Data Management News for the Week of May 30; Updates from Informatica, Monte Carlo, Salesforce & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of May 30, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items.

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Top Data Management News for the Week Ending May 30, 2025

Anomalo Adds New ‘Workflows’ to Unstructured Data Monitoring

Unstructured Data Monitoring lets enterprises extract insights and identify issues from the vast volumes of unstructured data stored in their data warehouses, data lake and cloud storage locations. Anomalo Workflows is a hub for managing and monitoring unstructured data, moving the product beyond just being a platform for data quality.

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AWS Announces the General Availability of Aurora DSQL

Amazon Aurora is a relational database built for the cloud, delivering all the performance and availability of a high-end commercial database with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of an open source database.

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ClickHouse Raises $350 Million in Series C Funding

This combined funding will be used to scale product development, support global expansion, and deepen partnerships with customers and technology providers building the next wave of AI-native applications. In addition to this financing, ClickHouse has secured a $100 million credit facility led by Stifel and Goldman Sachs.

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FICO Signs Strategic Collaboration with AWS

Under the new agreement, FICO and AWS will amplify their work to bring more organizations worldwide the power of AI-driven, automated decision workflows with FICO Platform, which runs on AWS, and FICO will broaden its participation in AWS partner programs to accelerate client adoption of FICO Platform.

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Immuta Extends AWS Integration

Now available in public preview, this expanded integration enables faster, safer, and more scalable access to PostgreSQL data on AWS through Immuta’s automated policy enforcement and centralized data marketplace.

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MariaDB is Set to Acquire Galera Cluster

Over a third of MariaDB Enterprise Platform customers utilize Galera Cluster today. As the demand for high availability and zero data loss in high-volume production environments grows, the combination of MariaDB Enterprise Platform and Galera Cluster is gaining significant traction within MariaDB’s customer-base.

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Matillion Hires Frank Weigel as New CPO

The Manchester-headquartered intelligent data integration platform achieved unicorn status in 2021 when a $150m Series E round valued the firm at $1.5bn. Experienced Weigel  previously worked as VP at Microsoft and a VP/general manager for Google’s Google Cloud Business Application Platform.

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Monte Carlo Launches New Unstructured Data Monitoring

Monte Carlo users can now apply customizable, AI-powered checks to unstructured fields, allowing users to monitor for the quality metrics that are relevant to their unique use case. Monte Carlo goes beyond the standard quality metrics and allows customers to use custom prompts and classifications so as to make monitoring truly meaningful.

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Qlik Says: AI is the Macro Strategy but Data Complexity Persists

Amid mounting pressure from investors for measurable returns on AI investments, the data underscores the growing urgency to turn AI ambition into real-world results. The urgency around AI execution is particularly pronounced among younger executives. The survey found 99 percent of leaders aged 25-34 view proactive automation as critical to business success, compared to 83 percent of executives aged 55 and older.

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Mega-Merger: Salesforce Set to Acquire Informatica

The combination of Informatica’s rich data catalog, data integration, governance, quality and privacy, metadata management, and Master Data Management (MDM) services with the Salesforce platform will establish a unified architecture for agentic AI — enabling AI agents to operate safely, responsibly, and at scale across the modern enterprise.

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Stifflet Releases New AI Agents for Observability

With data volumes doubling year over year and AI workloads moving rapidly into production, data reliability has become a business-critical function and a massive scaling challenge. Sifflet’s AI-native approach is already helping customers to handle these workloads with existing functionality.

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Teradata Partners with Fivetran

By enabling data from disparate sources to seamlessly centralize on the Teradata VantageCloud platform, Teradata and Fivetran empower customers to leverage all their data for complex AI workloads and drive trusted AI at scale.

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Expert Insights

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.:

According to our April 2025 report, a staggering 93 percent of tech professionals agree that curiosity is “very” or “extremely” important. But nearly half (47 percent) say they struggle to find the time to explore new tools, processes, or ideas.  In the report, tech professionals also cite difficulty identifying which ideas are worth pursuing, fear of wasting time on dead ends, and limited opportunities to experiment in their roles.

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Insight Jam Set to Host Cher Fox, Bob Seiner, Mindy Becker & John Ladley for the Jam Session: The Data Governance Wake-Up Call on June 6

Data governance got you rolling your eyes or running for the nearest exit? You’re not alone – and that’s exactly why this episode exists. We’re resetting the narrative on data governance and exploring why it’s been misunderstood, misapplied, and mistakenly shoved into the IT department.

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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst AI with John Santaferraro Featuring RapidCanvas CEO Rahul Pangam: What Will BI Look Like in 3 Years?

They discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming BI from template-based dashboards to conversational, agent-driven platforms that can handle end-to-end data processes. The conversation explores how generative AI and agentic AI will create natural language interfaces, autonomous agents, and strategic thought partnerships that make data-driven decision making accessible without extensive technical teams.

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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Impetus, Forrester Research & Amazon QuickSight for Exclusive Show on Unlocking the Power of GenBI

GenAI-based BI (commonly referred as GenBI) is rapidly emerging as the new standard to deliver actionable insights that can power superior decision-making while increasing effectiveness, responsiveness, and cost savings for organizations across industries. However, organizations must navigate a dynamic set of technologies and capabilities to ensure their GenBI solutions are quickly providing trusted business insights, operational excellence, while delivering bottom-line cost savings in parallel.

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