Data Professionals Not Going Away, at Least Not Soon
Software vendors continue to create data analysis tools for the average business user, eliminating some of the complex…
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Big Oil, Meet Big Data Analytics
ConocoPhillips, one of the world’s largest energy companies, is using the power of Big Data analytics to improve…
4 Data Analytics Success Stories
There is a lot of hype out there about Big Data’s ability to transform your business and how…
Data Lake or Information Reservoir?
Data lakes are drawing new attention these days, as Gartner criticizes the idea and EMC touts a “data…
How Is Hadoop Evolving to Meet Big Data Needs?
Hadoop just keeps on growing. According to Allied Market Research, the Hadoop market is worth around $3 billion…
Birst, Tableau in Business Intelligence Partnership
Cloud analytics provider Birst last spring released a data visualization tool called Birst Visualizer. So it seems a…
Is Apache Spark Enterprise Ready?
Apache Spark is making headlines as potentially the next big thing in Big Data. Coverage has focused on…
Diving into Data Lakes
There is a lot of hype out there about the wonders of data lakes, as well as cautions…
Host Analytics Intros Modeling Cloud
Finance departments are increasingly seeking more sophisticated analytics, self-service analytics and improved access to financial and operational data.…
Liaison Technologies Launches Data Platform as a Service
Enterprise service bus (ESB) is an outmoded data integration technology that has no place in enterprises in which…
Splice Machine, RedPoint Global Team on Omnichannel Marketing Solution
While retailers are investing in technology designed to facilitate omni-channel marketing strategies, many are struggling to deliver on…
Startup Spotlight: Sisense’s Big Data Analytics
If there is one trait that distinguishes successful startups from less successful ones, it is coming up with…
How to Build a Great Data Governance Team
By Michael Collins, BackOffice Associates The quality of data has become a priority as organizations strive to gain…
Tesora Embraces Oracle Databases for the Cloud
The OpenStack open source cloud platform has grown in popularity in recent years as a pathway to enable…
1010data Intros Integration with Open Source R
While the open source R programming language has been popular for data analysis and statistical modeling, it has…
Using Data Virtualization to Simplify Application Modernization
Application modernization is a big deal for most organizations this year. According to the most recent CSC Global…
Developing IoT Apps Is Easier Than You Think
The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has enterprises wondering how easy it is to build their…
Startup Spotlight: Xplenty’s Data Integration Service
It’s hard to read a technology publication – including this one – without encountering multiple mentions of Hadoop,…
App Integration Should Not Be an Afterthought
Thanks to the consumerization of IT, enterprise software has gotten a lot sexier. Folks bring their personal software…
SAP ‘Reinvents’ Business Suite for HANA
One of the trickiest tasks for enterprise software giants like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft is offering the cloud-based…
4 Data Governance Trends to Watch in 2015
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates As enterprises enter the New Year, many are reflecting on the initiatives that…
Unlocking CRM’s Data Treasure Trove
CRM systems hold much of an organization’s most valuable data, including customer records, product purchase and return information.…
MapR Frees Hadoop Education
Hadoop is a big deal in the world of Big Data applications and analysis, but getting qualified staff…
5 Alternatives to the Traditional Relational Database
The ongoing popularity of the Hadoop approach to data management should not blind us to the opportunities offered…
Finance Departments Need More Advanced Analytics
Analytics is nothing new in finance. Chief financial officers (CFOs) and their staffs have been using them for…
9 Business Intelligence and Analytics Predictions for 2015
When we asked analysts, forecasters and pundits for their predictions for the most relevant business intelligence and analytics…
Analyzing Big Data: General Purpose Tool or Domain-Specific App?
By Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Databricks The explosion of data across the enterprise has led to an increased focus on…
GraphLab Becomes Dato, Raises $18.5M for Machine Learning Tech
GraphLab, a provider of analytics software based on open source code, is changing its name to Dato as…
Mobile Business Intelligence: Hot, or Not?
Last month when I spoke to Carsten Bange, CEO of BARC and co-author of its BI Survey 14,…
Startup Spotlight: Qubole’s Hadoop-as-a-Service
If you want to make a CEO’s eyes glaze over, talk to her about Hadoop. While techies and…
The Down Low on Data Lakes
Data lakes are the latest incarnation of the democratize data for business theme. The idea is simple: Pool…
Mesosphere Raises $36M for Application Data Center OS
Startup Mesosphere today announced it has raised $36 million in a Series B round of funding, to fuel…
Can This Project Be Saved? Yes, with Data First Approach
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates In my last article, we discussed how organizations can effectively deliver, improve and…
Attunity Buys BIReady’s Data Warehouse Automation Technology
Attunity, a provider of data management software, is beefing up its Big Data offerings by acquiring the data…
Apache Drills into Hadoop
It’s a big week for Big Data and the open source Hadoop ecosystem. The Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 project…
3 Strategies to Prepare Data for Analytics
By Priya Singh, Information Builders Many people would agree with the claim that analytics is the most important…
Loyalty Program Leaders Leverage Data Analytics
Most people have wallets loaded with loyalty program cards and/or smartphones loaded with loyalty apps. Yet most companies…
Splice Machine Releases Hadoop RDBMS Version 1.0
In a recent discussion about how the Internet of Things will change Big Data analytics, a Cisco executive…
How IoT Will Change Big Data Analytics
What do SAS, Cisco, Duke Energy and AT&T have in common? They are all big proponents of the…
Cloud Analytics a Winner for SAS
Cloud analytics was the big news at this week’s annual Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS) event held by…
SAP Intros Program to Boost HANA Adoption
SAP’s HANA suffered an image problem a few months ago when three-quarters of the members of the Americas’…
Cloudera Improves Hadoop Big Data Features and Security
Hadoop vendor Cloudera has rolled out a new enterprise platform release and improved security controls for Big Data…
Analytics ROI Is Strong, and Getting Stronger
Analytics is at the center of technology spending for many enterprises. “Analytics is the most desired function across…
5 Tips for Buying Big Data Tools
Not everyone can agree on a definition for Big Data. Though many experts, including Gartner, cite high volume,…
A ‘Data First’ Approach, in 3 Phases
by Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates At last year’s Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit, the failure rate of…
Data Visualization: Old Practice, New Value
Data visualization is not new. During a recent International Institute for Analytics (IIA) webinar, Bill Franks, chief analytics…
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…
SharePoint Updates Ease Move to Cloud
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 has been out for quite some time and received a Service Pack update earlier…
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…
Leverage Metadata for Document Management
By Mika Javanainen, M-Files Corporation The emergence of PCs in the 1980s profoundly changed the way that businesses…