The Power BI Crash That Sparked a Data Revolution at Dodge Industrial
Dodge Industrial’s reliance on a 20‑year‑old SAP BW system forced business users to build a shadow data warehouse in Power BI, which ultimately crashed the company’s entire tenant. The outage prompted Data & Analytics Manager Daniel Garrett to partner with Protiviti and re‑architect the data landscape, migrating to SAP S/4HANA and adopting SAP Datasphere as a cloud data warehouse. A Bronze‑Silver‑Gold governance model was introduced to balance rapid reporting with strict data consistency. The transformation also integrated non‑SAP sources such as Snowflake, Salesforce and MS SQL Server through MuleSoft and custom connectors.
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Within3 unveiled Dataverse, a unified real‑world data ecosystem that merges electronic health records, claims, and specialty analytics to sharpen pharmaceutical launch decisions. Avalere Health released a global framework to broaden genomic profiling in cancer care, while Emota’s report highlighted rising...
Blake Foster Appointed Head of Business Intelligence at HYBE America
HYBE America announced Blake Foster as its new Head of Business Intelligence, a role designed to centralize data strategy across U.S. operations. The former Warner Music Group senior vice president will build the company’s analytics infrastructure and turn artist‑generated data...
Bridging Worlds with Hammerspace and the Reality of Multi-Cloud Mobility
Hammerspace unveiled a Unified Global Namespace that abstracts storage across on‑prem, AWS, Azure and OCI, letting data appear locally wherever compute runs. Its policy‑driven Objective‑Based Data Orchestration moves only the required blocks, eliminating heavyweight migrations for AI and GPU‑intensive workloads....
Scaling Kafka Consumers: Proxy Vs. Client Library for High-Throughput Architectures
Apache Kafka’s pull‑based model excels for event‑driven microservices, but scaling consumer groups creates operational overhead, head‑of‑line blocking, and complex error handling. Large enterprises such as Wix and Uber have addressed these limits by deploying a centralized push‑based consumer proxy, achieving...
How Lumen Is Dismantling Decades of Network Complexity
Lumen Technologies, a $12.4 billion telecom operator with a 500,000‑mile fiber network, faced fragmented inventory from decades of acquisitions, operating over 17 legacy systems and nearly 500 data sources. It built a unified data layer and AI‑driven digital twin, launching the...
A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Embedded Analytics
Embedding analytics directly into applications is rapidly becoming a strategic priority for software vendors, as 78 % of tech leaders plan to boost BI investments. Developers must decide between building custom visualizations or buying a third‑party platform such as Tableau, Power BI,...
Snowflake Intelligence for Retail: Scaling Enterprise AI
The Mark Anthony Group (MAG) has moved from a traditional data warehouse to Snowflake Intelligence, turning its data platform into a generative business intelligence engine. By mandating Snowflake Secure Data Sharing in vendor RFPs, MAG streamlined real‑time data integration and...
Agent Skills: Disseminating Expertise
dbt Labs unveiled a suite of eight AI agent skills that automate complex dbt tasks, including a migration from dbt Core 1.10 to Fusion that completed without human intervention. These skills distill hundreds of hours of community expertise into concise...
Interview: Thierry Martin, Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics, Toyota Motor Europe
Toyota Motor Europe’s head of enterprise data and analytics, Thierry Martin, detailed how the company built a continent‑wide data mesh on Snowflake, launching over 100 data products in its internal marketplace. He described the broader tech stack—including Calibra, Dataiku, Qlik,...
The Forrester Wave™: Data Quality Solutions, Q1 2026
The Forrester Wave™: Data Quality Solutions, Q1 2026 reveals a decisive shift toward AI‑driven automation, real‑time observability, and multimodal data handling. Vendors now embed generative and agentic AI to profile, classify, validate, and remediate data at scale, moving beyond traditional rule‑based...
Why Some Businesses Seem to Win Online Without Ever Feeling Like They Are Trying
Over 97% of companies worldwide have invested in big data, and analytics now yields an average return of $13 for every $1 spent, according to a Nucleus Research survey. The article argues that businesses that appear to win online without...
