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Korea Herald
25-06-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
Actian Embeds Data Contracts, Governance by Design into Development Workflows to Increase Data Reliability
Actian's "data contract first" principle enables full visibility and control over distributed data assets, from creation to consumption ROUND ROCK, Texas, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, today announced Actian Data Intelligence Platform enhancements that enable enterprises to transform how they make distributed data trustworthy and reliable at the source before consumption, creating a solid foundation for AI implementations. The new capabilities automate data products and integrate data contracts to foster greater trust in data, ensuring accuracy and reliability to accelerate AI and data-driven initiatives. Actian's "data contract first" approach embeds governance by design early in the data lifecycle using shift-left principles via data contracts and automated processes. This ensures data products, which are created by individual domains, are well-documented and easy to use with quality guarantees from the start. As enterprises embrace distributed data architectures, the need for data product approaches becomes critical. ISG Software Research predicts that "by 2027, more than 6 in 10 enterprises will adopt technologies to facilitate the delivery of data as a product."¹ "As enterprises embrace data products to enable self-service analytics, they require robust data quality and governance," said Matt Aslett, Director of Research, Analytics and Data at ISG Software Research. "By incorporating these controls directly into data pipelines, the Actian Data Intelligence Platform is designed to enable enterprises to scale to data democratization safely." To address this need, the Actian Data Intelligence Platform embeds data contracts directly into development workflows to define clear expectations, enforce compliance automatically, and catch quality issues at the source before they propagate downstream. The result is more reliable AI outcomes, faster time-to-insight, reduced compliance risk, and lower operational costs. To facilitate data discovery, individual domains publish their tailored data products into the enterprise data marketplace in the Actian Data Intelligence Platform. Dedicated APIs automatically register and update data products within existing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, reducing manual efforts and ensuring data catalogs stay current. "The challenge of decentralized environments isn't just managing data across domains – it's ensuring quality and governance at scale," said Emma McGrattan, CTO at Actian. "Making high-quality, well-documented data products easily accessible with the Actian Data Intelligence Platform improves data democratization and enables a data-sharing culture, while our data contract first approach ensures reliable data from source to consumption." The platform supports decentralized data ownership, breaking down silos to improve collaboration and democratize data across business and IT users. With streamlined data discovery and consumption, business users can quickly find, understand, and use the exact data they need. The platform's federated knowledge graph-powered search engine delivers context-aware results while maintaining enterprise-wide compliance. Access request workflows provide centralized, transparent approval processes with clear audit trails. To further enhance data accessibility, Ask AI, Actian's new AI-powered natural language query capability allows users to search using everyday language to ask questions, with relevant results ranked by the organization's glossary. This capability eliminates technical barriers and accelerates self-service analytics across the organization. The new capabilities work across federated metamodels while delivering complete data lineage visibility. When combined with Actian Data Observability, organizations can ensure data products conform to established data contracts. By enriching well-defined data assets with context, quality metrics, lineage, and usage insights, organizations can better leverage data for AI and other use cases. The new data contract and data product features are available immediately in the Actian Data Intelligence Platform. The Ask AI capability is in private preview. For more information about the new features and others now available, review the " Data Contracts, AI Search, and More: Actian's Spring '25 Product Launch" blog. About Actian Actian empowers enterprises to confidently manage and govern data at scale. Actian data management and data intelligence solutions help streamline complex data environments and accelerate the delivery of AI-ready data. Designed to be flexible, Actian solutions integrate seamlessly and perform reliably across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. Learn more about Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, at
Cision Canada
24-06-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Actian Embeds Data Contracts, Governance by Design into Development Workflows to Increase Data Reliability Français
