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Forbes
01-08-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How Data Infrastructure Quietly Drives The AI Engine
Michel Tricot is Cofounder and CEO of Airbyte. AI cannot operate effectively without context, and that requires being fed by reliable data flows. This is where I've watched most AI initiatives fall apart. Companies get excited about the potential of AI technology, but they forget about the unglamorous work of building data infrastructure. You can't just plug an AI model into your existing systems and expect magic to happen. Reliable data pipelines aren't just nice to have; they are the foundation that makes everything else possible. You can't build a city without roads, plumbing or electricity, especially if they are not integrated in a well-organized central system. The same is true for AI applications. To make reasoned decisions, AI technology must have the full context and information, and that can only happen by bringing all the right data together. This is why Salesforce is spending $8 billion to acquire Informatica, a legacy mainstay company in data integration technology. While this may not seem like an AI play, it is shaping up to be an essential part of Salesforce's AI strategy. Salesforce's Agentforce aims to transform how businesses use AI agents to handle everyday operations. But there is a catch that I've seen trip up countless companies: AI agents can't function effectively without access to complete, well-organized data. Most enterprises still struggle with fragmented systems—data trapped in silos, scattered across platforms that don't communicate—making it difficult for AI to operate with full context. This moment highlights a broader shift in enterprise AI strategy. Success increasingly hinges not on the model itself, but on the ecosystem that supports it. Forward-looking companies are beginning to realize that AI agents are only as effective as the infrastructure surrounding them, particularly the ability to unify and orchestrate data from across the organization. Rather than treating data integration as a separate IT concern, the most strategic moves we're seeing involve embedding it directly into AI planning. This helps reduce friction and accelerate deployment while enabling AI to work with complete, real-time context. However, it also introduces a new kind of trade-off: the more seamless the stack, the more locked-in an organization may become. Businesses must now weigh the benefits of speed and simplicity against the risks of vendor dependency and long-term flexibility. I've always believed that open-source software fuels innovation, lets you customize and expand your tools, and most importantly, helps avoid being tied down to a single vendor. The Salesforce-Informatica deal marks a big change in how we think about AI in businesses. It confirms something I've long evangelized: the real advantage doesn't come from AI models themselves, since everyone will have access to similar ones. Instead, the true strength lies in how well a company can organize, protect and use its own unique data to power AI. To do this, I recommend that organizations build their infrastructure to be scalable, portable and sovereign. Leverage open source and flexible data formats for your destinations, and ensure sensitive data is under your control, not being hosted and parsed by external parties. This blend of flexibility and sovereignty ultimately offers the best approach for modern data management. The companies that understand this will be the ones positioned to successfully transform their businesses with AI. Those that don't risk building impressive demos that stall when faced with the complexity of real-world data environments. Preparing for a data movement now can help businesses ensure they're ready to build scalable, effective AI applications. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
Business Wire
16-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Airbyte Data Movement Enhances Data Sovereignty and AI Readiness
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Airbyte, the open data movement platform, today announced three significant updates to its on-premises Airbyte Enterprise product that provide organizations with greater flexibility and control over their data while ensuring that data is ready to work with AI. 'All these new capabilities are directed towards making data AI ready with more control, context, and speed because without data, there is no AI, and without the right data, AI is no good,' said Michel Tricot, CEO and co-founder of Airbyte. Airbyte's platform updates include the ability to facilitate data sovereignty and compliance across different global regions; synchronize data with its metadata to assist AI models' ability to improve reasoning and accuracy; and directly load data volumes to BigQuery and Snowflake, which increases data sync speeds and reduces compute costs. 'All these new capabilities are directed towards making data AI ready with more control, context, and speed because without data, there is no AI, and without the right data, AI is no good,' said Michel Tricot, CEO and co-founder of Airbyte. ' Studies have shown that too often, AI projects are abandoned due to poor data quality and escalating costs. We help organizations command their data quickly and securely. Our enhanced data sovereignty feature will appeal to businesses in areas like Australia where compliance rules have been a challenge for many organizations, helping Airbyte expand in those regions.' The new multiple data planes feature can be used by organizations to keep control of their data on-premises in order to maintain data sovereignty and compliance across different regions, but with an improved, centralized user interface (UI) that efficiently manages all of it holistically. Airbyte now enables synchronized unstructured files and structured records to be transferred in the same data pipeline, which is the most efficient way to preserve metadata and data relationships – enabling richer data context and significantly improving the performance of AI Large Language Models (LLMs) using that data. Direct loading represents a new, streamlined way that Airbyte loads data into