Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending October 4

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Snowflake announced Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite of AI capabilities and partnerships that empower financial services companies to unify their financial data ecosystem and securely deploy AI models, apps, and agents with that data. 

The company also announced a new managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server (now in public preview), enabling organizations to easily and securely harness their own proprietary data and third-party data in Snowflake from partners including FactSet, MSCI, Nasdaq eVestment, and The Associated Press. Customers will then be able to leverage this MCP Server to connect their data with apps and agent platforms like Anthropic, CrewAI, Cursor, Devin by Cognition, Salesforce’s Agentforce, UiPath, and Windsurf, through the managed MCP server to build context-rich AI agents and apps.

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UiPath announced an expanded set of offerings for its UiPath Platform for agentic automation and orchestration. The expanded offerings combine pre-built solutions, new capabilities for orchestrations, and supporting tools for building and testing agents to deploy rapid agentic automation. The company also announced partnerships with OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google, and Snowflake to advance trusted, multilingual, and data-driven agentic automation.

Akuity announced that it has launched new AI capabilities that let users detect degraded states across applications, triage incidents and automate fixes on the Akuity platform in minutes. The platform provides enterprise-ready continuous delivery and promotion capabilities for Kubernetes and is built on the fundamentals of Argo CD, the third most-adopted open source project in the CNCF behind Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry.

Alation has announced Alation Agent Builder, a next-generation AI platform that gives enterprises the ability to deliver production-ready agents. The solution provides a no-code interface, pre-built tools, and seamless integration into 100+ data sources. Agents can be embedded into external applications and workflows via MCP or REST and are supported by built-in evaluation and monitoring tooling to ensure production reliability.

Databricks launched Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity to help organizations defend against modern and AI-driven threats. The solution seamlessly integrates with enterprises’ existing security stacks, unifying all data and leveraging an open partner ecosystem so security teams can fully harness the power of AI, spotting risks earlier, understanding the full context of an attack, and responding with greater speed.

env zero announced the next evolution of its Cloud Governance Platform. The solution brings together automation, governance, and intelligent guardrails into a single AI-augmented control plane to automate and manage any Infrastructure-as-Code, from Terraform and OpenTofu to Pulumi, CloudFormation, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, and more.

InfluxData announced the release of InfluxDB 3.5, available on both its Core and Enterprise products. InfluxDB 3.5 introduces explorer dashboards (beta), which are designed for visualizing, querying, and managing data stored in InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise. The new release also offers cache querying and Ops upgrades, which are new features to simplify cluster management and improve oversight.

Kyndryl unveiled capabilities that augment the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework and accelerate AI adoption at scale across industries. The enhancements incorporate a new design process and an innovative engagement methodology. The solution enables customers to move from limited proof-of-concept AI projects to scale real-world AI-native solutions that boost efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Mendix, a Siemens business, announced a platform release with a heavy focus on AI capabilities. By leveraging Agentic and Generative AI-assisted development across the entire SDLC, new features simplify and accelerate application development so organizations can quickly and easily generate prototypes and turn these into production-ready applications, deliver agentic applications at scale, and more.

MinIO announced the addition of native Apache Iceberg support to its flagship AIStor offering via a powerful new Tables feature. By integrating the Iceberg Catalog API directly into MinIO AIStor, MinIO is helping enterprises unlock more value from AI on their own terms with an AI Data Store that brings together structured and unstructured data under a single, open standard.

OutSystems announced the general availability of OutSystems Agent Workbench. The solution empowers enterprises to unlock the business value of AI and agentic systems, making it simple to create and orchestrate intelligent AI agents. The generally available version includes features such as an agent marketplace as well as Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to accelerate automation by giving agents direct access to enterprise systems, external tools, and services. 

Precisely announced new updates to its EnterWorks software, integrating master data management (MDM) with the Data Governance service in the Precisely Data Integrity Suite. The release enables organizations to easily link master data to policies, goals, and metrics, ensuring greater visibility, accountability, and compliance across the business.

Protegrity released its free Developer Edition on GitHub to help developers, data scientists, ML engineers, and privacy/security engineers integrate data protection into GenAI and unstructured data workflows without requiring enterprise infrastructure. The solution is designed to enable developers to build secure and trustworthy data engineering workflows, including AI pipelines and data preparation, ensuring a well-governed and successful AI experience.

StreamNative made a series of announcements this week. The company unveiled Ursa lakehouse-native streaming across all deployment models and introduced Orca, an Event-Driven Agent Engine for production AI agents, delivering a unified platform for real-time AI at enterprise scale. Ursa Lakehouse storage is available now. Orca Agent Engine Private Preview launches with BYOC deployments and will expand to all deployment modes in the next few months.

Vertesia introduced its enterprise AI Assistant, a new way for employees to leverage the power of AI. AI Assistant offers a simple chat-based interface where users can ask questions in natural language, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini web apps, but with full data security, governance, and compliance. Built on the Vertesia platform, the app generates business-specific and permissions-based results due to the underlying content preparation processes and security policies of the platform.

Zapier announced major upgrades to let every company drive impact with AI. In particular, Zapier launched Copilot, made multiple core tools free, enhanced enterprise governance, connected agents to data with Model Context Protocol (MCP), and added 30+ AI integrations. By combining AI-powered workflow discovery and enterprise-grade governance tools, Zapier aims to act as the central nervous system for business AI deployment. 

Partnerships, collaborations, and more

Commvault launched Clumio for Apache Iceberg on AWS, a solution to deliver Iceberg-aware, air-gapped cyber resilience. Commvault is empowering organizations to accelerate the recovery of their critical AI and analytics workloads at a massive scale while establishing data lakehouse protection. The solution is engineered to close protection gaps left by native and traditional backup tools. 

Fortanix and BigID announced an integration between Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) and BigID’s data discovery and classification capabilities to automatically trigger protection actions whenever sensitive data is classified. This streamlined workflow eliminates manual intervention while maintaining complete audit trails of all data protection activities.

IBM and AMD announced a collaboration to deliver advanced AI infrastructure to Zyphra, an open-source AI research and product company. Under a multi-year agreement between IBM and Zyphra, IBM is positioned to deliver a large cluster of AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs on IBM Cloud for Zyphra to use for training frontier multimodal foundation models.

UiPath announced a partnership with Snowflake, uniting UiPath’s Agentic Automation platform with Snowflake Cortex AI. This collaboration empowers businesses to quickly turn data insights into faster and smarter autonomous actions, bridging the gap between vision and impact across enterprise business processes.

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