Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest areas in technology today, but enterprise application developers often struggle to figure out how to integrate the technology. A new open-source effort that is set to debut in early 2018 could change…
Real-time analytics platform vendor startup Incorta announced on Sept.19 that it has raised an additional $15 million in funding. The company had previously raised $10 million in May 2016. The new round of funding was led by Kleiner Perkins and…
Collecting data is one thing, but making sense of it with natural language queries is quite another. On August 9, Business Intelligence and Analytics firm Tableau acquired ClearGraph in a bid to help improve the way that organizations search and…
As I wrote last week, citing a recent study by the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, there’s a growing awareness that companies can derive real value from data. As I wrote last week, citing a recent study by…
If you believe the current glut of prime time ads, every device is incredibly intelligent, every app can telepathically determine your every need before you even think of it, and IBM Watson has figured out everything mankind might ever wonder…
By Sridhar Iyengar, ManageEngine IT service management (ITSM) has grown increasingly important over the past couple of years. In turn, organizations are constantly seeking new ways to improve and enhance existing ITSM processes to ensure customer satisfaction. Using advanced IT…
Containers and databases seem like an odd mix. Containers offer a lightweight way to run applications, but databases tend to be massive. Yet Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL and Postgres are among the Top 10 technologies running Docker containers, according to cloud…
Advanced and predictive analytics seems to be at the top of its game, at least when it comes to hype. Ninety percent of companies rated advanced and predictive analytics at some level of importance in the 2016 Advanced and Predictive…
Oracle is aiming to grow its applications business in the cloud, with announcements — lots of them — made this week at the company’s OpenWorld event in San Francisco, including its launch of portfolio of cloud-based applications called Adaptive Intelligent…
Teradata rolled out several new cloud-friendly deployment options for its analytic database at this week’s Teradata Partners Conference. Smart, given that earlier this year IDC predicted that global spending on public cloud services will enjoy a 19.4 percent compound annual…