Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
October 19, 2015
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: October 19, 2015. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
After partnering with Statistica earlier this year, Dell is making headway on several predictive analytics projects, enabling a broader audience to be data modelers. "Statistica is much easier to use so there's a broader group inside the Department of Financial Services that can become analysts without specialized training so that lowers our total cost of ownership and also increases our speed at which we can generate new models and refresh older models," said John K. Thompson, general manager of advanced analytics at Dell Software "It has also enabled us to do modeling at a much more granular level."
Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.7, the latest version of the open source database. According to Tomas Ulin, vice president, MySQL Engineering, Oracle, the new version delivers greater performance, scalability, manageability, plus enhanced NoSQL capabilities with JSON support and MySQL Router, which makes it easy to connect applications to multiple MySQL databases.