Category: Enterprise software & integration (Page 16 of 31)

Elastic and Confluent to enhance Kafka and Elasticsearch experience

April 8, 2021 / NewsShark

Elastic announced an expanded strategic partnership with Confluent, Inc. to deliver the best integrated product experience to the Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch community. Through this alliance, Elastic and Confluent will enhance existing product integrations and jointly develop new capabilities to help users easily combine the benefits of the Elastic Stack and Kafka. Elastic and Confluent plan further enhancements to the product experience for users by:

Strengthening the native integration between Elastic Cloud and Confluent Cloud
Enriching the Elasticsearch Service Sink Connector in Confluent
Developing packaged joint solutions for specific use cases
Introducing easier ways to output data from Kafka in an Elastic Common Schema

Elastic has long provided native support for Kafka to help centralized logging and monitoring customers monitor the health and performance of their Kafka pipelines in Elasticsearch. In addition, users have the choice of a jointly built and fully managed Elasticsearch Service Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud that eliminates the need for customers to take on the difficult task of managing their own Kafka clusters. This gives organizations the ability to seamlessly stream data moving through Kafka into Elasticsearch on all major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

https://www.confluent.io/blog/confluent-and-elastic-partner-to-deliver-real-time-analytics-monitoring-optimized-search/

Trifacta expands data connectivity to 180+ sources

April 6, 2021 / NewsShark

Trifacta announced it is expanding its platform’s data integration capabilities by providing universal data connectivity to more than 180 data sources. These pre-built connectors make it faster and easier for more users in organizations of any size to connect to more data. To build curated, accessible data products for advanced data insights and analytics, data engineers and analysts need flexible, seamless access to data, regardless of its source. The Trifacta platform already offers connectivity to a wide range of data sources. Universal connectivity expands the range of use cases possible with the Trifacta platform, including but not limited to:

Collaboration and Support: SmartSheet, Airtable, Confluence, Microsoft Sharepoint, and JIRA.
Resource Planning and Visibility: SAP ERP, SAP HANA, and Microsoft Dynamics.
Finance and Accounting: Workday, Netsuite, Xero, ADP, Quickbooks, and Sage.
Marketing, Sales, e-Commerce: Salesforce, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Amazon Marketplace, and Shopify.
Cloud Data Warehouses and Databases: BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Teradata, and Hive.
Files & File Systems: S3, GCS, ADLS, HDFS, SFTP, JSON, XML, Excel, and Google Sheets. Trifacta is also enhancing support for semi-structured data, like JSON and XML.
Cloud Data Exchanges: AWS Data Exchange, Snowflake Data Marketplace, and Google Public Datasets.

https://www.trifacta.com/integrations/

Netlify announces Next.js integration for enterprise teams

March 16, 2021 / NewsShark

Netlify, creator of the modern Jamstack web architecture, announced the ability to auto-detect and install Next.js applications with zero configuration. Netlify is designed for teams to modernize web architecture and workflow without locking in a JavaScript framework. Each team can migrate to Next.js from another framework or choose from a rapidly evolving ecosystem of frameworks such as Angular, 11ty, Nuxt.js, Vue.js and more. Netlify auto-detects the framework and enables support for:

Preview mode: Server-side render a live preview of a web app to share, gather feedback and make changes in real-time without requiring a build.
Next.js 10: Key elements of Next.js 10 include internationalized routing and React 17 support.
Atomic and immutable deploys: Compatibility with incremental static regeneration and server-side rendering techniques.

Capabilities for enterprise teams running Next.js applications.

Unified development workflow: Build, test, deploy and manage frontend and serverless code together from a single Git-based workflow.
Release management controls: Handle complex web rollouts with build settings and environmental variables tailored to branches, split testing for managed rollouts, and controls to limit publishing to the main branch.
Security and compliance: Security features including SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, SAML single sign-on (SSO) support, role-based access control, and two-factor authentication.
Self-hosted GitHub and GitLab integration: Use Netlify with enterprise versions of GitHub and GitLab that are often self-hosted. The integration is enabled and managed from the Netlify UI.
24/7/365 production support.

https://www.netlify.com/

eccenca and Aarth to help enterprises manage semantic data

March 16, 2021 / NewsShark

Aarth Software, a digital transformation company, is partnering with eccenca as a solution provider for semantic data management. Aarth is committed to mature an organization’s understanding of data and transform decision making with meaningful insights. They will use the semantic data management platform solution by eccenca in projects where customers strive for better data quality and process understanding to leverage automation and artificial intelligence solutions.