BigQuery that will soon be available for ClickHouse and Snowflake, plus other destinations. Direct loading can reduce compute costs by 50 to 70%, and increases speed by up to 33% depending on the use case. Airbyte makes moving data easy and affordable across nearly any source and destination, ensuring enterprises have accurate, timely data for analysis, decision-making, and AI. With over 900 contributors and a community of more than 230,000 members, Airbyte supports the largest data engineering community and is the industry's only open data movement platform. The company announced a strong first quarter with a 25% increase in revenue and has recently received multiple industry recognitions for its innovation and growth. For more details, read the blog post and to learn more about Airbyte Enterprise, go here. About Airbyte Airbyte, the open data movement platform, empowers data teams in the AI era by transforming raw data into actionable insights with the industry's largest ecosystem of connectors. Committed to best-in-class security and compliance standards, Airbyte offers low-code, no-code, and AI-powered connector development for structured and unstructured data. Teams can manage pipelines via API, Terraform, AI Connector Builder UI, and Python libraries across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Trusted by 7,000 enterprises and 18% of the Fortune 500, Airbyte is the go-to solution for modern data management. For more information, visit
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Airbyte Recognized for Innovation in GigaOm Data Pipelines Report
Analyst report recognizes Airbyte's evolution from open-source to enterprise-grade data integration platform SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Airbyte, the open data movement platform, today announced its inclusion in the GigaOm Radar for Data Pipelines v4 report, where it is positioned as leading in "Innovation" and a "Platform Play." This reflects Airbyte's strategic shift from a pure open-source tool introduced in 2021 to a highly innovative enterprise data integration platform. The GigaOm Radar for Data Pipelines report evaluates vendors on product capabilities and readiness for enterprise deployment, helping organizations identify the most suitable tools for their needs. The report uses a radar chart to visually compare vendor performance across key criteria. Airbyte earned its placement based on innovation, maturity, and platform completeness, critical considerations for organizations modernizing their data infrastructure while maintaining the adaptability needed to support diverse and evolving requirements. "With our goal of making data actionable and accessible anywhere, we've developed our platform to support enterprise needs, especially making data ready for artificial intelligence (AI)," said Michel Tricot, CEO and co-founder of Airbyte. "We believe the GigaOm report reinforces our position as a core component of the modern data stack and helps enterprise buyers understand that Airbyte can help them upscale their data infrastructure and build for the future." This recognition follows the announcement of a strong first quarter for Airbyte, which saw a 25% increase in revenue and growing industry acknowledgment. Airbyte recently received multiple industry recognitions for its innovation and growth. Fast Company named the company to its 2025 list of the World's Most Innovative Companies and included it among the top 10 most innovative data science companies. Airbyte was also named to the CRN AI 100 as one of the 15 Hottest AI Data and Analytics Companies providing next-generation AI offerings, the DBTA 100 as one of the Companies That Matter Most in Data and to the CRN Big Data 100 as one of the Coolest Data Management and Integration Tool Companies that solution providers should know. Collectively, this recognition signals the company's rising visibility and growing influence with enterprise technology leaders. Airbyte makes moving data easy and affordable across nearly any source and destination, ensuring enterprises have accurate, timely data for analysis and decision-making. With over 900 contributors and a community of more than 230,000 members, Airbyte supports the largest data engineering community and is the industry's only open data movement platform. The full GigaOm Radar for Data Pipelines v4 report is available here for GigaOm research subscribers. About Airbyte Airbyte, the open data movement platform, empowers data teams in the AI era by transforming raw data into actionable insights with the industry's largest ecosystem of connectors. Committed to best-in-class security and compliance standards, Airbyte offers low-code, no-code, and AI-powered connector development for structured and unstructured data. Teams can manage pipelines via API, Terraform, AI Connector Builder UI, and Python libraries across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Trusted by 7,000 enterprises, Airbyte is the go-to solution for modern data management. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Joe Eckert for Airbytejeckert@
Business Wire
11-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Airbyte Recognized for Innovation in GigaOm Data Pipelines Report
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Airbyte, the open data movement platform, today announced its inclusion in the GigaOm Radar for Data Pipelines v4 report, where it is positioned as leading in 'Innovation' and a 'Platform Play.' This reflects Airbyte's strategic shift from a pure open-source tool introduced in 2021 to a highly innovative enterprise data integration platform. 'We believe the GigaOm report reinforces our position as a core component of the modern data stack and helps enterprise buyers understand that Airbyte can help them upscale their data infrastructure and build for the future.' Share The GigaOm Radar for Data Pipelines report evaluates vendors on product capabilities and readiness for enterprise deployment, helping organizations identify the most suitable tools for their needs. The report uses a radar chart to visually compare vendor performance across key criteria. Airbyte earned its placement based on innovation, maturity, and platform completeness, critical considerations for organizations modernizing their data infrastructure while maintaining the adaptability needed to support diverse and evolving requirements. 