Actian's "data contract first" principle enables full visibility and control over distributed data assets, from creation to consumption ROUND ROCK, Texas, June 24, 2025 /CNW/ -- Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, today announced Actian Data Intelligence Platform enhancements that enable enterprises to transform how they make distributed data trustworthy and reliable at the source before consumption, creating a solid foundation for AI implementations. The new capabilities automate data products and integrate data contracts to foster greater trust in data, ensuring accuracy and reliability to accelerate AI and data-driven initiatives. Actian's "data contract first" approach embeds governance by design early in the data lifecycle using shift-left principles via data contracts and automated processes. This ensures data products, which are created by individual domains, are well-documented and easy to use with quality guarantees from the start. As enterprises embrace distributed data architectures, the need for data product approaches becomes critical. ISG Software Research predicts that "by 2027, more than 6 in 10 enterprises will adopt technologies to facilitate the delivery of data as a product."¹ "As enterprises embrace data products to enable self-service analytics, they require robust data quality and governance," said Matt Aslett, Director of Research, Analytics and Data at ISG Software Research. "By incorporating these controls directly into data pipelines, the Actian Data Intelligence Platform is designed to enable enterprises to scale to data democratization safely." To address this need, the Actian Data Intelligence Platform embeds data contracts directly into development workflows to define clear expectations, enforce compliance automatically, and catch quality issues at the source before they propagate downstream. The result is more reliable AI outcomes, faster time-to-insight, reduced compliance risk, and lower operational costs. To facilitate data discovery, individual domains publish their tailored data products into the enterprise data marketplace in the Actian Data Intelligence Platform. Dedicated APIs automatically register and update data products within existing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, reducing manual efforts and ensuring data catalogs stay current. "The challenge of decentralized environments isn't just managing data across domains – it's ensuring quality and governance at scale," said Emma McGrattan, CTO at Actian. "Making high-quality, well-documented data products easily accessible with the Actian Data Intelligence Platform improves data democratization and enables a data-sharing culture, while our data contract first approach ensures reliable data from source to consumption." The platform supports decentralized data ownership, breaking down silos to improve collaboration and democratize data across business and IT users. With streamlined data discovery and consumption, business users can quickly find, understand, and use the exact data they need. The platform's federated knowledge graph-powered search engine delivers context-aware results while maintaining enterprise-wide compliance. Access request workflows provide centralized, transparent approval processes with clear audit trails. To further enhance data accessibility, Ask AI, Actian's new AI-powered natural language query capability allows users to search using everyday language to ask questions, with relevant results ranked by the organization's glossary. This capability eliminates technical barriers and accelerates self-service analytics across the organization. The new capabilities work across federated metamodels while delivering complete data lineage visibility. When combined with Actian Data Observability, organizations can ensure data products conform to established data contracts. By enriching well-defined data assets with context, quality metrics, lineage, and usage insights, organizations can better leverage data for AI and other use cases. The new data contract and data product features are available immediately in the Actian Data Intelligence Platform. The Ask AI capability is in private preview. For more information about the new features and others now available, review the " Data Contracts, AI Search, and More: Actian's Spring '25 Product Launch" blog. About Actian Actian empowers enterprises to confidently manage and govern data at scale. Actian data management and data intelligence solutions help streamline complex data environments and accelerate the delivery of AI-ready data. Designed to be flexible, Actian solutions integrate seamlessly and perform reliably across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. Learn more about Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, at 1 ISG, ISG Buyers Guide for Data Products Classifies and Rates Software Providers, 14 Feb 2025. [email protected]
Cision Canada
23-06-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Solace Ranked Exemplary Provider by ISG Software Research in 2025 Messaging and Event Processing Buyers Guide
Solace Platform cited for full breadth of functionality, as well as overall product and customer experience OTTAWA, ON, June 23, 2025 /CNW/ -- Solace, the leader in powering real-time, event-driven integration for the agentic age, today announced it was named an "Exemplary Provider" in ISG Software Research's 2025 Messaging and Event Processing Buyers Guide, joining other industry heavyweights such as AWS, IBM, Microsoft and Google Cloud. An "Exemplary" rating is the highest classification given to those vendors who performed beyond the median in overall product and customer experience scoring. Solace earned the designation of Overall Leader as well as Leader in Product Experience and Customer Experience. In the Capability category, Solace received the highest marks for its complete scope of messaging and event processing functionality, as well as its commitment to investing in product development resources and system improvements. In Customer Experience, Solace was ranked among the top providers for its commitment to a successful customer journey across sales, onboarding, support, services and partners. "Messaging and event processing are the essential foundations of an event-driven architecture and enablers of real-time data processing, allowing enterprises to operate at the speed of