SAP is moving to fix a problem that has quietly held back enterprise AI. The company is acquiring, targeting two weak points that most organizations still struggle with: fragmented data and poor AI performance on structured datasets. At its core, the problem is simple. Enterprise AI struggles because data is often not accessible in real…
If you’ve been following BigDATAwire coverage, you would have noticed the data and AI industry leaning toward real-time systems. Aligned with that trend, the enterprise intelligence platform Starburst has launched a new AI data assistant called AIDA that connects AI to governed enterprise data across distributed systems. The aim is to replace delayed reporting with…
Snowflake is pushing further into the agentic AI trend with the launch of Project SnowWork, a new platform meant to help enterprises move beyond data analysis and into execution, with much of the work handled autonomously. With SnowWork, the aim is to go beyond dashboards and generated answers to automate the next steps, allowing business…
MariaDB is set to acquire GridGain Systems with the aim to deliver sub-millisecond data performance for agentic AI workloads. GridGain is the company behind the in-memory computing platform and developer of the open source project Apache Ignite. The deal comes at a time when technology vendors are rethinking the foundations of the modern data stack…
