Dreamforce 2026: Data 360, Tableau, Informatica
Dreamforce 2026 exploded with a number of significant announcements. Let’s have a look at the three products related to data and BI: Data 360, Tableau, and Informatica.
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AWS Transform Says It’s Processed 10 Billion Lines of Legacy Code
Legacy modernization keeps landing back on the CIO’s desk. Older platforms cost more to maintain, block access to modern development practices, and depend on specialists who are getting harder to find. AWS Transform is AWS’ answer: a set of AI-assisted tools for assessing, migrating, and modernizing those systems.
IT Infrastructure
PostgreSQL – A Database Phoenix Story
Back in November 2025 at Ignite, Microsoft announced “the preview of Azure HorizonDB, a fully managed Postgres-compatible database service.” At Build 2026, Microsoft announced Public Preview of HorizonDB. Let’s see why Microsoft is launching a product that can potentially cannibalize their MS SQL.
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Esri: The Future of Analytics Is GIS
Esri’s founder Jack Dangermond claims that the future of analytics is GIS, which can be substantiated by the fact that ultimately we have to manage our sole and finite resource – the Earth. Let’s see what news Esri User Conference 2026 has delivered to support this claim.
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Esri’s Customers Prove CIOs Are Getting Half the Story Without GIS
Esri’s user conference showed GIS connecting street sweepers, Italian railways, and barley farms to enterprise data. CIOs who leave GIS out of their AI and data strategy are working from half the picture.
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AWS Seeks to Remove the Friction Around Government AI Adoption
At AWS Summit DC 2026, Amazon Web Services unveiled new AI modernization and security automation tools built for federal agencies with classified cloud infrastructure and billions of dollars in credits, with thousands of engineers embedded on top. The pitch is speed.
IT Infrastructure
A Closer Look at Google's Agentic Data Cloud Enhancements in H1-2026
Info-Tech has already provided a brief summary of updates to Agentic Data Cloud announced by Google in April 2026. Here’s a closer look at some of the updates important from the perspective of Data and Analytics.
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The Great Convergence of Transactional and Analytical Data Platforms
The emerging transactional and analytical data platform convergence does not result in one universal database, but in fresher operational data through governed data planes, workload-specific engines, and replication, federation, or shared storage.
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Databricks Is No Longer Just a Data Company
Databricks is moving into cybersecurity and marketing technology, adding AI agent management on top of its existing data business. The pitch: one platform for everything. Databricks opened up the data layer and the catalog, so the switching cost shifted to the operational layer: the workflows and security rules built on the platform, and the agents running on top of them.
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SAP Acquires Dremio, Reltio, and Prior Labs to Create an Agentic AI Platform and Research Center for Structured Data
SAP’s recent acquisition activity should be viewed as building a three-part stack: Dremio for open lakehouse and business context, Reltio for trusted master data, and Prior Labs for AI models purpose-built for structured business data.
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Teradata Moves From AgentStack to Autonomous Knowledge Platform
Building fast on the Enterprise AgentStack (a toolkit for building, deploying, and managing AI agents) released in January, Teradata followed with the Autonomous Knowledge Platform in May – a unified system spanning cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
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Oracle Analyst Summit 2026: Integrating AI Data Platform, Fusion Data Intelligence and OCI Enterprise AI
Oracle’s 2026 Analyst Relations Summit showcased how their three platforms – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AI Data Platform, and Fusion Data Intelligence – unified by shared governance and semantics, could facilitate building an enterprise-scale agentic AI platform.
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You Are Already Paying Too Much for AI. Mimik Is Building a Way Out.
mimik’s mimOE Studio is an early but credible device-first option for enterprises that want to limit cloud token spend and keep sensitive data off third-party infrastructure by running agentic AI on their own hardware.
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Snowflake Announces Expansion of Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code
Snowflake’s announcement about Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code is quite in line with the general trend among major software vendors to build agentic AI platforms with control planes.
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Boomi: Activate Your Data for Agentic Autonomous Enterprise
Boomi, long known as a tool for connecting business software systems, is shifting its focus to making enterprise data trustworthy enough for AI to use. Most failed AI projects don’t fail because the AI is bad. They fail because the data underneath is inconsistent, poorly defined, or scattered across systems that don’t agree with each other. We look at how Boomi’s data and governance tools address that problem, and what technology leaders should weigh when evaluating integration platforms in the AI era.
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Chata.ai: Deterministic AI That Does Not Lie
Deterministic AI offers a new option that falls between “manually” made reporting and analytics and LLM-based solutions prone to hallucinations.
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Databricks Didn't Announce a Security Product. It Announced a Different Way to Think About Security Spending.
Databricks spent years as a quiet data infrastructure company. It did not chase security headlines. It built the platform where enterprise data lives. Databrick’s Lakewatch, launched in March 2026, is what happens when you stop treating security as a separate application and run it directly inside that platform instead. For existing Databricks customers, this is not a new vendor decision. It is a question of whether the infrastructure they already own can replace a tool they are probably overpaying for.
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IBM’s Smartest AI Infrastructure Move Since Red Hat
IBM's approximately $11-billion acquisition of Confluent is less about Apache Kafka itself and more about owning the enterprise-grade, real-time data layer that supports modern analytics and AI workloads. For organizations already running IBM platforms, this has meaningful architectural and commercial implications. For cloud-native organizations, the practical impact is narrower than the announcement suggests.
IT Infrastructure
Informatica Introduces AI Agents but Does Not Become an Agentic AI Platform Yet
CLAIRE Copilot has become a collection of specialized agentic copilots, but it’s still a far cry from becoming a platform for deploying and managing business process–oriented enterprise AI agents.
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Zoho’s Quiet Enterprise Coup: A Unified Platform Built for the AI Era
Zoho has quietly built a global footprint that most tech leaders underestimate. It isn't midmarket anymore, operating in 150+ countries, serving over a million businesses, and supporting 150 million users. Zoho’s partner-led go-to-market strategy has led to its widescale adoption across industries, including manufacturers, automotive franchises, banks, logistics networks, and healthcare systems.
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Zoho Announces AppOS, Moving From Integrated Apps to a Unified Platform Model
At ZohoDay26, Zoho previewed AppOS – a shared architectural foundation intended to unify data, workflows, identity, governance, and application services across the Zoho ecosystem. AppOS will be generally available in H2 2026. Organizations should interpret this announcement as directional, signaling Zoho’s longer-term consolidation and AI enablement strategy. The broader consideration for CIOs will be whether AppOS aligns with their architectural direction toward consolidation or federation.
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