Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
New England Water Heater is a plumbing services company specializing in water heater repair and installation based in North Waltham, MA. The company provides a centralized service through a network of geographically dispersed plumbing companies in the surrounding region, including its own company, Home Services of New England (HSNE) Plumbing. As a longtime Revelation Software customer, NEWH uses a system on Revelation's OpenInsight 9.4 for business processes such as document management, phone calls, and customer support.
Posted June 21, 2017
There are two types of businesses in the world today: those that run on data and those that will run on data. Data security now sits at the top of nearly every organization's priority list. But with such a high volume of data coming into most businesses every day, how can information security professionals quickly identify which data is the highest priority for protection? After all, security costs time and money, and not all types of data are as sensitive or vulnerable as others.
Posted June 21, 2017
Boxever, which provides an artificial intelligence-based personalization platform for B2C companies, has announced its partnership with the Oracle Marketing AppCloud, and the availability of Boxover's Customer Intelligence Cloud on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Boxover, which is also a Silver level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, offers AI and data analytics capabilities to help marketers improve personalization.
Posted June 21, 2017
By using Knoa Software, a provider of user experience management (UEM) software, Westcon-Comstor, a global distributor of security and more, was able to tap into the SAP User Experience Management platform (SAP UEM) by Knoa to assist with its global rollout of the SAP ERP application to 4,000 employees in 54 countries. The SAP UEM application provides visibility into software usage, enabling Westcon-Comstor to monitor and analyze user activity and system performance, and understand training needs, according to Knoa Software.
Posted June 21, 2017
SAP is releasing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) version 11.0 for SAP BW/4HANA, improving planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, and reporting. The latest version of SAP BPC supports more strategic decision-making and better results through accelerated insight to action and serves as a platform for finance transformation and innovation.
Posted June 21, 2017
SAP is unveiling a newly designed SAP SuccessFactors Mobile app for iOS after partnering with Apple. Driven by the partnership between Apple and SAP, the new iOS design will help revolutionize the HR experience for employees and managers, increasing engagement and impact of the SAP SuccessFactors human capital management (HCM) solutions.
Posted June 21, 2017
OpenText, a provider in Enterprise Information Management, is entering its global reseller agreement with SAP for SAP to resell the OpenText Extended ECM as SAP SuccessFactors Extended Enterprise Content Management solution. Designed exclusively for SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite, the new cloud-based solution helps organizations manage human resources (HR) and employee documents from generation to disposition in a secure and compliant manner.
Posted June 21, 2017
SAP and Accenture are expanding their collaboration to co-innovate, co-develop, and jointly go to market with digital solutions based on the new SAP Leonardo digital innovation system. The long-standing strategic partners will focus on embedding digital technologies including additional machine learning, analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) at the core of clients' businesses to deliver even greater value from their SAP investments.
Posted June 21, 2017
Informatica has announced Informatica Data Governance & Compliance for GDPR, a governance solution designed to help customers achieve compliance with the European Union's GDPR which becomes effective in May, 2018.
Posted June 20, 2017
GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing platform solutions based on Apache Ignite, has introduced GridGain 8.1. The new release provides a new memory-centric architecture that leverages advancements in memory and storage technologies.
Posted June 20, 2017
MongoDB has announced MongoDB Stitch, a new service to make it easier for developers to integrate the services they need to build applications. The company has also expanded the availability of MongoDB Atlas, its database as a service, to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Posted June 20, 2017
Scribe Software, a global data integration leader, has opened a new data center in Europe, designed to meet significant new demand for integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Located in Frankfurt, Germany, Scribe's European data center is aimed at helping global organizations maintain compliance with all applicable regulations for storing data, including the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR
Posted June 20, 2017
Syncsort, a provider of data integrity and integration solutions for next-generation analytics, has announced new capabilities in its mainframe data access and integration solution that populates Hadoop data lakes with changes in mainframe data.
Posted June 20, 2017
Talend, a provider of cloud and big data integration solutions, has unveiled a new version of the Talend Data Fabric platform, optimized to manage cloud and multi-cloud enterprise IT environments. Talend Summer '17 is intended to help manage information across Amazon Web Services, Cloudera Altus, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Snowflake platforms, enabling customers to integrate, cleanse and analyze data.
Posted June 19, 2017
Collibra, a provider of data governance software for business users, has unveiled a new release of its flagship platform which includes functionality to support the enterprise shift to self-service analytics.
Posted June 19, 2017
erwin has launched erwin DM NoSQL, an extension of the company's erwin Data Modeler solution. Representing an expansion of the company's "any-squared" (Any2)—any data, anywhere—approach, the new solution is targeted at enabling enterprises to model and manage unstructured cloud data with the same effectiveness as traditional data sources.
