Data Management News for the Week of May 2; Updates from Denodo, Fivetran, Graphwise & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of May 2, 2025.
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 May 2, 2025
Acceldata Unveils AI Anomaly Detection for Agentic Data Management
Acceldata Adaptive AI not only identifies one-dimensional errors, but also pinpoints new hidden anomalies across multiple data dimensions, reducing manual analysis that previously took weeks to minutes. It brings business-level clarity to anomaly detection, not just data-level alerts.
Arctera Announces New FY26 Channel Partner Program
The latest Arctera channel program extends the most successful elements of previous programs across all three of the business units. This includes offering deal registration benefits to partners reselling Backup Exec solutions from Arctera Data Protection.
BigID Brings New Data Labeling Features to Vector Databases
This latest innovation extends BigID’s industry-leading data labeling, powered by its award-winning data discovery and classification, to a critical and growing AI infrastructure component – vector databases, such as MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and Elasticsearch.
Collibra and Harris Polls Find Data Management Pros Most Concerned About Data Privacy
Despite concerns around data privacy and ROI, the survey indicates a strong overall momentum towards AI adoption, with 86 percent of organizations planning to proceed with their AI initiatives. However, this enthusiasm varies by company size.
Denodo 9.2 is Now Live and in the Wild
The new data marketplace features of Denodo Platform 9.2 offer an e-commerce-style user experience, supported by a comprehensive semantic layer for the most relevant business context, as well as by AI-powered automation, to streamline repetitive tasks.
Fivetran Signs Agreement to Acquire Census to Extend Data Movement Features
With this acquisition, Fivetran becomes the only fully managed platform that enables enterprises to move governed, automated, and real-time data across their entire stack, from source systems to data platforms and now back into the business applications that drive decision-making. Fivetran is funding the acquisition through a combination of cash and equity. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The completion of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions.
Graphwise Intros New Solution for Microsoft 365
Graphwise for Microsoft 365 enables organizations to bring the Graphwise Copilot Virtual Agent into Teams or build their own in Microsoft’s Copilot Studio using Graphwise Power Platform custom connectors. Graphwise Copilot Virtual Agent tags documents automatically, finds additional documents in a tenant with overlapping topics, and enables users to ask GenAI-style questions based on these documents.
Huawei Unveils New AI Data Lake
By integrating data storage, data management, resource management, and the AI toolchain, the AI Data Lake Solution delivers a high-quality AI corpus and speeds up model training and inference, empowering enterprises to embrace AI.
Precisely Drops New Observability for AI Innovation Study
As organizations scale their use of AI, observability has become a foundational requirement for ensuring transparency, accountability, and performance across data ecosystems. The research reveals that while many companies have taken significant steps to formalize observability programs, progress varies across disciplines. Differences in program maturity, measurement practices, and regional adoption trends all point to areas that still require attention.
Pythian Announced its Acquisition of Rittman Mead
With the acquisition of Rittman Mead, Pythian gains notable business intelligence and analytics capabilities, an enhanced presence in Europe and access to greater Oracle expertise. The partnership demonstrates an elevated ability to deliver value on business-critical milestones along the data journey, from cloud and data transformations to advanced analytics and AI initiatives.
Redis is Now Available Under Open-Source License
Collaborating with Salvatore on new capabilities, company strategy and community engagement has been a true privilege that has made a major impact that will pay dividends into the future.
Semarchy Names New CTO, CFO & CMO
As organizations increasingly adopt AI-driven technologies to scale operations and drive innovation, access to high-quality, governed data has become more critical than ever. By strengthening its leadership team, Semarchy reinforces its commitment to advancing data quality, precision and governance – key pillars in maximizing AI’s potential.
Splunk Releases The New Rules of Data Management: Creating Value in the AI Era Report
From the early days of simple data collection to today’s sophisticated analytics and AI capabilities, organizations are reexamining their data strategies to strike the balance between abundance and utility. This report will help you reimagine your data management strategy, put those practices into play, and make your data do what it was intended to — create value for your organization.
Treasure Data Secures Google Cloud Ready BigQuery Designation
As part of this initiative, Google Cloud engineering teams validate partner integrations into BigQuery in a three-phase process: Run a series of data integration tests and compare the results against benchmarks, work closely with partners to fill any gaps, and refine documentation for mutual customers.
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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring James Kobielus: What is AGI?
John talks artificial general intelligence (AGI) with James Kobielus. They explore what AGI is, how it differs from current AI applications, and the technological milestones needed to achieve it. They debate whether AGI is a paradigm or a future capability, discuss governance challenges, and consider realistic timelines for AGI development, with Kobielus viewing it as a focusing function rather than a discrete endpoint.
On-Demand: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Hosted Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon
Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.
NEW Friday Jam Session with Cher Fox, Joe Blatly, Jessica Wynter Martin & Gregory Lewandowski: Are You Doing AI or is AI Doing You?
Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for a live, informal, and informative chat around the reality of AI adoption. Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for a live, informal, and informative chat around the reality of AI adoption.
Solutions Review On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8
The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME—the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you’ll explore the power of data integration and AI. From creating workflows to building AI agents, data integration and AI drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented insights.
Solutions Review Set to Host Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI on May 14
Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.
Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21
In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.
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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.
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