DataRPM, which Enterprise Apps Today selected as one of its five hot Big Data startups in December, has closed a $5.1 million Series A funding round. Led by InterWest Partners and joined by CIT GAP Funds, the round will be…
The Data Mining Group, a vendor-led consortium of companies and organizations developing standards for statistical and data mining models, has released v 4.2 of the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), an XML interchange format for statistical and data mining models.…
Linux vendor Red Hat is expanding its partnership with Big Data Hadoop vendor Hortonworks today. The expanded partnership includes the delivery of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Plug-in for Red Hat storage. “The HDP Plug-in for Red Hat Storage has…
Sailthru, a provider of Big Data-driven automated marketing software that recently raised $20 million in funding, has introduced Advanced Analytics, an offering the company says enables marketers to identify revenue and retention opportunities from customer behavior trends and interactions with…
Open source content management system (CMS) Joomla today introduced Joomla 3.2, which offers a revamped extension development and installation process. It also contains a record number of new features and improvements, including version control, Rapid Application Development (RAD), an extension…
Jive Software released a slew of updates to its flagship social platform at its JiveWorld13 event in Las Vegas this week. According to a news release, Jive’s goal is to replace “dusty old portals” with a more modern communication and…
The open source Apache Hadoop project has become synonymous in recent years with the Big Data ecosystem. Today the biggest update since the start of the Hadoop project is becoming generally available, with the release of Hadoop 2.0 Building Hadoop…
By Russell Rothstein Choosing the best business intelligence tool can be a confusing process. There are dozens of vendors of business intelligence and Big Data analytics solutions whose marketing messages all sound alike. I founded IT Central Station to help…
In all the hype surrounding Big Data and its potential benefits, little time has been spent talking about its security implications. That is, until now. Hadoop vendor Cloudera today announced its new open source Sentry technology that aims to help…
Oracle first announced its Exalytics engineered server system for analytics in October of 2011. This week Oracle is delivering the first major update to the platform with the new Exalytics X3-4 system. Paul Rodwick, VP of product management for Oracle…
By Mik Lernout When you think of deploying applications to the cloud, what comes to mind? Web and mobile applications for collaboration and email, perhaps? But did you know you can also take full advantage of cloud benefits if you…
HP is expanding its existing Big Data solution set with a new offering known as HAVEn. HAVEn is an acronym that stands for Hadoop, Autonomy Vertica, Enterprise Security and ‘n’ solutions. HP Autonomy IDOL, HP Vertica Analytics Platform, HP ArcSight…
Analytics software has been as critical to IBM’s own internal operations as it has been to the company’s customers. Over the last five years, IBM has transformed how it leverages and deploys analytics, moving to a more centralized cloud-based deployment…
The open source Crafter content management system (CMS) is getting a new life as a standalone operating entity. Crafter will now have commercial support from the newly-formed Crafter Software Corporation. Crafter got its start as a part of consulting and…
Six months ago, enterprise Big Data vendor Cloudera announced the open source Impala project. The goal of Impala is to bring a real-time query engine to Hadoop Big Data. This week Cloudera is officially declaring Impala to be generally available…
Getting data out of one app and into another is big business. It’s a business that enterprise integration firm Mulesoft is now growing with new funding and products. Mulesoft announced this week $37 million in new funding, bringing total investment…
Big Data startup MapR is expanding its open source and Linux footprint this week. MapR recently announced a $30 Million round of funding that will drive forward the company’s efforts. Now MapR wants to expand developer engagement and fuel its…
The world of Big Data is full of big money. The latest group to raise capital is Big Data application vendor Concurrent, the leading sponsor of the open source Cascading framework used to build Big Data apps. Concurrent today announced…
SAP’s HANA in-memory database is one of the fastest-growing technologies in the history of SAP. While HANA is a software solution, it relies on hardware to work. Multiple hardware vendors have stepped up to the task of enabling HANA in…
Oracle is pushing forward with its effort to bring its enterprise applications to the cloud. During a call with press and analysts on Monday, Thomas Kurian, executive VP of Product Development at Oracle, highlighted his company’s ongoing cloud application efforts.…
While SAP’s past is strongly rooted in on-premises software, its future likely rests in the cloud. That became clear when SAP reported its fourth-quarter fiscal 2012 and full-year results yesterday, highlighting a number of key trends including the cloud. SAPs…
There has been a lot of Big Money invested in Big Data in recent years. You can now add Big Data orchestration startup Zettaset to the list. Zettaset recently announced that it has raised $10 million in a new series…
HP first tried its hand at integrated hardware and software appliances last year with the first iteration of AppSystem appliances. The company is now updating its AppSystem architecture with a new scale-out approach that enables enterprises to easily add capacity…
There is a lot of money backing the open source Drupal content management system (CMS). Acquia, the lead commercial sponsor behind Drupal, today announced its latest round of venture financing. The new E round, worth $30 million, will help the…
Salesforce.com is widely considered a pioneer of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, having helped create it from the ground up. And judging from its fiscal third-quarter earnings call, the company is the sheriff of SaaS Town. For the quarter, Salesforce reported…
Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft is updating its commercial platform with a new release. The Jaspersoft 5.0 release includes new HTML5-based visualization capabilities that aren’t yet available in the company’s community open source release. The Jaspersoft 5.0 release goes…
