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• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Denodo unveils DeepQuery to provide AI-powered deep analysis

  The data virtualization specialist's new GenAI feature lets users dig deep into their data to discover the reasons underlying what's happening within their organization.

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Confluent platform update targets performance, simplicity

  The vendor's latest release replaces its coordinating technology to make its tools easier to use and updates its Control Center for more efficient streaming data workloads.

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  New Actian features target data discoverability, reliability

  Automatically embedded data governance, data product registration on a data marketplace platform and a natural language interface aim to make trusted data easier to discover.

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  Teradata extends AI development to on-premises environments

  For enterprises concerned about cloud cost control and data sovereignty, the longtime vendor's new platform enables users to build advanced AI tools in their own systems.

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  As Ocient matures, vendor names new CEO to drive growth

  As the vendor moves from its startup to growth phase, John Morris, who has significant experience leading companies as they mature, is taking over to guide its evolution.

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  EnterpriseDB targets AI development with latest update

  A low-code/no-code interface and data observability across hybrid environments address the challenges enterprises face moving AI projects beyond development and into production.

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  SingleStore boosts database performance to meet AI needs

  With AI development and deployment imposing greater workload demands on data management systems than traditional analytics, the vendor's latest update targets efficiency at scale.

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Whoop pushing AI limits powered by Snowflake

  The wearable health and fitness technology vendor has already put advanced applications into production for its workers, with plans to dramatically expand over the next year.

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  Customers pleased with Snowflake plans for AI

  Features including a multimodal data ingestion and integration service that enables access to unstructured data demonstrate the vendor's move toward enabling app development.

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Snowflake continues to add AI, boost Cortex capabilities

  Features that enable users to develop agents, coupled with the integration of agentic capabilities into the vendor's own platform, show the vendor's growth beyond data management.

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  Snowflake acquisition of Crunchy Data adds Postgres database

  The deal, which comes shortly after rival Databricks also purchased a PostgreSQL database vendor, adds open source capabilities aimed at better enabling AI development.

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  AI tools highlight latest swath of Snowflake capabilities

  The vendor is developing a natural language interface that unites disparate data types and an agent that makes data scientists more efficient, among other features.

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  AI tools highlight latest swath of Snowflake capabilities

  The vendor is developing a natural language interface that unites disparate data types and an agent that makes data scientists more efficient, among other features.

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Monte Carlo adds observability for unstructured data

  With AI tools requiring large amounts of high-quality input to be accurate, the vendor is making it easier to monitor all types of information as users build modern applications.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Alation boosts agentic AI with Numbers Station acquisition

  The acquisition adds capabilities such as Chat that enable users to embed agents in workflows to complement the vendor's existing plans for agentic development.

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Addition of new AI capabilities shows Starburst's growth

  The open source data lakehouse vendor continues to evolve beyond being a data mesh specialist with the additions of agentic tools, a development environment and a data catalog.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Alteryx One launch aims to unify, simplify vendor's platform

  The updated version of the data integration vendor's platform aims to make it easier to prepare data for AI and analytics, while new GenAI tools further simplify data preparation.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Databricks adds Postgres database with $1B Neon acquisition

  The vendor's latest purchase comes six months after it raised $10B in funding. By adding PostgreSQL database capabilities, it aims to better enable users to build AI applications.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Boomi launches agentic AI development tools, support for MCP

  The longtime iPaaS vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base with the additions of Agentstudio, agents that simplify integration and change data capture capabilities.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Informatica to build agents, foster agentic AI development

  With agents now a major trend in data management, the vendor plans to join the fray by developing agentic capabilities and providing customers with the tools to do the same.

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  Latest Neo4j release aims to simplify graph technology

  Prebuilt algorithms that reduce the complexity of queries and connectivity to any data source are designed to make graph-based analysis accessible to a broader audience.

• May 06, 2025 06 May'25

  Snowflake launches auto industry-specific AI capabilities

  The latest AI Manufacturing Data Cloud update adds features aimed at helping auto manufacturers deal with massive amounts of data being created by the industry's evolution.

• May 02, 2025 02 May'25

  Fivetran adds reverse ETL with acquisition of Census

  The data integration specialist's purchase provides users with complementary capabilities that enable them to send transformed data back to applications where decisions are made.

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  StarTree aims to simplify AI development with new features

  The database vendor plans to add support for Model Context Protocol and automated vector embedding capabilities to make it faster and easier to benefit from agentic AI.

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  StarTree aims to simplify AI development with new features

  The database vendor plans to add support for Model Context Protocol and automated vector embedding capabilities to make it faster and easier to benefit from agentic AI.