Hubert 'Depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for PostgreSQL 19 – Json Format for COPY TO
PostgreSQL’s upcoming 19 release introduces a native JSON output option for the COPY TO command, allowing users to stream query results as line‑delimited JSON objects (NDJSON). The feature supports the syntax COPY TO … WITH (FORMAT json) and includes a force_array...
Africa’s AI Future to Be Defined by Data Governance Across the Continent— Gyekye
Microsoft’s Africa government affairs director Akua Gyekye says the continent’s AI future hinges on effective data governance rather than just technology adoption. While 76 % of African nations now have data‑protection laws, fragmented policies and restrictive localisation impede cross‑border data flows....
Build It Yourself: A Data Pipeline that Trains a Real Model
The article explains what a data pipeline is, why it’s essential for AI, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial to build a simple pipeline that simulates temperature data, trains a linear regression model with scikit‑learn, and generates predictions. It outlines the...
Designing High-Concurrency Databricks Workloads Without Performance Degradation
Databricks’ high‑concurrency workloads can suffer performance loss when many jobs write to the same Delta tables. By optimizing table layout with partitions or liquid clustering, enabling row‑level concurrency, and automating file compaction, engineers maintain stable throughput. Disk caching and Delta’s...
Boston Children's Enhances Care with Clinical Intelligence Platform
Boston Children’s Hospital deployed Etiometry’s AI‑driven clinical intelligence platform to capture continuous high‑frequency physiologic data across its pediatric ICU. The system aggregates and visualizes signals in real time, giving clinicians a shared, longitudinal view of each patient’s trajectory. Early results...
Digital Communications Governance: AI in Action
Artificial intelligence is now integral to Digital Communications Governance and Archiving (DCGA) in financial services, automating the monitoring, summarising, and risk detection of employee communications across text, voice, video and AI‑generated content. Theta Lake showcases six real‑world use cases, from...
Reveal Brings Conversational AI Analytics Directly Into Enterprise Applications
Reveal, Infragistics' embedded analytics platform, now lets enterprises embed conversational AI analytics directly into their applications. The solution transforms static dashboards into interactive, question‑answer experiences while enforcing existing data permissions. It also offers token‑based cost controls, giving software teams visibility...
Veritone Leans Into Oracle Cloud to Scale AI Data Pipelines
Veritone announced a multi‑year agreement to migrate its core AI workloads, including aiWARE, Data Refinery, and Data Marketplace, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The move aims to boost performance, security, and global scalability as the company tackles massive unstructured data volumes....
Telstra to Add Flink to Its Event Streaming Capabilities
Telstra announced it will integrate the Apache Flink stream‑processing engine with its existing Kafka‑based event streaming platform, launching the project in the coming months. The pairing, delivered through Confluent’s managed services, aims to boost real‑time analytics across Telstra’s network observability...
TGS Taps Tape Ark to Migrate Around 40 Petabytes of Data to the Cloud
Energy intelligence firm TGS has engaged Tape Ark to move roughly 40 petabytes of seismic and subsurface data into a hyperscale cloud environment. The migration leverages Tape Ark’s parallel ingest platform to accelerate high‑throughput transfer across multiple facilities. Once in the cloud, TGS...
Data Pipeline Failures Cost Enterprises $3 Million per Month, Fivetran Benchmark Finds
Fivetran’s 2026 enterprise data infrastructure benchmark, based on a survey of 500 senior data leaders at firms with over 5,000 employees, reveals that fragile data pipelines are costing large organizations roughly $3 million in lost revenue each month. Nearly 97% of...
Cortex Code Updates: Faster AI Data Engineering on Snowflake
Snowflake announced a major upgrade to its Cortex Code AI coding agent, making it generally available inside Snowsight and adding native Windows support for the CLI. The update introduces Agent Teams, a coordination layer that lets multiple sub‑agents work in...
Gaskins: How Data and Data Analytics Improve Asset Utilization and Loaded Miles
Patrick Gaskins explains how real‑time fleet data and predictive analytics are reshaping trucking operations. By giving dispatchers minute‑by‑minute visibility, carriers can match loads to trucks, cut empty miles, and lift loaded‑mile percentages. Integrated network‑wide platforms further align operations, sales, and...
