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  • RudderStack Launches New SaaS Version of its Customer Data Platform, Becomes First Open-Source CDP Vendor to Offer Multiple Hosting Options: SaaS or On-Prem in Virtual Private Cloud

    New SaaS option makes RudderStack a fit for any size enterprise

    San Francisco, Calif. – July 27, 2020 –  RudderStack, which provides the first open source alternative to traditional Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), announced today that it now provides a SaaS deployment option to customers, making it the first open source CDP vendor to offer multiple hosting options. Customers can choose RudderStack’s SaaS offering without compromising on their security and privacy requirements, as it can run inside the customer’s  Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or RudderStack’s VPC. They can also choose to run RudderStack’s free open source version or the paid enterprise version on-prem. In either scenario, customer data remains under the control of the RudderStack customer.

    RudderStack’s SaaS and enterprise offerings incorporate several new features not found in its open-source version, including Teams, SSO, Transformations, Multi-Node, High Availability and Event Replay.

    “We had a lot of interest in RudderStack from companies that didn’t want to manage running a CDP,” said Soumyadeb Mitra, CEO of RudderStack. “We developed a SaaS offering to meet that need. Large enterprises can still choose to run our open source or enterprise version on-prem and we’ve made it easy to transition from one to the other as a company grows.”

    One of the first enterprises to use RudderStack’s new SaaS offering is India’s leading online healthcare platform 1mg. “1mg generates billions of events each month,” said Gaurav Agarwal, CTO at 1mg. “We wanted a CDP to bring together all this data from our different channels in a unified and consistent way, to create a holistic view of our customer’s behavior and their preferences – while keeping data management overhead to a minimum. With RudderStack, we were able to get a feature-rich SaaS solution that we didn’t have to manage, but hosted in our own VPC. It is perfect for our needs and no other vendor was able to provide this.”

    RudderStack’s offering differs from traditional CDPs in several ways:

    • Multiple deployment options: Customers can start with the SaaS offering hosted in RudderStack’s VPC (which is simpler to set up and manage) or the customer’s VPC. As their team grows and their security/privacy requirements become more complex, they can take ownership and run it on-prem. No other vendor provides this flexibility.
    • Fixed pricing plan: RudderStack’s SaaS offering is not priced by MTUs or events, but rather by infrastructure (compute nodes) provisioned. This gives customers much more control over their costs and enables them to collect a high volume of event data without high expenses.
    • Built for engineers: While other CDPs are designed for marketers, RudderStack has added many features designed for engineers – from Kubernetes deployment (for ease of deployment) to Grafana dashboards (for ease of manageability) to Kafka integrations. RudderStack’s system is also designed to handle real-time use cases better, with, for example, real-time data exchange.

    This launch follows on the heels of RudderStack’s announcing a $5M seed round led by S28 Capital in May 2020. At the time, RudderStack stated that it would use the funding in part to accelerate product development.

    “This is the first of many new and improved product offerings in our pipeline,” said Mitra.

    About RudderStack

    RudderStack helps enterprises capture more value from their customer data, with the first open source alternative to traditional Customer Data Platforms like Segment. RudderStack collects a company’s data from every customer touchpoint – including web, mobile and backend systems – and sends it in real-time to over 50 cloud-based destinations and any major data warehouse. By unifying and analyzing their customer data in a privacy- and security-conscious way, companies are then able to turn it into business actions across all their functions. To learn more or start a free trial, visit https://rudderstack.com/.

  • Gearset Officially Launches Backup Solution for Salesforce

    London, UK — July 27, 2020 — Gearset, the leading DevOps solution provider for Salesforce, announced today the official launch of its newest product for the Salesforce ecosystem: Data Backup. The launch follows a soft launch period during which the company worked closely with early customers to refine and improve the product and user experience.

    With Gearset’s Data Backup, enterprises can eliminate the risk of irretrievable data loss, secure their backup data, and stay compliant with data protection legislation such as the GDPR and CCPA. Thanks to automated daily backups, monitoring of changes, and Gearset’s powerful deployment engine for restoring data with parent-child relationships intact, Salesforce teams will vastly reduce their recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) with Data Backup.