business by acting on events as they happen," said Matt Aslett, Director of Research, Analytics and Data at ISG Software Research. "Solace's long-term focus on event-driven technology and strategy is reflected by its classification as Exemplary, as well as a Leader in both Product Experience and Customer Experience." Representing a distillation of more than a year of market and product research efforts, the Messaging and Event Processing Buyers Guide assessed 15 software providers, evaluating how well their offerings address an enterprise's requirements for capturing events and sharing information between applications, devices and systems as these events occur. Evaluation criteria span seven performance categories in Product and Customer Experience. Research is not sponsored nor influenced by software providers and is conducted to support an enterprise's RFI/RFP evaluation process through tailored assessment services and the ISG Software Research Value Index methodology. The full Messaging and Event Processing Buyers Guide can be found here. ISG Research also ranked Solace as an "Exemplary Provider" in two other related Buyers Guides for Real-Time Data and Application Integration. "The starting point for a real-time data strategy is the ability to liberate and communicate information related to business events as they occur. Solace's event-driven integration platform has proven to be the standard for seamlessly connecting systems through the instantaneous sharing of real-time events," said Shawn McAllister, CPO and CTO at Solace. "These Buyers Guide rankings underscore our ongoing commitment to empowering organizations with the real-time data movement capabilities they need to build responsive, event-driven integration solutions and stay ahead in today's digital landscape." Solace helps enterprises adopt AI by enabling real-time, event-driven data movement across their entire business. Built on a modern event-driven architecture, Solace Platform connects systems, applications, and AI agents with the data they need — securely, seamlessly, and at scale. Established enterprises worldwide – including RBC Capital Markets, Heineken, PSA Singapore and Schwarz Group – trust Solace to enable time-sensitive applications and processes; modernize their application and integration landscape; and create seamless digital experiences for their customers, partners and employees. Learn more at Press Contacts Europe & Americas IBA International Jamie Kightley [email protected] +44 (0) 1572 757932 UK Positive Daniel Brown [email protected] +44 7480 924144 APAC Rice Communications Trixie Wong [email protected] +65 9757 7531 SOURCE Solace Corporation
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI Helps Fuel Rush to Real-Time Data Platforms, ISG Says
Enterprises seek platforms to process, analyze streams of data for improved decision-making, customer experiences, new research says STAMFORD, Conn., May 30, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--By 2027, more than three-quarters of enterprises will be able to process events and streaming data in real time, making them more responsive to customer needs and other requirements, according to new research from global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III). The ISG Buyers Guides™ for Real-Time Data, produced by ISG Software Research, provide rankings and ratings of over 25 software providers and their products for supporting the architectural shifts required for data to support AI for operations. The research finds that companies are seeking the ability to process and analyze data in real time to enable applications that deliver AI-driven personalization and recommendations. While most organizations have long relied on batch data processing, which was necessary when computing power was more limited, they are now looking for a new approach that supports the full benefits of AI. Real-time machine learning on operational data delivers instant, relevant information for faster decision-making. "Real-time data processing lets enterprises operate at the speed of business, acting on events as they happen," said Matt Aslett, director of research, ISG Software Research, and lead author of the reports. "As consumers seek AI-driven interactive applications, companies need information architectures that include streaming data and event processing." Until recently, real-time data processing was limited to industries with extreme high-performance requirements, such as financial services and telecommunications. Only 22 percent of enterprises analyze data in real time today, ISG says. However, the core concepts and technologies are proven, mature and readily available. The new ISG research finds that the top software providers have matured to deliver nearly 80 percent of the overall product and customer experience required to support enterprise needs. Real-time data processing begins with an event, which may be any change of state, such as a sensor identifying a new temperature reading, the reports say. With effective application integration, sensors, devices and applications can share messages about events as they occur, increasingly via application programming interfaces. Real-time data systems ingest, filter and aggregate data about events through stream processing. This forms the basis of stream analytics, which analyzes event data using SQL queries, machine learning or inferencing based on generative AI models. Mainstream enterprises are now pursuing real-time data processing to support interactive applications, and the proliferation of products in this field has helped lower the cost and technical barriers to developing new real-time applications, ISG says. Advanced data streaming platforms now enable organizations to combine data from multiple sources into a single