Pandemic reveals that data is the most essential tool for businesses
Businesses leveraging data say that decision-making gives them a critical advantage over their competitors, especially during the pandemic. This fact comes from a new report penned by Tableau, who polled 3,500 senior managers and IT decision-makers in the UK and three European countries.
The mos... Read more
TIBCO expands its enterprise reach by acquiring Information Builders
TIBCO Software is on the acquiring Information Builders in a move that will bring their combined 70 years of data management expertise under one roof. Information Builders was founded in 1975 in New York City. Since then, it has been providing tools for data analysis for upward of 45 years now.
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Microsoft adds a feature that makes Excel incredibly versatile
Microsoft announced new data management features for Excel. The features aim to make working with complex and regularly updated information on spreadsheets much easier. Up until now, Excel only allowed users to fill it with text, numbers, and formulas.
Microsoft decided to take the first step to... Read more
NetApp brings ‘cloud-like’ experience to data management software
NetApp, a data storage provider, is updating its software service to help users utilize their hybrid information technology infrastructure. The company said that new capabilities would be added to its NetApp ONTAP data management software.
With these capabilities, NetApp customers will enjoy dee... Read more
MongoDB is bringing multi-cloud clusters to Atlas database service
MongoDB announced that it is making multi-cloud clusters available on MongoDB Atlas, its DBaaS (database-as-a-service) product. With multi-cloud clusters, Atlas developers will deploy a single cluster across Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure.
MongoDB said that its customers would use multiple clouds ... Read more
Microsoft CISO: Big data is ‘giving us an edge over hackers’
The ability to utilize massive resources is giving Microsoft the upper hand in the battle against cybercriminals.
The enormous size and diversity of signal data that Microsoft’s security teams have at their disposal has dramatically improved the company’s response to cyber security threats. ... Read more
Adobe makes Customer Data Platform governance tools available
On Wednesday, Adobe announced that its data governance tools in the Customer Data Platform, are now generally available. The platform is used by marketers to combine known customer data with pseudonymous data (customer data that doesn’t include identity).
The marketers use this tool to ensure ... Read more
‘Microsoft faces immense challenge if it partially acquires TikTok’
The potential acquisition of elements of TikTok by Microsoft will be difficult. The social network shares a lot of resources with other applications of TikTok's parent company ByteDance.
Microsoft plans on purchasing only part of the social network: the United States, Canada, Australia and New Z... Read more
Veritas NetBackup 8.3 update expands data management platform
Backup specialist Veritas released a major update, version 8.3, for its NetBackup solution. This update provides customers with multiple data protection capabilities for all their IT environments: on-premise, hybrid and multicloud.
With the update, Veritas lays the foundation for a universal dat... Read more
Microsoft announces Dataflex to build low-code apps in Teams
Microsoft announces Dataflex, a new service that allows users to create, deploy and manage low-code applications and chatbots within Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Dataflex built on top of Common Data Services (CDS) and allows users to easily create Microsoft Power Apps and AI chatbots in combinatio... Read more