , Craig Stedman • Aug. 13, 2025

MongoDB launches enterprise-focused AI models

The vendor's new models enhance document context capture and enable developers to guide the reranking process with instructions, while improving accuracy.

By Esther Shittu • Aug. 13, 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.

By Robert Sheldon • Aug. 12, 2025

Aerospike update aims to improve database performance

With the addition of expression indexes that enable users to streamline the data discovery process, the vendor is providing capabilities that could force competitors to respond.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 12, 2025

Is Apache Iceberg worth a full migration?

Apache Iceberg delivers modern data lake features, but adoption depends on existing architecture, team resources and tolerance for migration complexity.

By Stephen Catanzano • Aug. 11, 2025

Artificial intelligence glossary: 60+ terms to know

AI is moving fast and can be hard to keep up in real time. Use this glossary as a reference for AI terms.

By Ben Lutkevich • Aug. 7, 2025

Hadoop vs. Spark for modern data pipelines

Hadoop and Spark differ in architecture, performance, scalability, cost and deployment. They offer distinct strengths for modern cloud-native data pipelines.

By Chris Tozzi • Aug. 6, 2025

What is data automation?

Data automation is the use of software tools and infrastructure to streamline data management tasks. Data automation techniques intentionally limit human interaction with data-related jobs.

By Stephen Bigelow • Aug. 5, 2025

Informatica adds MCP support, spate of AI-fueled features

With Model Context Protocol helping standardize how enterprises develop and deploy agents, support for the open standard is valuable for customers building advanced applications.

By Eric Avidon • July 31, 2025