Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 3; Updates from Databricks, DataRobot, MicroStrategy & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of May 3, 2024.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.
Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 3, 2024
Altair Acquires Research In Flight
FlightStream can capture subsonic to supersonic flows, including compressible effects and a unique surface vorticity capability. It leverages the strengths of panel method flow solvers and enhances them with modern computational techniques to provide a fast solver capable of handling complex aerodynamic phenomena.
Azul Launches New Intelligence Cloud
By supporting any JDK distribution including those from Azul, Oracle, Amazon, Eclipse, Microsoft, Red Hat and others, Azul Intelligence Cloud delivers key benefits across an enterprise’s entire Java fleet.
Databricks Secures FedRAMP to Operate for AWS GovCloud
This authorization builds on Azure Databricks’ FedRAMP High and IL5 authorizations and further demonstrates Databricks’ commitment to meeting the federal government’s requirements for handling highly sensitive and mission-critical defense Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) across a wide variety of data analytics and AI use cases.
DataRobot Unveils New AI Observability
In the last 12 months, DataRobot introduced industry-first generative AI functionality, launched the DataRobot Generative AI Catalyst Program to jumpstart high-priority use cases, and announced expanded collaborations with NVIDIA and Google Cloud to supercharge AI solutions with world-class performance and security.
DeepKeep Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding
The platform enables data scientists and CISO teams to gain valuable understanding and insights into AI systems’ risks and challenges, alongside comprehensive protection and alerts. DeepKeep is already deployed by leading global enterprises in the finance, security, and AI computing sectors.
MicroStrategy Unveils Latest AI Release at World Conference
MicroStrategy AI, introduced in 2023, is now in its third GA release, which includes enhanced AI explainability, automated workflows, and several other features designed to increase convenience, reliability, and flexibility for customers. The company also launched MicroStrategy Auto Express, allowing anyone to create and share AI-powered bots and dashboards free for 30 days.
Predactiv Drops New Integration & Analysis Platform
The Predactiv platform emerged from the success of ShareThis, a leading data and programmatic advertising provider, recognized for engineering expertise and pioneering the use of AI in audience and insight creation.
Salesforce Releases Tableau Platform Updates and AI Enhancements
Salesforce Inc. rolled out data visualization and AI infrastructure improvements for its Tableau Software platform today that increase the usability of its product for data analysts and expand its scalability for artificial intelligence.
Sigma Computing Announces New AI Toolkit
Sigma is building the AI Toolkit for Business, which will bring powerful AI and ML innovations from the data ecosystem into an intuitive interface that anyone can use. With forms and actions, a customer’s data app is constantly up-to-date because it’s directly connected to the data in their warehouse.
Expert Insights Section
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Solutions Review Set to Host Infragistics for Exclusive Spotlight May 9
With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading developer tools provider Infragistics. In this presentation, we’re bringing two of the biggest trends in the market today – low-code app development and embedded BI.
Solutions Review Set to Host Databricks & ZoomInfo for Exclusive Roundtable May 29
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Databricks and ZoomInfo to cover why bad data is the problem, how Databricks and ZoomInfo help companies build a unified data foundation that fixes the bad data problem, and how this foundation can be leveraged to easily scale and use data + AI for GenAI.
Nexla Set to Host The Data Integration Summit on May 7
This summit is designed for leaders looking to modernize their organization’s data integration capabilities across analytics, operations and artificial intelligence use cases. Dive deep into the core use cases of data integration as it pertains to analytics, operations, and artificial intelligence. Learn how integrating data can drive operational excellence, enhance analytical capabilities, and fuel AI innovations.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Sanjeev Mohan Reveals Data Observability Capabilities
Getting data from diverse data producers to data consumers to meet business needs is a complicated and time-consuming task that often traverses many products. The incoming data elements are enriched, correlated, and integrated so that the consumption-ready data products are meaningful, timely and trustworthy.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham Publishes Data Governance Interview with Debbie Carless
Debbie describes herself as a very social person and enjoys working with people., she cares about any problems colleagues experience and has a natural leaning towards wanting to help. On top of that, Debbie is also a musician, which lends itself to wanting order, structure, systems, and rules. This all adds up to make Debbie very good at her most recent role of Data Governance Manager for Solent University.
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