Cloudera Intros Hadoop Real Time Query Engine for Big Data
The Apache Hadoop project is at the core of the Big Data revolution. One of the key enablers…
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Former Yahoo Cloud Chief Aims to Ease Hadoop Development
Todd Papaioannou knows a thing or two about Hadoop. The former chief cloud architect at Yahoo, Papaioannou is…
Cisco Tidal Takes on Big Data
Cisco is expanding its Tidal Enterprise Scheduler technology in a new release that takes aim at Big Data…
SAS Says Speed Key to Marketing and Fraud Detection Analytics
While all but the most clueless companies know about the growing silos of unstructured data that are piling…
Alpine Predictive Analytics Takes Aim at Hadoop
Hadoop support is quickly emerging as a prerequisite for predictive analytics software makers. San Mateo, Calif.-based Alpine Data…
SAP HANA One: In-Memory Analytics Meets SaaS on Amazon’s Cloud
Buoyed by the popularity of HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) among developers, SAP has launched HANA One, a business…
SAS Questions Big Data Approaches of SAP, Oracle
SAS chose its Premier Business Leadership event in Las Vegas, attended by more than 600 senior-level attendees from…
HP Enters Business Analytics Services Fray
HP today took the wraps off a new services slate aimed at helping companies leverage the business-boosting potential…
SAS High-Performance Analytic Server Gets Hadoop Boost
SAS is leaving nothing to chance when it comes to in-memory Big Data analytics, according to Jim Davis,…
SAP HANA Comes to Cisco and HP
SAP is not a hardware company. That fact is helping fuel a rush of new server hardware platforms…
Alteryx Enlists Cloud for Consumerization of Big Data
Alteryx, a maker of business analytics software, today revealed another part of its strategy to “humanize” business intelligence. The…
SAP Debuts HANA-Powered Precision Retailing Cloud Service
SAP today unveiled Precision Retailing, a cloud-based service powered by the company’s HANA in-memory analytics platform, which allows retailers…
5 Habits of Effective Agile BI
It can get hard to discern what makes agile business intelligence effective, with vendors insisting that flexibility, do-it-yourself…
SAP Still Has Analytics Aspirations for Sybase IQ Database
Although SAP is putting its HANA in-memory database at the center of its analytics strategy, it obviously wants…
Tibco Spotfire 5.0 Casts Wider Big Data Analytics Net
How does Tibco follow up on a big in-memory analytics and visualization software release? By diving deep into the…
App Employs Context for Big Data Analytics Efficiency
OpTier, a New York City-based business transaction management specialist, announced new software that promises to deliver real-time, Big…
Steep Big Data Learning Curve, Reveals CompTIA Survey
When it comes to Big Data, knowledge is low while expectations are high – a tricky combination. CompTIA,…
In-demand Apps Skills: It’s All Good
By a variety of measures, technology is the place to be in this modest economic recovery. In a…
Quest Launches Toad Business Intelligence Tools
Quest Software is entering the business intelligence (BI) tools fray with new software that the company has named Toad Business Intelligence…
Tidemark Aims at Mobile Users with Cloud EPM Apps
Redwood City, Calif.-based Tidemark today announced new enterprise performance management (EPM) applications aimed at bringing the company’s financial planning, operational…
Three Ways Agile Marketing Can Use BI
Recently, the agile marketing movement has really been getting its act together. As in the previous case of…
Tableau Adds MapR Support for Hadoop-Powered Analytics
Business intelligence software maker Tableau is broadening its reach in Big Data analytics with a newly-announced version of its namesake…
7 Enterprise-friendly Ways of Dealing with Big Data
Software marketing executives spend a lot of time looking for problems their solutions can solve. With Big Data,…
Freeborders Launches Program to Help Businesses Migrate SAP Environments to Cloud
Freeborders Inc., a consulting company with an SAP practice among its products and services, last week introduced the…
Birst Brings Data Warehouse to the Desktop
Just like Las Vegas, what happens in the data warehouse has generally stayed in the data warehouse, with…
7 Tools for Agile Business Intelligence
