Data Management News for the Week of December 5; Updates from Cloud Software Group, Prophecy, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of December 5, 2025.

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.

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Top Data Management News for the Week Ending December 5, 2025

Airbyte Delivers Improvements Making Data Transfer Easier and Faster Than Ever Before

Airbyte announced major performance and cost improvements to its data movement platform, including Snowflake syncs that can be up to 10 times faster and 95% cheaper, plus significant speedups for SQL Server and MySQL-to-S3 pipelines. The updates also simplify on-premises deployment and introduce more predictable pricing, helping customers deliver accurate, secure data to AI and analytics use cases more efficiently.​

Read more → https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/bizwire-2025-12-4-airbyte-delivers-improvements-making-data-transfer-easier-and-faster-than-ever-before

CData Releases State of AI Data Connectivity Report

CData published its State of AI Data Connectivity report, highlighting how reliable, governed access to diverse data sources has become a critical bottleneck and enabler for enterprise AI projects. The report underscores the need for standardized connectivity and integration patterns so organizations can safely feed AI models with complete, accurate, and compliant data.​

Read more → https://www.cdata.com/company/press/state-of-ai-data-connectivity-report/

Cloud Software Group Acquires Arctera to Strengthen Cloud Observability and FinOps

Cloud Software Group agreed to acquire Arctera, a startup focused on cloud cost, performance, and efficiency analytics, to enhance its observability and FinOps capabilities for multicloud environments. The deal is expected to help customers better understand, optimize, and control spending and performance across large-scale cloud and SaaS estates.​

Read more → https://www.citybiz.co/article/777422/cloud-software-group-acquires-arctera/

Fivetran and MegazoneCloud Partner to Accelerate AI-Ready Data Foundations Across Asia Pacific

Fivetran announced a partnership with MegazoneCloud to help enterprises across Asia Pacific build secure, compliant AI-ready data foundations, backed by new local Fivetran cloud regions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in South Korea. The collaboration combines Fivetran’s automated pipelines with MegazoneCloud’s ISO/IEC 42001–certified AIR Studio platform, enabling governed data movement, local data residency, and responsible AI deployments at scale.​

Read more → https://www.fivetran.com/press/fivetran-and-megazonecloud-partner-to-accelerate-ai-ready-data-foundations-across-asia-pacific

Informatica Announces New Integrations With Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Empowering the Agentic Enterprise With Unified Intelligent Data

Informatica unveiled new integrations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that let AI agents tap into Informatica’s unified, governed data estate for tasks like schema grounding, SQL optimization, and semantic query generation. A new Enterprise Agent Blueprint, backed by prebuilt connectors, MCP servers, and APIs, provides a prescriptive framework for designing and scaling trusted agentic AI systems on Bedrock using high‑quality, policy‑aware data.​

Read more → https://www.informatica.com/about-us/news/news-releases/2025/12/20251202-informatica-announces-new-integrations-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-empowering-the-agentic-enterprise-with-unified-intelligent-data-to-build-trusted-ai-agents-and-applications.html

NetApp Expands AI-Ready Storage and Data Management Capabilities

NetApp introduced new AI-focused enhancements across its storage and data management portfolio to help organizations build “AI-ready” data foundations, from high-performance storage to integrated data protection. The releases are intended to simplify deploying and scaling AI workloads in hybrid and multicloud environments while ensuring governance and resilience.​

Read more → https://www.netapp.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-rel-20251202-161273/

Precisely Accelerates Mainframe Modernization With Real-Time Data Replication to Amazon S3

Precisely expanded its collaboration with AWS by enabling real-time, high-integrity replication of mainframe data directly into Amazon S3 data lakes and analytics platforms, streamlining mainframe-to-cloud modernization. The new capabilities remove intermediate steps, reduce integration complexity, and make mainframe data immediately usable for downstream analytics, AI, and machine learning services on AWS.​

Read more → https://www.precisely.com/press-release/precisely-accelerates-mainframe-modernization-with-real-time-data-replication-to-amazon-s3/

Prophecy Launches Enterprise Express: Fast, Affordable Agentic Data Preparation for Business Teams on Databricks

Prophecy released Enterprise Express, an agentic data preparation solution that lets business teams on Databricks use conversational interfaces and reusable templates to clean, transform, and prepare data without deep engineering skills.[functions.fetch_url:0] Running natively on the Databricks platform, it aims to reduce time-to-insight and lower costs by combining governed data pipelines with AI-driven assistance for non-technical users.

Read more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prophecy-launches-enterprise-express-fast-affordable-agentic-data-preparation-for-business-teams-on-databricks-302632743.html

Qlik Debuts Agentic Experience to Accelerate Data-to-Decision Workflows

Qlik introduced a new agentic experience that provides a single conversational interface where users across the enterprise can work with specialized AI agents to explore data, generate insights, and automate complex workflows. The experience is designed to boost productivity and decision speed by letting people interact with governed data in natural language, with rollout beginning via private previews after Qlik Connect 2025.​

Read more → https://www.qlik.com/us/news/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-debuts-agentic-experience

FME by Safe Software Now Runs Inside Snowflake, Delivering Faster, Safer In-Database Data Integration

Safe Software announced that FME now runs directly inside Snowflake, enabling in-database transformations that reduce data movement and improve performance and security for complex integration workloads. The in-platform execution model helps customers modernize pipelines, minimize latency, and better support AI and analytics use cases on Snowflake.​

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251202632115/en/FME-by-Safe-Software-Now-Runs-Inside-Snowflake-Delivering-Faster-Safer-In-Database-Data-Integration

Snowflake and Anthropic Announce $200 Million Partnership to Bring Agentic AI to Global Enterprises

Snowflake and Anthropic entered a multi-year, $200 million expansion of their partnership to embed Claude models more deeply into Snowflake Cortex AI and power sophisticated agentic workflows over enterprise data. The agreement combines joint go-to-market initiatives with product co-innovation so more than 12,600 Snowflake customers can build secure, reasoning-rich AI agents directly on their business-critical data.​

Read more → https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-and-anthropic-announce-200-million-partnership-to-bring-agentic-ai-to-global-enterprises/

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The Jam Session With Wayne Eckerson On-Demand: Why We Need a Universal Semantic Layer

Semantics have always been critical for data and analytics. Semantics are business and technical shortcuts to the raw material that comprises our reports, analyses, and predictive models. They are predefined views and definitions of subjects, dimensions, and metrics that make it easier for people and applications to query data and receive accurate, trustworthy answers.

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Thought Leaders: Gobbling Up Assumptions: Ben Franklin’s Turkey Tale Reveals About Data Governance

You know that Ben Franklin turkey story? Sure, it’s a quirky story, but it teaches us something crucial about decision-making: false assumptions can shape our beliefs, sometimes for centuries. In the world of data governance, these misconceptions can do far more than spark a debate over national birds; they can lead to costly mistakes, missed opportunities, and even disaster.

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Thought Leaders: Are We Using Data Literacy as a Crutch?

It’s easier to default to training stakeholders on how to read dashboards or interpret KPIs than to dig into the messy, complex, and sometimes ambiguous process of uncovering true executive priorities. When a dashboard doesn’t land or a request feels misaligned, we might shrug it off with, “They just need more data literacy.”

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Thought Leaders: Making Data Governance Processes Accessible

One of the most practical questions I encounter in data governance is deceptively simple: how should we document our processes? The answer reveals a crucial insight about implementation success, as formal documentation and user-friendly communication require very different approaches.

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