Data Integration Articles
Using a single codebase, Appmethod, a new application development platform from Embarcadero, allows developers to build multi-device applications up to 20 times faster. The new platform delivers an end-to-end solution that aims to alleviate the increasing pressure on developers to quickly deliver new apps that support multiple platforms and devices, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and laptops.
Posted March 14, 2014
Attunity Gold Client Solutions 8 has achieved certified integration with the SAP ERP 6.0 application running on the SAP HANA platform. Gold Client Solutions 8 allows enterprises to select, protect and copy a reduced and relevant data set to SAP HANA for proof of concept (POC) evaluations, in their data center or in the cloud. Once customers are ready to move the rest of their data to HANA, the solution helps enable a rapid data migration and synchronization across SAP applications that are running on HANA.
Posted March 14, 2014
Along with big data there come some fundamental challenges. The biggest challenge is that big data is not able to be analyzed using standard analytical software. There is new technology called "textual disambiguation" which allows raw unstructured text to have its context specifically determined.
Posted March 14, 2014
Embarcadero, a provider of software solutions for application and database development, is acquiring CA Technologies' ERwin Data Modeling solution. The acquisition will provide Embarcadero additional channel partners. ERwin is sold almost exclusively through more than 500 partners in over 70 countries.
Posted March 14, 2014
New integration between the Vormetric Data Security platform and IBM QRadar provides companies with automated data access pattern analysis, enabling them to identify potential threats to sensitive data at the source. The combined solution identifies unauthorized data access attempts - indicating accounts that represent a possible threat - and includes capabilities to monitor and alert on data access patterns that may indicate the presence of an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) or a malicious insider attack.
Posted March 13, 2014
Ironically, although the thin client advocates were right about many things - the success of browser-based applications, in particular - they were dead wrong about the diminishing role of the OS. More than ever, the OS is the source of competitive differentiation between various platforms, and a clear focus of innovation for the foreseeable future.
Posted March 12, 2014
To simplify and strengthen enterprise application integration (EAI) capabilities, the latest release of Kourier Integrator, Kore Technologies' flagship product for data management providing both extract, transform and load (ETL) and enterprise application integration (EAI) capabilities, offers simpler inbound integration of third-party systems and databases to U2 applications.
Posted March 12, 2014
Ideal Business Services Ltd., an international developer of custom software for intermodal, container logistics, warehousing, shipping ports and airports, has completed the development of a computerized warehouse management system for the Government of Saint Lucia Ministry of Commerce, Business Development, Investment and Consumer Affairs using mv.NET from BlueFinity International.
Posted March 12, 2014
Delphix has released the Delphix Modernization Engine, a new product aimed at addressing the challenges that it says too many modernization projects face - taking too much time and costing too much. Because of this, Delphix contends, many of them fail, either ending over budget, behind schedule, or reduced in scope, limiting the effectiveness of the investment.
Posted March 11, 2014
Oracle announced Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3 back in November 2013, which features new capabilities for managing Oracle Multitenant, an Oracle Database 12c enterprise edition option. The announcement was supported by a live webcast, titled "Delivering Pluggable Database as a Service." In this article, we provide answers to some of the common questions from the webcast.
Posted March 10, 2014
Tableau and Splunk have formed an alliance, which allows users of Tableau's visual analytics software to access machine data with Splunk Enterprise. The ability to use Tableau to visualize structured data with machine data in Splunk will enable customers to gain new business insights.
Posted March 10, 2014
OpenText unveiled a new integrated OpenText Microsoft SharePoint Services (SPS) for Extended ECM for SAP Solutions. This solution, stemming from long term partnerships with SAP and Microsoft SharePoint, is designed to help deliver comprehensive and compliance assurance capabilities to customers globally which can benefit enterprises and enhance their information governance strategy for Microsoft SharePoint content.
Posted March 10, 2014
McAfee, a provider of security solutions and services for systems, networks, and mobile devices, has improved its capabilities for finding, freezing, and fixing advanced threats faster to thwart targeted attacks. The McAfee solution binds and shares threat intelligence and workflows across endpoints, network and the cloud , resulting in a level of protection that the company says cannot be achieved with individual point products.
