Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
Logic Information Systems, Inc., a Gold level member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Yomari Information Services, a consulting company focused on enterprise data analytics and BI for retailers. The acquisition is part of Logic's strategy to establish itself as a leading systems integration and business process services provider, with end-to-end knowledge across Oracle Retail product footprint and geographic reach across retailers around the world.
Posted January 13, 2014
At an event in NYC, Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and CEO, unveiled IBM's new Watson Group, which is aimed at enabling a new class of software, services and apps that think, improve by learning, and discover answers and insights to complex questions from massive amounts of big data. IBM will invest more than $1 billion into the Watson Group, which will be headquartered in New York City's Silicon Alley technology hub.
Posted January 09, 2014
Changes and enhancement to solutions are hard, even under the best of circumstances. It is not usual that, as operational changes roll out into production, the business intelligence area is left uninformed, suggesting that data warehouses and business intelligence be categorized according to the view of the old comedian Rodney Dangerfield because they both "get no respect."
Posted January 07, 2014
Logi Analytics has announced its new data discovery product, Logi Vision. With Logi Vision, Logi Analytics wants to ensure easier management, deployment and scalability to reach to a broader set of users within the organization.
Posted January 07, 2014
Expanding its range of data replication offerings for heterogeneous IT environments, Attunity Ltd. has acquired Hayes Technology Group, a provider of data replication software solutions targeted at the SAP space. Hayes will provide new synergies and cross-sell opportunities to Attunity, said Lawrence Schwartz, Attunity's vice president of marketing.
Posted December 30, 2013
A new rapid-deployment solution from SAP aims to address the issue of big data storage access and analysis which companies are grappling with as they attempt to balance what information needs to be accessible in real time and what can be stored for historical analysis. The SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) Near-Line Storage rapid-deployment solution facilitates seamless data transfer between the business warehouse and the near-line storage that holds historical data. This, the company says, helps limit a business' burden around housing volumes of big data while also creating an online and accelerated retrieval system with the near-line storage.
Posted December 18, 2013
Yellowfin has launched the Yellowfin 7 analytics platform with overall improvements to make enterprise-wide data discovery easier. The additions and enhancements of the release are focused on five core technical capabilities - better content creation, multi-chart formatting, enriched administration, and new collaborative decision-making and mobile report authoring functionality.
Posted December 17, 2013
There are many ways that big data can help businesses make better decisions and succeed more quickly, ranging from product innovation to manufacturing to marketing. To help organizations get their big data projects off on the right foot, here are five essential truths about big data analytics.
Posted December 17, 2013
Datawatch, a provider of visual data discovery software that optimizes any data, and Xerox Canada have joined forces to provide a solution to digitize and add analytics to the inventory reporting process. This solution will minimize the burden of paper and make it easier for retailers and large enterprises to extract valuable information from the data they collect.
Posted December 10, 2013
Appfluent, a provider of big data analytic solutions, has introduced Appfluent Visibility Version 5.5. The release features new capabilities enables organizations to implement an effective data management strategy to boost performance and help contain rising IT costs by advancing data usage analytics.
Posted December 10, 2013
Applied Relevance has announced general availability of a new information management application, Epinomy version 7 optimized for MarkLogic 7. According to Applied Relevance, Epinomy provides information architects with a comprehensive approach to linking and tagging information assets such as tables and text; and then leveraging triple store technology to enable a high-speed search experience.
Posted December 09, 2013
A technique for gaining new insights by combining big data from distributed cloud services with data stored on local IT systems has been patented by IBM inventors. The new approach provides a method for developing enterprise applications that more seamlessly combine locally-stored data from business process across an enterprise with cloud-based big data.
Posted December 09, 2013
While there have always been many database choices, it's only recently that enterprises have been embarking on new journeys with their data strategies. Today's database landscape is increasingly specialized and best of breed, due to the expanding range of new varieties of databases and platforms—led by NoSQL, NewSQL, and Hadoop. This is complicating the already difficult job of bringing all these data types together into a well-integrated, well-architected environment.
Posted December 04, 2013
Tableau 8.1, an update to Tableau Software's 8.0 release, delivers new features for the enterprise, sophisticated analytics, and more interactivity on the web and for mobile devices. The update also provides users with rich analytics by integrating with the open source statistics program, R.
