Beyond Excel: What Users Want from Data Preparation
Because data preparation has largely been the responsibility of time-crunched IT organizations, it often creates a bottleneck in…
Data Management
Designing APIs with Restlet Studio [PODCAST]
Applications both consume and expose APIs as a way to extend and integrate different data and forms of…
IBM Intros Apache Spark Platform for Mainframe
Open source data processing engine Apache Spark continues to win favor in the enterprise, as evidenced by its…
More Map Features, Faster Data Analysis in Tableau Update
Geolocation and map customization features were among the new capabilities in a December update of Tableau Software’s business…
Integration a Big Digital Transformation Challenge
Digital transformation is challenging enterprises in numerous ways, from determining who should lead digital initiatives to modifying infrastructure…
What’s Ahead for Enterprise Data in 2016?
by Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates As enterprises look into 2016, they are faced with new and continually more…
Is Perl the Duct Tape of the Internet? [PODCAST]
Developers can choose from a lot of different programming languages to build applications and infrastructure in 2016. For…
9 Data Preparation Tips for Predictive Analytics Success
How important is data preparation when it comes to analytics success? It is so important, said Mike Gualtieri,…
Apache Arrow to Accelerate Open Source Big Data Analytics
The Apache Software Foundation is rolling out a new top level project this week, and it’s one that…
Predictive Analytics Software Buying Guide
While many vendors sell analytics software, not all of them provide predictive analytics, a far more specialized field.…
Getting Started with Predictive Analytics in 5 Easy Steps
If you want to know what’s likely to happen in your business, you need predictive analytics. Predictive analytics…
Data Quality Demands a Team Approach
With data becoming increasingly central to business strategies, data quality management has never been more important. So it…
Predictive Analytics Now Easier but Still No Cake Walk
While predictive analytics used to be the sole purview of data scientists and a few highly skilled analysts,…
Pentaho Expands Data Analysis with Python [PODCAST]
There are a lot of different ways for data scientists to manipulate data. Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company,…
MariaDB Raises New Money, Gets New CEO
MariaDB Corporation, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open source MariaDB database, started 2016 off with a bang,…
Application Data Management’s Role in Post-Modern ERP
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates For many years, enterprises were limited to employing just one ERP system. But…
10 Data Analytics Predictions for 2016
The last few years have seen some big changes in data analytics, with companies creating new business models…
Startup Spotlight: Azuqua’s Cloud Services Orchestration
Azuqua isn’t just a company for CEO and co-founder Nikhil Hasija: It’s a calling. That may seem like…
Startup Spotlight: CrowdFlower’s Data Enrichment Platform
There are not enough data scientists to go around for companies hoping to capitalize on their growing streams…
Information Builders Tackles Master Data Management
While companies are interested in adopting master data management (MDM) to improve customer service initiatives and boost decision-making…
9 Useful Open Source Big Data Tools
It’s impossible to talk about Big Data without mentioning Apache Hadoop. But Hadoop is just a part of…
Getting Data Quality Right
By Jon Green, BackOffice Associates Data quality initiatives are important to enterprises because poor data quality can lead…
Tibco Intros Tools to Ease Cloud Integration
Tibco, a provider of integration, analytics and event processing software, aims to help organizations create, test, deploy and…
Startup Spotlight: Snowflake Computing’s Elastic Data Warehouse
It’s been a busy year for Snowflake Computing, a data warehouse provider that officially slipped out of stealth…
Big and Fast Data: Upgrading Your Infrastructure
Providing the infrastructure for both Big Data and the newer Fast Data is not yet a matter of…
Altiscale Expands Hadoop-as-a-Service in Data Cloud 4.0
Setting up, configuring and managing a Big Data cluster of Hadoop and Spark applications is no easy task.…
Acquia Funding Tops $173M as Drupal 8 Release Nears
While the open source Drupal content management system (CMS) is freely available, there is money to be made…
Seeking Truth about Hadoop
Hadoop has been around for a decade and has been a hotly hyped technology for much of that…
Getting Data Governance Right
By W. Matthew Wagnon, BackOffice Associates It’s no secret that data is a hot topic in today’s market.…
9 Tips for Awesome Data Analytics
Companies routinely say they want to make analytics a key part of their business strategies – and some…
BPM and CRM Better Together
CRM is all about managing sales and marketing interactions with customers and potential customers. Business process management (BPM)…
5 Best Practices for Fast Data
As vendors and users testified at last month’s In-Memory Computing Summit, the relatively low cost of flash memory…
6 Lessons from IoT Ninjas
The Internet of Things (IoT) is shaping up to be a bona fide phenomenon, with Gartner estimating that…
Analyzing Archived Data Yields Big Returns
You may believe you’re maximizing the value of your data archives, but a recent IDC report found most…
3 Limits of NoSQL Data Processing
For several years Hadoop-based alternatives to traditional SQL databases have been the focus of user attention. After all…
Big Data Analytics Goes Hollywood
A movie theater used to receive a film reel from a distributor and display the title for weeks…
Cutting through Internet of Things Hype
The early buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) included breathless accounts of refrigerators that could alert you…
Banking on Chief Data Officers
Gartner has predicted that 25 percent of organizations will employ chief data officers (CDOs) by 2017. The figure…
IoT in the Sky
The Internet of Things (IoT) offers the potential to create new business models, streamline business processes and reduce…
Stop Talking about Data: Value Lies in Information
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates I’m about to make a statement that, at the surface, will seem contrarian…
Metanautix Enables Software-Defined Data Marts
We’ve heard a lot about software-defined storage and software-defined data centers, but Big Data analytics startup Metanautix has…
Dell Updates Toad Database Management Toolset
New database products and approaches are emerging all the time. So it’s not surprising that some 70 percent…
Making Government Data Less of a Disaster
Anyone working in the accounts department or who owns a small business knows about the administrative practices of…
Startup Spotlight: Interana’s Self-Service Data Analytics
“Shared annoyance” inspired the founders of Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Interana to build a business. “The idea that…
Pentaho 5.4 Gets New Spark
In February of this year, Hitachi Data Systems announced its intention to acquire privately-held business intelligence vendor Pentaho.…
5 Lessons from Data Analytics Ninjas
Not long ago Enterprise Apps Today highlighted four data analytics success stories, companies that are successfully using data…
Is Hadoop Maturity in Sight?
There is no escaping the outpouring of hype about Hadoop. Some see it as heading toward maturity in…
Channel Data Management Sheds Light on Supply Chain
Channel data management is a relatively new discipline that is starting to catch on in tech and some…
3 Keys to Data Modernization
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates The enterprise data journey is multi-faceted, requiring the marriage of systems integration, data…
With $128M Round, MuleSoft Shows App Integration Value
Application integration has always been a pretty big deal, since few organizations purchase all or even most of…