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Quantexa Completes Acquisition of Aylien
Quantexa, a player in the decision intelligence market, has completed the acquisition of Aylien, an AI, NLP and ML company based in Dublin. Founded in 2012, Aylien applies advanced AI to unstructured data to create a rich, real-time, and reliable stream of actionable insights. The combination of Aylien’s AI and NLP, and Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence…
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit is Back in London on 30 March 2023 – Don’t Miss It!
A-Team Group’s industry-leading Data Management Summit is back in London for its 13th year on 30 March 2023 at the America Square Conference Centre – and you are invited! The Summit will bring together leading data management practitioners, innovators and providers to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the sector. Topics will include…
S&P Global Forges Collaboration with AWS to Accelerate Business Growth and Innovation
S&P Global and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are building on a longtime relationship with a multi-year strategic collaboration that will be based on AWS as preferred cloud provider and help S&P Global enhance its cloud infrastructure, accelerate business growth, and engineer innovation. The collaboration reinforces S&P Global’s efforts to optimise its data and technology assets…
Alveo Sets Sights on Accelerating Market Data Migration to Cloud and Improving Business User Access to Data
Alveo has set out its next stage strategy with a focus on two key themes – accelerating client migration of market data to cloud, and building out its self-service data provision for business users. Also on the agenda are ESG data management, industry partnerships, and development of AI tools. To find out more about the…
Crux Secures $50 Million Funding for SaaS Solution Offering Fast Access to External Data
Crux, provider of a cloud-based data integration and operations solution designed to accelerate value between internal and external data, has secured funding of $50 million in addition to previous funding led by financial sciences company Two Sigma and the Growth Equity business of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) for a total of $175 million…
An Economic Era of Data Democratisation?
By Shai Popat, Managing Director, Global Head Product and Commercial Strategy, SIX. We have all heard the much used phrase ‘generational shift’. As with so many phrases that regularly feature in our industry, the phrase means different things to different people. The next generation of wealth management clients are more tech savvy than ever –…
Snowflake Plans Acquisition of SnowConvert to Speed Up Migration of Databases to Data Cloud
Snowflake has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SnowConvert from Mobilize.net. SnowConvert provides tools to support efficient migration of databases and apps to Snowflake’s Data Cloud. A key challenge of platform migration is the code conversion required to ensure all legacy database functionality can be moved to the cloud with minimal time and effort. The…
Alveo Plans Acceleration of New Products Following Investment from Symphony Technology Group
Alveo is changing hands again after reaching a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from Symphony Technology Group (STG), a private equity partner to companies in data, software, and analytics. Alveo expects the STG investment to accelerate roll out of new products, further developing its managed data services and Data-as-a-Service offerings. The STG investment…
FactSet Integrates Coin Metrics Digital Assets Data into Asset Management Solutions
FactSet is collaborating with Coin Metrics to integrate the latter’s digital assets data across its solutions for asset management, wealth management, and research. The aim is to support client needs to analyse digital instruments as part of multi-asset class portfolios. Additionally, the collaboration adds digital assets sector coverage to FactSet’s StreetAccount news service. The companies…
Qlik Plans Acquisition of Talend
Qlik, a provider of data integration and analytics solutions for the financial services sector, plans to acquire Talend, provider of a unified platform dedicated to data integration, integrity, and governance. The deal would bring together two Thoma Bravo-backed firms to deliver a cloud independent portfolio of solutions designed to help customers address data integration, transformation,…