Platfora Launches In-Memory BI Platform
The consumerization of Big Data trend continues apace with new software that puts Hadoop-powered analytics into the hands…
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Big Data + SaaS = Better Marketing
Web applications which aggregate vast quantities of publicly available data and turn it into useful information for customers…
MapR Hauls $30M for Enterprise Big Data
It’s time for Big Data to make a serious push into the corporate data center, argues MapR Technologies. And…
Big Data Open Source App Framework Gets Funded
The world of Big Data is full of big money. The latest group to raise capital is Big…
Closing Big Data Loop Reveals Marketing ROI
The pace of change in business today is rapid, making an enterprise’s relationships with its customers ever more…
Information Builders Dives into Social Media Analytics
Just weeks after giving WebFOCUS BI the Big Data analytics treatment, New York City-based Information Builders today announced the…
Cloud BI Firm HG Data Raises $2M
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based HG Data, a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) and analytics specialist, is preparing to venture into new…
5 Tips for Mashing up Big Data, Social Media
Can Big Data help enterprises make sense of their social media efforts in order to create more business…
Gartner: Welcome to Year of Big Data
Big Data may have been making big headlines — and sparked more than a few multimillion-dollar deals — in recent…
Alteryx Updates Analytics Platform
George Mathew, COO and president of Alteryx, earlier this year predicted that one of the top business intelligence…
3 Big Data Lessons from 2012 Presidential Campaign
A recent post in MIT Technology Review about the use of Big Data in the 2012 election offers…
Digging for Data Scientists
Companies have no problem accumulating data. According to an IDC study sponsored by EMC Corporation, the amount of…
Cloud Analytics Startup Anaplan Hauls $30M
Anaplan, a San Francisco-based enterprise modeling and planning startup, announced today it has raised $30 million in a…
Information Builders Gives WebFOCUS the Big Data Analytics Treatment
Business intelligence (BI) software provider Information Builders today unveiled three updated offerings aimed at simplifying Big Data analytics…
In the Contact Center: Speech Analytics Software Buying Guide
People once spent years lying on a couch pouring out their deepest secrets so a psychotherapist could analyze…
Chartio Adds Salesforce to Visual Analytics Mix
Chartio, a San Francisco-based visual analytics startup, is expanding its platform by adding support for a major source…
Teradata Enhances Visualization Capabilities of Big Data Platform
One of the top 10 business intelligence trends for 2013, based on interviews with experts conducted by Enterprise…
Open Source Elasticsearch Firm Raises $24M
Amsterdam-based Big Data search startup Elasticsearch announced it just closed on a Series B round of funding valued at…
SaaS, Big Data and More: Speech Analytics in the Contact Center
It was front page news in 2005 when it was revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency had…
Top 10 Mobile Business Intelligence Apps
Just as business is no longer confined by the walls of a company’s physical facilities, business intelligence (BI)…
Want Better Analytics? Put Sentiment Analysis in Context
As sentiment analysis continues to attract organizations’ strategic attention as an effective way to understand the customer, a…
Sailthru Raises $19M for Personalized Slant on Big Data
New York City-based startup Sailthru today announced that it had raised $19 million to grow its “Smart Data” platform and…
DataXu Raises $27M for Big Data Marketing
Boston-based DataXu announced today that it had raised $27 million in a round of funding led by Thomvest Ventures and…
IBM Buys Business Intelligence Automation Specialist
When it comes to business analytics companies, IBM can’t seem to keep its checkbook closed. In its latest…
SAS Aims Visual Analytics at Midsized Businesses
SAS is opening the Big Data visualization floodgates with an update to SAS Visual Analytics. The company is…
Big Data Market to Reach $48.3B by 2018
There’s big money to be made in Big Data, according to a forecast from Albany, NY-based Transparency Market Research.…
Dell Accelerates Moves to SAP HANA
SAP’s HANA in-memory database is one of the fastest-growing technologies in the history of SAP. While HANA is…
EMC Debuts Greenplum Unified Analytics Appliance for Big Data
EMC is throwing down the analytics gauntlet and claiming a Big Data first in the process. The data…
Marketers to Boost Big Data Analytics Spending in 2013
Marketers are prepared to increase their spending on Big Data analytics this year, according to a study from…
Zettaset Raises Millions to Orchestrate Big Data
There has been a lot of Big Money invested in Big Data in recent years. You can now…
Alteryx Analytics Gallery Gathers Steam
Alteryx, a business analytics software maker, is bullish on its Big Data for the masses approach to analytics.…
SAP Business Suite Gets a HANA In-Memory Boost
SAP is not slowing down when it comes to finding new markets for its HANA in-memory analytics platform.…
Host Analytics Raises $17M for Cloud EPM
Enterprise performance management (EPM) is emerging as an important new front in the cloud business app wars. Host…
HP Launches Big Data Certification Program
Want to get schooled in Big Data? IT systems and services provider Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced a new…
Data Scientist Shortage? Try Team Building
Data scientists are as sought after as a real Rolex at a thrift store – and just about…
Big Data and Beyond: 10 BI Trends for 2013
Experts interviewed by Enterprise Apps Today believe Big Data will remain the biggest trend in business intelligence for…
Data Virtualization and Big Data: A ‘Virtual Case Study’
The following is a “virtual case study” in which Wayne Kernochan takes an existing use case and imagines…
Oracle Snaps up DataRaker
Oracle announced that it is acquiring DataRaker, a firm that specializes in cloud-based analytics for energy companies and water…
Feds to Spend $7.2B on Big Data by 2017
A new forecast from Deltek indicates that Big Data software and IT systems vendors will find a big customer in…
Birst Launches Predictive Sales Analytics
San Francisco-based Birst, a maker of business analytics software, announced a new version of its analytics platform for sales…
Big Data Analytics Startup ClearStory Raises $9M
Analytics startups are starting to attract the attention of venture capitalists, potentially hastening the consumerization of Big Data.…
SAS Points Big Data Guns at Fraudsters
Anti-fraud is emerging as a potentially lucrative front in Big Data analytics. Business software maker SAS hopes to…
SAP Launches Predictive Analysis for Big Data
SAP forges ahead with its predictive analytics strategy with this week’s public launch of new software aimed at…
Yellowfin Adds Social Sharing for Business Intelligence Boost
Yellowfin today previewed new features in the upcoming 6.2 version of its namesake business intelligence software. Having already established a…
Self-Service Business Intelligence: Not So Fast
For the last couple of years, IT shops abetted by vendors and consultants like Aberdeen Group and Forrester…
Jaspersoft 5.0 Enables Business Intelligence with HTML5
Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft is updating its commercial platform with a new release. The Jaspersoft 5.0…
MicroStrategy Uses Cloud to Deliver Self-serve Business Intelligence
Buying business intelligence software has traditionally involved purchasing both the software and the hardware required to run it.…
Sentiment Analysis: 3 Points to Remember
As enterprises fine-tune their ability to understand what customers and the market are really saying – in the…
Microsoft, Hortonworks Debut Hadoop-powered HDInsight
Azure for Big Data workloads? Hortonworks has again teamed with Microsoft to extend Hadoop support to the latter’s…
EMC Addressing Dearth of Big Data Talent with Kaggle Partnership
While it’s easy to find marketing hype about Big Data, it’s hard to find professionals who understand what…