    “We built Data Backup because we saw companies vulnerable to the loss of data and metadata, with no viable options for restoring their Salesforce organizations. Adding Data Backup to Gearset has been our plan for a long time, and we’re excited that Gearset is now a comprehensive Salesforce DevOps solution,” says Kevin Boyle, CEO and co-founder of Gearset.

    While it’s possible to use Salesforce’s native tooling to back up data and metadata, Salesforce itself recommends that enterprises find a third-party backup solution. Backups work best when folded into DevOps tools and processes, as Gearset’s Data Backup demonstrates. Using one and the same tool, Salesforce teams can easily back up data on demand before deploying any risky changes. And they can restore lost and corrupted data with the familiar, robust workflow they use every day. For these reasons, high-performing DevOps teams are also high-performers when it comes to disaster recovery.

    Data Backup is now available as a free trial version for new and existing Gearset customers. For more information, visit the Gearset website here.

    About Gearset

    Gearset is the market-leading Salesforce DevOps solution provider. Its mission is to make Salesforce releases lightning-fast, with deployments that work the first time, every time. Among Gearset’s clients are McKesson, Zillow, Traction on Demand, Cisco Meraki, Accenture, IBM and Johnson & Johnson. Gearset is based in Cambridge (UK).

  • xs:code Releases the First Chrome Extension to Provide Intuitive Analytics and Vulnerability Reporting on Open Source Projects

    xs:code collaborates with Snyk to give users to view security issues with open source code

    Herzliya Israel, July 27, 2020 — xs:code, the marketplace for open source, today announced their new free chrome extension, xs:code Insights, which provides users with intuitive, in-depth analytics on open source repositories, including repository score, security analysis, maintenance and activity status, reviews, ratings and more. The new extension helps developers make an educated decision about which open source repositories to use in their projects. As well as get support, bug fixes and custom features for the repositories they’re already using; all directly from the repository’s owner.

    xs:code has also collaborated with developer-focused cyber security company Snyk. Snyk provides real time updates about the cyber security vulnerabilities of code, as a developer is writing or updating it. Insights integrates Snyk’s API to allow users to view any cyber security vulnerabilities with the designated open source code, and allows users to check how adjustments to the code affects the security of the overall set of code. Additionally, Insights also provides a feature aimed for those long coding nights: a pizza ordering feature, showing the pizza places closest to the user and an order option directly from the extension.

    Founded in 2019 xs:code connects open source developers with software companies by allowing developers to offer paid products and services on top of their free and open source code on the online xs:code platform. After partnering with Redis with a dollar-for-dollar grant to use the xs:code platform, Insights is the latest product helping software companies, and open source developers.

    “xs:code Insights is the first tool of its kind and will save developers using open source code countless hours,” said Netanel Mohoni, CEO of xs:code. “The information the app displays at the click of a button is invaluable, and the connection we provide to the original developer is extremely useful.The partnership with Snyk is further validation of the quality and value that we are providing to the open source community. We believe Insights will help more software companies discover our platform and discover more ways of working together, making open source better, for everyone.” The extension will be offered as a limited user release exclusively through this link https://blog.xscode.com/insights/

  • ConnectALL Named a Strong Performer in Value Stream Management Solutions Report by Independent Research Firm

    ConnectALL scored a 5.0 in the Tool Integration/Interoperability criterion and was the only solution provider to receive a top score of 5.0.

    PASADENA, CA – July 23, 2020 – ConnectALL, a provider of software value stream management solutions, today announced it was named a Strong Performer in its first appearance in The Forrester Wave™: Value Stream Management Solutions, Q3 2020. ConnectALL received the top score in the tool integration and interoperability criterion, the only vendor to rate 5/5 in this criterion. According to the Forrester evaluation, “ConnectALL comes to the VSM market with a strong tool integration heritage, and customers appreciate those capabilities.”

    “We believe ConnectALL’s ranking recognizes its roots as a tool integration vendor, while highlighting our commitment to providing a comprehensive value stream management solution,” said ConnectALL Chief Operating Officer Lance Knight.

    The Forrester Wave™: Value Stream Management Solutions, Q3 2020 evaluates the 11 most significant providers of value stream management solutions to help organizations select the right solution for their firms. “Recognition in this Forrester Wave™ report validates, in our opinion, our efforts to empower organizations and their software teams with superior value stream management through integration,” said Knight.

