Data Integration Articles
Here we go again - yet another world changing innovation. Billions of dollars are being invested to develop and deploy this next-generation industry. Many existing methods of doing business, and businesses themselves, will be disrupted and replaced by this new wave of technology. What is this wondrous new innovation? Why it is the Internet of Things (IoT) of course.
Posted May 25, 2016
Oracle is introducing version 4.0 of its NoSQL database. First introduced in 2011, the Oracle NoSQL Database is a key-value database that evolved from the company's acquisition of BerkeleyDB Java Edition, a mature, high-performance embeddable database. Ashok Joshi, senior director of NoSQL, Berkeley Database, and Database Mobile Server at Oracle, outlined the key enhancements in the new release.
Posted May 25, 2016
Dell is updating its SharePlex database replication and near real-time data integration solution to enable users to replicate Oracle data directly to SAP HANA, Teradata, or EnterpriseDB Postgres.
Posted May 25, 2016
Trifacta, a provider of data prep software and tools, is introducing the Wrangler Partner Program, a global program that will support and enable partners to sell, implement, and innovate with Trifacta.
Posted May 24, 2016
COLLABORATE, the annual conference presented each year by the OAUG, IOUG and Quest, provides the opportunity to reflect on key changes in the Oracle ecosystem and allows the users groups to engage with their constituents about the areas of greatest importance. With the COLLABORATE 16 conference now behind her, Dr. Patricia Dues, the new president of the OAUG, talked with DBTA about what OAUG members are concerned with now and how the OAUG is helping them address emerging challenges.
Posted May 20, 2016
Syncsort is adding new capabilities to its platform, including native integration with Apache Spark and Apache Kafka. DMX-h v9 allows organizations to access and integrate enterprise-wide data with streams from real-time sources.
Posted May 18, 2016
SnapLogic is unveiling new updates to its SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform that add the ability to integrate streaming data and power big data analytics in the cloud. The Spring 2016 release adds support for Apache Kafka, Microsoft HDInsight, and Google Cloud Storage, plus multiple enhancements that automate data shaping and management tasks.
Posted May 18, 2016
Magnitude Software, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM) software, has acquired Datalytics Technologies LLC, a data warehouse solutions company. Founded in 1984, Datalytics Technologies offers pre-built data warehouse and data mart solutions for SAP's and Oracle's families of ERP systems.
Posted May 18, 2016
AtScale, Inc., which provides a self-service BI platform for Hadoop, has raised a Series B round of $11 million, bringing its total funding to date to $20 million. According to Bruno Aziza, chief marketing officer of AtScale, its platform is different from others in three key ways, making it applicable to use cases in an array of industries including healthcare, telecommunications, retail, and financial services.
Posted May 17, 2016
MarkLogic has announced that MarkLogic 9 is available for early access. The latest release of the enterprise NoSQL database features enhancements in data integration, security, and manageability.
Posted May 10, 2016
Trifacta is forming a partnership with Infosys to provide its data wrangling solution for the Infosys Information Platform (IIP) as well as Infosys' other platforms and offerings. Infosys is also participating in Trifacta's growth stage financing round.
Posted May 09, 2016
Sinequa has announced the general availability of Sinequa ES Version 10. Powered by machine learning capabilities, the new version aims to deliver deep analytics of contents and user behavior, and offer information with continually improving relevance to users in their work environments. In order to achieve this advancement into the world of cognitive computing, with this new version, Sinequa has integrated the Spark platform in its distributed architecture and implemented machine learning algorithms on Spark within the core of its product
Posted May 05, 2016
Alteryx is releasing a new version of its self-service data analytics solution that offers support for a greater variety of data platforms and allows business users to achieve insights in hours.
Posted May 05, 2016
The elastic and distributed technologies used to run modern applications require a new approach to operations — one that learns about your infrastructure and assists IT operators with maintenance and problem-solving. The inter-dependencies between new applications are creating chaos in existing systems and surfacing the operational challenges of modern systems. Solutions like micro services architectures alleviate the scalability pains of centralized proprietary services but at a tremendous cost in complexity.
