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Seven data integration and quality scenarios for Qlik and Talend solutions

By now, you should have read the headlines that Qlik's acquisition of Talend is complete, and we're excited to expand our best-in-class capabilities to help you access, transform, trust, analyze, and take action with your data. You might have seen Mike Capone's QlikWorld keynote or the recent "What's Next is Now" webinar and wondered how to leverage these new capabilities in your organization.

Seven Data Integration and Quality Scenarios for Qlik and Talend Solutions

By now, you would have read the headlines that Qlik's acquisition of Talend is complete, and we're excited to expand our best-in-class capabilities to help you access, transform, trust, analyze, and take action with your data. You might have seen Mike Capone's QlikWorld keynote or the recent "What's Next is Now" webinar and wondered how to leverage these new capabilities in your organization.

Extending SmartBear's Modern Developer Focused Observability Capabilities

Today, we are very excited to announce the acquisition of Aspecto, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) pioneer whose capabilities will further extend SmartBear’s modern, developer-focused observability capabilities. Aspecto’s solution discovers modern microservice based architectures and visualizes all the real-time interactions between services and APIs through advanced distributed tracing capabilities.

McKinsey Acquires Iguazio: Our Startup's Journey

8 years ago, when I founded Iguazio together with my co-founders Yaron Haviv, Yaron Segev & Orit Nissan-Messing, I never thought I would be making this announcement on our company blog: McKinsey acquired Iguazio! When we first embarked on this journey, we realized that while AI has the ability to transform any industry - from banking to retail to manufacturing - in reality most data science projects fail.

Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Myst

Snowflake customers leverage the Data Cloud to bring all their data together and capitalize on the near-infinite resources of the cloud. But how can this data be used to look ahead? How can we use yesterday’s evidence to plan for tomorrow? The answer—time series forecasting. Time series forecasting is one of the most applied data science techniques in business. It is used extensively in supply chain management, inventory planning, and finance.

Adobe is buying Figma because building collaborative experiences is hard

Yesterday, Thursday 15th September, Adobe agreed to buy the collaborative design tool Figma for $20bn. Figma is a browser-based tool that enables team members to work together simultaneously to create, modify and comment upon designs in realtime. It’s part of a new breed of online tools that enable the creative process to be live and collaborative. Figma was rumored to be in the running for acquisition by Microsoft, and Adobe has paid top price to snap it up.

Why now is the right time to move on from Micro Focus

Organizations relying on testing tools from Micro Focus (and before that, HPE) to ensure the quality of their digital initiatives recently received sobering—if not surprising—news: Micro Focus announced that it was being acquired by OpenText, giving the company’s aging testing products their second “new home” in five years (Micro Focus acquired ALM/Quality Center, UFT, and LoadRunner as part of their 2017 purchase of HPE’s software business).