How Big Data Collection Works: Process, Methods, Challenges
Enterprises are racing to harness big data, with 99% of Fortune 1000 executives reporting active programs and 96% seeing success. The data landscape spans structured, semi‑structured and unstructured sources, generating roughly 2.5 quintillion bytes daily. Effective collection relies on ETL pipelines...
Snowflake Introduces Project SnowWork to Enable AI-Driven Enterprise Task Execution
Snowflake announced a research preview of Project SnowWork, an autonomous AI platform embedded in its data cloud that lets business users trigger complex, multi‑step workflows with natural‑language prompts. The system deploys secure, data‑grounded AI agents that can query governed data,...
How Lumi AI Helps CPGs Find ‘Multi-Million-Dollar Opportunities’ Hidden in Their Supply Chain Data
Lumi AI, founded in 2023, offers a natural‑language interface that plugs into ERP systems like SAP and Oracle, letting CPG and food‑retail teams query supply‑chain data instantly. The startup has secured $3.7 million in seed funding and counts Kroger, Growmark and...
Domo Launches AI Agent Builder with Broad Enterprise Data Connectivity
Domo Inc. announced an AI agent builder that includes a library of enterprise data connectors powered by the Model Context Protocol. The platform lets users design conversational or goal‑oriented agents that can pull internal and external data, automate tasks, and...
US Clouds Cast Long Shadow over EU Data Sovereignty, Says Osmium
Osmium Data Group warns that using US‑owned cloud providers for backups undermines European data‑sovereignty, even when the physical datacenter sits in the EU. The firm evaluated four source‑and‑destination scenarios, ranking a Europe‑owned source and datacenter as highest compliance, while a...
CData Sync Adds Pipeline Orchestration with Real-Time CDC and Open Table Formats
CData Software unveiled major upgrades to its CData Sync platform, adding native pipeline orchestration, an enhanced API 2.0, and enterprise‑grade change data capture (CDC) for IBM DB2 and SAP HANA. The solution now writes directly to open table formats such...
Why IBM Paid $11B For Real-Time AI, Not Kafka
IBM completed an $11 billion acquisition of Confluent on March 17, 2026, adding the leading data‑streaming platform used by over 6,500 enterprises, including 40 % of the Fortune 500. IBM frames the deal as buying an AI‑focused data platform that delivers real‑time data to power...
Entrinsik Informer Improves Reporting for Insurance Agencies
Entrinsik Informer now offers insurance agencies an automated data‑quality layer that plugs into AMS360, surfacing missing fields, duplicate records, and inconsistent structures before reports are generated. The solution replaces manual data‑hunt routines with a continuous Data Report Card that highlights...
BMLL, Tradefeedr Partner on Analytics for Equities and Futures Data
BMLL and Tradefeedr announced a partnership to create an AI‑ready analytics layer for equities and futures trading data, leveraging BMLL’s harmonised historical order‑book datasets. The collaboration will extend Tradefeedr’s existing FX analytics APIs to cover multi‑asset execution data, delivered through...
Data in Action: Why Airports Can’t Afford to Get This Wrong
Airports are betting on data to drive efficiency, resilience and passenger experience, yet many still stumble on turning raw information into actionable insight. At the International Airport Summit in Berlin, senior leaders highlighted that reliable data, strong governance and clear...
All AI and Security Teams Need Transparent Data Pipelines
Organizations that rely on opaque AI data sources expose themselves to integrity risks, compliance gaps, and trust deficits. Without auditable pipelines, security teams cannot verify data quality, leading to hallucinations and regulatory violations such as under the EU AI Act....
Op-Ed: Singapore Cruise Centre Reimagines Passenger Operations with Real-Time Data
Singapore Cruise Centre (SCCPL) is entering the final stage of a five‑year digital transformation that centers on a real‑time data integration platform built on Solace’s event‑driven architecture. The platform unifies passenger, vessel, baggage, staff and resource data, enabling instant updates...
