Apache Spark is making headlines as potentially the next big thing in Big Data. Coverage has focused on Spark’s speed and its potential as a replacement for Hadoop’s famously difficult MapReduce engine. Despite the headlines and hype, Spark is far…
Application modernization is a big deal for most organizations this year. According to the most recent CSC Global CIO Survey, 70 percent of the 590 IT leaders interviewed say modernizing legacy applications is a critical or high priority in 2015.…
CRM systems hold much of an organization’s most valuable data, including customer records, product purchase and return information. So it makes sense that it would be among the first enterprise applications business leaders would tap for business intelligence or analytics…
Data lakes are the latest incarnation of the democratize data for business theme. The idea is simple: Pool data from enterprise applications and other systems into a single repository. Voila! Business users have unfettered access to enterprise data. Business leaders…
There’s no doubt Big Data is changing how companies are able to process and use data. But what’s less discussed is how Big Data technologies, from Hadoop to in-memory processing, are altering the enterprise applications landscape. “We truly believe that…
Software marketing executives spend a lot of time looking for problems their solutions can solve. With Big Data, they don’t have to look very hard. “I was at a CIO symposium, and the first question was, ‘How many people here…
Gary Kirkham doesn’t need to wait for a question to start talking about Pegasystems’ work with Farmers Insurance Group. Coming off a session with a potential new client – one of the largest life insurance companies in the world –…
In today’s data-rich enterprise, Hadoop gives enterprises a much-needed alternative to traditional relational databases. Hadoop is an open source Apache project for storing and processing large amounts of data. Technically, it’s a stack of solutions, including MapReduce, Hive and other…
Last year – and probably it will be this year – data federation or data virtualization (or the technology formerly known as EII) – received a good deal of attention, in part because of the whole “virtualize everything” trend. I…