Is SAP’s HANA Gaining Traction with Platform Approach?
Interest in in-memory database technology is picking up, thanks to the speed with which it can retrieve data…
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F&A Process Automation Is Focus of Host Analytics Release
Finance and accounting professionals don’t have time for “mundane processes” said Alex Ortiz, head of Product Marketing for…
Put Data Quality in Motion with Passive Data Governance
By Michael Collins, BackOffice Associates Establishing a passive data governance strategy is one of the most important steps…
Business Intelligence 102: It’s Come a Long Way, Baby
In my last article, I took a look at the basics of business intelligence: its purpose (giving the…
Chief Data Officers Put ‘Strategy’ in Data Strategy
It can feel like a little like executive overload, with companies adding emerging roles like chief digital officer…
Teradata Addresses Marketing Analytics Shortage
Big Data is the new Big Man on Campus. As the New York Times reports, schools offering data…
Accelerating Big Data Value Aim of Actian Program
Though lots of organizations are interested in leveraging Big Data, relatively few of them already have Big Data…
Logi Analytics Expands Big Data Influence with Partnerships
Logi Analytics, provider of a Web-based data discovery solution, has inked partnerships with more than half a dozen…
10 Database Design Best Practices
With enterprises looking for new ways to use data to gain competitive advantage, database design is now more…
Information Governance in Age of Mobile, Cloud and Social
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates Enterprise data is no longer restricted to transaction-based and other legacy systems. Companies…
Business Intelligence 101: A Brief History
The purpose of business Intelligence (BI) solutions is pretty much the same as the purpose of “military intelligence”:…
3 Tips for Tackling Big Data Collaboration
Few organizations experience as many Big Data problems as the health and life sciences sector. Companies in this…
Chief Data Officer: 4 Reasons to Hire a CDO
By Priya Singh, Information Builders Recently, I read an interesting article about how the search effort for the…
MapR Intros Hadoop App Store
The app store is gaining traction in the enterprise. And no wonder: As Tibco Software founder John Mathon…
Actian Delivers SQL Analytics Natively in Hadoop
Actian Corporation hopes to differentiate itself from other providers of Big Data technologies with today’s announcement that the latest…
SAP HANA Now Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
In a major coup for Linux vendor Red Hat, the company today announced a significant expansion of support…
Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Microsoft releases new versions of its main products on a relatively predictable schedule. SQL Server releases or major…
IBM Offers Cloud Analytics as a Service
While most organizations are eager to get Big Data projects off the ground, early adopters are running into…
Getting Information Governance Off the Ground
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates Many enterprises understand that establishing and maintaining data quality is essential to their…
Wearable Tech Will Make Enterprise Impact
Wearable technology is undeniably hot. Exhibitions like CES and the Wearable Tech Show have been brimming with consumer…
Big Data a Big Priority for Most Organizations
Big Data isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a transformative technology trend that can have real impact, according to…
SAP HANA Ready for VMware vSphere 5.5
SAP and VMware today announced that the HANA in-memory database is ready for production use on the vSphere…
SAP Intros Big Data Services
In a recent interview with Enterprise Apps Today, Greg Girard, program director, Merchandising and Marketing Strategies and Retail…
5 Best Practices for Data Quality Management
By Priya Singh, Information Builders All companies struggle to manage the cyclical data quality process. A majority of…
Jitterbit Rolls Out Application Integration Platform
Jitterbit, a provider of integration software, today announced full availability of its Harmony Integration Cloud Platform, which is…
Midsize Companies Plan Big Push into Big Data
Big Data is not just within the purview of big companies. That’s the takeaway of new research from…
Astera Simplifies Real-time Data Integration
Astera Software, a provider of data integration solutions, has introduced Centerprise Rt, software that combines the Centerprise data…
5 Reasons a ‘Data First’ Strategy Works
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates The importance of data as an enterprise asset is now well understood. On…
Attunity Intros Big Data Management Platform
Attunity joins the growing ranks of vendors with a Big Data solution with the release of Attunity Maestro,…
5 Data Discovery Pitfalls
By Rado Kotorov Data visualization is fast becoming an area of interest for organizations seeking to benefit from…
SnapLogic Hopes to Ease Cloud Integration Woes
Companies that want to adopt cloud-based enterprise applications seemingly face some daunting challenges when it comes to integrating…
IBM’s Watson Will Change Your Data Analytics – but How?
IBM’s Watson software offers a new and distinctly different approach to analyzing data. It differs from more traditional…
Big Data Analytics: What Can You Learn from High Achievers?
Retailers, more than many other businesses, seem poised to use Big Data analytics to their competitive advantage. Yet…
Hadoop Provider Cloudera Raises $160M in New Funding
The Big Data world continues to attract attention both in terms of users and in terms of funding.…
Logi Analytics Boosts Big Data Capabilities
Logi Analytics has introduced the newest version of Logi Info, its business information platform. According to the company,…
Analytics, Business Intelligence Are Converging, not Merging
Enterprise Apps Today recently wrote about Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant (MQ) specific to advanced analytics. Gartner addresses the…
DataRPM Launches Cognitive BI Platform, Closes $5.1M Funding Round
DataRPM, which Enterprise Apps Today selected as one of its five hot Big Data startups in December, has…
How to Build a Data Assessment Business Case
By Michael Collins Examining an enterprise’s strategic master data within or across multiple systems to ensure quality and…
Open Source Vendors Blaze a Trail in Advanced Analytics
For eight years now, Gartner has been issuing a Magic Quadrant (MQ) for business intelligence. The rise of…
Geographic Information Systems Buying Guide
Enterprises are beginning to find strong business cases for geographic information systems. And there are plenty of choices…
Data Mining Group Updates PMML
The Data Mining Group, a vendor-led consortium of companies and organizations developing standards for statistical and data mining…
Red Hat Deepens Big Data Partnership with Hortonworks
Linux vendor Red Hat is expanding its partnership with Big Data Hadoop vendor Hortonworks today. The expanded partnership…
9 Tips on Using Big Data Analytics to Improve Security
With the widening adoption of Hadoop and in-memory databases, companies are starting to realize that Big Data analytics…
Big Data Focus on Value, Not Hype, in 2014
While many organizations are still experimenting with Big Data analytics rather than undertaking full deployments, they want to…
3 Tips for Getting More Value From Your Data
By Michele Nemschoff, MapR Technologies Big Data can be extremely valuable for any business, and most businesses recognize…
Review: Attunity Cloudbeam Simplifies Moving Big Data to Cloud
As companies migrate more data from on-premises data centers to the cloud, they are looking for easy and…
Big Data Integration Specialist Talend Closes $40M Round
Talend, a provider of Big Data integration software, completed a $40 million funding round from Bpifrance and Iris…
Which Hadoop Distribution Is Right For You?
By Michele Nemschoff, MapR Technologies The thought of evaluating whether a particular technology is right for your company…
5 Hot Big Data Startups
Big Data is one of the hottest areas of IT right now. Analyst firm International Data Corp. (IDC)…
Big Data: What Will You Do for an Encore?
There has been a lot of focus on the first big value-add insight one gets from Big Data…