Posted December 03, 2013
OpenText, a provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software, has announced Project Red Oxygen, which the company describes as a "harmonized" release of new EIM software advancements designed to give CIOs the ability to extract value from their enterprise information and accelerate competitive advantage.
Posted December 02, 2013
The Independent SAP Technical User Group (ISUG-TECH), has opened the call for papers for the 2014 ISUG-TECH conference, which will be held April 14-17 at the Hilton, Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. With a strong focus on SAP's database technologies, the conference will provide three days of technical content across all SAP products, including SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE), SAP Sybase Replication Server, SAP PowerBuilder, the SAP Mobile Platform and SAP HANA.
Posted November 27, 2013
Significant momentum for SAP Business Suite software on SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE) has developed in the year and a half since the offering's release in April 2012, according to SAP. The company says more than 1,000 customers have chosen to run SAP Business Suite on SAP Sybase ASE and there are more than 2,000 customer installations
Posted November 27, 2013
Syncsort has introduced its new ETL Hadoop offering for the cloud on Amazon Web Services. Syncsort Ironcluster brings Hadoop ETL to Amazon Elastic MapReduce in the cloud with the aim of enabling customers to quickly and cost-effectively process large amounts of data in the cloud.
Posted November 26, 2013
Attivio and Actian have formed an alliance that will allow their customers to have access to both internal and external sources of unstructured content. The combination of Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine with Actian's ParAccel Big Data Analytics is aimed at helping business users to gain new, real-time business insights that help them build revenue, increase competitiveness, and manage risk.
Posted November 26, 2013
With the introduction of two new products, Treasure Viewer and Treasure Query Accelerator, Treasure Data says it is now making big data analytics accessible to any user with new capabilities and monthly pricing.
Posted November 26, 2013
The latest version of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID 3.1) offers new enterprise self-service discovery capabilities for business users. In addition to self-service data mashup and discovery capabilities, the new release provides extended support for unstructured analytics and tighter integration with Oracle Business Intelligence software.
Posted November 20, 2013
Logi Analytics has formed a new partnership with MongoDB and created the Logi Analytics native connector. Logi Analytics' new connector to MongoDB gives developers the ability to specify custom filter expressions, perform aggregations using MongoDB's pipeline operations, and employ MapReduce functions to query the data for interactive analytics, reporting and dashboards.
Posted November 19, 2013
Tableau Software has expanded its work with Amazon Web Services. The combination of Tableau software and Amazon Redshift provides a business intelligence platform that delivers the reliability, availability, and capability to visualize large volumes of data, derive rapid insight, and make data-driven decisions faster without setting up a costly and time consuming traditional data warehouse environment.
Posted November 18, 2013
IBM announced new business analytics and cloud software solutions to help zEnterprise clients take advantage of new workloads. These include a new version of the DB2 and IMS databases, and Cognos analytics tools configured for zEnterprise.
Posted November 13, 2013
Entrinsik, a provider of information management solutions, has formed a new partnership with KeyedIn Solutions, a software business specializing in cloud-based enterprise applications. The combination of KeyedIn Solutions and Entrinsik Informer reporting software enables users to analyze a wide range of organizational data through a single application and portal.
Posted November 13, 2013
Birst, a provider of a cloud-based business intelligence platform, has launched its new Recurring Revenue Solution Accelerator targeted at businesses offering SaaS, ongoing maintenance contracts, and other subscription-based products and services. The solution allows organizations to gain insight into product and revenue performance and trending customer data, based on industry best practices.
Posted November 12, 2013
Datawatch has introduced a new Visualization Accelerator that enables users to connect to almost any source of information, including Splunk, to develop visual data discovery applications using a drag-and-drop design environment.
Posted November 12, 2013
To address evolving sales dynamics, Oracle Sales Cloud gives sales representatives the opportunity to sell more, know more and drive growth to their company, said Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, product development, Oracle, in a recent webcast. Citing data from a recent Oracle study, Kurian said that sales teams spend 78% of their time on administrative work with only 22% of their time focused on selling.
