Tesora Embraces Oracle Databases for the Cloud
The OpenStack open source cloud platform has grown in popularity in recent years as a pathway to enable…
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1010data Intros Integration with Open Source R
While the open source R programming language has been popular for data analysis and statistical modeling, it has…
8 Tech Trends Changing Health Care
While expensive technology has been part of health care for years, the industry has remained more conservative than…
Tibco Simplifies Data Discovery with Latest Spotfire Update
Companies finally appear to be making business intelligence accessible to a broader group of users, according to at…
Salesforce ‘Doubles Down’ on Mobile Analytics
Growth in mobile business intelligence has been steady but slow, according to many experts. But 120 days after…
Startup Spotlight: Xplenty’s Data Integration Service
It’s hard to read a technology publication – including this one – without encountering multiple mentions of Hadoop,…
Logi Analytics Intros Hourly Pricing for Analytics Tool
One of the original promises of the cloud was that enterprises could buy computing infrastructure on-demand, so they…
Hitachi Buys Pentaho to Bolster Big Data Business
Business intelligence and Big Data analytics vendor Pentaho is being acquired by Hitachi Data Services (HDS), in a…
Lavastorm Simplifies Predictive Analytics
Many business intelligence experts, including those who made recent business intelligence and analytics predictions for 2015, predict that…
9 Tech Trends Transforming Retail
With the continuing evolution of mobile and other technologies, the shift to omni-channel strategies and continuing evolution of…
SAP ‘Reinvents’ Business Suite for HANA
One of the trickiest tasks for enterprise software giants like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft is offering the cloud-based…
4 Data Governance Trends to Watch in 2015
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates As enterprises enter the New Year, many are reflecting on the initiatives that…
Unlocking CRM’s Data Treasure Trove
CRM systems hold much of an organization’s most valuable data, including customer records, product purchase and return information.…
MapR Frees Hadoop Education
Hadoop is a big deal in the world of Big Data applications and analysis, but getting qualified staff…
5 Alternatives to the Traditional Relational Database
The ongoing popularity of the Hadoop approach to data management should not blind us to the opportunities offered…
Finance Departments Need More Advanced Analytics
Analytics is nothing new in finance. Chief financial officers (CFOs) and their staffs have been using them for…
9 Business Intelligence and Analytics Predictions for 2015
When we asked analysts, forecasters and pundits for their predictions for the most relevant business intelligence and analytics…
Analyzing Big Data: General Purpose Tool or Domain-Specific App?
By Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Databricks The explosion of data across the enterprise has led to an increased focus on…
GraphLab Becomes Dato, Raises $18.5M for Machine Learning Tech
GraphLab, a provider of analytics software based on open source code, is changing its name to Dato as…
Mobile Business Intelligence: Hot, or Not?
Last month when I spoke to Carsten Bange, CEO of BARC and co-author of its BI Survey 14,…
7 Enterprise App Trends for 2015
The enterprise application playing field of today is quite different from that of only a few years ago.…
Startup Spotlight: Qubole’s Hadoop-as-a-Service
If you want to make a CEO’s eyes glaze over, talk to her about Hadoop. While techies and…
Data Analysis Enables Omni-channel Marketing
Marketing has been called more of an art than a science. Yet in today’s financial services environment, the…
Forget Big Data; Focus on Relevant Data
“You don’t need a lot of data to make decisions, just the right data,” Greg Przyklenk, senior manager,…
The Down Low on Data Lakes
Data lakes are the latest incarnation of the democratize data for business theme. The idea is simple: Pool…
Can This Project Be Saved? Yes, with Data First Approach
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates In my last article, we discussed how organizations can effectively deliver, improve and…
Business Intelligence Getting More Pervasive: BARC
For years companies have indicated they wanted to take business intelligence and analytics out of the purview of…
Attunity Buys BIReady’s Data Warehouse Automation Technology
Attunity, a provider of data management software, is beefing up its Big Data offerings by acquiring the data…
Apache Drills into Hadoop
It’s a big week for Big Data and the open source Hadoop ecosystem. The Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 project…
5 Open Source Business Intelligence Tools
It’s impossible to imagine making good business decisions without the right information to back up the decision making…
3 Strategies to Prepare Data for Analytics
By Priya Singh, Information Builders Many people would agree with the claim that analytics is the most important…
Elasticsearch Uses Power of Community for Open Source Analytics [VIDEO]
In the modern world, understanding data is a prized and valuable enterprise IT activity. Among the myriad tools…
Splice Machine Releases Hadoop RDBMS Version 1.0
In a recent discussion about how the Internet of Things will change Big Data analytics, a Cisco executive…
How IoT Will Change Big Data Analytics
What do SAS, Cisco, Duke Energy and AT&T have in common? They are all big proponents of the…
Attensity Boosts Ability to Discover ‘Unknown’ Trends in Data
Most social analytics tools use “mentions” as a key criteria for measuring campaign success, market interest or user…
Anaplan Intros App Sharing Community for Enterprise Planning
When Anaplan, a provider of cloud-based operations and financial planning software, raised $100 million in Series D funding…
Workday Puts Predictive Spin on HR Analytics
It’s a new day for Workday, the maker of financial management and HR software, as it rolls out…
Birst Analytics App Unifies Marketing Data
Companies have almost more marketing data than they can handle, coming from a variety of channels and applications,…
Self-service BI Initiatives Fall Short
“Self-service” is a term that implies ease of use. Yet too often, it’s not easy enough. While self-service…
Savi’s Sensor Analytics Software Gets Predictive Capabilities
One of the promises of the Internet of Things (IoT) is its ability to help companies improve their…
Analytics Playing Greater Role in ERP
Are the terms enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) destined to become obsolete, replaced by something…
Cloud Analytics a Winner for SAS
Cloud analytics was the big news at this week’s annual Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS) event held by…
SAP Intros Program to Boost HANA Adoption
SAP’s HANA suffered an image problem a few months ago when three-quarters of the members of the Americas’…
Cloudera Improves Hadoop Big Data Features and Security
Hadoop vendor Cloudera has rolled out a new enterprise platform release and improved security controls for Big Data…
Analytics ROI Is Strong, and Getting Stronger
Analytics is at the center of technology spending for many enterprises. “Analytics is the most desired function across…
Business Intelligence 103: The Future Lies Ahead
My third assessment of business intelligence focuses on upcoming technologies that may or may not have a significant…
5 Tips for Buying Big Data Tools
Not everyone can agree on a definition for Big Data. Though many experts, including Gartner, cite high volume,…
Big Data Analytics Needs a Code of Ethics
Just how much data can private companies (or government agencies for that matter) collect on individuals and how…
A ‘Data First’ Approach, in 3 Phases
by Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates At last year’s Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit, the failure rate of…
Data Visualization: Old Practice, New Value
Data visualization is not new. During a recent International Institute for Analytics (IIA) webinar, Bill Franks, chief analytics…