Data Management News for the Week of April 18; Updates from Informatica, Qlik, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of April 18, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items.

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Top Data Management News for the Week Ending April 18, 2025

Bauplan Launches with $7.5 Million in Funding

Bauplan offers a serverless runtime that processes large datasets directly on object storage in pure Python. Developers can build powerful applications using simple serverless Python functions and familiar git-like concepts like branch, commit, and merge.

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Cloudera Finds 96 Percent of Firms Using AI Agents

Results show an overwhelming 96 percent of respondents have plans to expand their use of AI agents in the next 12 months, with half aiming for significant, organization-wide expansion. The applications for this deployment include performance optimization bots (66), security monitoring agents (63), and development assistants (62).

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dbt Labs Report Says AI is Increasing Data Team Budgets

According to the report, data budgets are growing significantly this year with 30 percent of participants reporting budget growth compared to just 9 percent last year. Additionally, AI tooling was recognized as the largest area of investment for the year ahead with 45 percent of respondents citing it as a key priority.

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InfluxData Announces InfluxDB 3 Core & Enterprise

InfluxDB 3 Core is an open-source, high-speed, recent-data engine for real-time applications. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise adds high availability, enhanced security, and scalability for production environments. Both bring data transformation, enrichment, and alerting directly into the database with a built-in Python Processing Engine, elevating InfluxDB from passive storage to an active intelligence engine for real-time data.

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Informatica Partners with Carnegie Mellon on GenAI & Data Management

The collaboration brings together Informatica’s deep industry expertise and CMU’s academic leadership to advance the development and application of generative AI (GenAI) technologies for data management.

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MetaRouter Partners Up with Allegro Partner

Since implementing MetaRouter’s first-party data collection solution in early 2023, Allegro has revolutionized its approach to customer data management across its operations in Poland and the Czech Republic. The partnership addresses critical challenges in data quality and security that are particularly relevant as European privacy regulations evolve.

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Monte Carlo Releases New Observability Agents

Both agents are the first of their kind in that they are not just making simplistic recommendations based on data profiles, but leveraging a sophisticated network of LLMs, native integrations and subagents to gain full visibility into the data estate across data, systems, transformation code, and model outputs.

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Moveworks Expands Integration with Snowflake

This collaboration allows joint customers to seamlessly access Cortex AI within the Moveworks AI Assistant, enabling enterprises to retrieve data insights across their structured and unstructured datasets using natural language.

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Perforce Launches New Kafka Service Bundle

The Kafka Service Bundle helps organizations seamlessly shift from proprietary Kafka platforms to customized, open-source Kafka implementations — allowing them to leverage the power, reliability, and scalability of Kafka while significantly reducing operational expenses.

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Qlik Launches New Qlik for ISVs

The offering enables ISVs to build robust strategies for data integration, quality, and governance, and to embed AI and analytics directly into their applications to power real-time insights and smarter decision-making.

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Skyvia Launches Public API Beta for Data Workflow Automation

The new feature responds directly to customer requests for enhanced flexibility, programmatic control, and streamlined automation in managing their data workflows. Designed for IT professionals and business users, the Skyvia Public API beta is now available for testing, offering a robust solution to integrate, manage, and optimize data across 200+ supported cloud applications, databases, and services.

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Snowflake Says: AI Early Adopters See ROI From Investments

As AI adoption accelerates across global enterprises, a robust data foundation has emerged as the cornerstone of successful implementation, yet respondents are still grappling with how to make their data AI-ready.

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Stelo Secures Google Cloud Ready Designation for BigQuery

This recognition underscores Stelo’s commitment to providing seamless, real-time data streaming solutions from IBM Db2 for iSeries (Linux and Windows), Informix, Oracle and SQL Server to harness the full potential of their data within Google Cloud’s BigQuery.

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Expert Insights Section

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AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 1

Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.

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Solutions Review On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8

The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME—the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you’ll explore the power of data integration and AI. From creating workflows to building AI agents, data integration and AI drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented insights.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI on May 14

Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21

In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.

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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring Wayne Eckerson: In the Data Trenches

They discuss persistent data management challenges that organizations face, including finding data, accessing it, and ensuring its trustworthiness. Wayne emphasizes the critical importance of proper data governance, the need for both centralized and distributed data architectures, and how AI will transform data management without replacing human decision-making.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Eve Previews the Exclusive April 18 Jam Session: Is it Time to Rethink How we Connect Our Data & Apps?

Given the changing landscape and the opportunities new technologies and use cases afford, IT leaders must continuously evaluate and improve how their organizations connect their data and applications. To give you a head start on this initiative, we have brought together four experts on Friday, April 18, 2025, Insight Jam Session: Connections: Fun in the New York Times, Essential for Evolving Analytics and AI Apps.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Joe Perez Reports on Snapping into Unexpected Insights

You heard that right. A shrimp, a 50 mm-long marine creature, is helping scientists work toward the holy grail of energy generation. It’s a story as strange as it is inspiring, and it perfectly illustrates the power of finding unexpected connections, whether you’re designing a fusion reactor or analyzing a dataset.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Cher Fox Offers 10 Mistakes Firms Make When Modernizing Data Architectures

Modernizing data architectures is essential for organizations seeking to stay competitive. However, despite good intentions, many organizations stumble along the way, making costly mistakes that hinder progress and reduce the effectiveness of their data ecosystems.

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