The knowledge graph platform software enables the comprehensive management of enterprise data and its related processes, rules, constraints, capabilities and configurations in a single application. By this eccenca provides an enterprise-ready solution for limitless data integration and preparation. Both capabilities are the foundation to establish and automate advanced business intelligence and artificial intelligence applications in businesses. By making enterprise data both machine-readable and human-interpretable, enterprises are enabled to drive agility, autonomy and automation without disrupting existing IT infrastructures.

eccenca will become an integral part of Aarth’s project consultancy strategy to lift enterprise data from its silos and make it findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable throughout the organization. Aarth will provide data utilization capabilities for business driven strategic use cases.

https://eccenca.com/products/enterprise-knowledge-graph-platform-corporate-memory ▪︎ https://www.aarth.io

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TeamViewer acquires Upskill to provide enterprise AR solutions

March 2, 2021 / NewsShark

TeamViewer, a global provider of secure remote connectivity solutions and workplace digitalization technology, announced its acquisition of Upskill, the US-based pioneer in augmented reality (AR) software for frontline workers. Upskill’s digital workflow solutions support workers especially in industrial manufacturing, inspection, and audit use cases through real-time interfaces with smart glasses and handheld mobile devices. With Upskill’s presence on the North American continent, an engineering hub in Austin, TX, and customers such as The Boeing Company, Merck KGaA and American Bureau of Shipping, TeamViewer strengthens its position as a global player in providing industry-specific AR solutions. The company had started to strategically invest in that space in 2020 with the acquisition of European wearable software leader Ubimax, serving global companies like DHL, Siemens and Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company.

Upskill, founded in 2010, has two locations in the United States in Tyson’s Corner, VA and Austin, TX. TeamViewer plans to keep and grow these offices to expand its presence within the US and to build on Upskill’s important partnerships within the US tech ecosystem. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

https://upskill.io/skylight/, https://www.teamviewer.com/en-us/

Alation releases update to data intelligence platform

February 18, 2021 / NewsShark

Alation Inc., provider of enterprise data intelligence solutions, announced the release of Alation 2021.1. The newest release extends connector and query coverage to virtually any data source, expedites relevant search & discovery through data domains, and features new data governance capabilities.

Alation 2021.1 includes connectors to a comprehensive range of applications and data sources, beyond Business Intelligence (BI) and filesystems, to applications such as ServiceNow and Salesforce. The platform’s new, federated authentication enables users to query cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Snowflake using single sign-on. By snapping into a variety of applications and data sources, Alation serves as a single place to find, understand, and trust data across an organization. Alation 2021.1 also includes:

Accelerated time to insight. A new Open Connect Framework software development kit (SDK) enables third parties, including customers and partners, to build connectors to niche RDBMS and BI data sources such as NoSQL and application sources.
Increased search relevancy by allowing users to narrow their searches based on how data is grouped logically by the organization, such as business unit or geography.
New data governance capabilities. New impact analysis reports provide an immediate view into the downstream impact of data changes.

https://www.alation.com/press-releases/data-intelligence-platform-with-broadest-deepest-connectivity/

DataRobot announces Feature Discovery integration with Snowflake

February 16, 2021 / NewsShark

DataRobot announced the latest integration with Snowflake. Building off of DataRobot’s expanded partnership and existing integration with Snowflake, the new Feature Discovery pushdown integration improves the speed and accuracy of developing models, unlocking new use cases. DataRobot’s Feature Discovery, which has been a part of the DataRobot enterprise AI platform since 2019, automatically discovers, tests, and creates hundreds of valuable new features for machine learning models. This improves models’ accuracy, increasing an organization’s ability to make accurate predictions.

The new Feature Discovery integration with Snowflake delivers this capability to Snowflake users, pushing down data preparation operations into Snowflake to minimize data movement resulting in faster performance and lower operating costs. This allows users to obtain more accurate DataRobot models by accessing more data from Snowflake and leveraging the power of Snowflake’s Data Cloud. With Feature Discovery, the joining, aggregating, and creation of derived features from datasets is done automatically using data science best practices. This lets users build better machine learning models in less time and drive more innovation with AI.

https://www.datarobot.com/news/press/datarobot-announces-feature-discovery-integration-with-snowflake/

Microsoft unveils new employee experience platform

February 4, 2021 / NewsShark

Microsoft Corp. announced Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform to bring tools for employee engagement, learning, wellbeing and knowledge discovery, directly into the flow of people’s work. Viva is designed to help employees learn, grow and thrive, with new experiences that integrate with the productivity and collaboration capabilities in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. The initial set of modules in Viva will provide built-in capabilities, integrations from an ecosystem of Viva partners, and platform extensibility that will enable customers to integrate their existing employee experience systems and tools with Viva to make them more accessible and discoverable to employees:

Viva Connections provides a personalized gateway where employees can access internal communications and company resources.
Viva Insights gives individuals, managers and leaders personalized and actionable insights that help everyone in an organization thrive. Customers will also be able to incorporate data from third-party services like Zoom, Slack, Workday and SAP SuccessFactors.
Viva Learning aggregates all the learning resources available to an organization in one place, including content from LinkedIn Learning; Microsoft Learn; third-party providers including Skillsoft, Coursera, Pluralsight and edX; as well as an organization’s own content library.
Viva Topics delivers a knowledge discovery experience that helps people connect to information and experts across the company with the ability to integrate knowledge from third-party services such as ServiceNow and Salesforce.

https://news.microsoft.com/2021/02/04/microsoft-unveils-new-employee-experience-platform-microsoft-viva-to-help-people-thrive-at-work/