HONG KONG β March 15, 2023 β (NYSE: ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄) has announced key data innovations and partnerships that give customers access to mission-critical data, enabling faster time to insights and better business decision-making.
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ announced the ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere solution, the next generation of its data management portfolio, which gives customers easy access to business-ready data across the data landscape. ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ also introduced strategic partnerships with industry-leading data and AI companies β Collibra NV, Confluent Inc., Databricks Inc. and DataRobot Inc. β to enrich ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere and allow organizations to create a unified data architecture that securely combines ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ software data and non-ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ data.
Until today, accessing and using data located in disparate systems and locations β across cloud providers, data vendors and on-premise systems β has been a complex challenge. Customers have had to extract data from original sources and export it to a central location, losing critical business context along the way and recapturing it only through ongoing, dedicated IT projects and manual effort. With todayβs announcements, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere helps eliminate this hidden data tax, enabling customers to build a business data fabric architecture that quickly delivers meaningful data with business context and logic intact.
βWith ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ customers generating 87% of total global commerce, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ data is among a companyβs most valuable business assets and is contained in the most important functions of an organization, from manufacturing to supply chains, finance, human resources and more,β said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ SE. βWe want to help our customers take the next step to easily and confidently integrate ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ data with non-ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ data from third-party applications and platforms, unlocking entirely new insights and knowledge to bring digital transformation to another level.β
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere
Available now, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere is the next generation of the ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Data Warehouse Cloud solution. It enables data professionals to deliver scalable access to mission-critical business data. With a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation and data virtualization, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere enables data professionals to help distribute mission-critical business data β with business context and logic preserved β across their organizationβs data landscape. ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere is built on ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Business Technology Platform (ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ BTP), which includes strong enterprise security capabilities, such as database security, encryption and governance. No additional steps or migrations are required for existing customers of ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Data Warehouse Cloud, who will benefit from new ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere functionality in their product environment. New functionality includes data cataloging that automatically discovers, manages and governs data; simplified data replication to deliver data and its constant updates in real-time; and enhanced data modeling that preserves the rich business context of data in ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ applications. Additional application integration capabilities that link data and metadata from cloud solutions from ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ to ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere are planned.
Messer Americas, a leading industrial and medical gas company in North and South America, needed simple and secure access to data from ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ and non-ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ solutions within the company to strengthen data-driven decision-making and free up IT resources to focus on other strategic tasks. With ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere, Messer Americas was able to build a modern data architecture that maintained the context of its enterprise data.
βΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere simplifies our data landscape, giving us more confidence in the data weβre working with every day so we can better deliver on the needs of the business,β said David Johnston, Chief Information Officer, Messer Americas. βWe are able to react faster to emergent changes in supply and demand, resulting in better inventory management, improved customer service and optimization of our supply chain.β
Strategic Partnerships
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ and its new open-data partners will help hundreds of millions of users across the world make informed business-critical decisions rooted in massive amounts of data. ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄βs strategic partners provide the unique strengths of their ecosystems and enable customers to combine all their data like never before.
βEverybody wants access to ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ data, so leveraging partnerships among tech suppliers is absolutely necessary for a comprehensive data strategy,β said Dan Vesset, group vice president of data and analytics market research, IDC. βOrganizations today live in a world where a multi-cloud, multivendor and off- and on-premise data landscape is the norm. ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ is taking a new approach by partnering with a select group of leading partners, treating third-party data as a first-class citizen to better meet the needs of customers.β
Initial partners include:
β’ Collibra plans to have a tailored integration with ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄, enabling customers to achieve an enterprise governance strategy by building a complete data catalog with lineage across their entire data landscape β both ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ and non-ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ data. Collibra makes trusted data discoverable across any organization.
β’ Confluent plans to connect its data streaming platform, empowering companies to unlock valuable business data and connect it with external applications in real time. Confluentβs cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion β permitting the uninhibited flow of real-time data from various sources across an organization.
β’ Databricks customers can integrate their Data Lakehouse with ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ software so data can be shared with semantics preserved, helping customers simplify their data landscape.
β’ DataRobot enables customers to leverage multimodal automated machine learning capabilities on top of ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Datasphere and bring it directly into their business data fabric on whichever cloud platform it resides.
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