    To ensure an equitable process for all participants, Forrester follows a publicly available, transparent methodology, applied consistently across all participating vendors, described in detail here.

    ConnectALL’s Value Stream Management solutions, comprised of the ConnectALL Value Stream Integration Platform and ConnectALL Value Stream Analytics, provide end-to-end visibility, traceability, and governance of value streams to identify bottlenecks, issues, and constraints that impact business outcomes. With over 30 vendor-based connectors and a Universal adapter enabling bi-directional, automated synchronization, ConnectALL’s solutions capture data from any source in your value stream and are designed to accelerate the delivery of business value with a unique combination of lean metrics and value stream visualization capabilities.

    “While ConnectALL is known for its integration capabilities, our overarching goal is helping companies bring innovation to market faster by achieving higher levels of predictability, velocity, agility and system delivery, with granular insight into activities at every level and stage of the software delivery process,” said Knight.

    The Forrester recognition comes on the heels of ConnectALL being named a Top Performer by G2 for both Spring and Summer 2020. ConnectALL has also been named to SD Times Top 100.

    About ConnectALL
    ConnectALL helps companies achieve value stream management and create business value by bringing software innovation to market faster. The company’s integration platform, which was recognized as Best in Show in the Value Stream Management category of the 2019 SD Times 100 and ranked a “High Performer” in the G2 Spring and Summer 2020 Reports, unifies applications, tools, people and processes, connecting dozens of software delivery tools and facilitating powerful cross-team collaboration. In short, it empowers the true value drivers of software development — humans — to achieve project goals. Paired with its Universal Adapter, ConnectALL can unite an unlimited number of tools for seamless collaboration, bi-directional information capture and exchange, automated event triggering, and much more. For more information, visit https://www.connectall.com.

  • Wipro to Launch 5G Edge Services Solutions Suite

    The solutions extend Wipro’s BoundaryLess Enterprise – Universal Edge portfolio to offer real-time visibility and data insights for holistic infrastructure management

    EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. & BANGALORE, India–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it will launch its 5G edge services solutions suite. The solutions suite to be provided by Wipro is built with IBM TRIRIGA and IBM Edge Application Manager. Wipro will engage with clients to implement the Universal Edge solutions suite that leverages 5G network capabilities.

    The 5G edge services solutions suite is designed to significantly enhance Wipro’s existing BoundaryLess Enterprise – Universal Edge portfolio. The edge-compute-enabled offering allows communications service providers and mobile tower operators to deploy their applications into dispersed edge devices. The advanced artificial intelligence and cloud-based services address the challenges of edge computing. It provides real-time visibility and data insights that help enable holistic management of edge infrastructure for mission critical applications in manufacturing, transport, healthcare, oil & gas and retail industries among others.

    This solution is designed to offer Wipro customers better data control, reduced costs, faster insights and actions, and more automated, secured operations. A key module of the solution, primarily for the telecom ecosystem, provides a complete application suite to enable a secured gig economy around 5G-related services.

    Wipro is joining the IBM Edge Ecosystem, an initiative to help partners implement open standards-based cloud native solutions that can be deployed and autonomously manage edge applications at large scale. Wipro’s solutions combined with IBM Edge Application Manager and TRIRIGA is expected to address a range of concerns related to deploying and managing globally distributed services on devices, private edges and telecom operator’s Multi Access Edges.

    The 5G edge services solutions suite integrates various edge computing solutions from IBM. The two companies recently announced a collaboration to develop hybrid cloud offerings to help businesses migrate, manage and transform mission-critical workloads across public or private cloud and on-premises IT environments. The recently launched Wipro IBM Novus Lounge has been designed to accelerate client innovation and bring such industry-ready solutions from public and private clouds to the edge.

    Evaristus Mainsah, General Manager, Cloud, Cloud Pak and Edge Ecosystem, IBM said, “The convergence of 5G and edge computing is set to spark new levels of innovation, and this in turn will fuel a broad ecosystem of providers to co-create for a growing set of edge opportunities. We are excited about the value that Wipro can bring to their clients that require Universal Edge solutions to help extend their enterprise to compute at the edge.”

