Survey: Over Half of Senior AI Professionals See at Least 2x ROI on AI Initiatives 

Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, together with Databricks, the data and AI company, revealed survey findings that shed light on AI’s transformative impact on businesses globally. The findings confirm that AI, including Generative AI, is now experiencing an impactful level of business results, matching its rapid rate of adoption. 

Generative AI Can Make Business Intelligence Even Smarter – Here’s How

In this contributed article, Ali Ahmed, General Manager of the Enterprise Applications business unit at Cloud Software Group, discusses how both AI and machine learning (ML) will continue to promote optimized business intelligence, especially with regards to data analytics and management, along with how business intelligence ensures the accessibility of critical data is available to all key decision makers

Survey Shows Top-Down Pressure to Adopt Generative AI, But Just 30% of Enterprises are Ready to Do So Today 

Executives at large enterprises across the globe are facing unprecedented pressures around adopting generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), addressing ever-increasing data complexity, and managing a growing skills gap. That’s according to a new IDC survey, sponsored by Teradata (NYSE: TDC).

The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q3 2023

The team here at insideBIGDATA is deeply entrenched in keeping the pulse of the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with the movers and shakers making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our in-box is filled each day with new announcements, commentaries, and insights about what’s driving the success of our industry so we’re in a unique position to publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List.

Cloudera Expands Open Data Lakehouse for Trusted Enterprise AI 

Cloudera, the hybrid data company, announced today an expansion of its Open Data Lakehouse offerings enabling customers to have a foundation for analytic and AI capabilities in their enterprises for all their data – in the cloud and now on-premises. Cloudera was an early proponent of Apache Iceberg, introducing support in its CDP-Public Cloud offering last year and recently rolling out support for Iceberg V2.  Today, Cloudera is announcing support for Apache Iceberg for CDP-Private Cloud, available now as a tech preview and with General Availability later this summer.  Cloudera delivers Iceberg everywhere customer data resides facilitating innovation anywhere.

Databricks Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire MosaicML, a Leading Generative AI Platform

Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MosaicML, a leading generative AI platform. Together, Databricks and MosaicML will make generative AI accessible for every organization, enabling them to build, own and secure generative AI models with their own data. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.3 billion, inclusive of retention packages.

Databricks Data Reports Shows How 9,000+ Global Companies are Gearing Up to Be Competitive on AI

Data + AI company Databricks has published the 2023 State of Data + AI report, examining patterns and trends in AI adoption across more than 9,000 global companies that use the platform as a foundation for their data efforts. The report paints a pretty clear picture on how enterprises are preparing to stay competitive in this new age of generative AI, with data to support how companies are embracing LLMs and what the fastest growing data and AI tools out there are. 

Databricks Launches Simplified Real-Time Machine Learning for the Lakehouse

Databricks, the lakehouse company, announced the launch of Databricks Model Serving to provide simplified production machine learning (ML) natively within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Model Serving removes the complexity of building and maintaining complicated infrastructure for intelligent applications. Now, organizations can leverage the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to integrate real-time machine learning systems across their business, from personalized recommendations to customer service chatbots, without the need to configure and manage the underlying infrastructure.

Deci delivers breakthrough inference performance on Intel’s 4th Gen Sapphire Rapids CPU

Deci, the deep learning company building the next generation of AI, announced a breakthrough performance on Intel’s newly released 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, code-named Sapphire Rapids. By optimizing the AI models which run on Intel’s new hardware, Deci enables AI developers to achieve GPU-like inference performance on CPUs in production for both Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.

Video Highlights: Modernize your IBM Mainframe & Netezza With Databricks Lakehouse

In the video presentation below, learn from experts how to architect modern data pipelines to consolidate data from multiple IBM data sources into Databricks Lakehouse, using the state-of-the-art replication technique—Change Data Capture (CDC).