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AI Never Clocks Out: How Smart Leaders Are Funding the 24/7 Customer Revolution

When DIRECTV sought to elevate its customer experience to the next level, it shifted its approach to AI adoption. Its leadership implemented a targeted AI solution for predictive routing, which delivered measurable resul Read more…

Adapting Your Search Engine to ‘AI Armageddon’ and ‘Zero Click’ Journeys

AI is upending all sorts of traditions, including how people get information and how they shop. Thanks to AI-powered search engines, users no longer need to visit websites to get news or product information. That change Read more…

Tackling Observability Data Challenges with Honeycomb’s CEO Christine Yen

Honeycomb’s CEO Christine Yen joins the Big Data Debrief to talk about the challenges of observability data and how Honeycomb’s approach is unique in the space. Christine Yen and her Honeycomb co-founder, Charity Read more…

This Big Data Lesson Applies to AI

There’s no shortage of hype when it comes to AI. We’re constantly bombarded with warnings that AI is about to change things forever, and that if we don’t implement AI now, we risk becoming failures. In many ways, t Read more…

Cloudflare Unveils Jetflow, Its Framework for Big Data Pipelines

When Cloudflare reached the limits of what its existing ELT tool could do, the company had a decision to make. It could try and find a an existing ELT tool that could handle its unique requirements, or it could build its Read more…

News In Brief

Cloudflare Now Blocks Data Scrapers by Default

Organizations that are concerned about big AI companies scraping their websites for training data may be interested to learn that Cloudflare, which handles 20% of Internet traffic, now blocks all data scraping by default Read more…

OpenSearch Gets Parallel Performance Boost Thanks to GPUs

Organizations adopting OpenSearch for big data search, analytics, and AI will see a 9.5x performance increase compared to a prior release of the product, the group behind the open source project say, including a 9.3x boo Read more…

Acceldata Bolsters Anomaly Detection in Data Observability Tool

Acceldata this week unveiled a major update to its data observability platform that it claims can automatically detect hard-to-spot anomalies hidden in customers’ data. The update to the xLake Reasoning Engine comes as Read more…

New Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics Released by Timescale

Real-time analytics pushes the limits on data that distributed hardware and software can deliver. To adequately measure the relative performance of real-time analytics databases, Timescale today released a real-time anal Read more…

ServiceNow Nabs LLM-Powered Chatbot Pioneer Moveworks for $2.85B

Long before ChatGPT ignited the generative AI revolution, a company called Moveworks was busy using a promising new family of language models to help solve tough technological problems in customer service. All that work Read more…

This Just In

Pecan AI Brings Explainable AI Forecasting Directly to Business Teams

Aug 28, 2025 |

Gartner recognizes Pecan as a Cool Vendor as company introduces an enterprise solution for supply chain leaders

NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 28, 2025 —  Read more…

Arcitecta Adds Native Vector Search and Metadata Integration to Mediaflux Platform

Aug 12, 2025 |

BOULDER, Colo. and MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 12, 2025 — Arcitecta today announced new enhancements to its Mediaflux data management platform, delivering an AI-ready data fabric that supports all forms of data and AI models and provides a built-in vector database within its high-performance XODB database. Read more…

Data Axle Reveals Most Brands Still Rely on Fragmented Customer Data

Jul 15, 2025 |

DALLAS, July 15, 2025 — Data Axle today released The Connected Customer: Unlocking Relevance Through Unified Identity Intelligence, a guide built on insights from a recent survey of consumers and senior marketers across diverse sectors. Read more…

Algolia Introduces Smart Groups to Bring AI-Powered Curation and Automation to Content Teams and Merchandisers

May 6, 2025 |

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2025 — Algolia today introduces an intuitive, AI-powered feature: Smart Groups. Smart Groups provides merchandisers and content managers greater control over how products and items are displayed across search results and category pages. Read more…

Qlik Powers Alpha Auto Group’s Global Growth with Automotive-Focused Analytics

Apr 22, 2025 |

TORONTO, April 22, 2025 — Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics and artificial intelligence, is partnering with Alpha Auto Group (AAG), an part of Global Automotive Holdings (GAHL), a leading automotive dealership network operating across Canada, the U.S., the UK, and Europe. Read more…

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