Posted June 19, 2017
Gone are the days of 2-year software development projects. Now organizations are striving for code updates that drop monthly, weekly, even daily. A developer will say, "I need a workable copy of Oracle today." And IT responds, "OK, we'll have that in about 2 weeks." What's a developer to do? Sometimes this leads to the use of synthetic datasets (one might also refer to this simply as "fake data"). These never work as well as real data, and the result is more bugs and slower software development. Other times the Dev/Test side of the house will expense spinning up a bunch of systems in the cloud, so-called "shadow IT."
Posted June 16, 2017
"Platforms" are all the rage in software positioning and messaging. And recently, a new platform has become the "platform du jour" - driven by the urgency felt by enterprises as they struggle to manage an increasing amount of data and an increasing number of data formats all generated from an increasingly number of applications on an increasingly diverse mix of infrastructure - the "data platform."
Posted June 16, 2017
New and emerging vendors offer fresh ways of dealing with data management and analytics challenges in areas such as data as a service, security as a service, cloud in a box, and data visualization. Here, DBTA looks at the 10 companies whose approaches we think are worth watching.
Posted June 16, 2017
Microsoft's SQL Server platform has been on a roll lately, with its smooth and feature-rich SQL 2016 release gaining accolades across the industry, including the DBMS of the Year award from db-engines.com. The company's increased focus on cloud, strong BI tool set, impressive functionality and emerging cross-platform capability with SQL on Linux has made this RDBMS a staple of database shops around the world.
Posted June 16, 2017
BlueData, provider of Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) software, is releasing an enhanced version of BlueData EPIC, providing increased scalability, enhanced networking, and significant security and performance optimizations. With BlueData EPIC 3.0, enterprises can quickly and easily deploy large-scale production environments for big data analytics and data science running in Docker containers - either on-premises, in the public cloud, or in a hybrid architecture.
Posted June 16, 2017
The Apache Arrow project is a standard for representing data for in-memory processing.Hardware evolves rapidly. Because Apache Arrow was designed to benefit many different types of software in a wide range of hardware environments, the project team focused on making the work "future-proof," which meant anticipating changes to hardware over the next decade.
Posted June 14, 2017
Looker, provider of a cloud data platform, has announced Instant Insight, a new feature that allows users to analyze their data without waiting for help from an analyst.
Posted June 14, 2017
Hazelcast, an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) provider, is releasing the 0.4 release of Hazelcast Jet, enabling new functionality that includes event-time processing with tumbling, sliding, and session windowing. Using these new capabilities, users benefit from a feature-rich stream processing architecture which provides a flexible mechanism to build and evaluate windows over continuous data streams.
Posted June 13, 2017
MarkLogic, has announced that its enterprise NoSQL database is now available on Microsoft Azure. According to MarkLogic, offering its database platform on Azure gives customers the flexibility they need by providing a single, actionable 360-degree view of their data in the cloud, whether on Azure or in a hybrid cloud environment, allowing them to seamlessly build and deploy applications, drive digital transformation projects, or set up short-term cloud deployments. The MarkLogic platform on Azure also enables customers to scale apps and projects up or down without downtime and with optimal deployment and transactional consistency, giving customers maximum operational efficiency
Posted June 13, 2017
IBM and Hortonworks are expanding their partnership focused on extending data science and machine learning to more developers and across the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The companies are combining the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) with the IBM Data Science Experience and IBM Big SQL into new integrated solutions designed to help users better analyze and manage data for better decision making.
Posted June 13, 2017
Melissa, a provider of global data quality and identity verification solutions, has achieved certification in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which establishes principles to ensure privacy of customer data shared in the process of transatlantic commerce. According to Melissa, this certification supports Melissa's ongoing commitment to the security, privacy, and availability of customer data for a worldwide clientele.
Posted June 13, 2017
Attunity Ltd., a provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, is launching a new solution, Attunity Compose for Hive, which automates the process of creation and continuous loading of operational and historical data stores in a data lake.
Posted June 13, 2017
Addressing the rise of hybrid deployments, Hortonworks has introduced a new software support subscription to provide seamless support to organizations as they transition from on-premise to cloud. Separately, Hortonworks also announced the general availability of Hortonworks Dataflow (HDF) 3.0, a new release of its open source data-in-motion platform, which enables customers to collect, curate, analyze and act on all data in real-time, across the data center and cloud.
Posted June 12, 2017
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, is releasing the MicroStrategy platform on AWS, enabling users with instant access to on-demand business intelligence solutions. MicroStrategy on AWS represents an optimized version of the MicroStrategy 10 platform built specifically for deployment on AWS.
Posted June 09, 2017
Redgate Software has announced that the latest version of SQL Backup Pro now includes automatic integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), making it easier for users to store their SQL Server backups in the cloud. With the new capabilities in SQL Backup Pro, Redgate says it is retiring its own Hosted Storage service for SQL Backup Pro, originally launched in 2013, and is supporting customers migrating to Amazon S3.
