While predictive analytics used to be the sole purview of data scientists and a few highly skilled analysts, it is gradually becoming more accessible to mainstream users. Vendors are finding ways to instantly expose insights into software applications and business…
There are a lot of different ways for data scientists to manipulate data. Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, is giving its users a new option with the native integration of the open source Python language for the Pentaho Data Integration…
The last few years have seen some big changes in data analytics, with companies creating new business models and shaking up existing ones based on increasingly sophisticated uses of data. For example, health insurer Humana has made analytics the centerpiece…
When it comes to mobile apps — especially highly visual ones like data analytics — few things are more important than an appealing interface. This is no doubt why Tableau is introducing a native app for the iPhone with its…
It’s impossible to talk about Big Data without mentioning Apache Hadoop. But Hadoop is just a part of a thriving Big Data software ecosystem. There are plenty of other Big Data platforms and tools, and many of them are open…
Data about companies’ customers is contained in a plethora of enterprise applications and in a growing number of external channels such as Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, challenging them to make sense of it all. Attensity, a provider of text analytics…
It’s been a busy year for Snowflake Computing, a data warehouse provider that officially slipped out of stealth mode last October. The cloud-based company placed first in the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 Startup Showcase for its Snowflake Elastic Data…
By Heine Krog Iversen, TimeXtender Business intelligence can deliver great value because it allows people to get reliable feedback on complex action patterns. These actions can happen on an individual level or across departments, roles and teams. When properly used,…
Providing the infrastructure for both Big Data and the newer Fast Data is not yet a matter of applying cookie-cutter “best practices.” Both require significant tuning or changing of both hardware and software infrastructure, and the newer Fast Data architectures…
Pentaho is set to debut its new Pentaho 6 Enterprise 6 and community editions, providing users with new business intelligence capabilities. Pentaho formally announced the Penthao 6 release on September 30, though general availability is not scheduled until October 14.…