Tools used to enable and facilitate agile business intelligence are constantly evolving and changing. Moreover, agile tools are…
Cloud Business Intelligence Moving up on Enterprise Agendas
Business intelligence is one of today’s hottest enterprise applications, and the cloud is receiving much buzz as enterprises…
HANA, Cloud Uptake Drive Record Q2 Revenues for SAP
SAP today announced its “best ever second quarter” based on software revenues that crossed the €1 billion mark,…
Adaptive Planning Introduces Data Visualization App
Scores of software companies are adding data visualization capabilities to their products, confirming that visualization is one of…
EMC Morphs from Storage into Big Data Analytics
Ten years ago, EMC was a storage hardware vendor plain and simple. It offered massive disk arrays and…
Alteryx Embarks on User-Friendly Analytics Software
Business intelligence software provider Alteryx is setting out to help businesses derive value from ballooning stores of digital information even…
Taking Enterprise Apps Mobile
The mobile apps Sunwise UV Index, which predicts the UV intensities in a four-day weather forecast, and AirNow,…
SAP Analytic App Helps Reveal Supply Chain’s Hidden Costs
As companies add channels, services and stakeholders, it becomes increasingly difficult to get an accurate view of their…
Big Data Spurs Interest in Business Analytics, Drives Market Growth
Hype is often viewed as distracting, annoying or both. (Just ask parents of preteens with “Bieber fever.”) Hype…
Oracle: Smart Grids the Next Big Data Opportunity
Some utilities are upgrading their electrical grids, replacing neighborhood meter readers with smart meters that continually monitor household…
Jaspersoft 4.7 Adds Interactivity to Open Source Business Intelligence
The whole point of using business intelligence applications is to get better insight out of data, a task…
Business Becoming Central to Business Intelligence
While traditional business intelligence, what Howard Dresner calls “meat and potatoes BI,” has served organizations fairly well, many…
Making Connection Between Agile Business Intelligence, Agile Marketing
I have written before on the large potential for bottom-line business improvement through agile business intelligence. Now, increasingly,…
MemSQL Rides In-Memory Rocket, SQL Legacy for Big Data
San Francisco-based MemSQL released a new database that the startup says will give companies struggling with Big Data the benefits…
IBM Puts Focus on Predictive Analytics with Analytical Decision Management
IBM is delivering new predictive analytics software aimed at providing businesses with tools that enable instantaneous, insight-driven decisions…
Teradata Gives Business Analysts Direct Access to Big Data
Open source Apache Hadoop offers companies an inexpensive way to store the increasingly massive amounts of information they…
Actuate, Pervasive Team for Big Data Visualizations
Actuate is not done forging alliances as it looks to align its open source BIRT business intelligence platform…
Six Tools Put New Twist on Business Intelligence
The recent Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles provided an opportunity for Enterprise Apps Today to meet with…
Revolution Pumps up Performance in Big Data Analytics App
Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical…
Google BigQuery Makes Big Data More Accessible, Says French Startup
While Big Data has the potential to revolutionize business intelligence, it will first need to become considerably less…
Six Ways Data Virtualization Can Boost Business Intelligence Agility
Those who have seen many of my writings know that (a) I believe firmly, based on existing evidence,…
The More Pervasive the Use of Business Analytics, the Better the ROI
If you’ve had your doubts about the benefits of business analytics (business intelligence, product management and predictive analytics),…
Is SQL Server 2012 a Bid for Business Intelligence Greatness?
Microsoft made a big deal about the Big Data and business intelligence capabilities built into Microsoft SQL Server…
SAP Taps into Visualization Trend with Desktop Business Intelligence Tool
Data visualization is one of the hottest trends in business intelligence, with experts saying it can help take…
Opera Solutions Brings Predictive Analytics to SAP HANA
SAP’s HANA ecosystem gets a little bigger today as Opera Solutions revealed that its Signal Hub tech and…