Posted November 06, 2013
The challenges associated with big data can be turned into opportunities for small-to-midsize enterprises (SMEs) with the right data strategy. As SMEs look to increase their businesses, it is critical to incorporate a cost-effective approach that aligns with both existing data challenges and future plans for expansion. Laying a strong base for big data will help SMEs prepare for this growth by providing immediate insight on key business drivers and objectives.
Posted November 05, 2013
Clustrix, a provider of a scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, has just released ClustrixDB as a software download. The software enables companies to perform complex analytic at the same time as high transaction volumes on the same database with the need for an additional analytic database.
Posted October 31, 2013
Splunk has announced general availability of Hunk, a full-featured integrated analytics platform that aims to enable anyone in an organization to analyze historical data in Hadoop. Hunk is built on patent-pending virtual index technology that delivers self-serve analytics without the need for specialized programming skill sets.
Posted October 29, 2013
0xdata, a provider of open source machine learning and predictive analytics for big data, has announced general availability of the latest release of H2O, "Fluid Vector," which delivers new levels of performance, ease of use, and integration with R.
Posted October 28, 2013
ClearStory Data has launched its first product, Data Intelligence, which is designed to accelerate and simplify access to and analysis of diverse data types to enable business users to make faster decisions.
Posted October 28, 2013
At Strata Conference + Hadoop World today,Big data analytics vendor SiSense announced the new opening of its New York city headquarters and new capabilities for SiSense Prism enabled by In-Chip technology with Crowd Accelerated Analytics.
Posted October 28, 2013
SAS and SAP have formed a strategic partnership to create a joint technology and product roadmap that will leverage the SAP HANA platform and SAS analytics capabilities. The companies will target target business areas that require a combination of advanced analytics running on an in-memory platform.
Posted October 24, 2013
SAP is advancing HANA on three fronts, all aimed at improving the overall experience with the platform. The enhancements include a more visually appealing and intuitive user experience, powerful new features, and simplified cloud-based deployment.
Posted October 24, 2013
A new rapid-deployment solution for SAP HANA Live enables real-time operational reporting within and beyond SAP Business Suite software powered by the SAP HANA platform. The solution offers customers pre-configured content in the form of pre-built reports.
Posted October 24, 2013
If you look at what is really going on in the big data space it's all about inexpensive open source solutions that are facilitating the modernization of data centers and data warehouses, and at the center of this universe is Hadoop. In the evolution of the big data market, open source is playing a seminal role as the "disruptive technology" challenging the status quo. Additionally, organizations large and small are leveraging these solutions often based on inexpensive hardware and memory platforms in the cloud or on premise.
Posted October 24, 2013
Glassbeam has released SCALAR, a new cloud-based platform to organize and analyze multi-structured machine data, as well as Glassbam Explorer, a cloud-based search and log management application, and Glassbeam Studio, a tool that enables uses advanced ETL and semantics to map unstructured logs.
Posted October 24, 2013
Entrinsik, a provider of information management solutions, has formed a new partnership with KeyedIn Solutions, a software business specializing in cloud-based enterprise applications. The combination of KeyedIn Solutions and Entrinsik Informer reporting software enables users to analyze a wide range of organizational data through a single application and portal.
Posted October 23, 2013
Calpont Corporation, a provider of high-performance analytic data platforms, has announced InfiniDB 4.0 and InfiniDB for the Cloud. In addition, the core product will be available under the General Public License version 2.0 to enable more users to have access to its MPP, column-oriented data technology.
Posted October 22, 2013
TIBCO Software introduced the latest version of its data discovery and visualization platform, TIBCO Spotfire 6.0, which includes enhancements and new products that offer greater automation, better contextualization, and expanded deployment opportunities.
Posted October 15, 2013
IBM announced new systems and solutions intended to help clients and managed service providers build private and hybrid clouds to get the most out of big data, social, and mobile workloads. These include PureSystems, Power Systems, Smarter Storage Systems, System x, and Technical Computing offerings that provide the flexibility clients need to quickly deploy clouds. "IBM is positioned to compete aggressively for public, private and hybrid cloud computing opportunities," said Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president of IBM Systems & Technology Group and Integrated Supply Chain.
Posted October 14, 2013