A solution to discover, secure and govern personal identifiable information (PII) while “in flight” - as it arrives from a batch or streaming data source or moves between compute platforms -  has been launched by StreamSets Inc., Designed with data privacy regulations in mind, StreamSets Data Protector is designed to reduce risk of expensive and embarrassing violations.

Concept Searching has announced Release 5.4.5 of its flagship conceptClassifier platform. Highlights include Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) support, new features to Natural Language Processing (NLP), and redaction capabilities.

Machine learning and AI developer Lexalytics has added support for Emoji 11.0, a set of 157 new emojis from the Unicode Consortium, the governing body that determines the emojis that consumers use worldwide on their devices. With this support, social media marketers, researchers, data scientists, analysts and other Lexalytics’ customers will be able to use the company’s AI-based text analytics platform to immediately gain insights when consumers use the new emojis across social media, email, survey responses and any other form of digital text communication.

A new Data Strategy Package from DATUM leverages their proprietary Information Value Management platform to focus on the capabilities necessary for organisations to easily get started with data governance.