Posted May 04, 2016
Many thought it was an early April Fool's Day prank, but it was no joke: On March 7, 2016, Microsoft announced the beta release of SQL Server on Linux with the intention of shipping a full release of the product by April of 2017.
Posted May 04, 2016
Dell is releasing an upgraded version of its Statistica advanced analytics platform, providing tools to address Internet of Things (IoT) analytics requirements and leverage heterogeneous data environments.
Posted May 04, 2016
What makes an IT organization static or dynamic? What triggers an organization to move from one to the other? The transformation is not easy and it certainly does not happen quickly. These questions can also be asked at a personal level. As an IT professional, are you more likely to be static or dynamic?
Posted May 04, 2016
Say what you will about Oracle, it certainly can't be accused of failing to move with the times. Typically, Oracle comes late to a technology party but arrives dressed to kill.
Posted May 04, 2016
Qlik is unveiling the next version of its Qlik Sense Enterprise platform, combing enterprise readiness and governance with visualization and data preparation capabilities, according to the company.
Posted May 03, 2016
TimeXtender, a provider of data warehouse automation (DWA) software for Microsoft SQL Server, is partnering with Qlik to offer a complete data warehouse and business intelligence package to users across the globe.
Posted May 03, 2016
Analytics provider Lavastorm is partnering with Qlik, a provider of visual analytics software, to offer an integrated solution for a broader swath of users of all skill levels through Qlik Sense.
Posted May 03, 2016
Qubole is announcing two major changes. It is releasing an open sourced version of its StreamX tool and forming a partnership with Looker.
Posted May 02, 2016
Led by Pivotal, GE Ventures, and GTD Capital, SnappyData has secured $3.65 million in Series A funding that will help it grow and further its technologies.
Posted April 29, 2016
Accenture and Splunk have formed an alliance that integrates Splunk products and cloud services into Accenture's application services, security, and digital offerings. The goal is to help customers improve business outcomes by mining vast amounts of application and operational data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement that were previously difficult to detect.
Posted April 28, 2016
Snowflake Computing, a provider of cloud-based data warehousing, and MicroStrategy, a provider of enterprise software platforms, are teaming up to provide cloud-enabled analytics. The collaboration will build on Snowflake's certified connectivity with MicroStrategy 10 through further product integration and go-to-market collaboration.
Posted April 28, 2016
Enabled by a partnership with Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company, and integration with Pentaho's Big Data Integration and Analytics platform, Melissa Data's data quality tools and services can now be scaled across the Hadoop cluster to cleanse and verify data center records.
Posted April 27, 2016
Oracle announced new additions to its Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud portfolio. The new offerings include a comprehensive self-service solution that helps HR and employees streamline issue resolution, a new work-life application that helps employees identify volunteer services in which to participate and updated corporate learning solutions that support the demands of the digital workforce.
Posted April 27, 2016
Magnitude Software, a provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software, unveiled a new a master data management offering designed to fuel business processes with accurate customer data for informed decision making.
Posted April 27, 2016
BackOffice Associates, a provider of information governance and data modernization solutions, is acquiring CompriseIT, a U.K. consulting firm specializing in helping enterprises adopt SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA). BackOffice Associates' acquisition of CompriseIT is the latest initiative in move to strengthen its expertise in helping customers as they embark on their journey to implement SAP S/4HANA.
Posted April 27, 2016
Cisco is launching an appliance that includes the MapR Converged Data Platform for SAP HANA, making it easier and faster for users to take advantage of big data. The UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA is made easy to deploy, speeds time to market, and will reduce operational expenses along with providing users with the flexibility to choose a scale-up (on-premises) or scale-out (cloud) storage strategy.
Posted April 27, 2016
OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM) solutions, is releasing an enhanced version of its namesake platform, addressing key areas of the user experience, machine-to-machine integration, automation, and more.
Posted April 27, 2016
Microsoft has been on a tear for the past couple of years. It has been pushing forward with a very steady stream of powerful new features and capabilities, even entire product lines, within its Data Platform business. But while Microsoft has been hard at work on this deluge of new technologies, it would be completely forgivable if you haven't noticed. The reason it's OK is that Microsoft is advancing on multiple fronts, both in the on-premises product line and even more dramatically with the Azure cloud-based products.
