Data Discovery Is Changing Business Intelligence
While CIOs are bullish on business intelligence, other C-level executives are not quite as enthused. And end users…
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5 Ways Data Warehousing Is Changing
By Poulomi Damany, BitYota It’s a new era for data warehousing. Enterprises now draw upon multi-source, semi-structured data…
Enterprise Software Leads IT Spending Growth
Gartner recently released a Worldwide IT Spending Forecast, highlighting the fact that enterprise software is going to experience…
Adaptive Insights’ Analytics Software Adds Data Integration Tool
While companies are interested in using cloud analytics, many of them cite data integration issues as a key…
Startup Spotlight: BitYota’s Data Warehouse-as-a-Service
Yahoo has been widely credited with helping create the Big Data phenomenon by popularizing the open source Hadoop…
Is SAP’s HANA Gaining Traction with Platform Approach?
Interest in in-memory database technology is picking up, thanks to the speed with which it can retrieve data…
Data Discovery Gets Social in Logi Analytics Software
Earlier this year Logi analytics rolled out Logi Vision, software designed to make data discovery accessible to “regular”…
Put Data Quality in Motion with Passive Data Governance
By Michael Collins, BackOffice Associates Establishing a passive data governance strategy is one of the most important steps…
Business Intelligence 102: It’s Come a Long Way, Baby
In my last article, I took a look at the basics of business intelligence: its purpose (giving the…
Chief Data Officers Put ‘Strategy’ in Data Strategy
It can feel like a little like executive overload, with companies adding emerging roles like chief digital officer…
Teradata Addresses Marketing Analytics Shortage
Big Data is the new Big Man on Campus. As the New York Times reports, schools offering data…
Is Tibco for Sale?
Is Tibco for sale? The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones both published reports that it is, which…
Mobile App vs. Paper: No Contest
By Steve Brykman, Propelics Many organizations still use pen and paper as the preferred platform for many, if…
Big Data Success: 10 Tips for SMEs
The last couple of years have seen Big Data filter down from the enterprise into the land of…
Accelerating Big Data Value Aim of Actian Program
Though lots of organizations are interested in leveraging Big Data, relatively few of them already have Big Data…
Qlik Intros Desktop Data Visualization App
Qlik, a provider of data discovery software, introduced a free version of its data visualization application called Qlik…
Logi Analytics Expands Big Data Influence with Partnerships
Logi Analytics, provider of a Web-based data discovery solution, has inked partnerships with more than half a dozen…
Host Analytics’ App Narrows Finance and Sales Divide
Many sales teams continue to eschew analytics software and use Excel spreadsheets for their sales forecasting and trend…
SoftWatch’s Analytics Service Targets Software Licensing Costs
SoftWatch, a company that earlier this year introduced an analytics application that tracks usage of Microsoft Office across…
10 Database Design Best Practices
With enterprises looking for new ways to use data to gain competitive advantage, database design is now more…
Business Intelligence 101: A Brief History
The purpose of business Intelligence (BI) solutions is pretty much the same as the purpose of “military intelligence”:…
3 Tips for Tackling Big Data Collaboration
Few organizations experience as many Big Data problems as the health and life sciences sector. Companies in this…
Chief Data Officer: 4 Reasons to Hire a CDO
By Priya Singh, Information Builders Recently, I read an interesting article about how the search effort for the…
MapR Gets Big Money for Big Data
If there was any doubt that the Big Data market is a platform for big money, those doubts…
GE Teams with Frost Data Capital on IoT Incubator
There is no shortage of startups in the burgeoning fields of Big Data and the Internet of Things…
Oracle Accelerates Apps In-Memory
One of the biggest performance bottlenecks in any application pipeline is the time it takes for the application…
MapR Intros Hadoop App Store
The app store is gaining traction in the enterprise. And no wonder: As Tibco Software founder John Mathon…
Actian Delivers SQL Analytics Natively in Hadoop
Actian Corporation hopes to differentiate itself from other providers of Big Data technologies with today’s announcement that the latest…
SAP HANA Now Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
In a major coup for Linux vendor Red Hat, the company today announced a significant expansion of support…
Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Microsoft releases new versions of its main products on a relatively predictable schedule. SQL Server releases or major…
IBM Offers Cloud Analytics as a Service
While most organizations are eager to get Big Data projects off the ground, early adopters are running into…
Startup Spotlight: RJMetrics Offers Analytics for Everyone
A stint as an analyst at a venture capital firm showed Robert Moore he didn’t want a career…
Getting Information Governance Off the Ground
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates Many enterprises understand that establishing and maintaining data quality is essential to their…
Using Analytics to Measure Mobile App Success
By Nitin Bhatia At an undisclosed location, the countdown has been initiated: five, four, three, two, one and…
Big Data a Big Priority for Most Organizations
Big Data isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a transformative technology trend that can have real impact, according to…
SAP HANA Ready for VMware vSphere 5.5
SAP and VMware today announced that the HANA in-memory database is ready for production use on the vSphere…
SAP Intros Big Data Services
In a recent interview with Enterprise Apps Today, Greg Girard, program director, Merchandising and Marketing Strategies and Retail…
5 Best Practices for Data Quality Management
By Priya Singh, Information Builders All companies struggle to manage the cyclical data quality process. A majority of…
Tibco Acquires Jaspersoft for $185 Million
Tibco Software announced late yesterday its plan to acquire privately-held open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft for $185…
Midsize Companies Plan Big Push into Big Data
Big Data is not just within the purview of big companies. That’s the takeaway of new research from…
Astera Simplifies Real-time Data Integration
Astera Software, a provider of data integration solutions, has introduced Centerprise Rt, software that combines the Centerprise data…
5 Reasons a ‘Data First’ Strategy Works
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates The importance of data as an enterprise asset is now well understood. On…
Birst Tool Makes Data Visualization Accessible to All
Birst, a provider of cloud business intelligence, has made its Birst Visualizer software, first introduced to a select…
Startup Spotlight: InsightSquared’s Data Analytics
InsightSquared, a startup founded in late 2010, seems to be following a success formula right out of a…
Attunity Intros Big Data Management Platform
Attunity joins the growing ranks of vendors with a Big Data solution with the release of Attunity Maestro,…
5 Data Discovery Pitfalls
By Rado Kotorov Data visualization is fast becoming an area of interest for organizations seeking to benefit from…
SnapLogic Hopes to Ease Cloud Integration Woes
Companies that want to adopt cloud-based enterprise applications seemingly face some daunting challenges when it comes to integrating…
IBM’s Watson Will Change Your Data Analytics – but How?
IBM’s Watson software offers a new and distinctly different approach to analyzing data. It differs from more traditional…
Big Data Analytics: What Can You Learn from High Achievers?
Retailers, more than many other businesses, seem poised to use Big Data analytics to their competitive advantage. Yet…
Hadoop Provider Cloudera Raises $160M in New Funding
The Big Data world continues to attract attention both in terms of users and in terms of funding.…