TigerGraph Cloud update enables easier adoption, deployment
TigerGraph unveiled an updated version of its cloud-native platform featuring enhancements aimed at enabling easier adoption, deployment and management of its capabilities.
TigerGraph, a graph database vendor founded in 2012 and based in Redwood City, Calif., emerged from stealth in 2016 with an enterprise version of its platform. Three years later, it launched TigerGraph Cloud, a graph-database-as-a-service version of its tools.
The vendor’s platform is based on graph technology, which enables data points within databases to connect to multiple other data points at the same time rather than to just one other data point at a time, as with a relational database. The advantage is that by simultaneously connecting to multiple data points, users can more quickly and easily discover relationships between data.
In 2021, Gartner predicted that 80% of data and analytics innovations will be made using graph technology by 2025.
Meanwhile, TigerGraph has found that as enterprises use graph technology more while also migrating more of their analytics workloads to the cloud, they want to expand how they use TigerGraph Cloud, according to Jay Yu, the vendor’s vice president of product innovation.
In response, TigerGraph, after introducing a cloud version of its platform in 2019, on June 29 added new features designed to enable more users in organizations to securely use the SaaS version of the vendor’s platform.
“Initially, we moved really fast to move our on-premises product to the cloud, and in terms of large enterprise support, it was missing a little bit,” Yu said.
To address that support for large enterprise deployment, TigerGraph added Enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM), a feature that enables a single enterprise account to handle multiple users, thus reducing the prospect of data duplication. At the same time, the feature gives administrators the ability to put role-based access measures in place to ensure the security of their organization’s sensitive data. In addition, to address the adoption, deployment and management of TigerGraph Cloud, the update includes Single Login to simplify the login process and better enable collaboration, and Secure Enterprise Connectivity to improve the security of the platform’s connectivity in the cloud. “Now, it’s much easier to manage the user access and to create different database use cases within organizations,” Yu said. “We had customers provide feedback and tell us that initially, when they were just exploring, they didn’t mind [some of the limitations], but now that they’re going for real, they want enterprise-level support.” [These] are all good signs that TigerGraph is landing larger customers that are expanding usage among more users and more data sources. These very much sound like customer-requested upgrades, and they all signal expanding use of the product. The addition of Enterprise Identity and Access Management, Single Login and Enterprise Connectivity are clear signals that TigerGraph’s customers are indeed expanding how they use the vendor’s platform, according to Doug Henschen, an analyst at Constellation Research.
