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• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Databricks launches PostgreSQL Lakebase to aid AI developers

  Resulting from the $1B acquisition of Neon, the database built for AI workloads -- including separate compute and storage -- is now integrated with the vendor's broader platform.

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  Pentaho update aids data integration, semantic modeling

  The vendor's latest platform update aims to speed, simplify and better govern workloads to help customers build a trusted foundation for AI development.

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Snowflake launches new AI tools, unveils OpenAI partnership

  New features such as an agent-powered code generator and automated semantic modeling simplify developing cutting-edge applications and improve the vendor's competitive standing.

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Alteryx launches in-warehouse data prep tool for BigQuery

  Live Query for BigQuery eliminates the need to move data between systems, saving customers from spending on data egress and reducing the risk of security leaks.

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Teradata's AgentStack aims to simplify building, managing AI

  Featuring capabilities for developing, deploying and governing agents, the vendor's new suite addresses many of the problems enterprises face when trying to launch agentic systems.

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  New Snowflake suite simplifies data, AI for energy sector

  Energy Solutions joins the vendor's spate of industry-specific offerings and includes partner-built applications and pre-modeled datasets that accelerate data-driven initiatives.

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  ScyllaDB adds vector search to managed database platform

  The feature's direct integration in the X Cloud platform is aimed at simplifying AI development by eliminating the need for customers to add specialized databases.

• January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

  ScyllaDB X Cloud update addresses database cost, performance

  Features such as autoscaling and advanced compression are designed to help customers reduce spending on their data management, analytics and AI initiatives.

• January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

  MongoDB launches latest Voyage models to aid AI development

  With many enterprises struggling to build advanced applications, new embedding and reranking models improve data retrieval to make agents and other tools more effective.

• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  Snowflake storms into IT monitoring with Observe acquisition

  Historically focused on data management and AI development, the vendor is adding infrastructure observability capabilities in a move that could differentiate it from competitors.

• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  New Databricks tool aims to up agentic AI response accuracy

  With enterprises struggling to successfully develop agents using traditional RAG pipelines, the vendor's new Instructed Retriever offers an alternative.

• January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26

  Snowflake boosts Google partnership, integrates Gemini 3

  By making the tech giant's LLM natively available in Cortex AI, the data cloud vendor is adding yet another significant tool to its evolving development suite.

• December 29, 2025 29 Dec'25

  4 trends that will shape data management and AI in 2026

  The tendencies that influence the next 12 months build on what began last year, including rising mergers and acquisitions and the need to simplify developing and deploying agents.

• December 22, 2025 22 Dec'25

  4 trends that shaped data management, analytics in 2025

  With each relating to agentic AI development, tendencies included nearly universal support for MCP and rising emphasis on semantic modeling, among others.

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  Databricks adds $4B funding round; IPO could be next

  With a valuation well over $100 billion and strong revenue growth from both data management and AI, the vendor could be preparing to go public.

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  EnterpriseDB updates WarehousePG with features that fuel AI

  The PostgreSQL database specialist's data warehouse update targets AI development by adding predictable pricing, real-time data processing and improved governance capabilities.

• December 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  Couchbase adds agentic AI development suite to Capella DBaaS

  AI Services, which includes an integration with Nvidia and governance capabilities -- among other features -- represents the vendor's growth beyond its database roots.

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  IBM acquiring Confluent to boost AI development capabilities

  The purchase of a streaming data platform complements the tech giant's existing tools by enabling developers to build agents using real-time information.

• December 04, 2025 04 Dec'25

  Snowflake, Anthropic boost partnership with $200M commitment

  After first partnering in 2024 to make Claude models available in Cortex AI, the companies plan to collaborate on agentic AI development and marketing strategies.

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Informatica tightens bond with AWS's AI development tools

  New features optimized for joint customers include MCP servers to connect governed data with foundation models and a framework for developing agents on the tech giant's platform.

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Latest AWS data management features target cost control

  As the volume and complexity of enterprise data estates increase, and the size of data workloads grows due to AI development, the tech giant aims to help users reduce spending.

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  One year of MCP: Support a must for data management vendors

  With most AI development initiatives focused on agentic AI, failure to provide the framework for easily connecting agents with relevant data is now a competitive disadvantage.

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Microsoft helps Premier League fuel fan experience with AI

  A new app built by England's top soccer division using the tech giant's data management and development capabilities draws on decades of data to deliver personalized insights.

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Precisely intros AI capabilities to simplify data quality

  The data integrity specialist's new features, including a conversational interface and a fabric for connecting governed assets, address the growing emphasis on high-quality data.

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Snowflake integrates with Nvidia to speed AI/ML workloads

  Adding data science libraries featuring GPUs to the vendor's development suite aims to exponentially improve the performance of application workloads.

