Data Virtualization and Big Data Business Intelligence
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Data Management
Pentaho Business Analytics Gets an In-Memory Boost
Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho is advancing its capabilities with new in-memory features. The Pentaho Business…
Big Data, MapReduce, Hadoop, NoSQL: The Relational Technology Behind the Curtain
One of the more interesting features of vendors’ recent marketing push to sell business intelligence and analytics is…
Oracle Buys Endeca for Unstructured Business Intelligence
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced plans to acquire Endeca Technologies, adding to its unstructured data management, ecommerce and…
IBM Evolves from On Demand to SmartCloud
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is rolling out a new set of SmartCloud services and software, providing new opportunities for…
IBM Adds Analytics to Business Processes
Data is at the root of good decision making, but how do you get the right data in…
Oracle Speeds Up Business Intelligence, CRM and ERP
The 45,000 attendees at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco were served up a program rich…
Oracle Exalytics Aims for Business Intelligence at the Speed of Thought
Business analytics at the speed of thought? That’s the pitch that Oracle CEO Larry Ellision made at the…
Vision Critical Unveils Customer Experience Management Platform
Technology and research firm Vision Critical has unveiled its Customer Experience Management (CEM) platform, designed to automate the…
Oracle Grows Software Business, Moves Away from x86 Hardware
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is continuing to grow its software business while moving away from commodity x86 hardware. Oracle…
Big Money for Big Data and Mobile Business Intelligence
Privately owned Opera Solutions and MeLLmo Inc. are the latest business intelligence companies to receive investment funding to…
SAP Unveils Smart Meter, Profitability Apps for HANA In-Memory Analytics
At SAP TechEd 2011 in Las Vegas today, SAP (NYSE: SAP) unveiled two new solutions built on its…
SAP to Acquire Right Hemisphere for 3-D Visualization Software
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced plans to acquire Right Hemisphere, a provider of visual enterprise solutions, to help…
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Virtualization
One of the most fundamental decisions that business intelligence implementers in IT make, at the beginning of every…
Review: Panorama Necto Socially-Enabled Business Intelligence
Panorama Software has been in the business of business intelligence (BI) for more than 14 years. The company…
Business Intelligence Challenged by Social, Mobile Data
A recent IBM survey shows that 76% of CEOs view “insight and intelligence” as key to corporate success…
Microsoft to Release Hadoop Connectors for SQL Server, Parallel Data Warehouse
In the age of big data, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) says it is moving forward with plans to help…
Hadoop, Big Data and Small Businesses
Hadoop, HDFS and the MapReduce algorithm are becoming as popular as searching for celebrity gossip, and this surge…
Oracle Builds Data Warehousing and Analytics for Financial Services
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) says its financial business intelligence, risk management and analytics platform, Oracle Financial Services Data Warehouse,…
SAP Sets Sights on Mobile Enterprise Apps
Building on last year’s acquisition of Sybase, SAP (NYSE: SAP) is increasing its focus on making its enterprise…
Microsoft Research Debuts ‘Daytona’ Azure Analytics Tools
Microsoft this week announced a set of tools for its Windows Azure public cloud computing platform meant to…
SAS Analytics Helps Organizations Search and Manage Big Data
A new business analytics software release from SAS is geared to help enterprise organizations simplify big data management…
ResCare Improves Corporate Performance with Oracle Business Intelligence
Human services company ResCare has turned to Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) business intelligence to fine-tune its corporate performance. As…
Sybase IQ Boosts Business Analytics with MPP Technology
SAP’s Sybase unit has announced the release of version 15.3 of the Sybase IQ columnar database, powered by…
Actuate Adds Hadoop to Open Source Business Intelligence
Actuate (NASDAQ: BIRT) has announced support and services for Hadoop and MapReduce in the new release of BIRT…
Colleges Aren’t Training Enough Students for Business Intelligence Jobs
Today’s college grads are ill-prepared to meet business needs for data-savvy workers. Even as the growth of big…
Oracle’s Software, Database Sales Drive Growth
Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) software business remained strong in its most recent quarter, but hardware sales came in shy…
IBM Expands Social Networking and Big Data Analytics Portfolio
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has expanded its software portfolio to help organizations embrace the power of social business with…
Oracle Acquires FatWire for Web Experience Management
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has entered into an agreement to acquire web experience management (WEM) company FatWire Software. FatWire…
SAP Releases HANA In-Memory Analytics, Refreshes Business One ERP
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced the general availability of its HANA in-memory analytics appliance software. The release, according…
HP Vertica 5.0 Accelerates Big Data Analytics
HP (NYSE: HPQ) acquired Vertica earlier this year to tap the fast-growing market for big data analytics and…
Oracle Exadata Certified for SAP Applications
Oracle Exadata Database Machines are now certified for SAP applications. With the new Oracle Exadata certification, all SAP…
CIOs Invest in Business Analytics to Tackle Big Data: IBM Study
According to a recent IBM (NYSE: IBM) global study of CIOs, the top strategic technology investment over the…
Informatica Overhauls Data Integration Platform for Big Data and Social Media
Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) says it has unleashed the business potential of “big data” by offering support for social…
Terracotta In-Memory Technology to Fuel Software AG Cloud Computing Offerings
Software AG will acquire Terracotta, which offers some of the most widely-used software for application scalability, availability and…
SAS Speeds Text Analytics and Information Discovery with Taxonomy Kits
Business analytics leader SAS has announced new pre-built Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits for SAS Enterprise Content Categorization.…
EMC Unveils Hadoop Appliance for Big Data Analytics
EMC (NYSE: EMC) says the company has a new strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop…
‘Big Data’ Offers Big Challenges – And Big Rewards
“Big data” is exploding as more and more information is collected and stored daily, and both businesses and…
Information Builders and Teradata Combine Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
Business intelligence (BI) solution provider Information Builders has partnered with Teradata (NYSE: TDC) to offer a new data…
Iron Speed Makes Web App Development Easy
Iron Speed claims to save users hundreds of hours of web application development time with its Designer database…
SAS, EMC Team Up for High-Performance Analytics
Business analytics pioneer SAS says it will give customers a better view of critical information using a purpose-built…
Actuate Turns Unstructured Data into Business Intelligence
Actuate (NASDAQ: BIRT) unveiled a new offering this week that gleans business intelligence from unstructured and semi-structured data,…
New Version of SkyMobile Enterprise App Platform Released
Sky Technologies has released the newest version of the SkyMobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) and the SkyMobile Application…
Terracotta Enhances Enterprise Quartz Scheduler
Terracotta has announced significant upgrades to Quartz, the open source job scheduler that can be integrated with, or…
Webalo Provides Mobile Enterprise Security
Businesses are clamoring for mobile access to enterprise resources, but IT has to deal with more than just…
CRM, Data Quality and the Cloud
With most data, you expect a unique key and an unambiguous match. But what do you do when…
SAP Rivals IBM, Oracle in Governance Software Market
Nearly three years in the making SAP (NYSE: SAP) is set to rival IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NASDAQ:…
Social Business Intelligence – What Is It, and Do You Need It?
Social business intelligence is a convergence of several trends: It’s business intelligence plus knowledge management, plus social networking…
IBM Netezza Offers New Approach to Telco Data Warehousing
Telcos struggle to extract and model prodigious amounts of customer and network data. According to this Connected Planet…
Pervasive Software Shares Could Triple
Pervasive’s revenue growth and stock price ebbs and flows with its product release cycles. After two years of…