Posted April 27, 2016
Analytics software firm FICO has introduced its Decision Management Suite 2.0, an expanded, cloud-based suite of analytic tools and applications for prescriptive analytics and decision management. The new release is an update to the suite which was first launched in 2013. The updated suite tackles problem the company says is common to many big data deployments - the gap between taking the vast amount of available data and translating it in to useful insights to support business decisions.
Posted April 27, 2016
BackOffice Associates, a provider of information governance and data modernization solutions, has launched version 6.5 of its flagship Data Stewardship Platform (DSP). The company is also introducing an updated application for business process governance and application data management.
Posted April 26, 2016
Neo Technology, creator of Neo4j, is releasing an improved version of its signature platform, enhancing its scalability, introducing new language drivers and a host of other developer friendly features.
Posted April 26, 2016
The COLLABORATE 16 conference for Oracle users kicked off with a presentation by Unisphere Research analyst Joe McKendrick who shared insights from a ground-breaking study that examined future trends and technology among 690 members of three major Oracle users groups.
Posted April 25, 2016
The greatest power in using IoT-derived insights is the ability respond to opportunities or threats immediately. However, enterprises largely have focused on historical reporting and will need to significantly modernize their analytics capabilities—both in understanding current events and predicting future outcomes—to take advantage of the new insights that IoT data can bring.
Posted April 25, 2016
The need for data integration has never been more intense than it has been recently. The Internet of Things and its muscular sibling, the Industrial Internet of Things, are now being embraced as a way to better understand the status and working order of products, services, partners, and customers. Mobile technology is ubiquitous, pouring in a treasure trove of geolocation and usage data. Analytics has become the only way to compete, and with it comes a need for terabytes—and gigabytes—worth of data. The organization of 2016, in essence, has become a data machine, with an insatiable appetite for all the data that can be ingested.
Posted April 25, 2016
The core reason for implementing in-memory technology is to improve performance. To help accelerate adoption of in-memory technologies and provide a universal standard for columnar in-memory processing and interchange, the lead developers of 13 major open source big data projects have joined forces to create Apache Arrow, a new top level project within the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
Posted April 24, 2016
SAS has launched Viya,, a new analytics and visualization architecture designed to help make analytics accessible to a greater swath of users. According to the vendor, Viya, represents the foundation for a suite of offerings including machine learning, and will help speed the time between early-stage analytical exploration and resulting business value for users of all skill levels.
Posted April 22, 2016
MemSQL, provider of a distributed in-memory database that enables processing of transactions and running of analytics in real time, has closed its series C financing, raising $36 million. This latest MemSQL funding round brings the total amount raised to $85 million.
Posted April 21, 2016
GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory data fabric solutions based on Apache Ignite, is releasing a new version of its platform. GridGain Professional Edition includes the latest version of Apache Ignite plus LGPL libraries, along with a subscription that includes monthly maintenance releases with bug fixes that have been contributed to the Apache Ignite project but will be included only with the next quarterly Ignite release.
Posted April 20, 2016
To help organizations that are being held back from moving enterprise workloads to a public cloud because of business, legislative, or regulatory requirements that restrict where and how they handle data, Oracle has launched a new set of offerings. Introduced at Oracle CloudWorld in Washington, DC, by Thomas Kurian, president, Oracle, "Oracle Cloud at Customer" enables organizations to get the benefits of Oracle's cloud services but in their own data center.
Posted April 20, 2016
Dataguise, a provider of data security solutions, is making DgSecure available for the detection, monitoring, and protection of sensitive data across Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) and all Elastic MapReduce (EMR) platforms that use AWS S3.
Posted April 19, 2016
When users require access to multiple databases on multiple servers distributed across different physical locations, database security administration can become quite complicated. The commands must be repeated for each database, and there is no central repository for easily modifying and deleting user security settings on multiple databases simultaneously. At a high level, database security boils down to answering four questions.
Posted April 19, 2016
Serena Software, a provider of application development and release management solutions, is shipping a new version of its change, configuration, and release management solution for mainframes running z/OS. Version 8.1.1 of ChangeMan ZMF includes new capabilities to enable mainframe development.
Posted April 18, 2016