    K.R. Sanjiv, Chief Technology Officer, Wipro Limited said, “Our strong telecommunication domain capabilities coupled with leadership in cloud & infrastructure lifecycle and investment in the Wipro IBM Novus Lounge equips us well to deliver these industry-specific solutions. We are confident that this will enable efficient deployment and management of infrastructure with 5G and Edge for our customers in the telecommunications, manufacturing, oil & gas and retail industries.”

    Wipro is committed to be the leading 5G solutions and implementations partner to its clients providing them with strategic advice on the technology and unlocking its potential to generate new revenue streams. Wipro’s deep engineering and product design expertise enable clients to achieve their 5G objectives in three primary areas: Engineering, Intelligence and Monetization. In addition to the 5G lifecycle services, Wipro’s specializations in automation, security and enterprise transformation help clients realize business value in their digital transformation journeys. To learn more click here.

    About Wipro Limited

    Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading information technology, consulting and business process services company that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of “Business through Technology.” By combining digital strategy, customer centric design, advanced analytics and product engineering approach, Wipro helps its clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, Wipro has a dedicated workforce of over 180,000 serving clients across 6 continents. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com.

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  • Latest Tasktop Release Supports Jira Align

    Measure and Automate Flow across Silos, from Business Ideas in Jira Align through Technology Implementation

    VANCOUVER, BC, July 23, 2020 – Tasktop, a company leading the creation and definition of value stream management (VSM) solutions, today announced that its latest release of the Tasktop Value Stream Management platform supports Jira Align. With this new Jira Align connector, organizations are able to automate and measure the flow of work between Jira Align and other work management, design, testing, release, ITSM and CRM tools, connecting business ideas to their technology implementation.

    The Jira Align connector expands Tasktop’s comprehensive connector infrastructure and technology, known as the Flow Fabric™, which supports full fidelity and real-time connectivity to more than 60 Agile, DevOps and IT tools.

    Jira Align is an enterprise agile planning tool, increasingly popular in large enterprises for strategic planning. Ideas that start in Jira Align are executed in work management tools like Jira, Azure DevOps and Rally; tested in tools like Tosca, qTest, ALM and SmartBear; and supported in ITSM tools like Jira Service Desk, ServiceNow and Remedy. Connecting the toolchain through a pure-play VSM platform rapidly improves flow and visibility from the originating idea through its development, release and subsequent feedback loops.

    Automating Cross-Silo Flow with Tasktop Hub

    Tasktop’s Jira Align connector offers enterprises several unique advantages and extends Tasktop Hub’s reliability, sophistication and scalability to the world of Jira Align, tightly integrating it with the rest of the value stream and more than 60 tools.

    Tasktop Hub offers practitioners that work in Jira Align or rely on data from Jira Align the following benefits:

    • Reliable and seamless bi-directional synchronization of Themes, Epics, Capabilities, Features, Stories and more, eliminating friction and delays
    • Routing of feature work to the right team in the right tool based on its program or any other feature fields, and using filters to determine what’s eligible to flow
    • Elegant merging of several acceptance criteria from Jira Align into a single, rich text format field in a targeted tool, like Jira or Tosca
    • Embedding back-references (links) to twinned Jira Align artifacts to automate traceability and facilitate communication across silos
    • Easy error resolution with robust monitoring, troubleshooting and retry mechanisms

    An example of how Tasktop Hub can integrate Jira Align with Salesforce, Jira, Rally and Tosca to create end-to-end flow from the original business idea until its release can be seen here.

    According to Atlassian’s Steve Elliot, head of product for Jira Align, “The depth and breadth of Tasktop’s integration capabilities can help improve the speed, velocity and quality of software delivery. By integrating data from the end-to-end value stream alongside enterprise agile planning to include work done in testing, design and support tools, Jira Align users have better oversight and visibility into the execution of the vision laid out in Jira Align.”

    Flow Metrics for the End-To End Value Stream

    Jira Align is also supported by Tasktop Viz™, to provide enterprises with insight into the flow of business value, starting from strategic planning in Jira Align and all through the implementation by individual value streams working in other tools.

    Tasktop Viz finds bottlenecks in end-to-end flow, answering questions like: How fast can business ideas become reality? Where is work slowing down? What is the business case for investments that can shorten time-to-market and increase velocity?