Posted March 05, 2014
SAP underscored the company's strategy which focuses squarely on HANA and the cloud in a webcast presented by Jonathan Becher, chief marketing officer of SAP, and Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Products & Innovation. The company rolled out new and enhanced offerings for the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, the SAP HANA Marketplace, HANA's new pricing, innovations on top of HANA, and also announced that HANA had broken the Guinness World Record for the largest data warehouse ever built - 12.1PB.
Posted March 05, 2014
To take advantage of new Oracle Database capabilities, CSX Corporation, an international transportation company, upgraded more than 400 databases supporting critical commercial, packaged and proprietary business applications, including payroll, dispatching, and a customer-facing order entry system. To minimize the business impact and downtime during the transition, CSX used Oracle Real Application Testing, an Oracle Database option, in conjunction with Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Posted March 05, 2014
Informatica Cloud Spring 2014, the latest Infomatica software release, introduces Informatica Cloud Designer which brings Informatica's integration design tools into a 100% cloud-based design environment.
Posted March 04, 2014
CA has introduced CA Layer 7 API Portal, which supports partner, third-party and internal developers across multiple groups simultaneously, granting each unit its own set of access and API publishing privileges — all from a single portal.
Posted March 03, 2014
Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) and IBM have launched a Big Data Survey to provide a timely analysis of the key technologies, practices and strategies that businesses across different industries are using to improve confidence in their decision making. Respond with a completed survey by March 2nd, 2014, in order to be included in a drawing to win one of three $200 American Express gift cards to be awarded at the conclusion of the study.
Posted February 26, 2014
While minimizing risk is important for financial services organizations, companies need to think beyond fraud detection and understand the wider benefits predictive analytics can provide in terms of better customer experience, driving opportunities and increasing revenue in a highly competitive market. Among other uses, a comprehensive customer database, combined with advanced analytics, will allow organizations to spot trends, identify cohorts, and micro-target discrete populations.
Posted February 26, 2014
The popular "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" outlined, in an entertaining fashion, the core question of big data, to find the "answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything." Today, big data describes our development along this path to answer all the questions by collecting and interpreting all the data, but not all data is equal and not all the answers are worthwhile computing.
Posted February 26, 2014
These days, companies have more and more of their applications and data being accessed through mobile devices. To enable secure access to sensitive enterprise applications and data on mobile devices, Oracle rolled out the Oracle Mobile Security Suite, which, combined with Oracle's existing Identity and Access solutions, aims to deliver an integrated platform for managing access to all applications from a complete range of device types.
Posted February 26, 2014
ISUG-TECH 2014 in Atlanta, April 14-17, will be the first technology event to explore the features and functionality in Sybase ASE 16. The conference will provide more than 150 hours of technical session, more than 60 hours of workshops, and more than 50 expert speakers, and a range of workshops, including the SAP ASE Quick Start for Oracle and SQL Server DBAs workshop which will double as a refresher course for people who had been Sybase DBAs but have not recently been in that role.
Posted February 26, 2014
After almost two decades of delivering technology training and education to customers, partners, consultants, and employees through the SAP TechEd conference series, SAP is changing the conference name to SAP d-code.
Posted February 26, 2014
A new offering from Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT Cloud) is designed to help companies migrate their existing implementations of the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse application to the SAP HANA platform in a private cloud managed by WFT Cloud. The service by WFT Cloud includes an upgrade at no additional charge of the customer's existing implementation of SAP NetWeaver BW to version 7.3.
Posted February 26, 2014
The latest release of Embarcadero's portfolio of database tools adds first-class support for Teradata in addition to updating support for the latest releases of the major RDBMSs. Overall, a key theme for the XE5 releases is an emphasis on scale, as big data, with big models and big applications, requires close collaboration across big teams, said Henry Olson, Embarcadero director of product management.
Posted February 26, 2014
In order to be effective, big data analytics must present a clear and consistent picture of what's happening in and around the enterprise. Does a new generation of databases and platforms offer the scalability and velocity required for cloud-based, big data-based applications—or will more traditional relational databases come roaring back for all levels of big data challenges?
Posted February 26, 2014
Mission-critical applications in the banking, education, retail, healthcare, oil and gas, government, and travel industries depend on trusted MultiValue database systems. Yet, new requirements are emerging for MultiValue technology vendors to support integration with other enterprise data sources, enable mobile and web access, provide comprehensive business intelligence, and enforce greater security. In this special report, executives of seven leading MultiValue companies discuss how they are responding to their customers' evolving needs.
