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Adaptive Insights targets workforce planning with first products since Workday buyout
Adaptive Insights Inc. today is releasing its first new product since Workday Inc. snapped it up in June for $1.55 billion on the eve of its initial public offering. The corporate performance management software provider is making available a workforce planning module for its Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud, which is used to create and test complex ...
Kafka alternative Apache Pulsar gains top-level project status
Apache Kafka is finally getting some serious competition. Apache Pulsar, a distributed messaging platform originally developed at Yahoo! Inc. and open-sourced two years ago, was designated a top-level project by the Apache Software Foundation on Tuesday. The foundation bestows that designation when a technology has acquired a sufficient community of developers and users as well ...
Segment adds governance features to its data unification platform
Segment.io Inc. is adding a data governance layer to its data collection and integration product that helps organizations ensure that their customer data is consistent and accurate across the organization. Called Protocols, the toolset builds upon the company’s expanding platform for gathering and normalizing customer’s data from multiple sources. Unlike self-contained integration tools that work ...
Neo4j tunes its graph engine for AI applications
Neo4j Inc. is targeting artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with a new version of its graph database announced today. Graph engines differ from conventional relational and NoSQL databases in that they document connections between data elements. That enables organizations to map relationships that would be impractical or impossible to represent in other database engines, ...
With latest release of its graph engine, TigerGraph bids for database mainstream
TigerGraph Inc. aims to nudge its graph database closer to the mainstream market with enhancements announced today. The new features include better integration with popular relational and NoSQL engines, support for software containers, one-click availability in Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Azure marketplaces and a new graph algorithm library. Graph databases are notable for their ability ...
ManageEngine gives browsers PC-level security
The functionality of today’s browsers rivals that of personal computers of just a few years ago, so ManageEngine, the systems management arm of Zoho Corp., is giving them a comparable level of security. The company today is launching Browser Security Plus, a security tool that lets administrators configure and manage browsers to protect against malicious plug-ins, ...
As robotic process automation market turns white-hot, UiPath bags $225M at $3B valuation
The red-hot robotic process automation market hit another milestone today as six-year-old startup UiPath Inc. said it has closed a late-stage funding round of $225 million, giving the company a valuation of $3 billion. The Series C round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG venture arm and included new investor Sequoia Capital Operations LLC as ...
Oracle’s revenue falls short as cloud strategy remains stuck in low gear
In recent analyst calls, Oracle Corp. executives have spoken with confidence about the company’s plans to overtake Amazon Web Services Inc. in the cloud infrastructure market. That kind of braggadocio was notably absent in today’s briefing call following the release of fiscal first-quarter earnings results. A $50 million revenue miss led by a shortfall in cloud ...
The state of GDPR compliance is just dreadful, survey finds
In news that will probably surprise no one, a survey has found that few companies are complying with the requirements of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation, which went into effect more than three months ago. The research, which was conducted by data integration company Talend SA, found that while 98 percent of ...
MapR packages services to help customers move up the AI learning curve
MapR Technologies Inc. today announced six new data science service packages aimed at helping customers get started with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The customized offerings apply MapR data scientists to specific customer problems and projects to demonstrate the use of advanced analytics. The AI/ML Hack-a-thon has a MapR data science team working with an organization ...
