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Cloud Data Warehouse Gets New Analytics Interface

Analytics interface vendors continue to offer easy-to-use tools designed to allow more business users to query data, especially data increasingly stored in a growing number of cloud data warehouses. Among the goals is si Read more…

Anodot Gains Patents for Anomaly Detection

Anodot, which focuses on using machine learning techniques to spot anomalies in time-series data, announced a pair of U.S. patent awards this week covering its autonomous analytics framework. The analytics vendor said Read more…

Seizing Business Opportunities at the Speed of Thought

When Sudheesh Nair suddenly left the president's post at Nutanix to occupy the CEO seat at ThoughtSpot earlier this year, it raised a few eyebrows. After all, Nutanix was one of the hottest firms in the market for hyper- Read more…

Why You Need to Trust Your Data

There's something that often gets lost in discussions about artificial intelligence and advanced analytics: the importance of the data. Having good, clean data is absolutely essential, but all too often, companies lack t Read more…

SQream Boasts 15x Speedup for GPU Data Warehouse

Because it runs on GPUs, SQreamDB was already fast. But the company says with today's launch of SQreamDB 3.0, it can process queries up to 15 times faster, which will allow customers to get answers to tough business ques Read more…

Arcadia Data Looks to Streamline Big Data Search

Since emerging in June 2015, Arcadia Data has steadily upgraded its native Hadoop visual analytics platform to its latest hybrid iteration running both on the open-source framework and the cloud that now includes search- Read more…

BI Vendors Sliced and Diced on G2’s Grid

If you're on the hunt for better business intelligence software – and really, who isn't these days? – you likely are reading some analyst reports on the topic. But all too often, those reports don't reflect the exper Read more…

Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse Gets a Tune Up

Microsoft is keeping pace in the cloud data warehouse race with the release of its next-generation Azure SQL data warehouse which it promotes as an optimized computing tier. Microsoft said its massively-parallel proce Read more…

Blowing Up Silos In a Big Data World

A startup named data.world is embarking upon a grand experiment to build a collaborative data platform that links together data, people, and their analytic tools. By eradicating data silos and building a social community Read more…

Trifacta Cashing In On Cloud Analytics

Reflecting the booming market for data preparation technologies, many centering on emerging serverless tools, market leader Trifacta recently announced a $48 million funding round. Among the new investors is Google, whic Read more…

Looker’s Audacious Moonshot to Outgrow Oracle

You may have considered Looker to be just another business intelligence tool. After all, that's the bucket analysts at Forrester and Gartner put the company in. But talk a bit with its founder, Lloyd Tabb, and you quickl Read more…

The Next Generation Analytics Database – Accelerated by GPUs

As organizations demand more and more from their analytics and data science teams, processing power looms as one of the fundamental roadblocks to easy success. Organizations are facing a variety of processing-related Read more…

MongoDB, Tableau Expand Integration With BI Link

Database vendor MongoDB is again partnering with visual analytics specialist Tableau Software on an upgraded business intelligence connector designed to extend the merger of the two big data platforms to leverage Tableau Read more…

AI Seen Better Suited to IoT Than Big Data

More cold water is being thrown on the notion that AI might be the next big thing for big data. Rather, a new survey finds that AI branches such as machine learning are perceived as be more useful for applications such a Read more…

Tibco Launches BI Cloud, Updates Streaming Platform

As self-service data analytics inexorably shifts to the cloud, another business intelligence and analytics tool vendor has rolled out a cloud platform along with an updated version of its streaming analytics framework as Read more…

Infor Buys Cloud Analytics Vendor Birst

Consolidation in the business intelligence sector may be underway with this week's acquisition of pure-play cloud analytics vendor Birst Inc. by enterprise software vendor Infor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read more…

Qlik Takes to the Cloud, Buys GeoAnalytics Firm

Qlik Technologies this week unveiled its first fully functional cloud-based BI offering, Qlik Sense Cloud Business Platform, with monthly subscriptions costing $25 per user. The Pennsylvania firm this month also complete Read more…

Surveys Find Cloud Surge, Mixed Data

A steady shift to the cloud and continuing momentum for business intelligence workloads highlight an annual industry survey aimed at gauging the maturity of big data technology. Separately, another big data assessment Read more…

The Top Five BI Analytics Trends for 2017

The importance of analytics to businesses is growing. Fast analysis of data from a variety of sources is viewed as a potential gold mine to optimize operations, increase revenues, improve customer relations, and more. Fu Read more…

Survey: Analytics Access Up, Adoption Down

Despite broader access to self-service business intelligence tools, enterprise adoption continues to decline, creating what a new industry survey argues is a growing need for "embedded analytics" in which tools and data Read more…

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