Complex, evolving challenges in today’s enterprise IT environments require a proactive, strategic approach to plan for growth, minimize downtime and seamlessly adopt new technologies. Achieving operational excellence in IT operations is key to overcoming these challenges and enabling sustained business growth. Investing in skill development is also crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in rapidly evolving technology landscapes.

2025 is poised to be another year of significant advancements in business intelligence (BI) and analytics. Building on the momentum of 2024, which saw a surge in self-service BI adoption, our attention turns to newer, sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. As the data landscape evolves, it’s important to keep agile and adapt to emerging technologies to stay competitive and maximize the value of your analytics investments.

As advanced analytics and AI continue to drive enterprise strategy, leaders are tasked with building flexible, resilient data pipelines that accelerate trusted insights. AI pioneer Andrew Ng recently underscored that robust data engineering is foundational to the success of data-centric AI—a strategy that prioritizes data quality over model complexity.

In the evolving business landscape, organizations are relentlessly seeking ways to improve productivity, gain deeper insights from data, personalize end-user experiences and automate repetitive processes. As a result, many of your customers are likely hoping that integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) will help them master these challenges effectively.

Today, cyber defenders face an unprecedented set of challenges as they work to secure and protect their organizations. In fact, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) Annual Data Breach Report, there were 2,365 cyber attacks in 2023 with more than 300 million victims, and a 72% increase in data breaches since 2021. The constant barrage of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks has left many professionals feeling overwhelmed and burned out.

It’s November 2024 and I think it is safe to say, AI is officially everywhere. People are talking about it in cafés worldwide. So are your kids. Or your parents. Or grandparents. It may have been integral to your last car buying experience and has been used as a recommendation engine by your at-home/connected devices that hear you and want to improve your life by recommending products they think you need. It is pervasive and getting more so every day.

Enterprise organizations collect massive volumes of unstructured data, such as images, handwritten text, documents, and more. They also still capture much of this data through manual processes. The way to leverage this for business insight is to digitize that data. One of the biggest challenges with digitizing the output of these manual processes is transforming this unstructured data into something that can actually deliver actionable insights.

Today, cyber defenders face an unprecedented set of challenges as they work to secure and protect their organizations. In fact, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) Annual Data Breach Report, there were 2,365 cyber attacks in 2023 with more than 300 million victims, and a 72% increase in data breaches since 2021. The constant barrage of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks has left many professionals feeling overwhelmed and burned out.

We are excited to announce the acquisition of Octopai, a leading data lineage and catalog platform that provides data discovery and governance for enterprises to enhance their data-driven decision making. Cloudera’s mission since its inception has been to empower organizations to transform all their data to deliver trusted, valuable, and predictive insights.