Data Management News for the Week of February 9; Updates from Informatica, Semarchy, Unravel Data & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of February 9, 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 February 9, 2024

Acceldata Debuts Industry-First AI Tech for DataOps Teams

Whereas previous approaches to AI for Data Observability are black-box, Acceldata’s technology provides enterprises with the ability to tailor AI for Data Observability to their unique technical environment and business scenarios. This includes providing desired guardrails that ensure that business context, regulatory requirements, and the proper balance of human oversight with AI autonomy are taken into consideration.

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Cognite Announces Enhancements to Industrial DataOps Platform; Data Fusion

Industrial Canvas now directly integrates with Cognite Data Fusion’s charting and analytics tool, allowing process engineers and others involved in root cause analysis (RCA), troubleshooting, and planning processes to perform no-code time series analytics alongside real-time sensor data within interactive P&IDs.

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DataOps.live Secures Elite Tier Partner Status from Snowflake

Equally important, the Company has been approved as a Snowflake Ready Technology Validation Partner, which recognizes partners that pass an independent third-party technical validation confirming their Snowflake integrations are optimized with an emphasis on functional and performance best practices.

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Deloitte Expands Partnership with Informatica & Workiva on Data Management Initiative

Through its relationships with Informatica and Workiva, Deloitte aims to help clients address concerns though simplifying enablement and implementation at scale. The partnership combines Informatica’s AI-powered Data Management Cloud platform, Workiva’s cloud-based regulatory reporting, and Deloitte’s “deep tech.”

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Gulp Data Partners with Snowflake

As of today, companies can easily determine the market value of their data within 24 hours by accessing Gulp Data’s innovative data valuation app on Snowflake Marketplace. By using Gulp Data’s Snowflake Native App, companies have an opportunity to generate financial value from their data assets by helping them understand how much their datasets are worth.

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Informatica Secures Spanish ENS Certification

The ENS Certification is a stringent security requirement for cloud companies seeking to work with the public sector in Spain. Informatica’s IDMC platform has met these rigorous standards, as confirmed in December by third-party auditor BDO. Informatica’s IDMC platform is now a certified.

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Komprise Releases Intelligent Data Management Winter 2024

It introduces Komprise Elastic Replication to drastically cut the cost of replicating unstructured data. With more frequent and devastating natural disasters, cybersecurity and ransomware attacks, data protection and disaster recovery (DR) strategies are essential in the enterprise.

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Neo4j Joins AI Alliance

Joined by industry leaders like IBM, Meta, Oracle, and Snowflake, Anaconda is committed to collaboratively advancing AI innovation while ensuring its accessibility and safety. Through initiatives like the AI Alliance, Anaconda and its partners are poised to lead the way in creating a more secure, ethical, and open future for AI.

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Semarchy Launches New Acceleration Toolkit

The Semarchy team works closely with customers to rapidly build a tailored proof of concept featuring the client’s own data and use cases. In just one month, clients can experience the capabilities of Semarchy’s solution firsthand and see the value it will bring to their organization.

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New Snowflake Research Finds a 20 Percent Improvement in Query Duration Since June ’23

The SPI is an aggregate index designed to measure the impact of these regular performance improvements in Snowflake over time. To calculate SPI, they identify a group of customer workloads that are stable and comparable in both amount of queries and data processed over the period.

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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, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Launches The Thought Leader Project

The Thought Leader Project is a single initiative that brings the full power of Solutions Review‘s authority, reach, and distribution to help technology vendors build brands, enhance their reputation, and ultimately, reach their target market.

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Live This Week: The Information Risk Podcast with David Loshin, Powered by Insight Jam

Recognized worldwide as an information management thought leader. David is a monthly columnist for TechTarget and frequently presents at The Data Warehousing Institute World Conferences, Enterprise Data World, the Data Governance and Information Quality conferences, and web-based seminars.

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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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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham is Hosting a Live Online Data Governance Training & Clinic on 2/28-29

This training consists of two days and you are welcome to join either, or both days. The first day is my Getting Started in Data Governance course, which simplifies the concepts you need to understand to design and implement a Data Governance Framework. The second day is a Data Governance Clinic.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Seiner Uses Gardening to Define the Data Stewardship Landscape

The role of data stewards can be brilliantly likened to gardeners in a rich and diverse landscape. Just as a gardener skillfully tends to a variety of plants, ensuring their harmonious growth and productivity, data stewards in an organization nurture and maintain the vast expanse of data. Click below to sow seeds.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Joe Perez Offers Advice on How to Become a Better Data Architect

As businesses continue to recognize the value of data-driven decision-making, the demand for skilled data architects is on the rise. However, merely holding the title of a data architect is not enough. To truly excel in this role and make a significant impact, one must continuously strive for improvement and mastery of their craft.

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SR Expert @ Insight Susan Walsh Reveals What She’s Learned in Her 6 Years in Business

So, have I been learning from my own advice all these years? Sometimes it doesn’t feel like it, but when I speak to other business owners, they’re experiencing the same thing so I know it’s not just me, and there’s some things I just can’t change. Sharing with others has been one of the most helpful things I’ve done this year, but what else did I learn?

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Irina Steenbeek is Hosting a Free Masterclass on Metadata Management on February 15

This Masterclass is for you if you are a data management executive, manager, or advanced professional and need to raise the data management maturity level in your company, increase the efficiency of data management practices, or get top management and business support for (meta)data-related initiatives.

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