Business Intelligence Startup Looker Raises $16M
Looker, a business intelligence startup based in Santa Cruz, Calif., has raised $16 million in a series A…
Business Intelligence
IT’s Role in Big Data Marketing
Marketing has long prided itself on its ability to produce creative advertising campaigns that win over large groups…
Can Big Data Avoid The Correlation Trap?
As I was at a vendor conference recently that brought this to mind, I will write on something…
Embedded Analytics Catching Fire
For decades now, business intelligence has operated as a distinct application. But that is changing rapidly. There is…
In-Memory Big Data Processing Firm GridGain Raises $10M
The market for in-memory Big Data solutions continues to heat up. GridGain, a Foster City, Calif.-based in-memory software…
Cloudera Open Sources Sentry Tech to Secure Big Data
In all the hype surrounding Big Data and its potential benefits, little time has been spent talking about…
What’s New with 5 Big BI Vendors
The use of business intelligence (BI) software has been skyrocketing in recent years. According to Tom Pringle of…
Tableau Launches Cloud BI Product
Tableau Software launched a new cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform named, appropriately enough, Tabeau Online. Available as a…
Cloud-Based Healthcare Analytics Firm ArborMetrix Raises $7M
There’s no shortage of IT firms that are leveraging cloud infrastructures to deliver advanced analytics and reporting to…
SAP Consolidates Analytics Apps into BusinessObjects Mobile
SAP has revamped its iOS app to serve as a one-stop mobile analytics solution. The latest version (5.0)…
Oracle Updates Exalytics for Analytics Scale
Oracle first announced its Exalytics engineered server system for analytics in October of 2011. This week Oracle is…
BloomReach Mobile Brings Big Data to Mobile Marketing
BloomReach is setting out to satisfy the growing demand for mobile marketing software. The Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of…
Actian Launches ParAccel Big Data Analytics
Following up its April 25 deal to buy ParAccel, an analytics database company, Redwood City, Calif.-based Actian today announced…
Microsoft Previews Power BI for Office 365
Office as a business intelligence (BI) platform? Describing Microsoft’s new Power BI for Office 365 add-on as the “culmination of…
IBM Aims SmartCloud Analytics at the C-Suite
High-level executives aren’t only bigwigs around the office, they are also emerging as VIPs in IBM’s efforts to drive adoption…
KnowledgeAdvisors Takes on HR with Talent Analytics Suite
The market for human capital management (HCM) solutions is showing no signs of slowing down. Today, KnowledgeAdvisors announced…
HP Builds New Big Data HAVEn
HP is expanding its existing Big Data solution set with a new offering known as HAVEn. HAVEn is…
Hadoop in the Enterprise: Don’t Overpromise
Increasing numbers of IT shops are considering, and in some cases doing, “Hadoop in the enterprise.” That is,…
IBM Aims Big Data Analytics at HR Function
Employees generate and share a lot of data. IBM is banking that human resource (HR) executives and managers…
Business Intelligence Sees Generational Shift: Dresner
In the quarter century he has been following the use of business intelligence (BI) in the enterprise, Howard…
Pronto Furthers BI for Everyone Mission with Xi 710
Pronto, an Australian enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) specialist, today unveiled the latest edition of…
Big Data App Startup WibiData Raises Millions
WibiData is betting once enterprises start getting a handle on Big Data management, their attention will turn toward…
Splunk, Hortonworks Team for Big Data BI
Splunk, a provider of real-time Big Data intelligence software, and Hadoop innovator Hortonworks are tackling interoperability between their…
IBM Watson Brings Big Data Smarts to Customer Service
IBM’s Watson supercomputing technology is taking on a new role, and this time it has little to do…
Alteryx Raises $12M to ‘Humanize’ Big Data
Alteryx is wasting little time in its efforts to “humanize” Big Data and some venture capitalists have taken…
School of Data Science
A growing number of companies find themselves in the market for data scientists. Seventy percent of organizations recently…
IBM Consolidates Analytics Apps with Blue Insight
Analytics software has been as critical to IBM’s own internal operations as it has been to the company’s…
Twitter Buys Big Data Analytics Startup Lucky Sort
Enterprise software and services providers aren’t the only ones snapping up Big Data analytics startups. Twitter made news…
4 Barriers to Big Data Success — and Ways to Overcome Them
The good news: At a recent IBM conference on Big Data, users confirmed a growing body of evidence…
Pivotal Aims to Disrupt Cloud, Big Data Analytics
A decade or so back, enterprise applications sat on their own dedicated server. The rule of one app…
SAP Unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud
SAP on May 7 announced HANA Enterprise Cloud, opening up a high-performance, cloud-enabled deployment option for organizations that…
Big Data, Big Opportunities for DBAs
Amid all the talk about Big Data, questions keep popping up about how the database administrator (DBA) fits…
Cloudera Accelerates Big Data with Impala GA
Six months ago, enterprise Big Data vendor Cloudera announced the open source Impala project. The goal of Impala…
Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Help Skytree Land $18M
One loves logistics and the other ran an IT empire. Together, they feel that machine learning can pave…
4 Hot Open Source Big Data Projects
It’s difficult to talk about Big Data processing without mentioning Apache Hadoop, the open source Big Data software…
Social Analytics Startup VoloMetrix Banks $3.3M
As enterprises grow more social, organizations can find themselves struggling to align their business goals with the near…
Actian Snags ParAccel for Big Data Management, Analytics
Redwood City, Calif.-based Actian, a Big Data management company, announced today that it had acquired ParAccel, an analytics database…
Big Data Boosts Enterprise Software Market in 2012: IDC
The worldwide market for software totaled $342 billion in 2012, a 3.6 percent gain over 2011. However, that…
Adaptive Planning Intros Financial Consolidation Software
Analytics provider Adaptive Planning has released Adaptive Consolidation, a cloud-based solution it says can help manage business ownership…
Using Big Data to Fight Fraud
If it was easy to detect fraud, there wouldn’t be much of it around. But these days, the…
Big Data Success: Focus on Customer, not Cost
A recent Sloan Management Review continuation of their studies of successful Big Data practitioners highlights an often-misunderstood strategy…
Enterprise NoSQL Firm MarkLogic Raises $25M
San Carlos, Calif.-based MarkLogic Corporation has raised $25 million in VC funding, which will go toward increasing its ability to…
5 More Buzz-worthy Big Data Analytics Apps
As we’ve already noted, pairing Big Data with analytics is one of the best ways to derive business…
Oracle Revamps Endeca and Business Intelligence Foundation
Oracle has updated its analytics software slate in an effort to ease and simplify IT management tasks while…
How Big Data Is Changing Enterprise Applications
There’s no doubt Big Data is changing how companies are able to process and use data. But what’s…
SiSense Nabs $10M by Thinking Small for Big Data Analytics
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based SiSense, a maker of business intelligence software, announced this week it raised $10 million in…
SAS Survey Reveals Big Data Disconnect
Big Data may be dominating the conversation in IT circles, but most businesses just can’t seem to get…
MapR Brings Open Source Hadoop to Github and Ubuntu Linux
Big Data startup MapR is expanding its open source and Linux footprint this week. MapR recently announced a…
Big Data Genomics Firm Bina Raises $6M
Big Data marketing and analytics companies aren’t the only ones soaking up the VC funds. Bina Technologies, a…
5 Buzz-worthy Big Data Analytics Apps
Big Data and analytics are two of the most dominant business intelligence trends for 2013. So bringing the…