stream. This requires stateful stream processing that retains the context of previously processed events and guarantees that messages are processed even if there are system failures or performance issues. Streaming data analytics platforms offer both traditional chart-based views of data and geospatial visualizations, which are critical for real-time analysis of IoT data. An enterprise-wide real-time data strategy requires an event-driven architecture that includes the full range of these functions, ISG says. Success with streaming data also depends on holistic management and governance of data both in motion and at rest. As enterprises consider their current and future data architecture needs, they should consider both real-time technologies and traditional batch data platforms so they can view all data in motion and at rest. For its 2025 Buyers Guides for Real-Time Data, ISG evaluated, rated and ranked 25 software providers across five platform categories – Real-Time Data, Application Integration, Messaging & Event Processing, Streaming Analytics and Streaming Data – and produced a separate Buyers Guide for each. A total of 42 providers were assessed: AWS, Actian, Adeptia, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Altair, Boomi, Broadcom, Celigo, Cleo, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Cumulocity, Databricks, Frends, Google Cloud, GridGain, Hazelcast, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Informatica, Jitterbit, Kurrent, Materialize, Microsoft, MongoDB, Oracle, Palantir, Qlik, Qubole, Redpanda, Safe Software, Salesforce, SAP, SAS, SnapLogic, Solace, Striim, Tencent Cloud, and Workato. ISG Software Research rates software providers on seven performance categories. Five are product-related: usability, manageability, reliability, capability, and adaptability. Two are customer assurance-related: validation and total cost of ownership and return on investment (TCO/ROI). Providers ranked in the top three for each performance category are named as Leaders. Within each platform category, those with the most Leader rankings are named as Overall Leaders. The Overall Leaders of the 2025 Buyers Guides for Real-Time Data were the following: Real-Time Data: AWS earned the highest overall rating, followed closely by Google Cloud and Microsoft. AWS was designated a Leader in one category, Google Cloud in three categories and Microsoft in two. Confluent, Cloudera, Databricks, IBM, Informatica, Oracle and Solace were rated Exemplary. Alibaba Cloud, Cloud Software Group, Huawei Cloud and Redpanda were rated Innovative. Application Integration: Oracle topped the list, followed by Informatica and SAP. Oracle and Informatica were designated Leaders in five categories each, with SAP a Leader in two. AWS, Boomi, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snaplogic and Solace were rated Exemplary, and Adeptia was rated Innovative. Messaging & Event Processing: Google Cloud earned the highest overall rating and was designated a Leader in three categories. AWS and Solace followed and were Leaders in two categories each. IBM and Microsoft were also rated Exemplary. Alibaba Cloud, Cloudera, Confluent and Redpanda were rated Innovative. Streaming Analytics: Databricks earned the top rating, followed by Oracle and Microsoft. Oracle was designated a Leader in all six categories, Databricks in five and Microsoft in two. AWS, Confluent and Google Cloud were rated Exemplary, while Cloud Software Group, Cumulocity, Huawei Cloud, Palantir and SAS were rated Innovative. Streaming Data: Databricks earned the highest overall rating and was designated a Leader in four categories. AWS was second-highest overall, followed closely by Microsoft, which was named a Leader in two categories. Cloudera, Confluent, Google Cloud, Informatica, IBM and MongoDB were rated Exemplary. Alibaba Cloud, Cloud Software Group, Cumulocity, Huawei Cloud, Palantir, Redpanda, SAS and Striim were rated Innovative. "To remain competitive, enterprises constantly need to analyze more data and act on it in real time, which requires the right real-time architecture and enterprise software," said Mark Smith, partner and chief software analyst, ISG Software Research. "This new provider research provides the industry's first-ever intelligence and insights on the portfolio of software options to meet enterprise needs." The ISG Buyers Guides™ for Real-Time Data are the distillation of more than a year of market and product research efforts. The research is not sponsored nor influenced by software providers and is conducted solely to help enterprises optimize their business and IT software investments. Visit this webpage to learn more about the ISG Buyers Guides™ for Real-Time Data and read executive summaries of each of the five reports. The complete reports, including provider rankings across seven product and customer experience dimensions and detailed research findings on each provider, are available by contacting ISG Software Research. About ISG Software Research ISG Software Research provides authoritative coverage and analysis of the business and IT software industry. It distributes research and insights daily through its user community, and provides a portfolio of consulting, advisory, research and education services for enterprises, software and service providers, and investment firms. Its ISG Buyers Guides™ help enterprises evaluate and select software providers through tailored assessments powered by ISG's proprietary methodology. Visit for more information and to sign up for free community membership. About ISG ISG (Nasdaq: III) is a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm. A trusted partner to more than 900 clients, including 75 of the world's top 100 enterprises, ISG is a long-time leader in technology and business services that is now at the forefront of leveraging AI to help organizations achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The firm, founded in 2006, is known for its proprietary market data, in-depth knowledge of provider ecosystems, and the expertise of its 1,600 professionals worldwide working together to help clients maximize the value of their technology investments. View source version on Contacts Press Contacts: Laura Hupprich, ISG+1 203 517 Julianna Sheridan, Matter Communications for ISG+1 978 518 4520isg@
