Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
July 2, 2013
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: July 2, 2013. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Progress Software Corporation has expanded the range of data sources for its DataDirect Cloud service and DataDirect Connect family of products. With this release, DataDirect supports data sources from Cloudera Impala to Apache Hive to Greenplum, among others. The company is also announcing beta support for Social Media Data, Relational Data, NoSQL Data and ERP Data
Splunk Inc., which provides a software platform for real-time operational intelligence, has introduced the beta version of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop. Hunk is a new software product from Splunk that integrates exploration, analysis and visualization of data in Hadoop. According to Splunk, Hunk drives improvements in the speed and simplicity of interacting with and analyzing data in Hadoop without programming, costly integration or forced data migrations.
Datameer 3.0, the newest version of Datameer's big data analytics tool for business users, builds on existing self-service data integration, analytics, and visualization capabilities, to add new Smart Analytic functions, which, automatically identify patterns, relationships, and even recommendations based on data stored in Hadoop.
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca, which leverages Oracle Endeca Information Discovery technology to provide a more efficient way for businesses and organizations to explore their operational data in real-time.
Silverback Enterprise Group has acquired Noetix Corp., a provider of business intelligence (BI) and data analytics software. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Noetix is Silverback's sixth acquisition in the past 2 years. Silverback is headquartered in Austin, Texas and backed by Austin Ventures, a venture capital firm with $3.9 billion of capital raised.