Data Integration Articles
Forward-looking CIOs and IT organizations are exploring new strategies for tapping into non-traditional sources of information such as websites, tweets and blogs. While this is a step in right direction, it misses the bigger picture of the big data landscape.
Posted March 26, 2014
Along with big data there come some fundamental challenges. The biggest challenge is that big data is not able to be analyzed using standard analytical software. There is new technology called "textual disambiguation" which allows raw unstructured text to have its context specifically determined.
Posted March 26, 2014
Finding high quality education and training remains a key challenge for SAP users, according to Mike Harrold, executive director for the Independent SAP Technical Users Group (ISUG-TECH). With the 2014 ISUG-TECH conference fast-approaching (April 14-17), Harrold talked about SAP's planned launch of ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) 16 at the conference and the best ways for SAP users to get the product information they need.
Posted March 26, 2014
SAP has announced the availability of the 7.4 version of the SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) powered by SAP HANA as part of the new in-memory data fabric architecture.
Posted March 26, 2014
SAP PowerDesigner, an information modeling and enterprise architecture tool, can now integrate into an organization's operational process intelligence. The new release of SAP Sybase PowerDesigner includes integration with the SAP Solution Manager application management solution, full business process model and notation (BPMN) standard support for improved visibility upstream and downstream across teams using SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and additional support for SAP HANA.
Posted March 26, 2014
To help ensure customers and partners get the most out of their investments in SAP software, Compuware has opened a new Center of Excellence for SAP solutions near SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.
Posted March 26, 2014
Evoke, a new product from BlueFinity International, provides a toolset for all application delivery platforms, including Windows native desktop, Windows Modern UI, Windows Phone, iPhone/ iPad and Android phone /tablet. Evoke supports a ‘develop once, deploy anywhere' approach to help developers dealing with the challenges of multiple platforms, operating systems and development tools.
Posted March 26, 2014
Rocket Software has launched a new version of the Rocket D3 database management system - D3 Linux 9.2. This is the first new Rocket D3 product release since the company acquired the TigerLogic MultiValue database business last November. Separately, Rocket also unveiled the first stage of its System Builder Extensible Architecture (SB/XA) Services, providing mobile and/or web enablement.
Posted March 26, 2014
Kore Technologies' Mark Dobransky plans to talk about key BI and integration trends impacting the MultiValue industry and also highlight the new integration capabilities of Kourier Integrator 4.1 during a breakout session at the International Spectrum conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
Posted March 26, 2014
Revelation Software president and CEO Mike Ruane previewed the 10.0 release of the company's flagship product OpenInsight during a recent trip to Australia and New Zealand. In particular there was strong reaction to a new cloud based filing system that will allow the OpenInsight toolset to operate on data stored in cloud databases, as well as to new user authentication and security for developers and programmers to ensure version control, said Ruane.
Posted March 26, 2014
Extending support for mission critical Project Portfolio Management (PPM) requirements, Oracle has introduced Primavera Prime as well as the first available module in that offering, Oracle Primavera Prime Capital Plan Management. Primavera Prime is Oracle's first enterprise PPM offering designed to leverage Oracle's Engineered Systems approach.
Posted March 26, 2014
Describing it as the most significant upgrade to the Java programming model ever, Oracle announced Java Platform, Standard Edition 8, as well as Java Platform, Micro Edition 8, and additional releases of Oracle's Java Embedded products.
Posted March 25, 2014
With recent announcements, including the 11.2 release of its business information platform and a formalized partnership with Cloudera, Logi Analytics is expanding its big data analytics capabilities.
Posted March 25, 2014
Alyssa Johnson, who became president of the OAUG in January, recently spoke with DBTA about the challenges and choices facing OAUG members. A major topic of discussion for Oracle users at the upcoming COLLABORATE 14 conference will be how and when to migrate to E-Business Suite 12, says Johnson. Covering a range of business areas, including CRM, financial management, supply chain management, EBS is a backbone suite of ERP applications on which many companies rely to run their businesses. End of support is looming for 11i, Johnson says, and it's time to decide on 12.1.3 or 12.2 and start planning that upgrade now.