Business Wire
14-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Qlik Launches Open Lakehouse to Break Through Traditional Data Architecture Limits
Qlik ®, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence, today announced the launch of Qlik Open Lakehouse, a fully managed Apache Iceberg solution built into Qlik Talend Cloud. Designed for enterprises under pressure to scale faster and spend less, Qlik Open Lakehouse delivers real-time ingestion, automated optimization, and multi-engine interoperability — without vendor lock-in or operational overhead. This marks a major step forward in the evolution of modern data architectures. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the cost and rigidity of traditional data warehouses have become unsustainable. Qlik Open Lakehouse offers a new path: a fully managed lakehouse architecture powered by Apache Iceberg that delivers 2.5x–5x faster query performance and up to 50% lower infrastructure costs, while maintaining full compatibility with the most widely used analytics and machine learning engines. 'Performance and cost should no longer be a tradeoff in modern data architectures,' said Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik. 'With Qlik Open Lakehouse, enterprises gain real-time scale, full control over their data, and the freedom to choose the tools that work best for them. We built this to meet the demands of AI and analytics at enterprise scale — without compromise.' Qlik Open Lakehouse is built from the ground up to meet the scale, flexibility, and performance demands of modern enterprises — without the tradeoffs. It combines real-time ingestion, intelligent optimization, and true ecosystem interoperability in a single, fully managed platform. Real-time ingestion at enterprise scale: Ingest millions of records per second from hundreds of sources — including cloud apps, SaaS, SAP, and mainframes — directly into Iceberg tables with low latency and high throughput. Intelligent Iceberg optimization, fully automated: Qlik's always-on adaptive Iceberg optimizer handles compaction, clustering, and pruning automatically, delivering up to 5x faster queries and 50% lower storage costs — no tuning required. Open by design, interoperable by default: Access data in Iceberg tables using a variety of Iceberg-compatible engines, including Snowflake, Amazon Athena, Apache Spark, Trino, and SageMaker — without re-platforming or reprocessing. Your compute, your cloud, your rules: Runs natively in your AWS VPC with Bring Your Own Compute (BYOC), giving you full control over performance, security, and cost. One platform, end to end: From ingestion and transformation to governance, data quality, and FinOps visibility, Qlik provides a unified lakehouse experience — no patchwork, no handoffs. "Enterprises are increasingly adopting lakehouse architectures to unify data across on-premises and cloud environments," said Matt Aslett, Director of Research, Analytics and Data at ISG Software Research. "Qlik Open Lakehouse, which leverages open standards such as Apache Iceberg, is well-positioned to meet the growing demand for real-time data access and multi-engine interoperability, enabling enterprises to harness the full potential of their data for AI and analytics initiatives." As AI workloads demand faster access to broader, fresher datasets, open formats like Apache Iceberg are becoming the new foundation. Qlik Open Lakehouse responds to this shift by making it effortless to build and manage Iceberg-based architectures — without the need for custom code or pipeline babysitting. It also runs within the customer's own AWS environment, ensuring data privacy, cost control, and full operational visibility. 'Qlik Open Lakehouse initiative is a significant development we're keenly watching,' shared David Navarro, Data Domain Architect at Toyota Motor Europe. 'Large corporations like ours urgently need interoperability between diverse business units and partners, each managing its own technology stack and data sovereignty. Apache Iceberg is emerging as the key to zero-copy data sharing across vendor-independent lakehouses, and Qlik's commitment to delivering performance and control in these complex, dynamic landscapes is precisely what the industry requires.' Qlik Open Lakehouse is available now in private preview and is scheduled to be generally available in July 2025. Private preview is limited — early access is encouraged for teams looking to modernize ahead of GA. To learn more and request early access, visit our website or connect with us at Qlik Connect, May 14–17 in Orlando. About Qlik Qlik converts complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio provides advanced, enterprise-grade AI/ML, data integration, and analytics. Our AI/ML tools, both practical and scalable, lead to better decisions, faster. We excel in data integration and governance, offering comprehensive solutions that work with diverse data sources. Intuitive analytics from Qlik uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities. As strategic partners, our platform-agnostic technology and expertise make our customers more competitive. © 2025 QlikTech International AB. All rights reserved. All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated.
