The meaning and importance of #automation in data-centric environments. And more.

For @451Research clients: The meaning and importance of #automation in data-centric environments https://t.co/PjMk46Rz8h In which @jmscrts and I take a look at the variety of ways in which automation is affecting the database and data management landscape.

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 24, 2019

For @451Research clients: #Datascience: What is it, and why now? https://t.co/3d3d7YMG29 Krishna Roy kicks off a series of reports on data science users and use cases, the software required and other considerations for success.

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 25, 2019

For @451Research clients: Architectural data control: Turning privacy requirements into a blessing, not a curse https://t.co/ciqy7f2rAY By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2019

For @451Research clients: #Graph that, Part 3: AI and graph – perfect match or odd couple? https://t.co/wqyYYa3ctk In which @jmscrts weighs up the potential advantages inherent limitations of graph for AI use cases

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 14, 2019

For @451Research clients: Mobility is piloting on the #blockchain https://t.co/U6bNeezh6F By @csillazsigri451 and @xianrenaud

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 24, 2019

For @451Research clients: @qlik elevates data management story with launch of Data Catalyst 4.0 https://t.co/J2cPEtkLXA

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2019

For @451Research clients: @TimescaleDB tackles time series workloads with PostgreSQL extension https://t.co/dajOyZ7OwL BY @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2019

For @451Research clients: @OctopaiBI extends its tentacles beyond automated metadata management for BI https://t.co/V4nI03uPUQ

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 21, 2019

For @451Research clients: @macrometacorp emerges with planetary-scale database for apps and web services at the edge https://t.co/JrOFDYcl1Z

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2019

For @451Research clients: @AntWorksGlobal completes RPA toolset, will iterate fractal ANTstein platform this quarter https://t.co/c3pHdJ3Adv By @wif

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 25, 2019

For @451Research clients: Autonomy-level classification for robots in an IIoT world https://t.co/BirRqUr1vk By @epredator

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 21, 2019

For @451Research clients: AI and voice-enabled applications will change how we work in 2019 https://t.co/ppGjohAX2b By @rcastanonm

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 21, 2019

Confluent has closed a $125m series D funding round led by Sequoia Capital https://t.co/ytq4aVMqHg

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2019

Alation has announced a $50m series C funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with Salesforce Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Data Collective, Harmony Partners, and Icon Ventures. https://t.co/pnzBtauenG

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 17, 2019

Seldon has raised a £2.7m funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners with Global Brain Corporation, Techstars and other existing investors, for its machine learning deployment software. https://t.co/0WQERdDYh6

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2019

Teradata has announced the appointment of Oliver Ratzesberger as president and CEO https://t.co/ya6CVMaz9k

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 15, 2019

Information Builders appoints Frank Vella as Chief Executive Officer, with founder and former CEO Gerald Cohen becoming chairman of the board https://t.co/4NUUu6IoPj

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 18, 2019

Microsoft has acquired Citus Data to boost Azure PostgreSQL performance and scale https://t.co/JnmEPgsCjU

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 24, 2019

Qlik has acquired Crunch Data and its CrunchBot analytics bot to expand the company’s conversational analytics capabilities https://t.co/aShVAm7mKV

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 22, 2019

Guavus has acquired real-time streaming analytics specialist SQLstream https://t.co/ZkzM5nUz0q

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 25, 2019

Qlik launches version 4.0 of Qlik Data Catalyst data management product (previously known as Podium Data). https://t.co/DlwCmxl7Jq

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 15, 2019

Accelerite has announced ShareInsights 3.0 for non-developer data analysts, including unification of visualization and management for Athena, EMR, Redshift, Kinesis, Elasticsearch and SageMaker https://t.co/DrppeBlPDo

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2019

The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Hadoop v3.2.0 https://t.co/nNqFYKxGxp

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2019

Amazon Web Services has open sourced the code behind its SageMaker Neo machine learning training feature via the Neo-AI project. https://t.co/J3fXuSYGWZ

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 25, 2019

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Anaplan plans its IPO. And more.

For @451research clients: @Anaplan plans its IPO https://t.co/M6BLHp0QLE Unlike Adaptive Insights, we expect Anaplan to see through its offering, since it has more of the characteristics that Wall Street values. By Krishna Roy and @brenondaly

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 18, 2018

For @451Research clients: @LogiAnalytics expands its embedded analytics focus to predictive analysis https://t.co/5anIGO2nwV By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 17, 2018

For @451Research clients: @Cisco aims to accelerate industry-wide blockchain adoption https://t.co/zLCK1qnuZ6 Bt @csillazsigri451

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 21, 2018

For @451Research clients: Maturation and innovation: further adventures in stream processing and integration https://t.co/8DXhlqEr2C Rounding up the latest news from @dataArtisans @hortonworks @lightbend @streamlio @streamsets and @striimteam

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 18, 2018

For @451Research clients: @seldon_io augurs the future of deploying and managing machine learning models on Kubernetes https://t.co/9ZKGcUDrMP By @JeremyDKorn and me

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 21, 2018

Anaplan has filed its S-1 ahead of its proposed initial public offering https://t.co/TZMniFa2ff

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 17, 2018

Tamr has raised $10m in new equity capital, involving Pear Tree Partners and Granite Hill Capital Partners, in addition to the $18m raise announced in July. https://t.co/Xz9yMPA669

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 18, 2018

DarwinAI has emerged from stealth with $3m in seed funding and a platform that leverages AI to reduce the complexity of designing high performance deep neural networks https://t.co/56y4N4VgHD

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 18, 2018

MariaDB has acquired Clustrix to boost its distributed database capabilities https://t.co/kCkDnMrR8x

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 20, 2018

Microsoft last week announced the acquisition of Lobe, which provides a code-free visual interface for developing and applying deep learning models. https://t.co/Xp9xLZ8LKE

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 17, 2018

Couchbase has announced the launch of N1QL for Analytics, an implementation of the SQL++ framework https://t.co/MbJ0AvwxRe as well as Couchbase Server 6.0 https://t.co/oy99nCJVYr

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 19, 2018

Alibaba Cloud and MariaDB have announced the launch of ApsaraDB RDS for MariaDB TX https://t.co/GRxOR8SNJT

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 19, 2018

Informatica last week updated its data management support for Apache Spark-based big data cloud environments https://t.co/j7fwgkn3SY

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 17, 2018

IBM has announced the launch of the open source AI Fairness 360 toolkit, designed to help address problems of machine learning bias through fairness metrics and bias mitigators. https://t.co/BTEDprsK5F

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 19, 2018

SAP has announced its guiding principles for artificial intelligence (AI) and the creation of an external AI ethics advisory panel https://t.co/nratCixzO3

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) September 18, 2018

And that’s the data day