Kevin Petrie

Kevin Petrie

Kevin Petrie is the VP of Research at BARC, where he leads the data management practice and writes about topics such as AI, data integration and data governance. For 30 years Kevin has deciphered what technology means to practitioners, as an industry analyst, instructor, marketer, services leader, and tech journalist. A frequent public speaker and co-author of two books about data management, Kevin most loves teaching data and AI leaders about evolving strategies, tools and techniques to capitalize on the value of data.

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Intersystems Summit 2026: A Peek Into Converged AI Workloads
Data Management

Intersystems Summit 2026: A Peek Into Converged...

InterSystems gets me excited for a few reasons. They are proud to be privately held, their AR team rocks, and Preside...

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Five Winning Traits of Agentic Analytics Leaders
Data Analytics & BI

Five Winning Traits of Agentic Analytics Leaders

Sponsored by Simba Intelligence from insightsoftware Data + Analytics. Just 27% of AI adopters have reached productio...

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Cloud AI Innovators Teach Us to Modernize Our Teams, Architecture, and Governance
Artificial Intelligence

Cloud AI Innovators Teach Us to Modernize Our T...

The cloud has spawned rapid AI innovation. Given this, it’s no surprise that all-in cloud adopters have something to ...

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Federate, Query, and Optimize: Assembling Diverse Inputs for AI Innovation
Artificial Intelligence

Federate, Query, and Optimize: Assembling Diver...

Data teams struggle to feed artificial intelligence (AI) models the diverse, often far-flung inputs that they need. O...

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Agentic Data Management and Data Observability: Autonomous Agents Arrive Just in Time
Data Management

Agentic Data Management and Data Observability:...

Sponsored by Acceldata Data engineers struggle mightily to prepare and deliver data to voracious consumers that range...

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Oracle AI Data Platform and the Power of Incumbency
Data Management

Oracle AI Data Platform and the Power of Incumb...

Oracle’s new AI Data Platform, unveiled at Oracle AI World, quickens the pace of cloud adoption and artificial intell...

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Meet the Cloud AI Innovators: Executive-Led, Business-Focused, and In Production
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Cloud AI Innovators: Executive-Led, Bu...

Amid the haphazard rush to artificial intelligence (AI), one cohort of smart adopters deserves a close look: the Clou...

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The Risks and Governance Requirements of Agentic AI
Artificial Intelligence

The Risks and Governance Requirements of Agenti...

This article was written by Kevin Petrie, VP of Research at BARC, a global research and consulting firm focused on da...

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Agentic AI Governance: 4 Criteria to Evaluate Tools
Artificial Intelligence

Agentic AI Governance: 4 Criteria to Evaluate T...

This is an article from Kevin Petrie, VP of Research at BARC, a global research and consulting firm focused on data a...

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