    “This new integration provides more visibility into flow and optimization opportunities at the early stages of idea elaboration and planning,” said Nicole Bryan, chief product officer at Tasktop. “Flow metrics and diagnostics on the work done in Jira Align and its subsequent breakdown in other tools can help shine a light on activity at the top of the funnel and help organizations progress their shift from project to product.”

    About Tasktop

    Tasktop’s value stream management platform enables enterprises to master software at scale. Leading brands, including half of the Fortune 100, use Tasktop to provide real-time visibility into the health of product value streams, allowing them to make better decisions and align with business goals. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automations, visualizations and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis.

  • Ahana Welcomes Database Pioneer David E. Simmen to Executive Team as Chief Technology Officer

    Former Splunk Fellow and Chief Architect & Teradata Fellow brings 30+ years of database expertise to lead technology innovation

    San Mateo, CA — July 23, 2020 – Ahana, the SQL analytics company for Presto, today announced the appointment of David E. Simmen as Chief Technology Officer. Simmen will oversee the company’s technology strategy while driving product innovation. His extensive database experience will further accelerate Ahana’s vision of simplifying ad hoc analytics for organizations of all shapes and sizes.

    “Dave has a remarkable record of innovation in distributed databases, data federation and advanced analytics. That, coupled with his over 30 years of architecting and building in the field, is nothing short of impressive,” said Steven Mih, Co-founder & CEO of Ahana. “His experience innovating distributed database technology with Splunk, Teradata and IBM provides Ahana the depth needed for truly groundbreaking development to achieve our vision of unified, federated analytics. I couldn’t be more thrilled to have Dave at the helm as CTO and Co-founder.”

    Simmen joined Ahana most recently from Apple where he engineered iCloud database services. Prior to Apple, he was Chief Architect with Splunk and named the first Fellow in the company’s history. There, he built Splunk’s multi-year technical roadmap and architecture in support of enterprise customers. Prior to Splunk, Simmen was Engineering Fellow and CTO of Teradata Aster where he set the technical direction and led the architecture team that built advanced analytics engines and storage capabilities in support of big data discovery applications.

    Earlier in his career, Simmen was a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at IBM Research adding innovations to DB2 like the IBM Starburst SQL compiler, support for MPP and SMP, database federation, and many more. Simmen is also a named inventor on 37 U.S. patents and has 15 publications to his name including Fundamental Techniques for Order Optimization, Robust Query Processing through Progressive Optimization, and Accelerating Big Data Analytics With Collaborative Planning.

    “Given the spread of data across data lakes, data warehouses, and the plethora of relational and non-relational data services being offered today, the need for unified, federated analytics is only increasing. Presto is one of the most popular federated query engines but it’s missing fundamental optimizations developed over the decades by academic researchers and industry pioneers,” said Simmen. “That needs to be applied to Presto, making it even more powerful to eventually become the heart of the unified, federated analytical stack. I look forward to working with the Ahana team to turn this vision into reality.”

    “In my time with Dave at IBM’s Almaden Research Center and then with the DB2 optimizer team at Silicon Valley Laboratory, I saw firsthand his technical expertise and his broader leadership skills,” said Dr. Laura Haas, Dean of College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst and retired IBM Fellow. Dean Haas is best known for her work on the Starburst query processor and Garlic, a federated engine.

    Dean Haas continued, “His combined leadership and technical depth is unparalleled, and it’s wonderful that he has joined Ahana to drive innovation for the next generation of data federation technology for analytics. I look forward to seeing his vision come to life in this space.”

    About Ahana

    Ahana, the SQL analytics company for Presto, is focused on evangelizing the Presto community and bringing simplified ad hoc analytics offerings to market. As the Presto market continues to grow exponentially, Ahana’s mission is to enable unified, federated analytics. Founded in 2020, Ahana is headquartered in San Mateo, CA and operates as an all-remote company. Investors include GV and Leslie Ventures. Follow Ahana on LinkedIn and Twitter.

