Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
One of the major drivers behind auditing is regulatory compliance. In addition, there are many internal rules and regulations mandated by companies themselves, as well as other reasons for auditing, including monitoring and analyzing database activities for malicious and abnormal activities, developing threat detection with real-time monitoring, and integration with SIEM (security information and event management) solutions for analysis.
Posted August 18, 2021
Confluent, Inc., the platform to set data in motion, is launching the Confluent Q3 '21 Release, featuring developments that help organizations reliably share data between different environments, seamlessly integrate with business-critical applications, and cost-effectively store data needed for next-generation, digital customer experiences and data-driven backend operations.
Posted August 17, 2021
The AI-Powered Enterprise author Seth Earley offered best practices for a successful product data metrics rollout during his keynote at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted August 17, 2021
In today's interconnected, data-driven world, secure data sharing is paramount to inter-company data sharing and driving new revenue sources by monetizing essential data assets. But with organizations adopting multiple cloud data platforms to enable self-service data access, adhering to data sharing rules and agreements while maintaining universal cloud data access control is often complicated and uncertain.
Posted August 13, 2021
Virtana, the AIOps observability company for hybrid cloud, is expanding its offering of the Virtana Platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. Offering end user customers a unified SaaS platform on Marketplace, which leverages a ‘know before you go' approach with high-definition data collection on-premises, delivers precision observability, reduces cloud costs, and de-risks public cloud migration to AWS.
Posted August 13, 2021
Next Pathway Inc., the Automated Cloud Migration company, is releasing the next version of SHIFT Tester, engineered with enhanced data validation and test automation capabilities. The Software-as-a-Service solution automatically tests the three core areas that require validation as part of any cloud migration project: data, data quality, and ETLs (extract, transform, load).
Posted August 13, 2021
Qlik announced the acquisition of NodeGraph, a customizable metadata management solution, helping expand its analytics data pipeline capabilities with interactive data lineage, impact analysis and governance, and drive "explainable BI." Acquiring NodeGraph advances Qlik's vision of Active Intelligence, where technology and processes trigger immediate action from real-time, up-to-date, and trusted data to accelerate business value across the entire data and analytics supply chain, according to the vendor.
Posted August 12, 2021
KX is adding Google BigQuery integration to KX Insights, its cloud-first real-time streaming analytics platform, empowering customers to gain real-time insights from streaming data through KX enriched with context from historical data sitting in Google Cloud's multi-cloud data warehouse.
Posted August 12, 2021
CloudFabrix, a leader in AIOps solutions, is forming a new strategic partnership with Verge.io, a leader in Software Defined Datacenter solutions, to combine solutions that provide complete data center transformation for enterprise and channel service provider (CSP) organizations.
Posted August 12, 2021
Talend, a provider of data integration and integrity software, has announced the addition of new innovations to Talend Data Fabric, a complete integration and governance platform designed to manage the health of corporate information. According to Talend the enhancements provide data professionals with high-performance integrations to cloud intelligence platforms, a self-service API portal, collaborative data governance capabilities, and private connections between Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure to ensure data security.
Posted August 11, 2021
Snorkel AI, a data-centric AI platform company powered by programmatic data labeling, announced it has received $85 million in Series C funding, bringing the total funding raised to $135 million, enabling the company to bring the transformative impact of data-centric AI to more enterprises around the world.
Posted August 11, 2021
Tecton, the enterprise feature store company, is adding low-latency streaming pipelines to its feature store so that organizations can quickly and reliably build real-time machine learning models.
Posted August 11, 2021
Redis Labs has announced the company is now registered as Redis, dropping "Labs" from its name. According to the company, the change signals the maturation of the company and the Redis open source project, which it has contributed to since 2011 and sponsored since 2015. In addition, the company says, the name change also reflects the company's mission to continue the growth of Redis as a real-time data platform.
Posted August 11, 2021
TruEra, provider of a suite of AI quality solutions, is releasing TruLens, an open source explainability software tool for machine learning models that are based on neural networks. TruLens is a library for deep neural networks that provides a uniform API for explaining Tensorflow, Pytorch, and Keras models. The software is freely available for download, and comes with documentation and a developer community to further its development and use.
Posted August 10, 2021
With ransomware attacks on the rise and facing the constant risk of operational failures and natural disasters, backup and recovery are a must. However, long gone are the days of just making copies of your data that you put on the shelf just in case you need to use it in the future. Today's enterprises need fast, self-service access to data that is always available to keep pace with their business.
Posted August 10, 2021
TigerGraph Cloud is now available on all three major cloud marketplaces, AWS, Azure and GCP, the only distributed and scalable graph database-as-a-service available on all three. With the choice of public Cloud vendors, businesses are able to significantly reduce the friction of getting started with Graph Analytics projects on the vast ecosystems built by the major cloud platforms, according to the vendor.
