Data Management News for the Week of February 23: Updates from Alation, Constellation Research, Reltio, and More

By Tim King , Executive Editor at Solutions Review
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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of February 23, 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 of February 23, 2024

Alation Launches Data Culture Maturity Assessment

Determining the true value of data has long been an elusive endeavor for organizations. The lack of metrics to precisely measure data maturity, the subjective nature of data, and intangible benefits add to the challenge. This inability to measure data culture results in uncertainty in determining the value of data initiative investments. Alation, one of the leading providers of enterprise data intelligence solutions, might just have a solution for organizations to assess their data culture maturity.

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Apica Acquires Telemetry Data Management Pioneer Circonus and Lands New Funding

Apica—a data management and active observability solution—announced it has acquired telemetry data company Circonus. Apica also announced a new funding round led by Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC), with additional funding from existing investors Industrifonden, SEB Foundation, Oxx, and Leo Capital. With this latest acquisition and new financing, Apica will continue providing a modern approach to observability data management for enterprise organizations.

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Constellation Research Releases its 2024 ShortList for Master Data Management

The report from Doug Henschen spotlighted 4 data management solutions that companies should be paying attention to. These include Informatica, Reltio, Semarchy, and Stib Systems. Constellation evaluated over forty solutions in the Data Management marketplace and selected these companies based on market share, internal research, client inquiries, customer references, partner conversations, and more.

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Introducing Azure Storage Actions: Serverless storage data management

Azure has announced the public preview of Azure Storage Actions, a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management tasks for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage. With exponential growth in data estate, organizations face spiraling challenges with data management. Effective data management is essential for businesses to fully leverage their data assets, meet compliance regulations, reduce costs, and safeguard sensitive information.

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Reltio Introduces AI-powered Capabilities that Strengthen Data Unification and Simplify the User Experience

Reltio, a data unification and management company, introduced its latest product release featuring Reltio’s industry-leading LLM-powered, pre-trained machine learning (ML) feature for entity resolution and a new AI capability designed to simplify matching and make digital content searches easier. The company’s expanded use of AI in the latest release is a critical milestone in its AI-first strategy for data unification and management. The Reltio Connected Data Platform—the world’s leading data unification and management platform—powers generative AI (gen AI) and LLMs to strengthen data unification…

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This article was written by Tim King on February 23, 2024

Tim King

Executive Editor

Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.