Data Management News for the Week of March 10; Updates from Kensu, SAP, Tabular & More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy data management news items for the week of March 10, 2023.

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 March 10, 2023

Grafana Labs Drops 2023 Observability Survey

The report, which focused on the state of observability, found that organizations are challenged by tool sprawl and data source overload, with 52 percent of respondents reporting that their companies use six or more observability tools, including 11 percent that use 16 or more. To combat this, 70 percent of respondents say their companies have centralized observability, and of those, 83 percent have saved time or money as a result.

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Jitterbit is Set to Acquire Zudy for Low-Code Development Capabilities

Zudy’s enterprise-grade application development platform, Vinyl, is used by a wide variety of commercial and government enterprises, ranging from Optum, Otis Worldwide Corp., and the Department of Defense to retail and media organizations such as J. Crew Group and iHeartMedia. Vinyl enables businesses to build powerful, fully integrated, bi-directional applications from on-premise deployment without a single line of code.

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Kensu Launches Global Data Observability Product Council

To better understand specific market needs and identify new product opportunities, integrations, and partnerships, Kensu has assembled a council spanning the Americas and the EMEA regions and composed of thought leaders and practitioners in the data space.

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Ontotext Unveils New Version of RDF Database for Knowledge Graph

The report, which focused on the state of observability, found that organizations are challenged by tool sprawl and data source overload, with 52 percent of respondents reporting that their companies use six or more observability tools, including 11 percent that use 16 or more. To combat this, 70 percent of respondents say their companies have centralized observability, and of those, 83 percent have saved time or money as a result.

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Orion Governance Partners with Ignition on Enterprise Data Management

This partnership is two folded. First, Ignition will integrate Orion’s EIIG with Ignition’s IRiS solution as its core data governance capability. Secondly, Ignition will promote the EIIG solution as a value-added reseller to enable enterprises to tackle their most challenging data management problems.

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Privacera Drops New Insights from 2023 Data Security Governance Survey

The study shows that data security governance management and implementation roles are shifting to support the competitive pressure companies feel to be more data-driven while remaining compliant to regulations and secure. Their evolving roles have put much of the responsibility on CIOs and CDAOs (68 percent), while a smaller percentage (18 percent) is on CISOs to manage these concerns.

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SAP Launches New SAP Datasphere Solution; Partners with Collibra, Confluent, Databricks, and DataRobot

SAP Datasphere is the next generation of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution. It enables data professionals to deliver scalable access to mission-critical business data. With a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation and data virtualization, SAP Datasphere enables data professionals to help distribute mission-critical business data – with business context and logic preserved – across their organization’s data landscape.

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Tabular Launches Central Table Store for Analytic Data

Tabular thinks of Tablular as “the storage half of a data warehouse that you can easily connect to your tool of choice, from Python notebooks to full query engines.” Tabular is a managed metastore catalog integrated with role-based access controls and a swarm of automated services.

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Bigeye Data Observability CEO Kyle Kirwan Offers Key Data Reliability Engineering Interview Questions & Answers

The right DRE will bring in folks from multiple parts of the organization in order to get data right, just like how a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) must work in both infrastructure and software engineering domains to keep things reliable. While you don’t need a computer science degree to be a DRE, you will likely need the equivalent work experience that gives you a strong foundation in engineering.

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Pimcore CEO Dietmar Rietsch Reveals Key Master Data Management Best Practices

To achieve MDM goals, businesses must address the questions around vision, strategy, scaling, and long-term goals. Hence, MDM must be implemented by including some of its best practices to lay the foundation for an ever-evolving enterprise. To capitalize on their data, businesses should focus on centralizing the data across business functions, processes, and line of business applications.

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Data Crossroads Launches New Data Crossroads Academy Training Programs

Data Crossroads Academy is a place where data management and other business professionals can gain and expand their knowledge of data management and upgrade their practical skills. Data Crossroads offers various free and paid online training opportunities.

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Eckerson Group Launches CDO TechVent for Modern Data Pipelines on March 30

This 3-hour virtual event is designed to help data leaders evaluate and select data pipeline products, and learn best practices for implementing them. The event compresses the time it takes data leaders to understand an emerging technology, create a short list of products, and hear tips from experts, practitioners, and solutions providers in the field.

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