• April 29, 2025 29 Apr'25

  Acceldata launches agentic AI-powered anomaly detection

  The data observability specialist's new feature uses agentic AI to ensure that the data used to inform analytics and AI tools is high quality and won't lead to poor decisions.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  Monte Carlo launches first agents for data observability

  Though the vendor already provides monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities, generative AI-powered agents for each aim to make instantaneous tasks that previously took days.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Google enters new era of AI for data with launch of agents

  Agentic AI applications for data engineering and data science along with a new underlying knowledge engine aim to make data management and analytics easier and more efficient.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  Snowflake embraces open source with full support for Iceberg

  Three years after providing limited support for open data storage, the data platform vendor is signaling its embrace of open source with full support for the open table format.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  New AI-powered tools from Dremio target data discovery

  With relevant data key to developing accurate AI and analytics applications, the data lakehouse specialist's latest features target making data faster and easier to find.

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Databricks simplifies data ingestion with Lakeflow Connect

  With preconfigured connectors to Salesforce and Workday -- and more to follow -- the data cloud and AI vendor is taking aim at streamlining data ingestion.

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Informatica adds to Claire lineup of GenAI capabilities

  New copilots for data integration and iPaaS highlight the vendor's Spring 2025 release, along with a tool aimed at simplifying access to unstructured data to fuel AI development.

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Coalesce acquires data catalog upstart to aid transformation

  After raising $50 million in venture capital funding in 2024, the startup acquired CastorDoc to add AI-powered data catalog capabilities to its data preparation platform.

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Confluent launches Tableflow to ease use of streaming data

  The vendor's new feature enables users to convert event data to tables that developers and engineers can search and discover to inform AI and BI applications.

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  AWS unifies analytics and AI development in SageMaker

  In a move that brings previously disparate analytics and AI development tasks together in one environment with data management, Unified Studio is now generally available.

• March 12, 2025 12 Mar'25

  Vast Data targets secure, speedy agentic AI development

  The vendor is furthering its expansion into AI development with features such as vector search and event streaming aimed at enabling users to build and maintain agents.

• March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

  New Databricks tools tackle lingering GenAI accuracy issues

  Features such as centralized model governance and real-time monitoring aim to improve the accuracy of outputs so that enterprises can confidently scale beyond experimentation.

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Qdrant update adds security measures for AI development

  The vector database specialist's update includes features that enable secure AI development such as role-based access control and an API for managing cloud deployments.

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  Alation unveils AI agents plus SDK for agentic development

  The data catalog vendor's new agents for documentation and data quality monitoring represent innovation among metadata management vendors and could force competitors to respond.

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  Teradata unveils vector store to fuel AI development

  The longtime data management and analytics vendor's new feature will enable developers to discover the relevant data needed to train business-specific generative AI applications.

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Snowflake adds OpenAI models with Microsoft integration

  In a move that adds more model choices for AI developers, models including GPT-4o are now natively available in Cortex AI alongside models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and others.

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Google boosts AlloyDB with added vector search capabilities

  New features address the accuracy and performance of the in-database vector searches that discover relevant data for feeding and training AI models and applications.

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  IBM to buy open source data platform and AI vendor DataStax

  The tech giant looks to the Astra DB creator to strengthen its Watsonx family of AI products.

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Reltio adds real-time data delivery to fuel fast decisions

  The vendor's new Lightspeed Data Delivery Network can be used to feed customer recommendation engines and other applications that need data instantaneously to fuel actions.

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Couchbase integrates with Nvidia NIM to aid AI development

  By joining its Capella AI Model Services environment for AI development with Nvidia's microservices suite, the database vendor aims to make building and managing AI apps easier.

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Cube semantic layer eases data access from Power BI, Excel

  New integrations aim to better enable Microsoft users to directly access data in cloud data warehouses, which has been problematic given how different query languages interact.

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  Confluent, Databricks partner to simplify AI development

  With a new integration, joint customers can more easily access real-time streaming data to develop, deploy and maintain trusted AI models and applications.

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Snowflake's new Cortex Agents enables agentic AI development

  The vendor's new managed service, now in preview, provides developers with an API for combining structured and unstructured data with LLMs to create agentic applications.

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Ataccama adds data lineage to foster trust in AI, analytics

  Given that the absence of trusted data hinders AI development, the vendor's new capabilities further its effort to provide users with the tools to ensure data can be trusted.

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  Databricks' acquisition of BladeBridge boosts data migration

  The data and AI vendor's latest purchase adds AI-powered ETL capabilities aimed at making it easier for new customers to transport data from competing data storage platforms.

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Latest Aerospike database update prioritizes performance

  The vendor's latest platform update addresses performance at scale by adding multi-object ACID transactions to better support the needs of online transaction processing.

