Data Management News for the Week of November 15; Updates from Cloudera, Impetus, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of November 15, 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.

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Top Data Management News for the Week Ending November 15, 2024

Alation Announces Slew of New Partnerships

These integrations build on Alation’s Open Connector Framework and enable organizations to gain insights across the modern data stack while empowering users to leverage data and AI for sustained growth, competitive advantage, and increased value from their data initiatives.

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Cloudera Acquires Octopai

Founded in 2016, Octopai transformed the metadata management landscape by leveraging automated data mapping and knowledge graphs to enrich and activate metadata to deliver insights into the data landscape. This, coupled with an intuitive experience and AI copilots, accelerates the use of high-quality data for analytic and AI outcomes.

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Dataddo Joins LinkedIn Marketing Partner Program

Now, customers can better leverage Dataddo’s integration with LinkedIn, thanks to optimized connections with a wide range of BI tools and databases. They can use Dataddo’s LinkedIn Ads connector and LinkedIn organic connector to explore any performance data available via LinkedIn’s official APIs—dozens of metrics and attributes at the account campaign group, campaign, creative, and other levels.

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Fivetran Partners with Microsoft

This collaboration empowers organizations to efficiently centralize, manage, and scale data in OneLake, part of Microsoft Fabric, addressing the growing demand for robust infrastructure to support artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads.

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Metaplane Releases Native Snowflake App

With the launch of Metaplane’s app for Snowflake, data teams can now take full advantage of Snowflake’s robust security and governance features directly within their environment. When users install the app from the Snowflake Marketplace, they can trust that it has undergone Snowflake’s Native App security review, which is aimed at mitigating potential security risks.

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Monte Carlo Unveils New GenAI Features for Data Quality

Among the enhancements to its data observability platform is the introduction of GenAI Monitor Recommendations, a first-of-its-kind capability that allows data teams to more easily and quickly deploy data quality rules. This is the first time a data observability platform uses generative AI to understand and monitor data relationships within an asset.

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Precisely & ASUG Release Unlocking Automation in SAP: 2025 Trends and Challenges

The survey shows that 58 percent of organizations now use automation for SAP migrations and digital transformation projects – an increase from 43 percent in the 2023 report. Alongside this, the research highlighted a 69 percent reduction in the number of organizations reporting low automation maturity – dropping from 13 percent in 2023, to just 4 percent.

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Reltio Partners with ZoomInfo

Integrating Reltio’s cloud-native data unification platform with ZoomInfo’s industry-leading B2B data provides sales and marketing teams with a wealth of high-integrity, up-to-the-minute insights about customers and their relevant contacts—including 200+ unique company data attributes and critical contact information such as direct phone numbers, emails, management level, and job function.

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SAS Software Acquires Hazy AI

This move positions SAS at the forefront of data innovation, enabling more robust and secure AI applications, with future integration opportunities with SAS Viya. By integrating Hazy’s synthetic data capabilities, SAS will empower customers to innovate and conduct deep research, overcoming challenges related to data availability, access or quality.

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Snowflake Unveils New Snowflake Intelligence

Snowflake Intelligence will address all of these challenges, by first helping organizations integrate various data systems with a single governance layer. With that foundation in place, teams can then accurately process and retrieve data from both unstructured and structured data sources using natural language, truly democratizing data and AI access, while empowering any user to take data-driven actions.

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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Impetus, Deluxe, and Forrester Research for Exclusive Expert Roundtable on Unlocking the Power of Enterprise GenAI

The team at Solutions Review has partnered with Impetus to bring you a discussion from experts from Forrester Research, Impetus, and Deluxe Corporation that will help you take a dive deep into the real-world success stories of enterprises that are leading the charge with GenAI while discussing current and future trends.

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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst (John Santaferraro) Featuring John K. Thompson: Preparing for the AI Agent Revolution

They discuss how AI agents are poised to overtake generative AI as the next major technological advancement, with predictions that organizations will soon have more AI agents than employees. The conversation covers different types of AI agents, the challenges of governance and regulation, and the importance of AI literacy among executives and employees.

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