Many organizations use Oracle databases for their ability to be deployed anywhere, embedded security features, robust data analysis capabilities, and scalability. But manually managing Oracle databases can be impractical, requiring constant attention to optimize performance.

As organizations begin developing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications, observability challenges could hinder their progress. Few robust monitoring tools for GenAI applications are available, which makes identifying and resolving issues in these applications time-consuming and error-prone.

We are thrilled to announce that, for the fourth consecutive year, Datadog has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. We believe that this placement reflects Datadog’s continued commitment to solving our customers’ most sophisticated challenges and building products that provide unmatched visibility into the performance, security, and cost of their traditional, cloud-based, or hybrid tech stack—from code to production.

Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft’s new platform for all things data analytics—integrating key Azure data analysis products like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and Power BI into a unified platform. Fabric is intended to provide a one-stop shop where users with various levels of expertise across an organization can perform data analysis and collect insights.

Anthropic is an AI research and development company focused on building reliable and safe artificial intelligence systems. Their flagship product is Claude, an advanced language model and conversational AI assistant known for its strong capabilities in natural language processing, reasoning, and task completion. Anthropic places a particular emphasis on AI safety and ethics, and its models and APIs are used by organizations across various industries to build powerful, safe, and performant AI applications.

ServiceNow is a popular IT service management platform that helps organizations track and manage enterprise-level IT processes, such as on-prem infrastructure management, customer support, and incident response. By using ServiceNow’s configuration management database (CMDB), organizations can easily centralize and manage information about all the IT objects they own in order to track and maintain them more efficiently.

As software ecosystems grow more complex and fragmented, organizations are finding it harder to manage the thousands of interdependencies that make up their environments. For starters, engineers are collectively struggling to uphold security and reliability standards throughout their organizations because they lack a shared view of these complex software landscapes.