Analytics

pgEdge joins rush to merge OLTP and OLAP storage to support AI

pgEdge’s ColdFront could appeal to enterprises looking to reduce storage costs without sacrificing application compatibility or the ability to modify historical data.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 26, 20266 mins

AnalyticsDatabasesTransaction Processing

What is data governance? Frameworks, tools, and best practices to manage data assets

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 22, 202611 mins

Big DataCertificationsData Integration

Why the FDA's new real-world evidence guidance ends the era of structured-data-only submissions

By David Talby

Jun 19, 20266 mins

GovernmentLaws and RegulationsMedical Devices

McLaren F1 embraces AI-powered ITSM to build race-day infrastructure

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 19, 20265 mins

Data ScienceIT StrategyService Management Software

Why agentic architecture is still so puzzling

By Grant Gross

Jun 18, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ArchitectureEnterprise Architecture

Articles

The 12 most strategically important IT initiatives today

IT’s top initiatives underscore how CIOs are increasingly shaping and enabling business outcomes — and focusing less on maintaining service levels as their primary objective.

By Mary K. Pratt

Jun 8, 2026 10 mins

Cloud ManagementDigital TransformationIT Strategy

Data lakehouses now a backbone for enterprise analytics and AI

Data lakehouses have become central to enterprise data strategy due to the need for data consolidation, the emergence of open standards, and the rise of gen AI.

By Maria Korolov

Jun 8, 2026 9 mins

AnalyticsData ArchitectureIT Strategy

American Express: Democratize analytics, not data

The global payments company is focusing on how to stage and deploy its data for analytics in the age of agentic AI.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 3, 2026 4 mins

Financial Services IndustryFintechPayment Systems

Snowflake recasts its AI strategy around action, not answers, with CoWork

The move could help CIOs operationalize AI across business processes while advancing Snowflake’s ambition to play a larger role in orchestrating and governing enterprise AI workloads, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 2, 2026 5 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

Converged analytics is the refinery for the age of sovereign AI and data

Discover why converged analytics is not merely a complementary tool but a critical prerequisite for operationalizing complex AI agents at a global enterprise scale.

By EnterpriseDB

Apr 27, 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Management

What is a data analyst? A key role for data-driven business decisions

Data analysts help organizations understand the current state of the business by interpreting a wide range of data.

By Thor Olavsrud

May 26, 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsCareersIT Skills and Training

What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

Data architects visualize and design an organization's enterprise data management framework, aligned with enterprise strategy and business architecture.

By Thor Olavsrud

May 18, 2026 9 mins

AnalyticsData ArchitectureIT Skills and Training

What is data analytics? Transforming data into better decisions

Data analytics is a discipline focused on extracting insights from data, including the analysis, collection, organization, and storage of data, as well as the tools and techniques to do so.

By Thor Olavsrud

May 5, 2026 8 mins

AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceData Science

SAS makes AI governance the centerpiece of its agent strategy

New tools promise centralized oversight of models, agents, and data as enterprises turn trust into a competitive advantage.

By Taryn Plumb

Apr 28, 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence

AI won't fix your data problems. Data engineering will

Your AI isn't broken, your data context is; you need solid data engineering to bridge the gap between a smart model and a reliable, real-world business agent.

By Carter Page

Apr 28, 2026 7 mins

AnalyticsData EngineeringData Quality

Google pitches Agentic Data Cloud to help enterprises turn data into context for AI agents

Google’s is moving to counter AWS and Microsoft in the emerging AI data stack race.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 23, 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

Snowflake offers help to users and builders of AI agents

Snowflake Intelligence gains automation features, while Cortex Code will be able to access more data sources in more ways.

By Lynn Greiner

Apr 21, 2026 5 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

The next-generation observability architecture: Lessons from a decade of event-scale systems

Dashboards are great for steady states, but they buckle during real crises. We need a data layer that handles messy, exploratory queries without crashing or breaking the bank.

By Eric Tschetter

Apr 14, 2026 7 mins

Business IntelligenceDevopsDigital Transformation