BIG DATA MANAGEMENT, DATA VISUALIZATION
Talend | March 03, 2023
Talend, a leading data integration and management firm, recently announced an update to its Talend Data Fabric platform, which offers end-to-end data solutions for transformation, discovery, governance, and sharing. The company's focus on low-code data solutions helps to break down technological and skills-based barriers in data management and accelerates the process of turning raw data into valuable insights. The Winter '23 release of Talend Data Fabric includes new features designed to simplify and automate data management and cloud migrations, expand data connectivity, and improve data quality, visibility, control, and access.
The latest features of Talend Data Fabric are designed to help data professionals, including data engineers and architects, gain complete control of their data environments and organizations transition to modern data management stacks. One of the new features is Smart Services, which uses AI-powered automation to simplify the scheduling and orchestration of cloud jobs, improving operational efficiency. The platform also includes an expanded lineup of over 1,000 connections and components, enabling users to connect to any cloud or on-premise data source. Talend has also added support for modern cloud databases and platforms, including Amazon Keyspaces, Google Bigtable, Azure SQL Database, and Neo4j Aura Cloud, as well as ad platforms like Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter.
The addition of data observability allows data professionals to automatically and proactively check the quality of their data over time and deliver trusted data for self-service data access. Data teams can quickly uncover data blind spots to discover new datasets and apply contextual data quality rules to monitor how data quality evolves.
Talend is also updating Stitch, its fully managed cloud ETL service, with new role-based access control and pipeline monitoring capabilities, making it easier for data analysts and citizens to work with data without IT assistance.
To further support its customers, Talend is offering updated services, including an enhanced Talend Academy subscription, a Talend Strategic Architect Subscription, and a new set of Accelerator services. The latter offers subscription-based packages containing dozens of tools, frameworks, reference architectures, and best-practice guides coupled with a catalog of professional services available on demand.
About Talend
Talend is a leading data integration and management firm, revolutionizing the decision-making process worldwide. Its comprehensive end-to-end platform Talend Data Fabric facilitates the integration of various data governance and integration capabilities to manage corporate information quality effectively. This unique and unified approach ensures that all employees have access to reliable, real-time, and accurate data. One of its innovations is the Talend Trust Score™, which instantly quantifies the reliability of any data set. With over 6,500 customers worldwide, Talend is considered a leading industry expert by top analysts and media outlets.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, BIG DATA MANAGEMENT
Fivetran | March 02, 2023
On March 1, 2023, Fivetran, a leading automated data movement solutions provider, launched three new offerings that make it the most comprehensive and complete enterprise-grade platform for automated data movement. The platform helps companies automate the process of maintaining and building data pipelines to centralize data from various sources into one centralized location, eliminating one of the most tedious tasks data engineers face. Fivetran's ELT process is fully automated, with prebuilt pipelines that deploy in minutes and adjust to source APIs and schemas changes.
Fivetran has extended its data movement platform with three new products, offering options for secure, real-time, and high-volume database replication for all deployment types:
The Fivetran Data Movement Platform provides safe, real-time, high-volume database replication choices for all deployment types. The High-Volume Agent (HVA) Connectors read directly from the source system's logs using log-based change data capture. An agent minimizes replication latency and supports large volumes of data, enabling enterprise users to access up-to-date, accurate, and granular data in near real time. In addition, the HVA connectors provide incremental updates and schema-drift monitoring, making them the optimal solution for high-volume replication use cases.
The Private Deployment option allows highly secure enterprises managing healthcare, defense, finance, and other sensitive data the choice to host Fivetran on-premises or in their own virtual private cloud (VPC). Due to security concerns, firms in highly regulated industries or with sensitive data were limited in where and how they could centralize their data. By deploying Fivetran in their own environment, these firms can modernize and simplify their tech stacks while complying with industry, company and regional policies. Modernizing infrastructure in this way lowers the total ownership cost since there are no heavy infrastructure or intensive set-up requirements.
Fivetran's AWS GovCloud Support allows government agencies to deploy the platform using AWS GovCloud to meet specific regulatory government requirements for handling data. AWS GovCloud enables government agencies to leverage the economies of the cloud while being compliant with FedRAMP for safe data movement. Furthermore, users can utilize AWS PrivateLink so that data is never exposed to the public internet.
About Fivetran
Fivetran is a leading automated data movement solutions provider specializing in automating the ELT process by handling the most time-consuming tasks, schema drift, such as extracts and transformations. This allows data engineers to concentrate on higher-impact projects while experiencing total pipeline peace of mind. Thousands of leading firms, including Lionsgate, Autodesk, Morgan Stanley, Conagra Brands, and Ziff Davis, trust its fully managed service to power mission-critical workloads and drive data-informed business decisions. Headquartered in Oakland, California, the company has a global presence, with offices in various parts of the world.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, BIG DATA MANAGEMENT, DATA SCIENCE
Quantexa | February 28, 2023
On February 27, 2023, Quantexa, a leading provider of Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions, announced its acquisition of Aylien, an Ireland-based company specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The acquisition will enable Quantexa's customers to collect, analyze, and understand unstructured text data. As per Gartner®, unstructured data within organizations is increasing at a rate of over 30% YoY.
This acquisition is a significant step for Quantexa as it marks the company's entry into the $11 billion text analytics market. It is the company's first acquisition since raising $153 million in its Series D funding round in late 2021, led by Warburg Pincus and a group of blue-chip investors. The acquisition aligns with Quantexa's growth strategy to offer enhanced value to existing customers and create offerings for adjacent markets in the $230 billion Decision Intelligence space.
Aylien, founded in 2012, offers a News API that aggregates multilingual content from over 80,000 trusted sources across the web, traditional media, and licensed news outlets for developing intelligent applications. It also provides an application for analysts to investigate, identify and monitor news data to assess critical business risks and opportunities.
Aylien's market insights and risk management solutions immediately expand Quantexa's portfolio of offerings across multiple industries. Customers will now be able to create real-time and reliable streams of actionable insights across risk and compliance practices, identify new opportunities for growth, and stay ahead of potential risks.
Quantexa plans to increase its research and development investments in the AI and NLP space following the acquisition. The company will build on Aylien's success in an advanced state-of-the-art deep learning-based NLP research program. Based in Dublin, Ireland, the program has over 30 team members and four world-class university partnerships. The team currently supports over 40 enterprise customers and has produced research cited in over 700 academic publications.
About Quantexa
Quantexa is a leading data and analytics software company specializing in providing Contextual Decision Intelligence to organizations worldwide. By utilizing big data and artificial intelligence, it empowers organizations to make informed operational decisions by uncovering hidden risks and new opportunities through a contextual, connected view of external and internal data in a single platform. The company's platform addresses challenges across multiple areas, including data management, customer intelligence, KYC, financial crime, fraud, risk and security, throughout the customer lifecycle. Headquartered in London, it has offices in Amsterdam, Spain, New York, Brussels, Boston, Toronto, Singapore, UAE, Sydney and Melbourne.
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