Jan 18, 2025

Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending January 18 In this week’s real-time analytics news: Informatica and Databricks announced deeper integrations of their respective offerings. Keeping pace with news and developments in the real-time analytics and AI market can be a daunting task. Fortunately, we have you covered with a summary of the items our staff comes across each week. And if you prefer it in your inbox,  sign up here ! Informatica  announced the latest advances in its continuing partnership with Databricks . New areas of collaboration include deeper integration between Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, including Informatica support for AI Functions on Databricks in Informatica’s Native SQL ELT that processes no-code data pipelines natively on Databricks. On the product front, the recently introduced support for Databricks AI Functions in Informatica’s Native SQL ELT enables organizations leveraging Databricks to rapidly adopt GenAI capabilities of the Databricks Data Intelligence platform with no-code data pipelines, opening Databricks GenAI capabilities to no-code users and ensuring consistency, maintainability and optimal performance of data pipelines running natively on Databricks. In addition, Informatica’s new Native SQL ELT for Databricks makes it possible to “push down” data pipelines with 50+ out-of-the-box transformations and support for 250+ native Databricks SQL functions to run natively and efficiently on Databricks via Databricks SQL. That enables customers to easily build data pipeline flows in Databricks by leveraging Informatica’s powerful no-code/low-code SQL ELT capabilities. Other real-time analytics news in brief ThoughtSpot  launched Analyst Studio, a creator space that empowers data teams to get data ready for AI and analytics, manage cloud costs, seamlessly switch between ad-hoc analysis and advanced data science, and focus on driving strategic impact—all within a unified, flexible, and integrated platform. Analyst Studio is now generally available as an add-on option to ThoughtSpot Cloud customers using either ThoughtSpot Analytics or ThoughtSpot Embedded, as well as new customers. dbt Labs acquired  SDF Labs , the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF. The acquisition will integrate SDF’s powerful multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt, delivering orders of magnitude improvements to dbt performance and enhancing the developer experience with new levels of efficiency, data velocity, and data quality. Lucidworks announced the general availability of its AI orchestration engine, enabling businesses to take complete control of their generative AI initiatives. In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, where businesses face challenges with vendor lock-in, unpredictable AI behavior, and the need for responsible AI governance, Lucidworks AI provides a solution that puts businesses in command. MariaDB announced the general availability of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025, the latest major release of its enterprise database solution. With this release, MariaDB customers have a single, complete database solution that supports a full range of transactional, analytical, semi-structured, and now artificial intelligence (AI) applications. By extending the MariaDB database with native open-source vector search capabilities, organizations adopting MariaDB can leverage the same database solution and skill set to advance their AI initiatives. Qlik announced the acquisition of  Upsolver . The move deepens Qlik’s ability to provide enterprises with end-to-end, open, and scalable solutions that unify data integration, analytics, and AI under a single platform. The acquisition combines Upsolver’s real-time ingestion to Iceberg and adaptive optimization with Qlik’s end-to-end data platform, enabling organizations to access data faster, optimize their data estate, reduce costs, and unlock AI-driven insights. Red Hat  announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a new edition of Red Hat OpenShift that provides a dedicated way for organizations to access the virtualization functionality already available within Red Hat OpenShift. The solution provides a tailored option for deploying, managing, and scaling virtual machines (VMs), removing features unrelated to VM management. That ensures organizations can maximize the value of OpenShift Virtualization while aligning with their specific infrastructure needs. In other Red Hat news, the company announced the Red Hat Connectivity Link. The solution is a hybrid multi-cloud application connectivity solution that provides a modern approach to connecting disparate applications and infrastructure. It integrates advanced traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control (RBAC) directly within Kubernetes, enhancing security and compliance across multiple layers of application infrastructure. Reveille Software announced the expansion of its partnership with ABBYY through new support for   ABBYY Vantage and ABBYY FlexiCapture Cloud. This enhancement builds upon Reveille’s existing integration with ABBYY FlexiCapture, providing organizations with comprehensive observability capabilities across ABBYY’s intelligent document processing solutions. Additionally, the integrations deliver advanced telemetry capabilities, offering actionable insights to help organizations maximize their intelligent automation investments. Snowflake announced the launch of its One Million Minds + One Platform program with the goal of training and certifying more than 100,000 users on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud by 2027 at no cost for learners and upskilling one million people on data and AI by 2029. The program will provide Snowflake-delivered training and certification courses to students and workers in high growth and emerging markets around the world. In other Snowflake news, the company announced SwiftKV, a new approach developed and open sourced by Snowflake’s AI Research Team that prioritizes reducing inference computation during prompt processing rather than just compressing memory. By tackling the computational bottlenecks of inference directly, SwiftKV offers a new path forward — enabling enterprises to unlock the full potential of their LLM production deployments at a fraction of the cost. If your company has real-time analytics news, send your announcements to [email protected] . 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