Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Information, without order, is chaotic. Attempting to work ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries by automating tasks and generating insights, but its true effectiveness depends on high-quality, relevant data. Structured data is the most ...

A small orchestra provided the opening prelude for Tuesday’s keynote session at Snowflake Inc.’s annual conference in San Francisco. When the music stopped and the lights went up, the conductor was ...

Unstructured data sprawl happens when organizations accumulate massive amounts of files -- like documents, images, videos, emails, and backups -- across different systems, locations, and users with ...

The enterprise data landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift as the importance of unstructured data grows in parallel with the rise of generative AI and agentic workflows. Data platforms are ...

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools. Google has boosted its BigQuery ...

We've all heard the explanations for why AI projects fail: the models aren't advanced enough, they don't remember past interactions, they hallucinate answers — the list goes on. However, those ...

The global financial system is changing. Soon, ISO 20022, a messaging standard designed to improve how payments are processed and communicated, will become the global norm. ISO 20022 was introduced in ...