By bringing this intelligence to data delivery, Denodo Platform 9.0 advances logical data management into the next phase of AI and advanced analytics.
Denodo, the data management company, has announced the launch of Denodo Platform 9.0. The latest version of the platform enables intelligent data delivery through AI-driven support for queries delivered in natural language, eliminating the need for SQL knowledge.
“We see Denodo 9.0 as a game-changer. The self-service data preparation and generative AI integration will empower users of all backgrounds to customise and use datasets effortlessly,” said Ryan Fattini, VP of Data and Analytics at City Furniture. “The Iceberg and Delta integration enhances analytics, and the advanced security governance and inspection tools improve oversight and compliance.”
“At TDWI, we believe that companies, in the ongoing effort to unify their diverse data, will leverage physical and logical data architectures,” said Fern Halper, TDWI Vice President and Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics. “Denodo Platform 9.0 promises strong support for a data fabric that can accommodate both approaches, with enhanced AI capabilities to improve the data fabric’s flexibility in supporting a wider variety of user personas.”
“To say that we are ‘excited’ about Denodo Platform 9.0 is a vast understatement,” said Alberto Pan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Denodo.“This release, developed over several years, brings unprecedented intelligence to data management, which will open up a wealth of new opportunities for both business and technical users. The new AI and data-preparation features, including support for RAG, will bring advanced, trusted data analytics to a wider group of users. At the same time, the improved MPP and DevOps capabilities will accelerate data access, under the hood, to make the data analytics experience faster and more seamless across a wider range of use cases.”
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The platform can also provide large language models (LLMs) with real-time, governed data from across the enterprise, powering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for trusted, insightful results from generative AI applications. It also includes powerful new features to enhance data management further.
By bringing this intelligence to data delivery, Denodo Platform 9.0 advances logical data management into the next phase of AI and advanced analytics, where expectations are now being realised.
Key functionalities of Denodo Platform 9.0 include:
- Natural-Language Query Support: Business users can query data using natural language through the platform’s seamless integration with ChatGPT, AWS Bedrock, and other generative AI platforms, eliminating the need to write queries manually. With Denodo Platform 9.0, interacting with data is as simple as asking a question in everyday language.
- New Data-Preparation Wizards: Users of all technical backgrounds can seamlessly customise datasets to meet their individual needs. Business users can quickly modify data products across various use cases without needing support from the data team, freeing the data team for more strategic tasks.
- Intelligent Query Recommendations: Leveraging AI, Denodo Platform 9.0 query wizards respond to user activity, streamlining the data-query process through automatically tailored transformations and dataset filters.
- Support for AI-Ready Data: Denodo Platform 9.0 empowers enterprises to integrate real-time, enterprise-specific data into their generative AI projects through retrieval augmented generation (RAG).
- Improved Developer-Experience Capabilities: Denodo Platform 9.0 has enhanced DevOps support for streamlined collaboration, integrated Scheduler jobs for more efficient task management, a new Welcome portal for faster onboarding, and a redesigned data-source panel for easier access and manipulation.
- Enhanced MPP-Based Data-Lake Engine: Denodo Platform 9.0’s massively parallel processing (MPP)-based data-lake engine offers simplified configuration, easier integration with Delta and Iceberg tables, and enhanced analytics capabilities. These make data lakes more accessible and actionable and increase the value that organisations can derive from them.
- Advanced Federated Governance: Denodo Platform 9.0 offers finer-grained controls for managing the decentralised creation and reuse of data products by different teams.
- Enhanced Inspection: Denodo Platform 9.0 offers enhanced tools for inspecting and auditing data-access policies, improving oversight and compliance with data-centric regulations.
With the new features in Denodo Platform 9.0, the system will learn as users interact with the data and provide automated recommendations for the best data based on each user’s current needs. This will significantly increase productivity for a wide range of users, as they will not have to stop and try to figure out which data to use or where to find it.
Users can type their queries using natural language and receive instant results and a detailed breakdown of how the query was constructed. Under the hood, it will optimise data delivery across multiple channels, as the system will know the fastest methods and automatically deploy them, lowering costs by saving time. It will further strengthen compliance with more sophisticated security measures built into the platform by design.