Immuta Introduces the First Data Provisioning Platform for Managing Agentic Data Access
Immuta unveiled the first data provisioning platform designed to manage AI agent access, treating agents as distinct identities with attributes, intent, and audit trails. The Agentic Data Access feature grants just‑in‑time, temporary roles on cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake,...
Anynines Advances Klutch to Power A9s Hub for Kubernetes Data Service Orchestration Across On-Premises and AWS Environments
anynines unveiled its open‑source Klutch control plane at KubeCon EU, positioning it as the core of the a9s Hub framework for data‑service orchestration across on‑premises and AWS environments. The solution lets platform teams expose databases, object storage and caches through...
Maryland’s Data Lead Reflects on Ongoing ‘Culture Shift’
Maryland has intensified data‑driven decision making under Governors Larry Hogan and Wes Moore, with Chief Data Officer Natalie Evans Harris describing a statewide "culture shift" toward breaking data silos. The state is building a centralized governance structure and an enterprise...
Integrating AI-Ready Data with Informatica and Snowflake
Informatica and Snowflake partnered in a DBTA webinar to showcase how metadata‑driven governance, data quality and observability can make Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud AI‑ready. The discussion highlighted Informatica’s end‑to‑end data management capabilities, including tag‑based PII masking, automated semantic classification and...
Adactin Launches AI-Powered Knowledge Platform AFIVE
Adactin unveiled AFIVE, an AI‑powered knowledge platform built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI and AI Foundry. It uses retrieval‑augmented generation with LangChain to pull data from SharePoint, Google Drive, Azure Blob Storage and Dropbox. The solution offers natural‑language queries, integrates with...
Child Protection Workers Are Under Pressure in NZ. Can Predictive Modelling Help?
Frontline child protection workers in New Zealand face growing caseloads, time pressure and fragmented information, making high‑stakes decisions about child safety and family intervention. Predictive modelling, which analyses large administrative datasets to generate risk scores, has been explored for over a...
Drowning in Data Sets? Here’s How to Cut Them Down to Size
The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will soon produce up to 60 exabytes of raw data annually, dwarfing the 700‑petabyte baseline currently planned for storage. Scientists are forced to discard raw observations once processed images meet quality thresholds, a practice...
Accelerating Redshift Modernization with Confidence: How Snowflake Automates and De-Risks Migration
Snowflake’s SnowConvert AI offers an end‑to‑end, AI‑driven solution for migrating Amazon Redshift workloads to Snowflake. It begins with an automated assessment that maps objects, gauges conversion complexity, and creates structured migration waves. The platform then converts SQL and procedural code...
Toward Intelligent Data Quality in Modern Data Pipelines
Modern data pipelines face growing data quality challenges that go beyond simple schema checks, as subtle semantic drift and incomplete datasets can silently degrade analytics. Current deterministic quality frameworks rely on static rules and thresholds, which become noisy and costly...
Understanding the Layers of the AI‑ready Modern Data Stack
Enterprises are rapidly replacing legacy data architectures with an AI‑ready modern data stack as AI initiatives surge. Deloitte’s 2026 survey shows strategic AI readiness rose to 42%, but confidence in data‑management capabilities slipped to 40%, while an IDC study found...
From DLT to Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines: A Practical Migration Playbook
Databricks is rebranding Delta Live Tables as Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, adding open‑source Spark alignment and new features. Existing DLT pipelines run unchanged, but Databricks recommends updating imports, decorators, expectations, and CDC logic to the new `dp` API. The migration...
How to Build an Effective Big Data Strategy
Smart organizations leverage big data to boost performance, but without a clear strategy they risk duplicated projects, compliance breaches, and wasted spend. The article outlines a four‑step framework—defining business goals, assessing data readiness, prioritizing use cases, and creating a flexible...
LightningChart Introduces No-Code Visualization Platform Dashtera
LightningChart unveiled Dashtera, a no‑code, web‑based analytics platform that leverages GPU‑accelerated rendering to display up to 100 million data points in real time. The solution removes the need for extensive implementation projects, data reduction, or custom integration, delivering instant zoom and...