Data Management News for the Week of July 10; Updates from Actian, Snowflake, Teradata & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of July 10, 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 July 10, 2026

Actian Expands Data Management Portfolio With Jaspersoft Embedded Analytics And Agentic BI

Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, has completed its acquisition of Jaspersoft and is now folding Jaspersoft’s embedded analytics and pixel‑perfect reporting into its data management portfolio. The combined platform unifies data management, business intelligence, and AI, giving customers a seamless path from governed data into operational reporting, dashboards, and emerging agentic BI capabilities, with Actian planning AI‑enhanced analytics, conversational experiences, and deeper integration across its products so teams can move from raw data to AI‑driven insight without stitching together multiple vendors.finance.

Read on for more→ Actian adds Jaspersoft, unifying reporting and embedded analytics

Airbyte Makes Agents And Its AI-Native Data Platform Generally Available To Operationalize Agentic Pipelines

Airbyte has announced major updates to Airbyte Agents, making its AI-native data platform generally available and expanding how agents access and act on enterprise data. The release includes availability in the OpenAI App Marketplace, a new single-binary Agent CLI for developer and CI/CD workflows, and Salesforce/HubSpot write connectors, turning Airbyte into a context infrastructure platform where agents can both read and update operational data through a governed, replicated Context Store and an MCP endpoint.

Read on for more→ Airbyte Agents Data Platform available on OpenAI App Marketplace

Cloudera And Mercy Corps Deepen Partnership With Agentic AI Built For Humanitarian Response

Cloudera has announced the next phase of its partnership with Mercy Corps, centering on agentic AI that can act on unified humanitarian data across clouds and edge environments. Using Cloudera Data Platform and Cloudera AI on any infrastructure, the collaboration will deploy AI agents to help teams analyze climate, conflict, and economic data, run scenario planning, and automate parts of response workflows while keeping data governance, sovereignty, and human oversight front and center.

Read on for more→ Cloudera and Mercy Corps deepen partnership with agentic AI for humanitarian response

Precisely Delivers Real-Time Mainframe Software Visibility To The ServiceNow AI Platform To Break Down Data Silos

Precisely has introduced Ironstream z/OS Software Discovery for the ServiceNow AI Platform, giving organizations automated, real-time visibility into mainframe software inside their ServiceNow CMDB. Running directly on IBM z/OS, Ironstream continuously discovers installed software and synchronizes it with ServiceNow, replacing manual spreadsheets with an auditable inventory that improves compliance, license validation, and software asset management while making mainframe environments first-class citizens in ITOM, SAM, and ITSM workflows.

Read on for more→ Precisely delivers real-time mainframe software visibility to the ServiceNow AI Platform

Rippling Launches AI-Powered Data Cloud To Bridge Business Intelligence And Worker Identity

Rippling has launched Data Cloud, an AI-powered BI suite that pulls data from systems like CRM, POS, helpdesk, and finance into Rippling and connects it to worker identity. Built as a modern data stack with org chart and permissions baked in, Data Cloud lets Rippling AI answer complex questions—like labor cost as a percent of sales or which teams are overspending on tools relative to output—using accurate, up-to-date data tied directly to employees and roles, and exposes that data for dashboards, workflows, and custom apps.

Read on for more→ Rippling launches AI-powered Data Cloud to bridge BI and employee identity

Snowflake Opens Paris Office To Accelerate Data And AI Innovation In France And Deepen Local Ecosystem Investments

Snowflake has opened a new French headquarters in central Paris to support enterprise and SMB customers and accelerate data and AI innovation across the country. The office reflects strong demand for Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud in France and is tied to a broader ecosystem strategy that includes Snowflake Ventures investments in French AI companies such as Mistral AI and Dust, reinforcing France’s position as a key hub for data and AI innovation in Europe.

Read on for more→ Snowflake opens new office in France to accelerate data and AI innovation

Teradata AI Report Surveys 1,000 Global Tech And Data Leaders On What’s Holding Back Enterprise AI

Teradata has released a new AI report based on a survey of 1,000 global technology and data leaders, examining what’s really happening as enterprises try to scale AI. The findings highlight persistent challenges around data readiness, governance, ROI measurement, and skills, and position Teradata’s AI-ready data platforms and services as tools to help organizations move from scattered pilots to governed, outcome-focused AI programs grounded in trusted data.

Read on for more→ Teradata AI report surveys 1,000 global tech & data leaders

UC San Diego Launches Institute For Applied Health Intelligence To Turn Clinical And Research Data Into Better Decisions

UC San Diego has launched the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence (IAHI), a new center focused on turning clinical and research data into practical tools for healthcare decision-making. Building on UCSD’s investments in AI majors, AI literacy courses, and next‑gen research data centers, the institute will develop applied analytics, AI models, and operational workflows that improve patient outcomes and health system performance using governed, high‑quality data.

Read on for more→ UC San Diego launches Institute for Applied Health Intelligence

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.

Contributor Series: RAG’s Next Act: Retrieval Tool to Enterprise Storytelling Engine by Dipanjan Sengupta

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) rose to prominence in 2024 before being quickly sidelined by other artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks. But as agentic AI advances and interest in AI inference grows, RAG’s role in AI agent orchestration and cutting-edge autonomous AI agents has put it back in the spotlight.

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Mini Jam Q2, 2026: AI in Practice: How L&D Are Actually Changing Broadcasts June 25-26

AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q2, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King

A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from “Can you rank?” to “Can you be anchored as trusted a source?”

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Insight Jam’s Mesh Lab Episode 5 Now Available: Human-Centered Environments

The conversation shifts beyond standard pedagogy to address the existential crisis facing students and workers as AI disrupts traditional ideas of productivity and purpose. Panelists emphasize the urgent need to stop measuring final outputs and instead focus on the creative, collaborative process of learning. Ultimately, the group argues that to foster uniquely human skills like adaptability in students, educators must first be granted the autonomy to exercise those exact same skills.

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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.

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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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