  • Exadel Meets Growth Projections, Secures New Clients And Expands Senior Management Team In Second Quarter Of 2020

    Despite a global pandemic and business slow-downs, Exadel continues to thrive and grow based on its distributed Agile engineering and development model

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., July 22, 2020 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), an enterprise software development company, today announced strong momentum in the second quarter of 2020, including increased sales, the addition of new clients, several new projects and the expansion of its C-level team with two senior level appointments. The company’s achievements are particularly noteworthy in the midst of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. The distributed Agile development model Exadel employs is central to its ability to withstand economic challenges as it helps clients realize digital transformation across the globe.

    Specifically, in the second quarter, Exadel:

    • Maintained its growth projections for 2020
    • Increased repeat business from existing clients
    • Leveraged additional projects via distributed Agile development
    • Deepened its senior management bench strength with new positions of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Delivery Officer

    “Exadel has always had a distributed Agile development approach to help clients achieve success,” explained Fima Katz, CEO of Exadel. “We have teams across the globe who have been working in a distributed manner since the formation of the company. While other companies are struggling to adjust quickly to a remote workplace reality, Exadel provides the infrastructure, resources, technology and talent needed to easily adapt and thrive despite great disruptions such as COVID-19.”

    Exadel has locations across three continents. Its team of highly specialized software engineers has helped numerous high profile brands and enterprise organizations – many Fortune 500 entities – build and deliver everything from custom software projects to complete product platforms from the ground up.

    In addition to impressive results for the second quarter, the company also announced the addition of two new positions and members of its senior management team. Elena Krukovskaya has been promoted to Chief Operations Officer (COO), and Alexey Girzhadovich assumes the role of Chief Delivery Officer (CDO).

    Krukovskaya began working at Exadel in 2008 as a human resources manager where she established Exadel’s policies around people, operations and processes. As COO, Krukovskaya will be responsible for managing Exadel’s global operations to meet business goals and objectives.

    Girzhadovich is an accomplished leader and previously served in multiple roles at Exadel. He brings a lengthy track record of working with high-growth software companies. As Chief Delivery Officer, Girzhadovich will implement a coherent project delivery strategy with a focus on teams, processes, efficiency and profitability.

    “Achieving success during these challenging times is a testament to Exadel’s ability to deliver exceptional software engineering services that help our clients realize their business goals,” said Katz. “Exadel has a winning formula and we look forward to continued growth in the future.”

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    Exadel is an enterprise software development company supporting organizations at all stages of their digital transformation journey. We help companies redefine the way they do business by developing core digital solutions, software products and platforms, and helping them transition to the cloud. Exadel is a leader in distributed Agile development, leveraging resources globally for continuous delivery, even during times of great disruption. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Exadel has more than 1,000 engineers in 23 offices across the USA, Europe and Asia. We produce a variety of original products, frameworks, platforms and solutions for high profile brands across many industries—from media and publishing, finance, retail and e-commerce, to healthcare, wellness, high tech and transportation. Learn more at exadel.com

     

  • TigerGraph’s GSQL Recognized By SIGMOD For Advancing, Evolving Graph Analytics For The Enterprise

    TigerGraph 3.0 Further Extends GSQL Capabilities as Acclaimed Database Conference Acknowledges Query Language’s Industry Impact

    REDWOOD CITY, CA – July 22, 2020 – TigerGraph, the only scalable graph database for the enterprise, today announced the company is furthering the democratization of graph analytics with new capabilities for its industry-recognized query language, GSQL. GSQL, which brings modern aggregation support to graph analytics, is a property graph query language designed for SQL users. The company’s current advances with GSQL make this innovative query language even more similar to SQL, the standard language for storing, manipulating, and retrieving data within a relational database. The result: A lower barrier to entry and easier adoption for SQL users as they chart their advanced graph analytics course. TigerGraph’s work with GSQL has garnered industry recognition from SIGMOD, the premier international database conference.

    “GSQL’s innovation, speed and scalability boost its ease of use within the SQL community, delivering a SQL-like experience with graph analytics,” said Dr. Yu Xu, CEO, and founder, TigerGraph. “Simultaneously, we’re working to help enterprises – from banks to healthcare companies – uncover meaningful, actionable, real-time insights from connected data that can improve people’s lives. GSQL’s acknowledgment by SIGMOD, the renowned data management academic conference, validates its influence on the graph database industry as well as the database community at large. Our work in advanced graph analytics is ongoing and ever-evolving, and we remain dedicated to supporting inventive customer applications while innovating our product offerings.”