'With our goal of making data actionable and accessible anywhere, we've developed our platform to support enterprise needs, especially making data ready for artificial intelligence (AI),' said Michel Tricot, CEO and co-founder of Airbyte. 'We believe the GigaOm report reinforces our position as a core component of the modern data stack and helps enterprise buyers understand that Airbyte can help them upscale their data infrastructure and build for the future.' This recognition follows the announcement of a strong first quarter for Airbyte, which saw a 25% increase in revenue and growing industry acknowledgment. Airbyte recently received multiple industry recognitions for its innovation and growth. Fast Company named the company to its 2025 list of the World's Most Innovative Companies and included it among the top 10 most innovative data science companies. Airbyte was also named to the CRN AI 100 as one of the 15 Hottest AI Data and Analytics Companies providing next-generation AI offerings, the DBTA 100 as one of the Companies That Matter Most in Data and to the CRN Big Data 100 as one of the Coolest Data Management and Integration Tool Companies that solution providers should know. Collectively, this recognition signals the company's rising visibility and growing influence with enterprise technology leaders. Airbyte makes moving data easy and affordable across nearly any source and destination, ensuring enterprises have accurate, timely data for analysis and decision-making. With over 900 contributors and a community of more than 230,000 members, Airbyte supports the largest data engineering community and is the industry's only open data movement platform. The full GigaOm Radar for Data Pipelines v4 report is available here for GigaOm research subscribers. About Airbyte Airbyte, the open data movement platform, empowers data teams in the AI era by transforming raw data into actionable insights with the industry's largest ecosystem of connectors. Committed to best-in-class security and compliance standards, Airbyte offers low-code, no-code, and AI-powered connector development for structured and unstructured data. Teams can manage pipelines via API, Terraform, AI Connector Builder UI, and Python libraries across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Trusted by 7,000 enterprises, Airbyte is the go-to solution for modern data management. For more information, visit
Business Wire
15-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Airbyte Announces First Quarter Growth, New Product Features, Industry Recognition
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Airbyte, the open data movement platform, today announced progress in the first quarter with revenues up 25%, industry recognition, new product features, and Hackathon results. Airbyte was named to Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2025 and cited among the 10 most innovative data science companies with Fast Company noting, 'The company makes it easy for organizations to move data from any source to any destination so businesses can unlock the potential of that data.' Airbyte was also named to the: CRN AI 100 - 15 Hottest AI Data And Analytics Companies providing next-generation AI offerings to enable AI solutions. CRN Big Data 100 - Coolest Data Management And Integration Tool Companies that solution providers should know in data management and data integration. In terms of product development, the company added Airbyte Embedded to its product portfolio, which enables users to bring data to create AI applications at high velocity without spending significant time and resources building data infrastructure. Also, Airbyte introduced a new data destination connector for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, which is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. In minutes, users can move data from more than 600 sources to Azure – or create a connector with the Airbyte no-code connector builder that takes just minutes. Recently, Airbyte hosted a hackathon in partnership with MindsDB, which focused on exploring innovative AI data apps. The winners created the following applications: which optimizes product pricing for e-commerce businesses by simulating consumer behavior; Swiss AI Assistant for travel agencies that helps users managing travel arrangements such as flight bookings, rescheduling, hotel reservations, and cancellations; Ragify for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) powered AI applications using a modern, intuitive interface. Learn more about the Hackathon here, which includes demos and links to GitHub for each of the apps. 'This year is off to a great start on every level – customer acceptance and revenue growth, industry recognition, and product development as we continue to evolve our platform to offer the very best technology to our users,' said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte. 'There is much more to do and we're working hard on the next wave of technology that includes the ability to move data across on-premises, cloud, and multiple regions which is all managed under one control plane.' Airbyte makes moving data easy and affordable across nearly any source and destination, ensuring enterprises have accurate, timely data for analysis and decision-making. With over 900 contributors and a community of more than 230,000 members, Airbyte supports the largest data engineering community and is the industry's only open data movement platform. About Airbyte Airbyte, the open data movement platform, empowers data teams in the AI era by transforming raw data into actionable insights with the industry's largest ecosystem of connectors. Committed to best-in-class security and compliance standards, Airbyte offers low-code, no-code, and AI-powered connector development for structured and unstructured data. Teams can manage pipelines via API, Terraform, AI Connector Builder UI, and Python libraries across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Trusted by 7,000 enterprises, Airbyte is the go-to solution for modern data management. For more information, visit
