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Core data
Cloud Data Warehouses
35Scalable SQL engines and storage systems for analytics and reporting.
Business Intelligence (BI)
35Platforms for data visualization, dashboards, and actionable business insights.
Data Quality
23Solutions to validate, profile, and ensure trust in your data assets.
AI & machine learning
AI Agent Frameworks
28Frameworks and platforms for building, orchestrating, and deploying autonomous AI agents — from multi-agent orchestration and visual workflow builders to agent memory, tool integration, and observability.
AI Platforms
26AI platforms, foundation models, and applied AI tools for data and enterprise
MLOps & AI Platforms
21Tools for managing the machine learning lifecycle, from training to deployment and monitoring.
Vector Databases
17Vector databases for AI embeddings, similarity search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
DevOps & engineering
Developer Tools
33AI coding assistants, IDEs, internal tool builders, infrastructure, and development utilities
Observability & Monitoring
32Application performance monitoring, infrastructure observability, log management, and metrics platforms.
Security
22Security, privacy, and authentication tools
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Lightdash
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ClawBox
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Expertex
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Qlik Replicate
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Apache Airflow
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Move PowerCenter to the cloud faster to achieve cloud modernization while reducing cost, risk and time with the Intelligent Data Management Cloud.
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ML experiment tracking platform with best-in-class visualization, collaboration, and hyperparameter sweeps.
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dbt (data build tool)
SQL-based data transformation framework for modern cloud warehouses
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Amazon QuickSight
AI-powered BI that transforms data into strategic insights for everyone through unified intelligence, actionable analytics, and democratized data access.
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Typesense
Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and ease of use.
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