BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE,BIG DATA MANAGEMENT
Alation | September 23, 2022
Alation Inc., the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Fivetran, the global leader in modern data integration, that enables joint customers to find and understand the full context of their data in the modern data stack. The partnership, powered by the new Fivetran Metadata API, unifies governed, trusted data from sources across an organization in one single view. As a result, data visibility increases and drives higher-quality data pipelines and better decision-making.
Alation and Fivetran are key elements of the modern data stack and support numerous joint customers, including Cimpress, Cisco, DocuSign, Genius Sports, Nielsen, Procore, Salesforce, and Slice. The strategic partnership provides shared customers with visibility into enterprise data as it moves through Fivetran-managed pipelines. Fivetran enables data and analytics teams to securely and easily move data from operational systems to analytics platforms. Alation enhances visibility into the data to speed pipeline development, ensuring users understand the wealth of information available and can derive insights from it. Together, the partnership merges data governance and data intelligence capabilities, improving data pipeline creation and informing business decisions.
“Alation is foundational for driving digital transformation. Our platform enables data and analytics teams to capture and understand the full breadth of their data, resulting in improved operational efficiencies and delivering more value to customers. “The partnership with Fivetran enhances Alation’s lineage graph, providing deep insight into data pipelines spanning operational data stores, data lakes and warehouses, and business intelligence tools. Now, users can easily unlock reliable and relevant data while also allowing teams to understand what data is available in the pipeline.”
Raj Gossain, Chief Product Officer at Alation
This partnership is driven by the need to enable users across an organization to find and use trusted, governed data to make informed, data-driven decisions. The modern enterprise relies on data intelligence and data integration solutions to provide access to valuable insights that feed critical business outcomes. Alation and Fivetran’s partnership simplifies data consolidation and pipeline creation, while aggregating governed, reliable data so organizations can get the most value from their data.
“Fivetran and Alation together enhance an organization’s visibility and effectiveness of data,” said Meera Viswanathan, Sr. Product Manager for Fivetran’s data governance capabilities. “Users of both solutions can accelerate data movement with a single pane view of data governance. Jointly, Fivetran and Alation ensure end users of data have high-quality and trusted data to drive decision-making.”
About Alation
Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 400 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation including AbbVie, Allianz Global Investors, American Family Insurance, Autozone, Cisco, Draft Kings, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, General Mills, Munich Re, NASDAQ, Parexel, Pfizer, Salesforce, Virgin Australia, and Vistaprint. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation has been named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list three times and is a 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women. The company is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE,BIG DATA MANAGEMENT,DATA SCIENCE
Stardog | September 26, 2022
Stardog, the leading Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform provider, today announced it had joined Databricks Partner Connect, which lets Databricks customers integrate with select partners directly from within their Databricks workspace. Stardog is the first Databricks partner to deliver a knowledge-graph-powered semantic layer. Now with just a few clicks, data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists can model, explore, access, and infer new insights for analytics, AI, and data fabric needs — a seamless end-to-end user experience without the burden of moving or copying data.
Together, Stardog's availability on Databricks Partner Connect enables joint customers to:
Easily define and reuse relevant business concepts and relationships as a semantic data model meaningful to multiple use cases.
Link and query data in and outside of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to provide just-in-time cross-domain analytics for richer insights.
Ask and answer questions across a diverse set of connected data domains to fuel new business insights without the need for specialized skills.
"Data-driven enterprises are increasingly looking to build more context around their data and deliver a flexible semantic layer on top of their Databricks Lakehouse. "Stardog's Enterprise Knowledge Graph offers a rich semantic layer that complements and enriches a customer's lakehouse and we are excited to partner with them to bring these capabilities to Databricks Partner Connect."
Roger Murff, VP of Technology Partners at Databricks
A commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study concluded that a composite organization using Stardog's Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform realized a 320 percent return on investment over three years driven by $3.8 million in improved productivity of data scientists and engineers from faster analytics development, $2.6 million in infrastructure savings from avoided copying and moving data, and $2.4 million in incremental profits from enhanced quantity, quality, and speed of insights.
"Our mission at Stardog is to help companies unite their data to unleash insight faster than ever before," said Kendall Clark, Founder and CEO at Stardog. "Databricks Partner Connect enables Stardog to deliver a seamless experience for Databricks customers to quickly add a semantic layer to their lakehouse, unlock insights in their data, and discover more value-impacting analytics use cases."
About Stardog
Stardog is the ultimate semantic data layer to get better insight faster. Organizations like Boehringer Ingelheim, Schneider Electric, and NASA rely on the Stardog Enterprise Knowledge Graph to accelerate insights from data lakes, data warehouses, or any enterprise data source.
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BIG DATA MANAGEMENT,BUSINESS STRATEGY
Striim | September 21, 2022
Striim, a global leader in unified real-time data integration and streaming, today announced at the Big Data LDN conference and expo that Striim has joined the Databricks Technology Partner Program. Databricks Technology Partners integrate their solutions with Databricks to provide complementary capabilities for ETL, data ingestion, business intelligence, machine learning, and governance. Striim’s integration with Databricks enables enterprises to leverage the Databricks Lakehouse Platform’s reliability and scalability to innovate faster while deriving valuable data insights in real-time via Striim’s real-time streaming capabilities.
“It’s clear that the businesses that can make accurate, data-driven decisions more quickly have a clear advantage over their competitors. “We intentionally partner with technology providers like Striim to enable our customers to speed their time-to-insight via Databricks AI/ML solutions. We are excited to partner with Striim, providing our customers access to a fully-managed cloud service to seamlessly connect data from databases, applications, and disparate clouds to Databricks in real-time.”
Ariel Amster, director of strategic technology partners at Databricks
The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines the best elements of data lakes and data warehouses, enabling users to unify their data, analytics, and AI, build on open-source technology, and maintain a consistent platform across clouds. Striim enables Databricks’s AI/ML to create new models that leverage real-time data resulting in far more accurate business predictions. This, in turn, means better decisions more quickly, giving businesses and significant competitive edge.
“In today's digital economy, customer experience, data movement, and data governance require real-time streaming data. Legacy batch processes simply are not enough to meet the demands of today’s AI/ML applications,” said Philip Cockrell, Striim’s senior vice president of Business Development. “Striim’s software-as-a-service offering delivers ‘best-in-class’ capabilities for real-time data integration, helping Databricks customers more fully realize the proven AI/ML functionality Databricks delivers.”
Striim Cloud delivers these capabilities for the enterprise in a managed service format that eliminates the complexity of building low-latency streaming data pipelines at scale. Instead of spending weeks implementing this new infrastructure, global enterprises can now integrate data from disparate sources in just a few clicks.
About Striim
Striim, Inc. is the only supplier of unified, real-time data streaming and integration for analytics and operations in the Digital Economy. Striim Platform and Striim Cloud make it easy to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of real-time data from diverse sources (both on-premises or in the cloud) to support multi- and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Striim collects data in real time from enterprise databases (using non-intrusive change data capture), log files, messaging systems, and sensors, and delivers it to virtually any target on-premises or in the cloud with sub-second latency enabling real-time operations and analytics.
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