Posted February 26, 2014
New versions of HiT Software's high-performance connectivity products for application access to IBM DB2 for i databases offer new features, including full support for Microsoft Windows 8, SQL Server 2012 Data Tools and Windows Server 2012, with backward-compatible support for previous versions.
Posted February 21, 2014
Informatica 9.6 aims to simplify use for all types of data projects - ranging from day to day reporting to comprehensive data analysis. In addition, the latest release of the data integration platform delivers critical business data up to five times faster than traditional approaches, the company says.
Posted February 20, 2014
To help organizations take advantage of integrated financial planning and budgeting quickly and cost-effectively, Oracle has released its first enterprise performance management (EPM) solution offered in the cloud - Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service. The new service provides pre-built starter kits, intuitive application creation wizards, best practice design guides, interactive online help/tutorials, and migration tools to help organizations accelerate time-to-value.
Posted February 19, 2014
Express Entry, an address auto-completion tool designed to eliminate bad data at the source of entry, has been introduced by Melissa Data. Free for up to 1,000 addresses per month, Express Entry validates addresses as they are entered, enabling fast and accurate customer data for CRM and call center applications.
Posted February 18, 2014
Alpine Data Labs has introduced a collaboration solution that aims to help deliver on the predictive analytics potential of big data. Alpine Chorus 3.0 is a product that it allows users to log in, work with colleagues, and explore data.
Posted February 18, 2014
Attivio has released the latest version of the Active Intelligence Engine unified information access platform, version 4.0, which includes new unified information access modules that give more control to non-technical business users and eliminates the source integration challenge.
Posted February 18, 2014
SiSense has unveiled the latest version of its analytics solution which enables business users to query large amounts of data from any device or PC without any involvement from IT. SiSense 5 works on any device including desktop, tablet, smartphones.
Posted February 13, 2014
MemSQL, a provider of in-memory database technology, has announced the release of MemSQL v3.0, which provides a highly compressed column store in a new integrated architecture. The new tiered storage architecture enables companies to combine in-memory and flash optimized columnar engines to capture, store and query large amounts of data in real time.
Posted February 11, 2014
Hortonworks and Red Hat have announced an expanded partnership, as well as the introduction of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) plug-in for Red Hat Storage, now available through a beta program.
Posted February 10, 2014
HP has officially launched a new online destination called the HP Vertica Marketplace to support partners and customers in the creation, sharing, and marketing of solutions and add-ons to the Vertica Analytics Platform including connectors and third-party extensions, business intelligence tools, ETL and data transformation products.
Posted February 10, 2014
DocuSign and Badgeville have created new business applications using Oracle Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) and listed them in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Launched at Oracle OpenWorld 2013, the Oracle Cloud Marketplace features hundreds of business applications developed by Oracle partners.
Posted February 05, 2014
Positioning itself as a 'one-stop Java shop,' Azul Systems has added Zulu Enterprise to its offerings. The open source, enterprise-quality, commercialized build of OpenJDK supports a range of operating systems, hypervisors and cloud platforms.
Posted January 30, 2014
To streamline the movement of SAP system data into the Teradata Database, Teradata has launched Teradata Analytics for SAP software and services. The new solution enables SAP system data to be moved to Terada and integrated with big data and business data to support a comprehensive view and enable more insightful business decisions.
Posted January 29, 2014
Attivio and Quant5 have joined forces to create a Predictive Customer Analytics Suite. Despite the increased focus on corporate "data-centricity," many large companies are struggling to effectively use customer data. According to the companies, the Quant5-Attivio partnership addresses this challenge by making data accessible with cloud-based solutions that provide immediate value to non-technical users, without requiring a team of data scientists.
Posted January 27, 2014
Oracle has introduced Oracle Cloud Adapters to help organizations easily integrate applications regardless of deployment location - in the cloud or on-premise. Oracle Cloud Adapters are supported by Oracle SOA Suite, a unified application integration solution..
Posted January 22, 2014
ISUG-TECH, the technical user group for SAP products, has published the conference tracks and sessions for the upcoming ISUG-TECH 2014 conference which will be held April 14-17 at the Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, and sponsored by SAP. In addition to the main conference tracks, there also will be six pre-conference and three post-conference workshops providing deeper technical dives.
Posted January 22, 2014