Posted August 10, 2021
Actian SVP Emma McGrattan explained how to build a cloud-based data architecture tailored to your specific business needs rather than peak workload during her presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted August 10, 2021
IBM and SAP are forming a partnership that will allow SAP to onboard finance and data management solutions to the IBM Cloud for Financial Services, helping companies address the industry's stringent compliance, security, and resiliency requirements, while supporting business transformation and innovation for financial services institutions.
Posted August 09, 2021
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corp., has announced that its flagship IT analytics product, Analytics Plus, now enables users to gain faster insights by providing narrative insights into their IT data with zero human interactions. New augmented analytical capabilities in Zia, the company's AI assistant, empower Analytics Plus users to make faster decisions and save IT costs, increase revenue and productivity, and improve end user satisfaction.
Posted August 09, 2021
VMware is continuing to build out its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform, introducing new capabilities to make it easier for IT to manage Horizon deployments wherever they may be, on-premises or in the cloud.
Posted August 06, 2021
Surviving and thriving with data science and machine learning means not only having the right platforms, tools and skills, but identifying use cases and implementing processes that can deliver repeatable, scalable business value. The challenges are numerous, from selecting data sets and data platforms, to architecting and optimizing data pipelines, and model training and deployment. As a result, new solutions have emerged to deliver key capabilities in areas including visualization, self-service and real-time analytics. Along with the rise of DataOps, greater collaboration and automation have been identified as key success factors.
Posted August 05, 2021
Confluent is rolling out an all-new website dedicated to Apache Kafka, event streaming, and associated cloud technologies. The site is called Confluent Developer and compiles all the information users need in one place, from first steps in event streaming right through to more complex topics including: microservice architectures, data pipelines, and company-wide systems for data in motion.
Posted August 05, 2021
Varada, the data lake query acceleration innovator, is releasing version 3.0 of its data analytics platform, now delivering at-scale big data analytics users who rely on the power of indexing to extract insights from massive, unstructured data sets.
Posted August 05, 2021
Lynda Partner, senior vice president for products and offerings at Pythian, spoke at Data Summit Connect earlier this year about how to accelerate value with machine learning. In this interview with BDQ, Partner continues the conversation and highlights how to select the right use cases for ML, avoid mistakes, and manage an ML project once it becomes a reality.
Posted August 04, 2021
mLogica, a global provider of database, mainframe, and application modernization services, is slated to release a comprehensive set of tools on the market for mainframe migration to the cloud. It's a move made possible by their recent acquisition of Italian mainframe technology firm Reverse Paradigm, as well as several other strategic purchases of key technology players and assets earlier this year.
Posted August 04, 2021
A Distributed SQL database, such as CockroachDB, delivers effortless and elastic cloud scale while guaranteeing transactions. It is a database that reimagines the execution and storage layers while still allowing developers to still use familiar SQL syntax.
Posted August 04, 2021
The University of California Merced has successfully implemented Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) to support its rapid growth. "With some uncertainty still ahead for the upcoming academic year, universities require real-time visibility into their operations," said Hari Sankar, group vice president, Oracle. "With Oracle, UC Merced‘s staff will be able to play a more strategic role in the university's growth and student development, rather than spending time on manual administrative tasks."
Posted August 04, 2021
Accenture has acquired Cloudworks, a Toronto-based Oracle Cloud implementation service provider across North America. According to Accenture, the deal further enhances its capabilities to deliver Oracle solutions to clients on their journeys to the cloud.
Posted August 04, 2021
Rockset has announced new integrations for MySQL and PostgreSQL. According to Rockset, with its new MySQL and PostgreSQL integrations, developers can rely on their favorite relational databases for online transaction processing (OLTP) while using Rockset to power real-time analytics at cloud scale.
Posted August 04, 2021
As enterprises rushed to digitize their offline assets over the past year, data finally won widespread recognition as the lifeblood of modern commerce. At a high level, data enabled pandemic-shocked businesses to comprehensively understand their changing landscapes, then generate actionable predictions for how demand would shift. There's little question that data has grown in importance every year, but in 2021, there's now no question that its value is crystal clear to virtually every enterprise.
Posted August 04, 2021
Rafay Systems is launching a set of fleet automation and monitoring enhancements to its flagship Kubernetes Management Cloud (KMC), expanding the scope and scale of mission-critical Kubernetes (K8s) deployments across global enterprise environments.
Posted August 03, 2021
Saltworks, an application security (AppSec) company, is forming a partnership with attack surface management (ASM) provider Bit Discovery, enabling the company to integrate advanced ASM capabilities into SaltMiner. Saltworks customers can now benefit from fast and efficient ASM features that capture, inventory, and monitor external digital assets that can be easily viewed and managed in the SaltMiner dashboard.