Big Data is big business — a truth that Cloudera CEO Mike Olson understands better than most. Olson is no newcomer to the technology business. Prior to Cloudera he ran Sleepycat Software, which maintained the Berkeley DB database. Oracle acquired…
Buying business intelligence software has traditionally involved purchasing both the software and the hardware required to run it. That’s not the model that business intelligence (BI) vendor MicroStrategy is now taking, however. MicroStrategy this week launched its Cloud Express service…
The Apache Hadoop project is at the core of the Big Data revolution. One of the key enablers for Hadoop is a technology known as MapReduce that is very powerful – but also slow. Cloudera, one of the leading commercial…
Todd Papaioannou knows a thing or two about Hadoop. The former chief cloud architect at Yahoo, Papaioannou is now leading a new startup called Continuuity. Continuuity’s aim is to make the benefits of the Hadoop framework available to folks other…
Cisco is expanding its Tidal Enterprise Scheduler technology in a new release that takes aim at Big Data workloads. The latest version of the software, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler 6.1, includes Hadoop capabilities, a self-service portal for scheduling jobs and mobile…
SAP is not a hardware company. That fact is helping fuel a rush of new server hardware platforms and features from IBM, Cisco and HP that are designed to leverage SAP’s HANA, the in-memory database software technology which the software…
BP Logix, a provider of business process management (BPM) software, has introduced Process Director Version 2.5, the latest version of its flagship product. Among the new functionality: Records management capability that supports both disposition rules and retention policies for submitted…
Sales are still on an upward trajectory for Salesforce.com. The software-as-a-service cloud application provider reported fiscal second quarter 2012 earnings that continue to defy gravity. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff also used his company’s earnings call as an opportunity to promote…
LAS VEGAS — SAP applications could potentially be at risk from an emerging type of exploit known as Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF). That’s the message coming from security researcher Alexander Polyakov at this week’s Black Hat security research conference.…
In a world where applications are increasingly delivered in cloud-based models, the line between native desktop and Web-based apps is blurring. Ubuntu Linux vendor Canonical aims to blur the line even further with a new initiative called Ubuntu WebApps. The…
The whole point of using business intelligence applications is to get better insight out of data, a task made easier by better engaging end users. Given this, the ability to visualize and interact with data is a key focus for…
By Juan Porter, president of TopDown Consulting Oracle earlier this year released Hyperion 11.1.2.2. While a multiple dot release typically represents a minor upgrade, this new Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) release is full of new modules, features and enhancements that…
As Enterprise Apps Today reported in April, while enterprises are keen to bring more mobile apps to their workforces, many find consumer mobile app stores like The Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store don’t adequately meet their needs. A…
BOSTON – With its large portfolio of proprietary applications, SAP is a software company few folks would associate with open source. SAP Sybase CTO Ifran Khan would like to change that perception, however. Khan took the stage at the Red…
SAP applications run on Linux, and in particular they run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). SAP and SUSE have a longstanding partnership, and there are a number of SAP applications where SLES is the only operating system that is…
Kognitio has introduced a solution it says will help companies reduce the amount of time required to run ad-hoc queries with Big Data stored in Hadoop, by making Hadoop integration part of the Kognitio Analytical Platform. According to Kognitio, the…
The open source Hadoop project is getting a real boost today from virtualization vendor VMware. Getting Hadoop up on running on infrastructure, real or virtual, and then layering in traditional application availability and controls has been no easy task. VMware…
As demand for Big Data technologies grows, one technology has stood head and shoulders above all others – Apache Hadoop. Adding enterprise-class management and packaging up all the disparate parts of Hadoop is where Cloudera comes into play. This week,…
In the modern world of marketing, social media is a channel that cannot be ignored. It’s a message Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) understands well and that’s why they’re spending big bucks to acquire Buddy Media. After weeks of speculation, Salesforce today officially…
As Enterprise Apps Today recently reported, enterprise application stores are grabbing the attention of companies trying to address the security risks and procurement hassles of BYOD workplaces, in which employees use their own mobile devices rather than company-provided gear to…
Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) reported first quarter fiscal 2013 financial results late Thursday that paint a rosy picture for the company. Revenue was reported at $695 million, for a 38 percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward, the strong quarterly results led Salesforce to…
LAS VEGAS – Zynga CTO Allan Leinwand is not the typical kind of technology executive to keynote the Interop networking conference. Instead of representing a networking vendor, Leinwand works for an application vendor that makes wildy successful online games like…
Analytics software provider Birst has completed a $26 million investment led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors including Hummer Winblad and DAG Ventures also participated in the round. According to Birst, it will use the new funds to further accelerate its…
Big Data is all about finding the needle in the haystack. One of the ways to make that data more relevant and usable is with a data analytics visualization tool that enables companies to more easily envision what the data…