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Pinecone provides Assistant for generative AI development

  The vector database specialist is expanding beyond managing data with a suite of APIs and other tools that enable users to tap into their data to create chatbots and agents.

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  TigerGraph launches Savanna to aid AI development

  The latest evolution of the graph database specialist's platform aims to meet developers' data discovery and performance requirements as they build AI applications.

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Snowflake takes aim at lowering GenAI development costs

  By integrating its recently developed SwiftKV capabilities with LLMs, the vendor aims to make models more efficient so that customers pay less as they develop generative AI tools.

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  DBT Labs acquires SDF Labs to boost data transformation

  By adding SQL comprehension capabilities, users will be able to validate code as it's written, speeding the transformation process and potentially improving data quality.

• January 09, 2025 09 Jan'25

  Oracle Exadata update boosts performance to meet AI needs

  With database workloads growing due to the demands of AI development and real-time analytics, the tech giant's latest database infrastructure update focuses on efficiency.

• January 09, 2025 09 Jan'25

  Informatica natively integrates governance suite on GCP

  An expanded partnership between the data prep specialist and tech giant makes it easier for joint customers to develop AI and analytics applications using properly prepared data.

• December 23, 2024 23 Dec'24

  Surging AI development will heighten focus on data in 2025

  Without proper training, models and applications will fail. As a result, enterprises will pay increased attention to the information used to train artificial intelligence tools.

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  Boomi's Rivery acquisition aimed at AI, real-time analysis

  With the purchase, the data integration specialist adds change data capture capabilities for AI and real-time analytics.

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Record funding round reflects Databricks' differentiation

  Based on its AI development and expansion within data management, the record $10 billion the vendor raised shows it is viewed differently from its competitors.

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Databricks' record $10 billion funding round to fuel growth

  The data lakehouse pioneer has expanded into AI development and plans to use the funding to fuel further investments in AI, make acquisitions and expand go-to-market efforts.

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Nexla integration with Nvidia NIM boosts AI development

  The complementary partnership combines the data integration vendor's discovery and retrieval capabilities with the tech giant's power to scale and secure AI development.

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Aerospike adds new vector search capabilities to database

  With vector search a critical component of AI development, the vendor's latest vector search and storage capabilities target simplifying data discovery for training AI tools.

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  Acceldata unveils AI-powered data observability tools

  The vendor's update includes features such as error detection with root cause analysis and schema reconciliation that use AI to automate finding and fixing data integrity problems.

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  AWS reimagines SageMaker as suite for data, analytics, AI

  The service is now a unified platform featuring a data catalog, lakehouse and integrations with other AWS platforms.

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  Couchbase unveils suite of services for developing AI

  The new services include access to LLMs and unstructured data transformation aimed at enabling customers to build AI tools.

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  How to get data ready for AI development

  Factors including a combination of commitment to data quality, proper technology and pertinent processes are key to preparing data for feeding models and applications.

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Snowflake fuels edtech vendor's data and AI initiatives

  PowerSchool is creating personalized educational experiences for teachers, students, parents, administrators and others by using its data to train AI tools.

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Snowflake partners with Anthropic to improve AI development

  The alliance aims to make it easier and faster for the data cloud vendor's customers to use the Claude line of large language models when developing advanced applications.

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Alteryx adds tools for cloud, hybrid analytics deployments

  The vendor's update includes new data preparation and blending tools, improved interoperability with data warehouses and the preview of AI-powered insight generation capabilities.

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Monte Carlo adds more GenAI to data observability platform

  The vendor's latest update features an LLM-powered tool that delivers recommendations for developing data quality monitors along with a DataOps dashboard and new integrations.

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Snowflake unveils AI development, security capabilities

  The vendor's latest includes additions to Cortex AI that simplify developing conversational AI tools and new security measures after its environment was infiltrated in May.

• November 11, 2024 11 Nov'24

  Metaplane app adds data observability for Snowflake users

  The data observability specialist's new native app for the data cloud enables users to monitor data quality as they develop the analytics and AI tools that inform decisions.

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Alation browser-based extension aims to streamline analysis

  The vendor's extension for Google Chrome embeds its tools in users' browsers to reduce time wasted toggling between applications and improve efficiency and speed to insight.

• October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

  Dremio updates data catalog to support all deployment types

  Recognizing that some customers need to keep data on-premises, the vendor has extended the availability of its Data Catalog for Apache Iceberg beyond its cloud-based platform.

• October 25, 2024 25 Oct'24

  Informatica launches blueprints for developing generative AI

  The vendor's new frameworks aim to simplify and speed developing GenAI tools and include data integration and governance capabilities along with connectors and best practices.