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  New Microsoft tools connect AI agents with proper data

  Semantic modeling to unite enterprise data and automated pipeline capabilities to feed applications with relevant information aim to give autonomous tools appropriate context.

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Alation unveils agentic AI suite for governing critical data

  CDE Manager includes agents that set standards and establish rules to help enterprises to connect data to key operations and govern such data to ensure it can be trusted.

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Dremio Cloud: An autonomous lakehouse powered by AI agents

  The new platform automates complex data preparation and pipeline management tasks that fuel AI development and could be a differentiator for the vendor.

• November 06, 2025 06 Nov'25

  Ataccama automates data quality with agentic AI-fueled suite

  The new version of the vendor's platform automates tasks previously performed by humans to substantially reduce the time it takes to ensure that data can be trusted.

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  Snowflake delivers slew of AI tools, introduces new ones

  The newly released tools simplify access to enterprise data and enable deeper analysis through natural language to address challenges in AI development and data utilization.

• November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

  New Databricks tools target successful agentic AI development

  With enterprises struggling to build agents, new Agent Bricks features address accuracy and governance to help move development projects from pilot to production.

• October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

  Why data semantics matters for context-aware systems

  Data semantics organizes context, relationships and logic across enterprise data to create systems that understand how information connects and informs decision-making.

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Streaming specialist Confluent unveils AI development suite

  In addition to a unified environment for building and deploying agents, the vendor launched a private cloud version of its platform and integrations that simplify data preparation.

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Informatica launches agents, adds new AI development tools

  Prebuilt agents for data quality and other data management tasks and a development framework featuring MCP support highlight the vendor's Fall 2025 platform update.

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Streaming vendor Redpanda buys SQL engine, unveils AI suite

  With the Agent Data Plane, which features newly acquired SQL database capabilities, the specialist is expanding beyond its roots and adding tools to train and govern AI agents.

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Immuta adds provisioning prowess to speed insight generation

  Featuring automation capabilities, the new tools dramatically reduce the time it takes to operationalize governed data and could help differentiate the vendor from its peers.

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Couchbase ups database vector search, indexing capabilities

  The vendor's update takes a three-pronged approach to storing and searching vectorized data to make building AI tools trained on massive amounts of relevant information faster.

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  Snowflake, Palantir team to simplify AI, insight generation

  Native integration between the vendors' platforms aims to simplify and speed development of AI and analytics tools for current joint customers -- and to attract new ones.

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  6 essential data engineer skills for modern data environments

  As AI automates more tasks handled by data engineers, the role is shifting from pipeline building to strategic skills that keep modern architectures adaptable.

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Data contracts help build trustworthy data products for AI

  Data contracts establish clear expectations between data producers and consumers, turning governance into a continuous, automated process that builds trust for AI.

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Oracle launches new platform to streamline AI development

  The suite, which combines capabilities from OCI and other platforms, will help Oracle compete with rivals providing similar feature sets for building agents and other AI tools.

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  DBT Labs targets costs with data engine, adds AI agents

  The new capabilities, revealed amid news that the vendor is merging with Fivetran, include an updated engine that lowers data transformation expenses and task-specific agents.

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Fivetran, DBT Labs merge to add complementary capabilities

  The deal brings together data movement and data transformation platforms that help developers build AI and analytics applications.

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Starburst's latest targets agentic AI development

  The data lakehouse vendor continues to expand beyond its roots in data mesh, adding features such as an MCP server and access to vector stores that enable users to build agents.

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  New AI-powered suite boosts Teradata's CX capabilities

  Autonomous Customer Intelligence features agents and other tools aimed at enabling the vendor's users to gain greater insight into their own customers to improve business outcomes.

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Mooncake acquisition boosts Databricks database capabilities

  Five months after purchasing PostgreSQL specialist Neon and turning its tech into Lakebase, the data platform vendor is adding new database capabilities to aid AI development.

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Databricks boosts data security with AI-powered suite

  With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, the vendor's new set of features includes agents, AI-powered dashboards and integrations with specialists.

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Development suite continues Alation's foray into agentic AI

  Once a metadata management specialist, the vendor is keeping up with the competition by adding an environment for developing agents.

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Snowflake's AI capabilities fueling music data specialist

  Luminate, which provides the data for Billboard's music charts and informs other entertainment industry clients, is developing agents using the data platform vendor's tools.

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Databricks partners with OpenAI to boost AI development

  GPT-5 is now the primary model for the data platform vendor's users. In addition, the partners will collaborate to improve model performance for real-world applications.

