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• 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.

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• 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.

• 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.