    Database experts have recognized GSQL’s power for efficient expression and execution of graph algorithms and graph analytics. The GSQL-related advancements complement TigerGraph 3.0, which delivers several “no code” advanced graph analytics features. These “graph for all” features allow data scientists and business users to move data from the relational database to graph database and build advanced analytics patterns by drawing — without the need to write complex queries. TigerGraph 3.0 extends GSQL even further with rich pattern matching with analytics and additional support for distributed GSQL.

     

    TigerGraph’s GSQL builds on SQL functionality and extends it with a unique construct called an “accumulator.” Accumulators allow users to perform complex computations faster on connected datasets. The Visual Query Builder feature in TigerGraph 3.0 allows users to employ accumulators to aggregate without writing code. TigerGraph’s accumulators are more powerful and richer than traditional aggregation functions in SQL; as dynamic data objects, with parallel processing like MapReduce and Spark, they are an integral part of modern graph analytics.

    TigerGraph’s Chief Scientist and distinguished researcher, Dr. Alin Deutsch, presented the GSQL language paper at SIGMOD 2020, outlining the massive benefits for analyzing connected datasets with graph analytics. TigerGraph’s GSQL will support GQL, the upcoming ISO language for property graph querying currently being created by the same international working group that looks after the SQL standard. TigerGraph’s language standard team — which also includes VP of Engineering Dr. Mingxi Wu and Head of Product Strategy and Developer Relations Dr. Victor Lee — is actively involved in the project. The team will work to ensure that GQL and TigerGraph’s unique analytical capabilities are compatible.

    The research paper presents the following GSQL-related design features, which are unique in the industry:

    • GSQL includes three features which synergize to form a modern graph analytical capability and address an important class of iterative graph algorithms – algorithms that are left out by other current and proposed languages. These three features are default shortest-path semantics of pattern matching, accumulators as vertex-attached run-time attributes and global query states, and control flow primitives.
    • GSQL is unique in the industry due to its adoption of shortest-path semantics as the default pattern matching semantics. Shortest-path semantics is currently being discussed in the standard body.
    • GSQL’s aggregation support — based on the concept of accumulators — subsumes SQL-style aggregation and allows single-pass traversals that compute in parallel multiple aggregations, even on disjoint criteria. The paper quantifies experimentally the significant speedup of accumulator-based vs. SQL-style aggregation for graph traversal queries.

    Announcing TigerGraph 2020 Graphathon

    As a further step towards the democratization of graph analytics, TigerGraph has launched the TigerGraph 2020 Graphathon. The two-month long contest invites and challenges developers at all levels to apply their unique knowledge and ideas to create an application or design pattern which enables and empowers others to use and benefit from TigerGraph technology. The rapid growth of the TigerGraph developer community confirms the company’s belief that making and understanding connections improves lives.

     

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    About TigerGraph  TigerGraph is the only scalable graph database for the enterprise. TigerGraph’s proven technology connects data silos for deeper, wider and operational analytics at scale. Four out of the top five global banks use TigerGraph for real-time fraud detection. Over 50 million patients receive care path recommendations to assist them on their wellness journey. 300 million consumers receive personalized offers with recommendation engines powered by TigerGraph. The energy infrastructure for 1 billion people is optimized by TigerGraph for reducing power outages. TigerGraph’s proven technology supports applications such as fraud detection, customer 360, MDM, IoT, AI, and machine learning. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Follow TigerGraph on Twitter at @TigerGraphDB or start free at tigergraph.com/cloud.

     

  • TigerGraph Offers Multi-Cloud Graph Database-As-A-Service With Availability On Microsoft Azure

    TigerGraph Cloud Now Supports AWS and Microsoft Azure, Enabling More Companies to Unleash the Power of Interconnected Data

    REDWOOD CITY, CA — July 16, 2020 — TigerGraph, the only scalable graph database for the enterprise, today launched TigerGraph Cloud on Microsoft Azure. TigerGraph Cloud, the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database-as-a-service, helps enterprises harness the power of the graph: Companies can quickly and easily build and run applications that work with highly connected and complex datasets. The company recently announced TigerGraph 3.0, which makes no-code advanced graph analytics easy while delivering core platform capabilities. TigerGraph helps enterprises derive new insights and drive vastly better business outcomes through advanced graph analytics at scale. TigerGraph Cloud allows teams to use the cloud vendor of their choice, offering support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and now, Microsoft Azure.