Posted March 24, 2014
Today, HP announced the new ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA, a portfolio of integrated systems to help accelerate clients' SAP HANA time to value. According to HP's Frances Guida, HP is addressing two dominant market trends with products - the strong rate of in-memory adoption and the need for purpose-built systems that alleviate integration complexity.
Posted March 19, 2014
Oracle announced that fiscal 2014 Q3 total revenues were up 4% to $9.3 billion. In constant currency, Oracle's Cloud Software subscriptions revenues grew 25% and its Engineered Systems revenue grew more than 30% in the quarter, said Oracle president and CFO Safra Catz in a statement released by the company.
Posted March 19, 2014
HP, which has a decades-long partnership with Oracle, has been named an Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Diamond level partner, which is the highest ranking available in the OPN Specialized program.
Posted March 19, 2014
Using a single codebase, Appmethod, a new application development platform from Embarcadero, allows developers to build multi-device applications up to 20 times faster. The new platform delivers an end-to-end solution that aims to alleviate the increasing pressure on developers to quickly deliver new apps that support multiple platforms and devices, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and laptops.
Posted March 19, 2014
At an event in New York City, IBM and leading researchers at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) unveiled a new collaboration to advance genomic medicine using IBM Watson, the cognitive computing system that won fame and fortune in its 2011 Jeopardy! competition.
Posted March 19, 2014
Cloudera has closed on a new round of funding for $160 million which will be used to further drive the enterprise adoption of and innovation in Hadoop and promote the enterprise data hub (EDH) market; support geographic expansion into Europe and Asia; expand its services and support capabilities; and scale the field and engineering organizations. The funding round was led by T. Rowe Price, and included an investment by Google Ventures and an affiliate of MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael S. Dell and his family.
Posted March 18, 2014
Embarcadero, a provider of software solutions for application and database development, is acquiring CA Technologies' ERwin Data Modeling solution. The acquisition will provide Embarcadero additional channel partners. ERwin is sold almost exclusively through more than 500 partners in over 70 countries.
Posted March 17, 2014
Delphix has released the Delphix Modernization Engine, a new product aimed at addressing the challenges that it says too many modernization projects face - taking too much time and costing too much. Because of this, Delphix contends, many of them fail, either ending over budget, behind schedule, or reduced in scope, limiting the effectiveness of the investment.
Posted March 17, 2014
Pivotal has introduced Pivotal HD 2.0 and Pivotal GemFire XD, which along with the HAWQ query engine, form the foundation for the Business Data Lake architecture, a big data application framework for enterprise
Posted March 17, 2014
Attunity Gold Client Solutions 8 has achieved certified integration with the SAP ERP 6.0 application running on the SAP HANA platform. Gold Client Solutions 8 allows enterprises to select, protect and copy a reduced and relevant data set to SAP HANA for proof of concept (POC) evaluations, in their data center or in the cloud. Once customers are ready to move the rest of their data to HANA, the solution helps enable a rapid data migration and synchronization across SAP applications that are running on HANA.
Posted March 14, 2014
New integration between the Vormetric Data Security platform and IBM QRadar provides companies with automated data access pattern analysis, enabling them to identify potential threats to sensitive data at the source. The combined solution identifies unauthorized data access attempts - indicating accounts that represent a possible threat - and includes capabilities to monitor and alert on data access patterns that may indicate the presence of an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) or a malicious insider attack.
Posted March 13, 2014
Ironically, although the thin client advocates were right about many things - the success of browser-based applications, in particular - they were dead wrong about the diminishing role of the OS. More than ever, the OS is the source of competitive differentiation between various platforms, and a clear focus of innovation for the foreseeable future.
Posted March 12, 2014
To simplify and strengthen enterprise application integration (EAI) capabilities, the latest release of Kourier Integrator, Kore Technologies' flagship product for data management providing both extract, transform and load (ETL) and enterprise application integration (EAI) capabilities, offers simpler inbound integration of third-party systems and databases to U2 applications.
