Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending August 24

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In this week’s real-time analytics news: FICO improves real-time decision-making with enhancements to its FICO Platform.

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FICO introduced new innovations to its FICO Platform that improve real-time decision-making. The new enhancements help teams break down silos and more efficiently reuse models and decision assets to drive better business outcomes. Specifically, enhanced FICO Platform capabilities focus on managing growing data demands while also improving speed, agility, and predictiveness. 

Updated FICO Platform capabilitiesaddress issues and offer a number of enhancements to existing features,including:  

  • Data connection and ingestion – increased flexibility in configuration for data processing, ensuring organizations can manage growing data demands across lines of business and solutions while simultaneously delivering ROI.  
  • Enterprise optimization – a new algorithm for large-scale models that helps find mathematically optimal outcomes to global problems, four-times faster. The new problem-solving algorithm helps to efficiently compute solutions that are too big for traditional models and resources, helping organizations to leverage the maximum amount of data from multiple sources to calculate real-time decisions that balance competing priorities and resources and scale across enterprises. 
  • Applied analytics and ML – improvements to our industry-leading credit risk modeling tool with new business-friendly parameters to help customers anticipate the most productive data breaks while retaining flexibility, driving swift execution and results.  
  • Intelligent decisions and digital twins – enhanced ability to back-test current strategies against historical decisions, giving businesses greater flexibility, speed, and control as they build, test, simulate and deploy business strategies.  

Other real-time analytics news in brief

AMD announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire ZT Systems, a provider of AI infrastructure for hyperscale computing companies. ZT Systems’ extensive experience designing and optimizing cloud computing solutions will help cloud and enterprise customers significantly accelerate the deployment of AMD-powered AI infrastructure at scale.

Apica announced the launch of Fleet Data Management, a new solution designed to upgrade traditional telemetry from a static system to a dynamic, adaptable framework. Fleet Data Management integrates with other services and tools within the Apica Ascent platform and third-party solutions. This integration ensures organizations have a holistic understanding of their technology environment and can leverage telemetry data for various use cases, such as active observability, user experience monitoring, security, and compliance.

Appian announced the latest version of the Appian Platform. This release introduces the expansion of several AI capabilities designed to enhance data and process automation for enterprises. Appian’s Copilot updates empower users to get faster answers from their enterprise data and documents with plain language and fewer steps. AI Copilot and AI Skills also now meet HITRUST certification requirements.

DataOps.live announced they have expanded their technology integration with Informatica to include new orchestration support for Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC). The new Orchestrator for Informatica’s Cloud Data Governance and Catalog, created in collaboration with Projective Group, a leading Financial Services change specialist, publishes all metadata and lineage captured by a DataOps pipeline, increasing the scope of metadata available to the catalog and strengthening collaboration between data product owners, data stewards, and data engineering teams. The new orchestrator will enable Snowflake customers using Informatica and DataOps.live to deliver tested, trusted, and backward-compatible data products in record time while not compromising governance.

DDN announced it has been certified as a tier-one performance data solution for NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partners, collaborating with NVIDIA to deliver an integrated, proven reference architecture for accelerated AI cloud infrastructure. DDN offers advanced data management solutions for cloud service providers looking to optimize efficiency and improve the performance of their NVIDIA GPU-accelerated AI service offerings. DDN’s data management solutions are designed to significantly speed up AI training workflows while reducing power and space requirements.

Hazelcast announced additions to its global partner program to modernize the data infrastructure of data-intensive applications and AI workloads. Among the new partners joining Hazelcast’s program are Altron Digital Business (South Africa), Prospect 33 (Global), and SaH Analytics (Côte d’Ivoire). With deep expertise using the Hazelcast Platform, these partners will guide customers through key phases of application development, including design and prototyping; development and deployment; and maintenance, monitoring, and optimization.

MongoDB announced that MongoDB Atlas for Government now supports Google Cloud’s Assured Workloads in U.S. regions for government agencies, public sector organizations, and ISVs who develop software for the public sector. MongoDB Atlas for Government features built-in security capabilities like advanced encryption for data at rest, in transit, and in use; network management and isolation; and identity access and management controls to maintain the highest level of security for organizations’ most sensitive workloads.

Rackspace Technology announced a reaffirmation of its long-standing commitment to OpenStack with the launch of Rackspace OpenStack Enterprise, a fully managed, enterprise-ready cloud solution built from the ground up to ensure critical workloads are secure, efficient, and perform at scale. Over the past year, Rackspace introduced frequent feature updates. The updates include a significant increase in upstream code contributions to the OpenStack community. To date, Rackspace has contributed more than 5.6 million lines of code to OpenStack and is one of the largest OpenStack cloud providers in the world.

Reltio announced the new Reltio Integration for Collibra, a prebuilt integration with Collibra’s industry-leading Data Intelligence Platform. The launch of the new prebuilt integration with Collibra is designed to empower data teams and consumers with seamless access to high-quality data assets across the enterprise. Through the Reltio Integration for Collibra, customers can now easily find and consume high-quality, well-governed data, leading to better business outcomes. Users also gain end-to-end visibility for their data assets thanks to Collibra’s data lineage capabilities.

Sway AI announced that it has integrated its no-code AI environment with Microsoft Azure. This integration enables Azure customers to build and deploy secure AI and machine learning applications directly on Microsoft Azure. The combined offering provides seamless integration with existing Azure Cloud services such as Azure’s AKS Managed Kubernetes and Key Vault for Identity and Secret Management, Storage, and Virtual Networks.

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About Salvatore Salamone

Salvatore Salamone is a physicist by training who has been writing about science and information technology for more than 30 years. During that time, he has been a senior or executive editor at many industry-leading publications including High Technology, Network World, Byte Magazine, Data Communications, LAN Times, InternetWeek, Bio-IT World, and Lightwave, The Journal of Fiber Optics. He also is the author of three business technology books.

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