Data Management News for the Week of January 19; Updates from Monte Carlo, Semarchy, Unravel Data & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of January 19, 2024.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items.

Top Data Management News for the Week Ending January 19, 2024

Airbyte Integrates with Vectara

Vectara offers powerful generative AI capabilities for developers via an easy-to-use API. Often referred to as “RAG-in-a-box,” Vectara’s platform simplifies the development of GenAI applications by taking care of the heavy lifting required for building RAG (retrieval augmented generation) applications.

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Alation Secures IMDA Accreditation

By meeting the rigorous criteria set by IMDA, including functional efficiency, performance excellence, compliance adherence, and robust security and usability requirements, government agencies and large enterprises can confidently utilize Alation to harness the full potential of their data. Alation’s search and discovery interface makes it easy for a broad range of technical and business users to quickly find the information they need.

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Ascend.io Integrates with DBT

The integration between Ascend.io and DBT Labs — dubbed Ascend for DBT — is the first between the vendors. It’s designed to enable joint users to automate and optimize control of DBT models and applications without requiring more tools in their data stacks.

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CData Reports on the State of Data Connectivity

The majority of Ops professionals feel that they are prohibited from accessing the data they need to make quick business decisions, which can lead to bad practices that impact the business’ ability to quickly grow revenue and improve operational efficiency.

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BigID Secures Patent for Identity-Aware AI

The identity intelligence patent covers the discovery and classification of both unique and contextual information in structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data and the automatic correlation of personal data to an individual or privacy data subject. Applications of the AI-enabled identity intelligence patent in data security, compliance, privacy, and governance.

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CluedIn Unveils AI-Powered Master Data Management Tool

The latest version represents another significant leap forward in reinforcing CluedIn’s position as the most advanced MDM system available, in terms of both enabling domain experts and accelerating the process of extracting value from enterprise data.

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DataGrail Adds New Leaders to Executive Team

Over the past year, DataGrail has significantly grown its customer base, adding logos such as SHEIN, Compass, Carvana, and New Balance, that seek guidance and full-proof solutions from a trusted source in the face of unprecedented data privacy challenges.

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Ontotext GraphDB is Now Available on Azure

Now, enterprises can streamline the global deployment of graph databases, facilitating the migration of on-premises data to Azure and other prominent public cloud platforms. Customers can take advantage of the Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management to ensure compliance with rigorous industry and privacy regulations.

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Precisely Drops PSYTE US Geodemographic Data

Part of an extensive data enrichment portfolio, the product’s expertly curated dataset enables businesses to deepen customer relationships by providing personalized services, save time and money with more accurate audience targeting, and fuel confident decisions by uncovering greater levels of context from audience insights.

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Prismatic Secures $22 Million Series B Funding for Embedded Integration

The $22 million in funding will primarily fuel the expansion of Prismatic’s research and development, fostering innovation and enhancements to the embedded iPaaS platform. Future updates and launches enabled by this investment will drive even more versatility in the ways SaaS teams can build, manage, and embed integrations.

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Quest Drops New Toad Studio

The integration between Ascend.io and DBT Labs — dubbed Ascend for DBT — is the first between the vendors. It’s designed to enable joint users to automate and optimize control of DBT models and applications without requiring more tools in their data stacks.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

SR Editors Release Annual Roundup of Expert Data Management Predictions for 2024

For our 5th annual Insight Jam LIVE! Solutions Review editors sourced this resource guide of data management predictions for 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech experts.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Semarchy and Sanofi for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar January 23

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading unified data management platform Semarchy to provide viewers with a unique webinar called Sanofi’s MDM Journey: Rapidly Enabling a Global Customer 360 Solution. In this presentation, Sanofi’s Head of Customer Master Data Management will share its journey to achieving a Customer 360 solution through Master Data Management and data engineering.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Denodo for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar January 25

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading unified data management platform Denodo to provide viewers with a unique webinar called Best Practices for Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Data Lakes. In this presentation, Denodo will discuss scalable analytics, democratizing data, seamless integration, maximizing ROI, and simplified governance.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Databricks and Unravel Data for Exclusive Roundtable on February 14

With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Databricks and Unravel Data to delve into the relationship between AI products and efficient, production-ready data pipelines.

The speakers will explore how organizations are leveraging data observability and FinOps to augment data teams. Hear strategies from the experts to accelerate your data pipeline deployments to support GenAI innovation.

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For consideration in future data management news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.