Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
May 7, 2015
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: May 7, 2015. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Rocket Software has released Rocket Discover, a new self-service business intelligence solution that combines visual data discovery with data preparation.The new product also reduces the number of operations that can be performed on the data to the most fundamental ones that business users want to perform such as joining data, filtering data, and appending data.
Software AG has made updates to its Terracotta In-Memory Data Management platform. New improvements to Terracotta Open Source Kit 4.3 include distributed storage and off-heap storage.The platform is used for boosting performance, scalability, and building real-time applications. Additionally, Terracotta helps developers leverage in-memory storage for current and emerging data workloads.
Steering Your Business with Analytics
Tableau's cloud analytic solution, Tableau Online, is being upgraded to version 9.0. The new release enables faster performance, and provides additional live database connection support, single sign-on, and other new features designed to help users do more with their data in the cloud. The new update brings a complete redesign of Tableau Online to deliver a faster, more scalable, resilient, and extensible platform with capabilities such as parallel queries, query fusion, vectorization and smarter query caches that will make Tableau Online as much as 10 times faster.
The certification enables Nimble Storage to participate in SAP's program for SAP HANA tailored data center integration using its certified solutions. Through participation in the program, customers can leverage their existing hardware and infrastructure components for their SAP HANA-based environments, providing further choice for organizations even when working in heterogeneous environments.