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Reltio update delivers new AI-powered matching capabilities

  The data unification vendor's latest AI tool is a prebuilt customer data matching tool that uses LLMs and machine learning to help users develop more complete customer profiles.

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  Informatica update targets preparing data for AI development

  The data management vendor's latest platform update includes features aimed at enabling customers to effectively ready their data for informing models and applications.

• October 09, 2024 09 Oct'24

  Snowflake the engine for fintech firm's AI transformation

  Specialist TS Imagine is using the data platform vendor's Cortex capabilities to extract value from unstructured data and become more efficient by automating processes.

• October 09, 2024 09 Oct'24

  Alation launches AI governance suite to meet rising need

  With interest in generative AI increasing, the vendor's new suite aims to help enterprises both mitigate risks as well as confidently use new applications.

• October 07, 2024 07 Oct'24

  Monte Carlo aids data observability with root cause analysis

  The vendor's new capabilities are designed to enable Databricks and GitLab users to quickly discover and resolve the underlying causes of data quality problems.

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  SingleStore's BryteFlow acquisition targets data integration

  The data platform vendor's purchase adds full change data capture capabilities and is aimed at improving data ingestion and integration from applications and databases.

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  Cockroach Labs adds vector search, updates pricing options

  The database vendor's new update includes an integration with pgvector that provides users with the vector search capabilities needed to feed RAG pipelines and develop GenAI tools.

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  New Grafana Labs features aim to simplify observability

  The vendor's latest set of capabilities includes prebuilt applications and automated features aimed at making it easier to use observability tools to monitor data and IT processes.

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Fivetran targets data security by adding Hybrid Deployment

  The vendor's new feature aims to aid organizations that deal with sensitive data by enabling them to manage pipelines from private clouds and on-premises environments.

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  Oracle keeps AI focus with database updates, new data lake

  Updates to HeatWave and Database 23ai, along with the introduction of Intelligent Data Lake, are all aimed at better enabling customers to develop artificial intelligence tools.

• September 09, 2024 09 Sep'24

  Exploding interest in GenAI makes AI governance a necessity

  With more employees of organizations now using artificial intelligence tools to inform business decisions, guidelines that ensure their safe and secure use are critical.

• September 04, 2024 04 Sep'24

  InfluxData targets performance, adds self-managed version

  The time series database specialist's update addresses performance to better handle complex real-time workloads and includes a new option for on-premises and private cloud users.

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Couchbase launches database tools to foster AI development

  The vendor's new columnar capabilities and mobile-based vector search are aimed at helping customers access unstructured data to inform models and applications.

• August 28, 2024 28 Aug'24

  Cribl positions for IPO with $319M in latest funding round

  The observability specialist's latest financing, along with strong recurring revenue and customer growth, helps set the vendor up to go public pending further financial milestones.

• August 27, 2024 27 Aug'24

  Pinecone launches serverless vector database on Azure, GCP

  Serverless, first launched on AWS, is now available on all three major public clouds in a move aimed at enabling customers to control costs in the environment of their choice.

• August 22, 2024 22 Aug'24

  Collibra, Reltio integration targets discovery, governance

  The new partnership aims to provide joint customers with complementary capabilities to help them better find relevant data for analysis and manage their data assets.

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  New Snowflake service enables secure AI, ML deployment

  Snowpark Container Services aims to provide the vendor's users with a secure environment for deploying and managing models and applications without having to move their data.

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  New features make Google's Spanner a database for AI

  The introduction of graph processing, vector search and full-text search optimize Spanner for developing and managing modern applications and models, including GenAI.

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Astronomer adds DBT Core support to data orchestration suite

  The vendor's latest Astro platform update integrates the open source transformation tool to help users better prepare information for analytics and AI models and applications.

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Qlik launches Talend Cloud, aims to ensure data is trusted

  The longtime BI vendor's new integration platform aims to deliver trust in the information users work with to inform analytics and AI models and applications.

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Oracle's new Exadata architecture targets efficiency, cost

  With Exascale, the tech giant aims to improve the efficiency of its relational database platform to handle GenAI workloads while dramatically reducing costs with new pricing.

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Data quality specialist Soda secures $14M to fuel expansion

  The Europe-based vendor intends to use its latest funding to shift its growth focus to the U.S. while also continuing to invest in its AI-fueled observability platform.

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Graph technology helps battle election misinformation

  Backed by a grant from Neo4j, including free use of its platform, Syracuse University is exposing coordinated networks that spread election misinformation on social media.

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  Databricks launches generative AI tools, including assistant

  The vendor's assistant and automatically generated metadata descriptions together enable users to work with data using natural language and receive accurate outputs in response.