Tag: data prep
J.P. Morgan Launches ‘Containerized Data’ Solution in the Cloud
Getting access to consistent, high-quality data ranks as one of the toughest challenges in big data, advanced analytics, and AI. It’s a challenge that is being taken up by Fusion by J.P. Morgan with its new Containeriz Read more…
Data At More Than Half Of Companies Will Not Be AI-Ready By The End of 2024
The latest string of evolutions in generative AI has companies everywhere excited about the potential of the technology. Business leaders in every industry are giving in to the FOMO, and racing to check “implement AI� Read more…
Voltron Aims to Unblock AI with GPU-Accelerated Data Processing
Data is at the heart of artificial intelligence, but it’s also emerging as one of its biggest bottlenecks. Without sufficient quantities of good, clean data to feed into models, companies simply can’t reap the reward Read more…
Data and Algorithms: The Building Blocks of Artificial Intelligence
At its core, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the product of two components –the first is data and the second is algorithms. Diverse types of algorithms exist, each potentially displaying a level of complexity. Among th Read more…
Numbers Station Sees Big Potential In Using Foundation Models for Data Wrangling
A startup called Numbers Station is applying the generative power of pre-trained foundation models such as GPT-4 to help with data wrangling. The company, which is based on research conducted at the Stanford AI Lab, has Read more…
SageMaker Bolstered with Better Controls, AI Governance
AWS yesterday unveiled a host of enhancements for Amazon SageMaker, its end-to-end machine learning offering. Among the most prominent capabilities are a collection of new governance tools aimed at keeping ML projects on Read more…
What’s Hot in the Data Preparation Market: A Look at Tools and Trends
With economic uncertainties on the horizon, it’s an opportune time for businesses to start looking at how they can automate manual processes and remove bottlenecks within their organizations. The data dams have opened� Read more…
No-code Analytics System Redbird Nabs $7.6M Seed
Redbird, a New York-based enterprise analytics operating system, announced it has raised $7.6 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The Redbird platform allows non-technical users to automate and unify analytics wo Read more…
The Limits of Citizen Data Scientists
Just as computer processing power increase over time, we’ve come to expect that technology will successfully automate more complicated tasks every year. This is true in some digital domains, but this linear form of thi Read more…
Alteryx to Acquire Data Wrangler Trifacta for $400 Million
Data analytics software developer Alteryx today announced its intent to acquire Trifacta, a provider of data wrangling solutions. The deal, which has not yet closed, will see Alteryx paying Trifacta $400 million in cash, Read more…
Alteryx Dips Analytics Tools Into Machine Learning Waters
Alteryx arguably is best known for its desktop-based, self-service analytics product, Designer, which is also regarded for its data blending and prep capabilities. Today at its Virtual Global Inspire conference, the comp Read more…
Data Engineering Cloud Launched by Trifacta
Trifacta today launched what might be the world’s first cloud designed specifically for data engineering. Running on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, the new Trifacta Data Engineering Cloud provides a place for Read more…
Feature Store Startup Gets a VC Boost
Open source versions of feature stores are emerging that are designed help data scientists avoid reinventing the wheel. One feature store startup is attracting investors by adding a computing layer billed as helping to a Read more…
Users Rank Trifacta the Best at Data Prep in G2’s Fall Reports
At Trifacta, one of our key pillars is to start with the user. Everything we do is to empower the people who use Trifacta to do more with their data, do it faster and do it better. Trifacta was named as a leader in G2’s Fall Grid Report for Data Preparation as well as the top scorer within the Relationship Index, a category that blends metrics which include ease of doing business with, quality of support, and likelihood to recommend. Read more…
AWS Launches Visual Data Prep Tool
AWS this week unveiled Glue DataBrew, a new visual data preparation tool for AWS Glue that’s designed to help users clean and normalize data without writing code. Data preparation is the Achille’s Heel of advanced Read more…
Tibco Buys Data Pioneer Information Builders
Roughly a year-and-a-half after Information Builder Inc. founder Gerald Cohen stepped down as CEO, the privately-held business intelligence vendor has been acquired by Tibco Software Inc. for an undisclosed amount. In Read more…
On the Radar: Promethium, StreamNative, Inzata
Welcome to On the Radar, a new Datanami feature about interesting new startups in the big data and analytics space. In this week’s edition, we explore three vendors making news, including Promethium, NativeStreams, and Read more…
Unifi Deal Expands Boomi, Dell’s Data Prep Tools
Boomi’s acquisition of data cataloger Unifi Software buttresses the automated IT strategy of the buyer’s parent, Dell Technologies, by combining Unifi’s data tools with Boomi’s existing integration and data manag Read more…
Why You Need Data Transformation in Machine Learning
Thanks to machine learning and the advancements in software and technology, enterprises can now process and understand their data much faster using modern tools with established algorithms. This effectively allows them t Read more…
How ML Helps Solve the Big Data Transform/Mastering Problem
Despite the astounding technological progress in big data analytics, we largely have yet to move past manual techniques for important tasks, such as data transformation and master data management. As data volumes grow, t Read more…