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MCG provides strategy and implementation to make data a competitive asset.

07/03/2026

Collaboration drives innovation. William is headed to Las Vegas to meet with 12,000+ AI leaders, network with peers, and explore cutting-edge solutions at Ai4 2026 Aug 4–6.

Learn more and register here:
https://ai4.io/register/?utm_source={platform}&utm_campaign=influencer&utm_term=ai4-2026

Ai4 2026 is the world’s largest gathering of artificial intelligence leaders in business. Join thousands of executives and technology innovators at the epicenter of the AI community.

03/01/2026

We are honored once again for William to be recognized as the Thinkers360 Top Global Cloud Thought Leader for 2026 alongside industry peers like David Linthicum and Christian Buckley.

For us, this year has been dedicated to replacing cloud hype with hard data—from proving a 60% TCO advantage for BYOC models to benchmarking 5x latency gains on Edge Bare Metal. By architecting blueprints for Sovereign AI and validating AI-driven tools that slash manual migration effort by 94%, the focus remains on driving enterprise agility through performance and vendor independence.

Congrats to all the honorees! ☁️🚀

Discover the Top 50 on Cloud Computing. Connect with key opinion leaders for B2B thought leadership & influencer marketing campaigns. Drive brand awareness & industry authority.

02/15/2026

William is quoted in this analysis discussing the launch of Databricks . This announcement is another major milestone in the "Great Unbundling" of the modern data stack.

By bringing a serverless layer directly onto the Lakehouse foundation, Databricks is addressing brittle ETL pipelines between transactional and analytical silos.

Check out the full piece.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatamanagement/news/366638723/Databricks-launches-PostgreSQL-Lakebase-to-aid-AI-developers

With the launch of Lakebase, Databricks now provides an integrated PostgreSQL database purpose-built for AI development as part of its platform.

01/17/2026

MongoDB's new capabilities, including Auto-Embeddings and an AI-powered assistant, are bridging the gap between AI demos and production-ready systems, making it easier to build and deploy AI-driven apps.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchDataManagement/news/366637414/MongoDB-launches-latest-Voyage-models-to-aid-AI-development

A series of new embedding and reranking models from MongoDB aim to improve data retrieval to make agents and other AI tools more effective.

01/03/2026

Join us Thursday for a look ahead to 2026. William will discuss the trends data and analytics professionals need to be aware of and incorporating into plans.

Explore the top 2026 analytics and data architecture trends shaping AI, enterprise analytics, governance, and leadership.

12/29/2025

We're honored that William has been named #6 on the Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on for 2025. Analytics are more important than ever to competitive advantage. Thank you to our clients for giving us the challenges and opportunities.

Discover the Top 50 on Analytics. Connect with key opinion leaders for B2B thought leadership & influencer marketing campaigns. Drive brand awareness & industry authority.

12/22/2025

DIY in Fabric can be fine for a very small proof of concept, but most efforts expand quickly and should be planned as enterprise-scale from the start.

For medium and larger initiatives, buying a purpose-built MDM platform delivers faster time to production, smaller teams and substantially lower three-year TCO than building in Fabric alone.

Read on for more of the value proposition for tooling your master data needs.

William McKnight shares insights from a new benchmark report about the total cost of ownership of building vs. buying an MDM tool.

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