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  New consortium to aid AI by standardizing semantic modeling

  An open standard for defining data would simplify data integration and discovery to reduce one of the barriers preventing organizations from successfully developing AI tools.

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  5 knowledge graph use cases in data fabric architecture

  Knowledge graphs in data fabrics enable semantic layers, cross-domain modeling, operational intelligence, enterprise search and intelligent metadata management.

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  Teradata unveils AgentBuilder to aid agentic AI development

  Like many of its competitors, the longtime data management and analytics vendor is adding tools, such as an MCP server, to help customers build advanced applications.

• September 22, 2025 22 Sep'25

  Cisco and Splunk are teaching AI to anticipate system failures

  Cisco and Splunk use machine data to train a new time-series foundation model that surfaces hidden issues and creates a durable competitive edge.

• September 18, 2025 18 Sep'25

  Vector database vendor Pinecone eyes future under new CEO

  After establishing the value of its technology under founder Edo Liberty, Ash Ashutosh takes over to lead the vendor as it enters a phase focused on growing the business.

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  MongoDB adds MCP server, expands AI development capabilities

  While the database vendor isn't breaking new ground with its updated features, they combine to provide customers with valuable tools that will help to build modern applications.

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Microsoft adds new AI development, OneLake tools to Fabric

  New features such as MCP support and simplified access to data stored across multiple clouds simplify developing agents and keep the tech giant's platform competitive.

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  SingleStore agrees to growth buyout by private equity firm

  The database specialist's management team will remain, with the investment from Vector Capital Management potentially enabling growth beyond what was previously possible.

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Monte Carlo's Agent Observability targets reliability of AI

  The vendor's new feature enables users to define acceptable AI outputs and trace outputs that don't meet organizational standards back to source data so they can be addressed.

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Fivetran's Tobiko Data acquisition aids data transformation

  The purchase provides the data integration vendor with its own data transformation framework to augment capabilities it provides through integrations with third-party specialists.

• September 04, 2025 04 Sep'25

  Neo4j's latest targets graph database performance at scale

  Infinigraph enables the vendor's platform to handle the scale of hybrid transactional/analytical processing workloads used to help inform AI and analytics applications.

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Latest from Vast Data aims to simplify, speed AI development

  SyncEngine has the potential to be a differentiator for the vendor, combining capabilities usually performed by specialized tools to provide pipelines with relevant information.

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Alation unveils agentic AI-powered query capabilities

  By accessing a knowledge layer consisting of curated data products and metadata, Chat with Your Data provides more accurate responses than the vendor's previous capabilities.

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Confluent joins agentic AI fray with Streaming Agents

  The vendor's new environment for developing agents includes tool calling via model context protocol and connections with key sources such as LLMs and vector databases.

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Modern architecture, high-quality data key to AI development

  An expert explains how components such as a shared foundation and protocols that ensure quality help foster real-time insights and AI-driven analysis.

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  MongoDB launches enterprise-focused AI models

  The vendor's new models enhance document context capture and enable developers to guide the reranking process with instructions, while improving accuracy.

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Aerospike update aims to improve database performance

  With the addition of expression indexes that enable users to streamline the data discovery process, the vendor is providing capabilities that could force competitors to respond.

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  Informatica adds MCP support, spate of AI-fueled features

  With Model Context Protocol helping standardize how enterprises develop and deploy agents, support for the open standard is valuable for customers building advanced applications.

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  Collibra's acquisition of Deasy targets unstructured data

  With AI development on the rise, the vendor's latest purchase better enables customers to combine the complete array of relevant data to inform advanced applications.

• July 23, 2025 23 Jul'25

  StarTree adding Iceberg support to simplify, speed analysis

  With open table data storage formats gaining popularity, the vendor's pending support for Apache Iceberg promotes flexibility while also making analysis more efficient.

• July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

  Oracle adds MCP support to advance agentic AI development

  Given that the open standard simplifies the complex process of connecting systems during agentic AI development, the tech giant's integration with MCP stands to benefit users.

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  Ataccama targets business users with latest AI capabilities

  The vendor's latest update makes data lineage accessible to business users, enabling them to trust their data and make decisions without consulting trained experts for assistance.

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Microsoft, Databricks simplify synchronizing, sharing data

  A new integration designed by the tech giant and data platform vendor eliminates the need for users to move or copy data to join it across platforms for better-informed analysis.

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  SnapLogic adds MCP support to aid agentic AI deployment

  Following the launch of AgentCreator in 2024, the data integration vendor is adding support for the open standard to better enable customers to build and manage agentic tools.

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Qdrant lowers vector database complexity to aid development

  The vendor now provides an integrated environment for operationalizing unstructured data to aid enterprises struggling with a profusion of tools to generate and manage vectors.

• 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.