Data Management News for the Week of April 17; Updates from Cloudera, Denodo, Informatica & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of April 17, 2026.

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 April 17, 2026

Ataccama Helps Banks Treat EU AI Act As A Data Problem, Not Just A Policy Problem

Ataccama is rolling out new capabilities to help financial institutions meet emerging AI regulations, including the EU AI Act, by tightening control over data quality, lineage, and access. The company is emphasizing unified data governance and cataloging as the backbone for “explainable by design” AI systems, so banks can document training data, monitor drift, and prove compliance across complex analytics and agentic workflows.

Read on for more→ Ataccama for financial AI compliance

Cloudera Report: 80% Say AI Is Held Back By Data Access, Not Models

A new Cloudera study finds nearly 80% of enterprises see data access and integration—rather than model performance—as the main brake on AI progress. Respondents report AI initiatives touching hundreds of datasets across hybrid clouds, with governance, latency, and interoperability emerging as bigger blockers than algorithm choice, reinforcing the push toward open table formats, shared catalogs, and unified security.

Read on for more→ Cloudera AI data access report

dbt Labs: AI Is Speeding Up Analytics, But Trust And Governance Are Falling Behind

dbt Labs’ 2026 State of Analytics Engineering report finds that 72% of teams now prioritize AI‑assisted coding, while only 24% prioritize AI‑assisted pipeline management, testing, and observability. Trust in data has surged as an organizational priority—from 66% in 2025 to 83% in 2026—but the report warns that governance and validation are not keeping pace with AI‑driven acceleration, widening the gap between what’s technically possible and what’s responsible to ship.

Read on for more→ dbt Labs trust vs. acceleration report

Qlik Extends Agentic Execution Down Into Data Engineering Pipelines

Qlik is extending its agentic strategy into data engineering with declarative pipelines, real‑time routing, and Open Lakehouse Streaming to reduce friction in how data flows are built and operated. The new capabilities focus less on co‑pilot‑style code suggestions and more on agent‑driven execution—automating orchestration, change handling, and optimization so data engineers can keep trusted data products in sync with fast‑moving AI and analytics needs.

Read on for more→ Qlik agentic data engineering

Safe Software’s FME Takes Data Integration Platform Of The Year As “All-Data, Any-AI” Pitch Lands

Safe Software’s FME platform has been named Data Integration Platform of the Year in the 2026 Data Breakthrough Awards, recognizing its ability to handle complex geospatial, IoT, and enterprise data scenarios. The award highlights FME’s positioning as an “all‑data, any‑AI” integration layer that can prep and pipe diverse data into analytics and AI systems without heavy custom coding.

Read on for more→ FME Data Breakthrough Award

Teradata’s Analyst Agent Lands On Azure To Put VantageCloud At Analysts’ Fingertips

Teradata has made its Analyst Agent available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace so customers can deploy a natural‑language assistant directly against VantageCloud Lake. The agent lets business users ask questions in plain English, generates and runs SQL under the hood, and returns results with explanations, helping organizations widen access to advanced analytics without forcing every user to learn Teradata’s tooling.

Read on for more→ Teradata Analyst Agent

Expert Insights

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 where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Insight Jam and Donald Farmer Launch Waitlist for New Mesh Expert Group on the Last Mile: Analytics Leadership in the Age of AI

Over twelve monthly sessions, a cohort of just eight senior analytics and BI leaders works through the practical and strategic dimensions of leading in an AI-augmented environment.

The sessions build progressively: early months establish a framework for where human judgment remains indispensable; middle months address the operational pressures, data quality, governance, the proliferation of shadow AI tools, and conversational interfaces that complicate deployment in real organizations; later months turn toward team development, role evolution, and a planning horizon of two years.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Informatica for the Spotlight event: The Transparency Mandate: Navigating the Digital Product Passport on April 22

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading AI-powered cloud data management vendor Informatica. In this session, Chris from Informatica will explore a strategic framework for mastering global product traceability. He will move beyond the regulatory hype to discuss the architectural foundation required to unify multi-tier supply chain data into a single, trusted source of truth that strengthens brand equity and ensures compliance.

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Thought Leaders: Drucker’s Five Questions in the Age of AI: A Test Most Organizations Are Failing by Samir Sharma

I received an email yesterday that took me back 30 years to when I did Management Science at university and specifically Peter Drucker’s five questions from a marketing strategy standpoint. What struck me is that the questions are global within themselves and can be used for any “strategy”. Hence, why I’ve applied them to AI, because of course that’s the buzz these days, if you haven’t heard!

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Mini Jam, Q1 2026 On-Demand: The Skills Reckoning on March 31

This program is designed not simply to comment on change, but to explore the structural redesign of education and workforce systems now required to keep pace with it. For leaders operating at the intersection of AI, education, upskilling, and L&D, the Q1 Mini Jam offers a clear view into the forces reshaping how capability is defined, developed, and deployed in the years ahead.

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Solutions Review Surpasses 250K on YouTube to Power Unmatched Media Momentum in Enterprise Tech & the Human Impact of AI

Solutions Review has officially surpassed 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, a milestone that’s about more than just the number. This moment marks the payoff of a deliberate, two-year strategy centered on authoritative video, human-led insight, and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale.

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Solutions Review Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI

Artificial intelligence is everywhere—but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger, comes in. Designed to chronicle how AI is reshaping the way we learn, work, lead, and live, this newsletter explores the soft side of AI—the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.

Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.

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How One Solutions Review Article Reshaped AI Answers Across an Entire Software Category

Something just happened in the AI search landscape that most companies will miss. But the ones who understand it will have a multi-year advantage. In January, Solutions Review recorded a 324 percent increase in media domain citations across AI answer engines in less than 30 days.

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