Data Management News for the Week of January 12; Updates from Fivetran, Safe Software, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of January 12, 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 January 12, 2024

Ask-AI Nabs $11 Million in New Funding for Unraveling Data Siloes with GenAI

Ask-AI is a comprehensive generative AI solution designed from scratch to enhance efficiency in repetitive tasks, knowledge management, and understanding the voice of the customer. It integrates that knowledge into an employee’s workflow to help them be more productive, providing multiple use cases for customer support, success, product, R&D and sales.

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Dremio Partners with Carahsoft on Public Sector Data Infrastructure

Dremio’s solutions are being made available through Carahsoft’s reseller partners and its NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2, National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and OMNIA Partners contracts.

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FPT & Fivetran Announce New Strategic Collaboration

The partnership is poised to offer a comprehensive suite of solutions that address the complex data challenges faced by businesses. This partnership enables businesses across industries, including banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), healthcare, manufacturing, and more, to extract valuable insights from company data in order to make data-driven business decisions and fuel growth.

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Gartner Drops 2023 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Databases

A new report from Law.com Compass Pacesetter Research (previously known as ALM Intelligence Pacesetter Research) finds that a growing number of business problems have data dimensions, and all too often poor data governance is a primary culprit.

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Law.com Says a Growing Number of Biz Problems Feature Prominent Data Dimensions

A new report from Law.com Compass Pacesetter Research (previously known as ALM Intelligence Pacesetter Research) finds that a growing number of business problems have data dimensions, and all too often poor data governance is a primary culprit.

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OneAdvisory Secures $8 Million in Seed Funding for Dispatch

When an advisor signs on to use Dispatch, they go through its automated onboarding process; its optical character recognition (OCR) technology extracts data from the documents advisors commonly collect, such as tax returns, brokerage statements and drivers’ licenses, and uses that data to construct the client profile.

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Opendatasoft Unveils AI-Powered Semantic Search

Opendatasoft’s focus is on delivering a data portal user experience that makes sharing, finding, and reusing data simple and seamless for all. Its new AI-powered search engine therefore goes beyond literal keyword search matches, providing results based on a deep understanding of the intent and contextual meaning of search terms, according to the vendor. For example, a query on the word “gasoline” may return data asset results with terms such as “fuel.”

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Rackspace Launches Cloud Database Ops for AWS

Rackspace Cloud DBOps for AWS is designed to help customers manage their data assets on AWS with enhanced efficiency, agility, and reliability. The Rackspace Cloud DBOps service provides regular health checks, database engineering, monitoring, performance analysis, auditing, troubleshooting, consultations, and long-term planning.

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Safe Software Nabs Strategic Growth Investment from JMI Equity

Safe provides solutions that empower people and enterprises to unlock the full potential of their information, including spatial data. Safe is helping create a connected, informed, and innovative future, aligning with JMI’s focused strategy to invest in leading software companies with proven business models and long-term growth potential.

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Snowflake Appoints Vijayant Rai as Managing Director for India

With over 27 years of extensive experience in senior sales positions across leading companies, driving new business and revenue growth, expanding business in India, and attracting and retaining talent. Vijayant comes with a wealth of expertise in driving business transformation for customers. He will spearhead Snowflake’s business expansion across India.

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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, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Set to Host Semarchy and Sanofi for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar January 23

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading unified data management platform Semarchy to provide viewers with a unique webinar called Sanofi’s MDM Journey: Rapidly Enabling a Global Customer 360 Solution. In this presentation, Sanofi’s Head of Customer Master Data Management will share its journey to achieving a Customer 360 solution through Master Data Management and data engineering.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Denodo for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar January 25

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading unified data management platform Denodo to provide viewers with a unique webinar called Best Practices for Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Data Lakes. In this presentation, Denodo will discuss scalable analytics, democratizing data, seamless integration, maximizing ROI, and simplified governance.

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SR Editors Release Annual Roundup of Expert Data Management Predictions for 2024

For our 5th annual Insight Jam LIVE! Solutions Review editors sourced this resource guide of data management predictions for 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech experts.

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