Posted August 03, 2021
Treeverse, the creator of lakeFS, the open-source technology that brings streamlined data lifecycle management and version control to data lakes, announced it has raised $23 million in funding to date, further accelerating the development and adoption of the innovative solution.
Posted August 02, 2021
We all know that in uncertain times, a forecast underlies a company's success or failure. Forecasts keep prices low by optimizing business operations—including cash flow, production, staff, and financial management—while increasing knowledge of the market. Business forecasting gives you an essential tool for adapting to change and fostering competitive advantage.But relevant forecasting isn't easy.
Posted August 02, 2021
If you've been paying attention at all, I'm sure you've heard the term "phishing." It is used to describe the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from a reputable source to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. But maybe you haven't heard the term "vishing" yet.
Posted August 02, 2021
In the last 5 years, we've seen a blurring of the distinction between many of the upstart databases and the traditional SQL databases. NoSQL databases such as MongoDB have added features typically associated with relational databases—transactions, SQL connectors, and the like—while the SQL databases have introduced support for JSON document models. We can see that databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB are increasingly converging on a common set of features. However, one category of NoSQL databases seems to be bucking the convergence trend: graph databases.
Posted August 02, 2021
To meet the needs of the digital economy of the 2020s, data architecture has evolved into a different animal than it was 10, or even 5, years ago. Most notably, there are three trends that have changed the way enterprises look at and design their data architectures.
Posted August 02, 2021
One of the challenges of working with Hadoop environments has been maintaining the infrastructure for big data projects. That's where cloud makes things easier and, increasingly, has served as the underlying infrastructure platform of choice for Hadoop initiatives. At the same time, not everything has moved to the cloud just yet for big data environments. Many IT managers expect to live in a hybrid environment. They are planning for multi-cloud data management to deliver business value and are also still relying on old-school approaches and manual tools to support their data environments.
Posted August 02, 2021
Over the last few years it has been fascinating to see how organizations evolve their data management and application development environments. Traditionally, companies depended on monolithic architectures that initially served them well, however today's on-demand business environment calls for a model that can support a more flexible, microservices-driven approach, and facilitate the pace of innovation. Why is this trend towards microservices and a DevOps approach becoming so pervasive? The answer relates to a higher-level trend: the push towards on-demand IT, as the focus has shifted to prioritize the developer experience, and the specific technologies they are using.
Posted August 02, 2021
Rocket Software is gearing up to release the Rocket MultiValue Performance Experience (MVX: P), a system monitoring tool for Rocket UniVerse enabling users to understand and enhance UniVerse performance. Simply put, MVX: P helps users identify and escalate performance-impacting events. Escalated events include possible resolutions and a snapshot of contextually relevant data captured when the event triggered, allowing users to easily track the source of the issue and address it.
Posted August 02, 2021
Kore is enhancing its flagship MV platform with performance updates and capabilities that that make RESTful integration, application integration, and data warehousing projects faster and easier to complete.
Posted August 02, 2021
BlueFinity is updating its Evoke low-code app development platform with an integrated and adaptable 360-degree imaging virtual tour capability. This is a multi-purpose feature that provides for the searching, browsing and inspection of any store, venue, property, or utility through an integrated feature of an app. According to the company, the results are sophisticated, full-function web and mobile apps that can be fully integrated with any database (Db2, SQL, Oracle, MultiValue, etc.).
Posted August 02, 2021
Let's start by admitting that the title of this article is a tease. It's a valid question and one that thinking people ask all the time. But in truth it's not the first question you should be asking. More importantly, the answer to the question really depends on how you answer the questions that you should be asking first. Here the questions to ask.
Posted August 02, 2021
Software intelligence company Dynatrace is extending Smartscape, the Dynatrace platform's real-time and continuously updated topology, to bring Dynatrace's AIOps and analytics capabilities to more open source services, including OpenTelemetry, FluentD, and Prometheus.
Posted July 30, 2021
CLEVR, the company that helps enterprises accelerate their digital transitions through low-code and no-code development solutions, is launching its international expansion of the CLEVR brand and unveiling the company's business model. When Mansystems and Flowfabric, two leading Mendix partners, merged to create a superpower in services and software development, they named the combined company CLEVR.
Posted July 30, 2021
HVR, an independent provider of real-time cloud data replication technology, is expanding its Partner Program, which includes new features and benefits to its fast-growing portfolio of global partners. Delphix and MariaDB will join the growing list of HVR's notable partners, including Snowflake, AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Databricks, and more.
Posted July 30, 2021
Sumo Logic, a pioneer in continuous intelligence, is introducing new capabilities to its Observability solution that augment analytics-powered use cases and capture end user experience. These new enhancements include Real User Monitoring and Span Analytics, capabilities designed to help DevOps/SRE teams identify and resolve customer-impacting issues faster, reduce application downtime, and optimize application performance.
Posted July 29, 2021