In one of its most significant product updates since going public, Confluent Inc. today introduced a new cloud-based toolkit to help enterprises analyze real-time data from their systems more ...

When it comes to running a successful business, gaining competitive advantage is everything. That said, pinpointing exactly what might give firms that ‘edge’ isn’t an exact science. It might be a new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data runs business. We’ve been told this now immutable ...

It is easy to come out of a presentation on “big data” these days thinking that the future of manufacturing information technology (IT) is a combination of three things: connected machines, data ...