    “TigerGraph Cloud continues to answer specific enterprise pain points for organizations in several industries, including healthcare, financial services and government. Relational databases aren’t up to the task when it comes to analyzing interconnected data,” said Todd Blaschka, COO, TigerGraph. “Graph database and analytics is the way forward. Historically, organizations had to rely on data scientists to design their graph analytics solutions. That has changed with TigerGraph Cloud, which makes graph accessible to all. And now, TigerGraph Cloud’s support for Azure makes it the first truly multi-cloud graph database-as-a-service in the market.”

    TigerGraph Cloud, an easy-to-use, cloud-based graph service, provides the ideal cloud-based service to model, search, and traverse relationships for analytical, transactional and real-time workloads. TigerGraph Cloud allows users to get started in minutes, build a proof-of-concept model in hours and deploy a solution to production in days. It eliminates the need to set up, configure or manage servers, schedule backups or look for security vulnerabilities. Also, TigerGraph Cloud allows users to scale their graph solution up to tens of terabytes and support more than 100,000 real-time deep link analytics queries per second on a single machine.

    TigerGraph Cloud delivers simplicity, and its elastic pricing means users only pay for hours they use. TigerGraph Cloud users can build a complete proof of concept in mere hours from one of 20 Starter Kits that cover real-world use cases such as customer 360, fraud detection, personalized real-time recommendation, hub or influencer computation, supply chain analysis, neural networks, cybersecurity and more. Starter kits are built with sample graph data schema, dataset, and queries focused on specific use cases such as fraud detection, real-time recommendation, machine learning, explainable AI and more.

    The newest version of TigerGraph Cloud includes configuration for distributed graphs and replica instances for high availability. Subscribers can provision distributed TigerGraph services for large production datasets, and have the choice to deploy high availability TigerGraph services. TigerGraph Cloud runs on the new TigerGraph Enterprise 2.6 platform, which features a Spark connector, pattern matching, and more built-in data processing functions. Users can start for free, then expand across the cloud as their data expands. TigerGraph’s ability to do SQL-like database computation along with ACID-compliant transactions benefits users with a lower TCO compared to other platforms.

    TigerGraph Cloud on Microsoft Azure is available now.

    TigerGraph Providing Graph Database Technology for Combating COVID-19 

    The company is providing free use of TigerGraph’s graph database technology to those helping to prevent the spread of, and improve the treatment for, Coronavirus worldwide. Local, state and federal agencies, corporate users, as well as non-profits can access the free tier on TigerGraph Cloud to load data and perform advanced analysis using graph algorithms. Sample use cases include deploying community detection algorithms to identify clusters of virus infection, PageRank algorithms to identify super-spreading events and shortest path algorithms to understand the origin and impact of spread in a particular area. A single free instance can store billions of entities such as people, locations, medical supplies, and drugs along with their associated properties and connections. The company also invites users to submit a free trial request to use TigerGraph Enterprise Edition for analysis of sensitive data related to COVID-19 on their own hardware or in your data center. TigerGraph will extend the free trial, as necessary, to support the initiatives focused on eliminating COVID-19.

    TigerGraph has added a COVID-19 starter kit to expedite users’ efforts. Register for TigerGraph Cloud to use it. Complete details can be found here: tigergraph.com/stopcoronavirus.

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    About TigerGraph TigerGraph is the only scalable graph database for the enterprise. TigerGraph’s proven technology connects data silos for deeper, wider and operational analytics at scale. Four out of the top five global banks use TigerGraph for real-time fraud detection. Over 50 million patients receive care path recommendations to assist them on their wellness journey. 300 million consumers receive personalized offers with recommendation engines powered by TigerGraph. Energy infrastructure for 1 billion people is optimized by TigerGraph for reducing power outages. TigerGraph’s proven technology supports applications such as fraud detection, customer 360, MDM, IoT, AI and machine learning. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Follow TigerGraph on Twitter at @TigerGraphDB or start free at tigergraph.com/cloud.