Data Platform stories
Lower ETL bills and broader open-table support may tempt data teams as AWS Glue 6.0 adds Iceberg v3 and new runtimes.
The award underscores how AgProcure's automation could speed contract checks and reporting for retailers handling large volumes of purchasing data.
Asia Pacific firms are reworking data systems to meet AI rules, as Cloudera unveils a hybrid platform aimed at keeping data in place.
Fast-moving travel and hospitality brands risk missed bookings unless they unify customer data in real time across marketing, care and operations.
Banks could use the new tool to give branch staff a fuller customer history, reducing repeated questions and improving advice on complex issues.
The funding will help more enterprises shift older data systems onto Databricks tools as demand for AI deployment services accelerates.
AI agents are driving a sharp rise in demand for the real-time data platform, which added 1000 customers early in 2026 to top 4000.
Developers will be able to build AI agents on live production data without separate vector stores or synchronisation overhead.
The preview aims to help AI agents explain business outcomes by keeping graph relationships and KPIs together in BigQuery, reducing errors.
Investor demand for private AI software remains strong as Databricks hits a USD $7 billion revenue run-rate and a USD $190 billion valuation.
Invalid customer phone numbers can drive up costs, disrupt messages and weaken fraud checks across marketing and support systems.
Governance and infrastructure are blocking AI scale-ups, with 95% of enterprises delaying or cancelling projects, Cloudera said.
That overhaul has slashed campaign rollout times from months to days, while also boosting production efficiency and content output across agencies.
Property insurers and planners are tapping recurring aerial captures as Nearmap turns 20 years of imagery into AI-driven property data.
More deals and faster lender integrations are expected as Lendi shifts its mortgage platform towards agentic AI for 1,300 brokers.
Keepers and vets at Mandai Wildlife Reserve can now query 600,000 records in seconds, cutting time spent piecing together animal histories.
Australian organisations could soon keep more AI workloads onshore as SCX.ai and DDN add capacity aimed at faster, sovereign inferencing.
Retailers may lift sign-ups from existing traffic after beta tests showed a median 25% increase in email and SMS subscriptions.
It strengthens Synextra's appeal to UK firms seeking one provider for cloud migration, app development and data projects across Azure.
Data teams could see manual cataloguing cut sharply as the tool carries governance labels and trust signals downstream across Dataplex and BigQuery.
