Data Management News for the Week of October 27; Updates from Anomalo, Alation, DataStax & More

Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy data management news items for the week of October 27, 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 October 27, 2023

Alation Adds Monte Carlo, Sigma Computing, and ThoughtSpot to Growing Partner Network

Alation’s Data Intelligence Platform is built on an open and extensible architecture that enables organizations to ingest metadata from third-party data sources. This ensures that the Alation platform captures the richest set of metadata, regardless of the source.

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Data Replication Upstart Arcion Acquired by Databricks for $100 Million

This acquisition will enable Databricks to natively provide a scalable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective solution to ingest data from various enterprise data sources. Building on a scalable change data capture (CDC) engine, Arcion offers connectors for over 20 enterprise databases and data warehouses.

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BARC Research Publishes The Data Management Survey 24

If you need to get the pulse of the data management market and get valuable insights more quickly, you can’t afford to miss BARC’s The Data Management Survey 24. Based on user feedback and covering everything from the selection and purchase of software to deployment and use, it’s an essential round-up of the top vendors in the market.

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DataStax Announces New Integration with LangChain

Generative AI applications built with RAG stacks require a vector-enabled database and an orchestration framework like LangChain, to provide memory or context to LLMs for accurate and relevant answers. Developers use LangChain as the leading AI-first toolkit to connect their applications to different data sources.

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Digibee Integrates AI-Based Documentation into iPaaS Platform

The AI Generator for Pipeline Documentation saves significant time and effort that would otherwise be spent manually creating and maintaining documentation. It ensures the clarity and understanding of integration processes for technical and business team members, aiding in maintenance, collaboration and compliance.

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EDB Acquires Early-Stage Disruptor Splitgraph

Splitgraph enhances this core capability by enriching data integration, cataloging, and governance, streamlining the management of both in-house data and information sourced from open publishers through a single Postgres interface.

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Fivetran Attains Industry-Leading Security Posture

The Fivetran data platform centralizes all of a company’s data into a cloud data lake, lakehouse or warehouse with 99.9 percent guaranteed uptime so that businesses can quickly and easily get the insights they need to accelerate innovation, improve decision-making and increase productivity across their organization.

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IBM Set to Acquire Data Lineage Platform Vendor Manta

Manta’s data lineage capabilities help increase transparency within watsonx so businesses can determine whether the right data was used for their AI models and systems, where it originated, how it has evolved and any discrepancies in data flows. By providing an audit trail, Manta can help businesses discover and anonymize sensitive data to lower risk of exposure and regulatory violations.

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Narrative Releases New Narrative Query Language (NQL)

As businesses grapple with intricate data-driven demands, NQL emerges as the solution for data interoperability and standardization. Its SQL roots ensure familiarity, while its innovative extensions promise enhanced functionality, simplifying complexities for users.

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Need for Speed: Neo4j Ramps Up Analytic Database Performance

These advancements follow a series of milestones for Neo4j. The company recently integrated native vector search into its core database capabilities, enabling more accurate, explainable, and transparent outcomes for LLMs and other generative AI applications.

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Observe, Inc. Launches ‘Connected App’ Powered by Snowflake

The Observe Connected App, which connects directly to the end-customer’s Snowflake account to store and process data, expands the range of deployment options for Snowflake customers and accelerates observability capabilities within the Snowflake Data Cloud for faster insights.

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Openprise Introduces DataOps for RevOps

Since the launch of the RDA Cloud, Openprise has enabled high-performance RevOps teams to simplify their revenue technology stack, replacing point-product solutions with a single, scalable, and flexible platform to achieve operational agility at scale.

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Privacera Announces Generative AI Governance Solution

Privacera AI Governance (PAIG) allows organizations to securely innovate with generative AI (GenAI) technologies by securing the entire AI application lifecycle, from discovery and securing of sensitive fine-tuning data, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and user interactions feeding into AI-powered models, to model outputs as well as continuous monitoring of AI governance through comprehensive audit trails.

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Snowflake Set to Acquire Python Tools Vendor Ponder

It marks another step from the company to improve support for Python, which is quickly becoming the preferred language for developing websites and software, task automation, data analysis, and data visualization.

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Yugabyte Earns AWS Data & Analytics Competency Status

Achieving the AWS Data & Analytics Competency differentiates Yugabyte as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that provides a modern, transactional database designed to help enterprises adopt, develop, and deploy complex projects on AWS. To receive the designation, APN members must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Dig Security and Cohesity for Exclusive Roundtable Webinar on November 7

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Dig Security, Cohesity, and data strategy consultant David Loshin to explore how AI impacts cloud security.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Databricks & Anomalo for Exclusive Roundtable Webinar on November 9

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Databricks, Anomalo, and data management strategist Robert Eve to explore the latest trends in modern data quality and orchestration in lakehouses and how the synergy of these capabilities is essential to AI success.

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