Posted March 12, 2014
Ideal Business Services Ltd., an international developer of custom software for intermodal, container logistics, warehousing, shipping ports and airports, has completed the development of a computerized warehouse management system for the Government of Saint Lucia Ministry of Commerce, Business Development, Investment and Consumer Affairs using mv.NET from BlueFinity International.
Posted March 12, 2014
Oracle announced Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3 back in November 2013, which features new capabilities for managing Oracle Multitenant, an Oracle Database 12c enterprise edition option. The announcement was supported by a live webcast, titled "Delivering Pluggable Database as a Service." In this article, we provide answers to some of the common questions from the webcast.
Posted March 10, 2014
Tableau and Splunk have formed an alliance, which allows users of Tableau's visual analytics software to access machine data with Splunk Enterprise. The ability to use Tableau to visualize structured data with machine data in Splunk will enable customers to gain new business insights.
Posted March 10, 2014
OpenText unveiled a new integrated OpenText Microsoft SharePoint Services (SPS) for Extended ECM for SAP Solutions. This solution, stemming from long term partnerships with SAP and Microsoft SharePoint, is designed to help deliver comprehensive and compliance assurance capabilities to customers globally which can benefit enterprises and enhance their information governance strategy for Microsoft SharePoint content.
Posted March 10, 2014
McAfee, a provider of security solutions and services for systems, networks, and mobile devices, has improved its capabilities for finding, freezing, and fixing advanced threats faster to thwart targeted attacks. The McAfee solution binds and shares threat intelligence and workflows across endpoints, network and the cloud , resulting in a level of protection that the company says cannot be achieved with individual point products.
Posted March 05, 2014
SAP underscored the company's strategy which focuses squarely on HANA and the cloud in a webcast presented by Jonathan Becher, chief marketing officer of SAP, and Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Products & Innovation. The company rolled out new and enhanced offerings for the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, the SAP HANA Marketplace, HANA's new pricing, innovations on top of HANA, and also announced that HANA had broken the Guinness World Record for the largest data warehouse ever built - 12.1PB.
Posted March 05, 2014
To take advantage of new Oracle Database capabilities, CSX Corporation, an international transportation company, upgraded more than 400 databases supporting critical commercial, packaged and proprietary business applications, including payroll, dispatching, and a customer-facing order entry system. To minimize the business impact and downtime during the transition, CSX used Oracle Real Application Testing, an Oracle Database option, in conjunction with Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Posted March 05, 2014
Informatica Cloud Spring 2014, the latest Infomatica software release, introduces Informatica Cloud Designer which brings Informatica's integration design tools into a 100% cloud-based design environment.
Posted March 04, 2014
CA has introduced CA Layer 7 API Portal, which supports partner, third-party and internal developers across multiple groups simultaneously, granting each unit its own set of access and API publishing privileges — all from a single portal.
Posted March 03, 2014
Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) and IBM have launched a Big Data Survey to provide a timely analysis of the key technologies, practices and strategies that businesses across different industries are using to improve confidence in their decision making. Respond with a completed survey by March 2nd, 2014, in order to be included in a drawing to win one of three $200 American Express gift cards to be awarded at the conclusion of the study.
Posted February 26, 2014
While minimizing risk is important for financial services organizations, companies need to think beyond fraud detection and understand the wider benefits predictive analytics can provide in terms of better customer experience, driving opportunities and increasing revenue in a highly competitive market. Among other uses, a comprehensive customer database, combined with advanced analytics, will allow organizations to spot trends, identify cohorts, and micro-target discrete populations.
Posted February 26, 2014
The popular "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" outlined, in an entertaining fashion, the core question of big data, to find the "answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything." Today, big data describes our development along this path to answer all the questions by collecting and interpreting all the data, but not all data is equal and not all the answers are worthwhile computing.
Posted February 26, 2014
These days, companies have more and more of their applications and data being accessed through mobile devices. To enable secure access to sensitive enterprise applications and data on mobile devices, Oracle rolled out the Oracle Mobile Security Suite, which, combined with Oracle's existing Identity and Access solutions, aims to deliver an integrated platform for managing access to all applications from a complete range of device types.
Posted February 26, 2014