Data Management News for the Week of March 13; Updates from Denodo, Snowflake, Teradata & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of March 13, 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 March 13, 2026

Actian Launches AI Analyst To Turn Business Glossaries Into A Live Semantic Layer

Actian has introduced AI Analyst, a conversational analytics solution that automatically converts existing business glossaries and documentation into a governed Semantic Knowledge Graph. Business users can ask natural-language questions and get explainable answers backed by full traceability of sources, filters, and calculations, reducing hallucinations and metric drift while keeping business logic consistent across teams. The semantic layer updates as definitions change, helping enterprises move from raw data to trusted, query-ready insights in days instead of months.

Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/actian-unveils-conversational-analytics-solution-with-intelligently-generated-semantic-foundation-for-trusted-insights-302708959.html

BigID–Atlan Pair DSPM Signals With Catalog Context For Unified AI Data Governance

BigID and Atlan have expanded their integration to deliver what they call the first unified structured and unstructured data catalog for AI governance, combining BigID’s DSPM discovery and classification with Atlan’s active metadata catalog. The joint solution automatically classifies sensitive data across databases, lakes, SaaS apps, and unstructured stores, feeds risk and policy alerts into Atlan, and propagates that context along lineage so security and governance teams share a single view. By embedding security intelligence directly into the catalog experience, CDOs and CISOs can align on guardrails for AI and analytics pipelines instead of managing separate, siloed tools.

Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bigid–atlan-introduce-the-first-unified-structured–unstructured-data-catalog-for-ai-governance-302708291.html

Boomi Adds Semantic Context, SAP CDC, And Governance To “Activate” Enterprise Data For AI

Boomi is expanding its Enterprise Platform with new data activation capabilities that add a semantic context layer, governed SAP change data capture, and agentic workflow oversight to its integration and data management stack. The platform now maps business concepts across applications so AI agents operate on grounded, consistent meanings, streams SAP data changes into downstream systems under policy controls, and provides transparency into how agents use data in multi-step workflows. Boomi pitches this as shifting from simply moving data to activating it—turning fragmented application data into a living foundation for AI, automation, and analytics.

Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260309682526/en/Boomi-Activates-Data-for-the-Enterprise

CData Connect AI Adds Managed MCP Agent Tools And Zero-Trust Controls For Production AI

CData is expanding its Connect AI platform with new agent tooling, an MCP-based gateway, and enterprise-grade governance so AI agents can safely read and write to more than 350 live data sources. The update introduces managed MCP tools, cross-domain identity lifecycle management, and a standardized SQL interface that preserves source-system permissions, letting agents execute multi-step workflows across systems like Salesforce, SAP, and databases without duplicating data. CData positions Connect AI as a production-ready “connectivity, context, and control” layer that upgrades experimental agents into governed, operational systems.

Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cdata-expands-connect-ai-platform-with-new-agent-tooling-and-enterprise-grade-security-to-power-production-ai-deployments-302707005.html

Coalesce Buys SYNQ And Launches “Coalesce Quality” To Embed Data Quality In The Operating Layer

Coalesce has acquired SYNQ, a modern data observability platform, and is rebranding it as Coalesce Quality to bake lineage-aware data quality checks directly into its data operating layer. Coalesce Quality brings proactive monitoring and impact analysis into the same UI and workflows teams use to design and govern transformations, helping them detect issues early, understand downstream blast radius, and resolve incidents faster. Coalesce pitches the combined platform as a way to move from after-the-fact firefighting to making trusted, high-quality data the default outcome of every pipeline change.

Read on for more→ https://coalesce.io/product-technology/coalesce-acquires-synq-to-bring-native-data-quality-into-the-data-operating-layer/

Confluent Cloud For Government Gets FedRAMP Moderate To Become A Streaming Backbone For Public Sector AI

Confluent Cloud for Government has achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization to Operate on AWS GovCloud (US), making its fully managed data-streaming platform available for federal, state, local, tribal, and supporting commercial organizations. Agencies can now deploy secure, compliant Kafka-based data streaming in days instead of months, offloading operational burden while meeting rigorous federal security controls. Confluent pitches the service as a “secure-by-design data backbone” for mission-critical, real-time applications and AI initiatives in the public sector.

Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260310591133/en/Confluent-Cloud-for-Government-Achieves-FedRAMP-Moderate-Authorization

Cribl Re-architects Search Around “Agentic Telemetry” For AI-Driven Security And IT Ops

Cribl has unveiled a new, AI-native Cribl Search experience built on an “agentic telemetry” architecture that structures and enriches data at ingest so AI agents can run orders-of-magnitude more queries without breaking the log budget. Structured data lakes and agent-optimized queries are designed to deliver AI-speed search across Cribl-managed and external data, turning telemetry into continuously queryable fuel for detection, troubleshooting, and observability. By automating normalization and eliminating brittle parsers, Cribl aims to help security and IT teams keep up with the data and query demands of agentic AI while cutting costs and time-to-insight.

Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cribl-unveils-agentic-ai-enhancements-130000684.html

Datadog Launches MCP Server So AI Agents Can Safely Tap Live Observability Data

Datadog has made its MCP Server generally available, giving AI agents and coding copilots secure, real-time access to unified observability data for debugging and operations. The server exposes Datadog metrics, logs, traces, and incidents via the Model Context Protocol, letting agents analyze issues and take actions inside Datadog while respecting existing security and governance controls. Datadog positions MCP Server as a dynamic protocol layer that simplifies data access for AI workflows and enables more autonomous Dev, Ops, and Sec teams without sacrificing safety.

Read on for more→ https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/datadog-launches-mcp-server/

Denodo 9.4 Adds Conversational AI And A Faster Lakehouse Engine For Agentic Workloads

Denodo Platform 9.4 introduces a conversational, agentic AI experience in the Denodo Data Marketplace so business users can explore governed enterprise data through multi-turn natural language queries without knowing schemas or tools. Under the hood, a new Lakehouse Accelerator built on the Velox execution engine delivers up to 4x faster query performance and better resource efficiency for analytics and AI workloads on existing lakehouse architectures, without moving data. Together, the release aims to operationalize agentic AI by pairing a high-performance virtual access layer with explainable, guided data interactions.

Read on for more→ https://techafricanews.com/2026/03/11/denodo-introduces-conversational-ai-access-and-lakehouse-accelerator-in-9-4/

Grafana Labs Deepens 5-Year AWS Pact To Accelerate Open Observability And AI Insights

Grafana Labs has signed a five-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to speed adoption of Grafana Cloud on AWS and make open observability easier to deploy at scale. The deal includes co-engineering, AWS credits and marketplace routes for customers, and participation in the AWS ISV Workload Migration Program so organizations can move to fully managed Grafana Cloud while offloading operational overhead. Together the companies aim to deliver AI-powered insights across metrics, logs, and traces on AWS, reducing friction in procurement, migration, and day‑2 operations.

Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/grafana-labs-signs-strategic-collaboration-130000489.html

Hammerspace–Secuvy Partner To Keep Unstructured Data AI-Ready Across Edge, NAS, And Cloud

Hammerspace and Secuvy are partnering to combine Hammerspace’s global data orchestration with Secuvy’s AI-driven discovery and classification, so unstructured data stays continuously governed and AI-ready as it moves across on-premises and cloud. Secuvy’s scanning tags sensitive data and policy context in place, while Hammerspace’s data plane enforces location-aware access, retention, and residency controls from PoC through large-scale AI deployments. The goal is to let enterprises feed AI pipelines from distributed NAS, object stores, and edge locations without losing track of sensitive or regulated information.

Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hammerspace-secuvy-partner-scale-data-120000168.html

Liquibase: AI Now Touches Production Databases In 96.5% Of Orgs, But Governance Still Lives In Spreadsheets

Liquibase’s 2026 Database DevOps Report finds that 96.5% of organizations have AI interacting with production databases—via analytics, training, internal pilots, or AI-generated SQL—while 68.1% deploy database changes weekly or more often. Yet governance remains largely manual: roughly 90% of database sessions occur outside CI pipelines, and many teams still rely on documentation, ad hoc reviews, and scattered evidence instead of automated controls. Liquibase warns that in the AI era, this governance gap amplifies the blast radius of a single unmanaged change across downstream analytics and AI systems, and urges organizations to shift governance “left” into developer workflows.​

Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260311497754/en/Liquibase-2026-Report-Finds-AI-Now-Interacts-With-Production-Databases-in-96.5-of-Organizations-as-Governance-Automation-Lags

Monte Carlo’s New Agent Observability Tracks Context, Performance, Behavior, And Output Quality End-To-End

Monte Carlo has expanded its platform with Agent Observability, a set of capabilities that provide unified visibility across four pillars of agent reliability: context, performance, behavior, and outputs. Teams can now evaluate AI-generated fields against warehouse data, use prompt-based checks to catch hallucinations, and monitor latency, token usage, and errors using new Agent Metric Monitors. Agent Trajectory Monitors validate that workflows follow expected tool sequences without loops or skipped steps, while pre-production evaluations and production Agent Evaluation Monitors test agents against golden datasets and continuous quality baselines.

Read on for more→ https://www.montecarlodata.com/blog-agent-observability-announcement-features/

OneTrust Adds Real-Time, Runtime Controls To Shift AI Governance From Static To Continuous

OneTrust is expanding its platform with real-time AI governance and agent oversight capabilities designed to connect policy to operational controls across the AI lifecycle. New features link risk assessments and approved use cases to runtime monitoring and enforcement on key data and AI platforms, helping organizations keep pace as AI becomes embedded in everyday processes. OneTrust says the goal is to move beyond point-in-time compliance toward continuous governance that lets teams innovate quickly while maintaining trust and reducing risk as AI scales.​

Read on for more→ https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/03/09/3251861/0/en/OneTrust-Expands-AI-Governance-to-Meet-the-Demands-of-Scalable-Real-Time-AI.html

Precisely–Matillion Partnership Pulls ETL Directly Into The Data Integrity Suite For AI-Ready Pipelines

Precisely and Matillion are partnering to embed Matillion’s cloud-native ETL engine inside the Precisely Data Integrity Suite, expanding its Data Integration service with scalable transformation and pipeline automation. The combined offering lets users extract from multiple sources, transform and enrich data, and land it in cloud warehouses and lakes under the same umbrella that already handles data quality, governance, and enrichment. Precisely positions this as a way to reduce pipeline sprawl and accelerate data modernization so organizations can deliver AI-ready, trusted data faster.​

Read on for more→ https://www.precisely.com/press-release/precisely-and-matillion-partner-to-accelerate-data-modernization-and-agentic-ai-readiness/

Snowflake Study: AI Is Creating More Jobs Than It Eliminates—So Far

A separate Snowflake report, “The ROI of Gen AI and Agents,” finds that 77% of organizations report AI-driven job creation versus 46% reporting job loss, and among those seeing both, 69% say AI’s net workforce impact has been positive. Respondents estimate they earn about $1.49 for every dollar spent on AI, but 96% still grapple with data quality, skills, and legacy integration challenges, showing ROI doesn’t mean the hard work is over. Job growth and positive workforce impact are strongest in organizations with multiple AI use cases, suggesting that deeper adoption correlates with better outcomes for both productivity and employment.​

Read on for more→ https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-research-reveals-ai-driven-job-creation-outpaces-job-loss-with-77-percent-reporting-workforce-gains/

Semarchy Survey: Data Management Has Overtaken Cost And Talent As AI’s Biggest Roadblock

A new Semarchy survey of 1,000 C‑suite leaders finds that 51% now cite data management as their single biggest AI challenge, ahead of both cost and skills, as “significant” AI investment has tripled year over year and half of organizations now devote more than 20% of tech budgets to AI. Optimism is high—92% of leaders are confident they will reach their AI goals, up from 46% in 2025—but 83% say weak data skills and 82% say lack of a clear data strategy are holding them back. About 65% plan to develop “agentic data management” capabilities this year, signaling a shift from one-off dashboards to automated, AI-driven data quality, governance, and integration.

Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260309081779/en/Data-Management-Overtakes-Cost-and-Talent-as-Top-AI-Challenge-as-65-of-Enterprises-Race-to-Build-Reliable-Agentic-Capabilities

Syndigo Buys Taggstar To Turn Product Content And Social Proof Into A Unified “Digital Shelf”

Syndigo has acquired Taggstar, bringing Taggstar’s real-time, AI-contextualized social proof and conversion messaging into Syndigo’s product data cloud and brand–retail network. The combined offering will pair Syndigo’s rich product attributes, images, compliance content, reviews, and ratings with Taggstar’s dynamic messages—like popularity, scarcity, and trending tags—across retailer sites, brand-owned eCommerce, and mobile. Syndigo says the deal lets brands move from static product pages to adaptive, confidence-building experiences that act as virtual sales assistants at the moment of purchase.

Read on for more→ https://syndigo.com/news/syndigo-acquires-taggstar/

Teradata’s Enterprise Vector Store Adds Multi-Modal, Agentic Capabilities For Autonomous Workflows

Teradata is rolling out new agentic and multi-modal features for its Enterprise Vector Store, unifying structured and unstructured data so AI agents can process text, images, and audio at enterprise scale across hybrid environments. The release adds higher-dimensional embeddings (up to 8K), advanced hybrid search, and tight LangChain integration so agents can retrieve context and execute governed actions—not just perform RAG—inside complex workflows. Teradata pitches the platform as a “context engine and governance layer” for autonomous AI systems, enabling use cases like claims agents that combine photos, PDFs, and transactional data to make explainable decisions with full audit trails.​

Read on for more→ https://www.teradata.com/press-releases/2026/teradata-enables-ai-agents

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Insight Jam is Getting Set to Host Donald Farmer for the Expert Briefing: The Last Mile to AI & Why Analytics Leadership Matters on March 31

While AI can generate insights at unprecedented speed and scale, it cannot verify those insights against business reality, interpret them within organizational context, or take accountability when decisions go wrong. That responsibility still belongs to people. In this live Insight Jam session, Donald Farmer introduces the concept he calls the last mile: the critical gap between AI-generated output and trustworthy business action.

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Thought Leaders: Your Executives Need to Hear This Before Your Next AI Project by Nicola Askham

AI conversations are happening in most organizations right now, and if you work in data governance, you’re probably right in the middle of it. AI is everywhere. Executives are excited, and rightly so. The possibilities are genuinely exciting: new services, reduced costs, greater efficiencies, things that simply weren’t possible before. It’s shiny, it’s fast-moving, and there’s enormous pressure to get on with it.

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The Editors Lens: Why Analytics Leadership Mastermind Groups Solve for the Last Mile of AI

As the expectations placed on analytics leaders grow, many are discovering that traditional professional development channels like vendor webinars, industry conferences, and one-off training programs do not address the leadership challenges emerging given this AI moment. In response, a growing number of senior analytics professionals are turning to alternative models of leadership development: enter the analytics leadership mastermind group.

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Contributor Series: In Search of AI-Ready Data: 6 Steps to Objectively Measuring Data’s AI-Readiness by DataOps.live’s Guy Adams

Despite hefty enterprise AI investments, many AI projects are failing to move from pilot to production. There are many reasons for these failures, but one of the biggest is the absence of data that is suitable for AI. That is, companies do not have AI-ready data. But what exactly is AI-ready data, and how do you get there?

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Insight Jam Launches Mesh Lab Episode 2 to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI: The Human Advantage

Insight Jam Mesh Lab is a year-long, monthly series of expert-led discussions dedicated to exploring and shaping the next generation of frameworks for work and learning in the age of AI. Rather than reacting to tools or trends, Mesh Lab is designed to initiate a sustained, cross-sector conversation about how human capability itself must be re-architected as AI becomes embedded across education, enterprise, and leadership.

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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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