Posted June 08, 2017
Building on its Identity-based Security Operation Center (SOC) cloud services, Oracle has announced a series of developments that enhance the portfolio's machine learning, artificial intelligence and contextual awareness technologies. The latest round of enhancements include Adaptive Access capabilities into Oracle Identity Cloud Service intended for dynamic application access controls, advanced risk monitoring by leveraging machine learning engines, and the expansion of Oracle CASB Cloud Service to help support Oracle SaaS solutions with automated threat detection.
Posted June 07, 2017
When a failure occurs, the DBA must ascertain whether recovery is required. It is possible, though not very likely for active databases, that a failure does not impact the integrity of your data. Assuming that recovery is required, the DBA will need to determine what resources (backup copies and log files) are available and how best to perform the needed database recovery.
Posted June 07, 2017
OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management software, has introduced the second enhancement pack for OpenText Release 16, the company's digital information platform that helps customers to digitize business processes and manage information flows across the digital enterprise. Supporting the flow of information inside and outside of the enterprise, the extended ECM platform offers stronger integrations within the OpenText Platform as well as with leading applications such as Archiving for Oracle EBS, and SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C), SuccessFactors, and Hybris Marketing.
Posted June 07, 2017
The demand for speed and agility are among the key drivers of the growing DevOps movement, which seeks to better align software development and IT operations. Yet, challenges still exist.
Posted June 07, 2017
TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of software for integration, API management, and analytics, has announced the new TIBCO Cloud platform, featuring the new TIBCO Cloud Live Apps offering alongside the recognized TIBCO Cloud Integration.
Posted June 06, 2017
Databricks has introduced a new offering to simplify the management of Apache Spark workloads in the cloud. "Databricks Serverless" is a managed computing platform for Apache Spark that allows teams to share a pool of computing resources and automatically isolates users and manages costs. The new offering aims to remove the complexity and cost of users managing their own Spark clusters.
Posted June 06, 2017
Syncsort, a provider of data integration solutions for next-generation analytics, has announced new solutions that bring together its industry-leading big data integration and recently acquired Trillium data quality software to address data governance and customer 360 initiatives within data lakes.
Posted June 06, 2017
PremiumSoft has announced the release of Navicat Version 12 with a brand new interface for its Navicat family of products. Navicat develops the database management and development software. Its flagship product, Navicat Premium, allows users to access up to six databases all-in-one, including MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle, and PostgreSQL, eliminating workflow disruption to leverage users' time and increasing productivity and efficiency.
Posted June 06, 2017
Kinetica, a provider of GPU-accelerated database technology, is introducing native integration with Tableau.
Posted June 06, 2017
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of a converged data platform that integrates analytics with operational processes in real time, has announced MapR-XD, a cloud-scale data store to manage files and containers. As part of the MapR Converged Data Platform, MapR-XD supports any data type from the edge to the data center and multiple cloud environments with automatic policy-driven tiering from hot, warm or cold data to enable customers to create global data fabrics which are ready for analytical and operational applications.
Posted June 06, 2017
Unravel Data, which provides an APM platform designed for big data, has added integrated support for Cloudera Impala and Apache Kafka into its platform.
Posted June 06, 2017
Information Builders, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, data integrity, and integration solutions, has announced five key enhancements to help customers accelerate data-driven decision making.
Posted June 06, 2017
Alteryx, Inc., a provider of self-service data analytics solutions, is launching Alteryx Connect, a data exploration platform that empowers users to discover and collaborate on data assets, visualizations, reports, and workflows. With Alteryx Connect, organizations can capture data that has spread across an organization and present this knowledge back to business users so they can begin the analytics process using the best sources of information.
Posted June 06, 2017
Qubole, a data platform provider, is building an autonomous data platform designed to automate and analyze platform usage to make data teams more effective. The next-generation data platform includes three new products: Qubole Data Service (QDS) Community Edition, QDS Enterprise Edition, and QDS Cloud Agents.
Posted June 05, 2017
Software Diversified Services (SDS), a provider of mainframe software, has acquired the SMA_RT software product from Type80 Security Software, Inc. SMA_RT is a real-time mainframe intrusion detection, SIEM agent, and log-event processing product for z/OS. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Posted June 05, 2017
Seagate Government Solutions, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Seagate, a provider of storage solutions, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., a government IT solutions provider, have formed a partnership to distribute Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) to government agencies. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as a public sector distributor for Trade Agreements Act (TAA) compliant Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) with FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification.
Posted June 05, 2017
IBM Security and Cisco announced they are working together to address the growing global threat of cybercrime. In a new collaboration, Cisco and IBM Security will work together across products, services and threat intelligence for the benefit of customers.
Posted June 05, 2017
Trifacta, a provider of data wrangling software, is launching the Spring '17 Wrangler Enterprise release, focusing on accelerating the expansion of data wrangling projects in enterprise environments. With the Spring '17 release, Trifacta now provides enhanced features that meet the growing needs for deploying data wrangling solutions at enterprise-wide scale.
Posted June 01, 2017