Data as an Asset - What's Innovative?

Kobai Saturn is Kobai’s RDF graph backend, joining its visualisation and authoring tools, Kobai Tower and Kobai Studio, to form a knowledge graph platform.

The GAI efforts of the technology world are focused like a laser beam on how to integrate GAI with their technology, to the greater glory of their customers.

ARTESCA is a simple, software-defined, commodity, S3 Object Store appliance, which makes Scality’s expertise available more widely.

IRI Voracity is a data management platform with a wide range of functionality. How does that functionality apply to data quality and improvement?

In this episode of the Bloor InAudio podcast, we look at the key role data lineage plays in ensuring data quality across an organisation.

Sustainability is a strategic imperative touching all elements of Stakeholder Engagement in a Mutable Business™.

Assuring your data, not just its quality but its provenance and usage, is an issue that, in an ideal world, would be holistically addressed.

Hub85 provides a non-intrusive solution for spreadsheets, based on the founder’s experiences of working in financial markets.

A new version of BS 10012 supersedes the 2009 version, for European Directive (95/46/EC), which was implemented in the UK by the Data Protection Act 1998.

Processing EU "personally identifiable information" needs assurance of certain privacy measures. Trump has made it impossible to hold such info in the USA.

Compuware is aiming to make mainframe development accessible to those of us more used to Docker and Selenium

Analytics and graphs are appearing in more and more software tools

Qlik has just released Qlik Sense 3.0. It has some advanced data preparation capabilities.

Informatica's Enterprise Information Catalog come out too late.

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) isEC Regulation intended to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals within the EU

Uneartha is a suite of products that provides requirements-driven data integration and data preparation capabilities.

Privacy Analytics has un-bundled its Risk Monitor. You can monitor the risk of re-identification in data masking environments and prove compliance.

IBM and Informatica have both just come out with big data integration and governance products

To keep up with the competition, companies need to get new applications and upgrades to market faster. Testing cannot be a roadblock on this path.

You need to understand how changes might impact on other parts of the system, because the former can break the latter.

In order to automate change you need the data, expected results and test scripts to automatically update, by virtue of their traceability back to requirements.

By building up a library of reusable test assets functionality can be tested more rapidly by selecting components from this library

So called "test automation frameworks" have to be able to respond to constant user demands. This process should be automated.

There are some interesting new kids on the block in the spreadsheet world

Load DynamiX's appliance stress-tests large throughputs and infrastructures addressing the "what-ifs"

Alation can be best thought of as a pre data prep tool: helping users to find the data that's available to them.

A look at the solution that Pentaho is putting in place to manage the data asset in a way that befits both the business and technology

This is a short preview of Informatica's Secure@Source, which be released next year

Springbok is a data preparation platform for business users.

Boldon James and its Allianz story

Diaku offers a superset of data governance that is worth a serious look, especially in heavily regulated environments

Data preparation is the biggest part (around 80%) of and data discovery/mining exercise. Trifacta specialises in making this easy in a big data world.

Amongst other things (migrations, legacy modernisation, archival) Delphix provides test data management without needing to subset the data

Gird-Tools has announced the release of Agile Designer

GenRocket is a new vendor/product in the test data management space. After Grid-Tools it is the second (so far) vendor to offer synthetic test data generation.

A new metadata management tool

If you want to analyse data when you are not allowed to see private information within the data, then you need something more than just masking

What do you want from data matching/cleansing software? Key requirements, needless to say, are that the solution be inexpensive and easy to use.

Infoglide competes with IBM in the identity resolution space but the both potentially have an issue.

Saphir, from Silwood Technology, has the deepest understanding of SAP and Oracle environments that I have seen anywhere

I take a broad view of "governance"; but fundamental to governance, to me, is information. A recent IBI Customer Day prompted some thoughts on this.

Varonis provides unstructured data governance, or maybe that should be access management. In either case it has now added actionable classification.

Ormetis captures spreadsheet and text file merge, calculation and transformation as you do it - thereby creating auditable processes

In the last few years there has been a trend amongst data quality vendors to move towards what is typically known as pre-emptive data quality. That is, to have proactive capabilities that enforces...