Tag: business intelligence
Transforming ‘Data Swamps’ into Data Lakes
Data lakes and the growing number of analytics tools emerging to access their contents are expanding the universe of business users able to reap insights via what a new survey calls “point-and-click” accessibility. 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…
Self-Serve Platform Promotes Collaboration
Among the goals of self-service big data analytics vendors is unifying the entire technology stack to allow business analytics to glean insights from data lakes. Combining the ability to run natively on Hadoop clusters a Read more…
AtScale Revs ‘Universal Layer’ to Keep Data ‘Big’
Keeping the "big" in big data is the mission of a four-year-old startup launched by Hadoop and business intelligence veterans with the aim of bridging the gap between users, their favorite tools and underlying Hadoop dat Read more…
A Four-Phased Approach to Building an Optimal Data Warehouse
If you’re planning to create a data warehouse, make sure you create one that is cross-functional and provides a long-life foundation for data provision and decision support. This means covering the entire enterprise an Read more…
Hate Hadoop? Then You’re Doing It Wrong
There’s been a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking saying Hadoop never made sense in the first place and that it has met its demise. Comments from “Hadoop is slow for small, ad hoc jobs” to “Hadoop is dead and S Read more…
Kinetica Gets $50M for Converged GPU Analytics
Kinetica's bold plan to build a converged real-time analytics platform that uses GPUs and in-memory techniques to power existing SQL queries alongside deep learning algorithms got a big boost today when it disclosed a $5 Read more…
MongoDB Pivots to Analytics
MongoDB wasn't originally designed to power advanced analytics. But the frustration that people have with Hadoop data lakes and the desire to get real-time answers from the database driving their applications is leading Read more…
Microsoft Looks to Build on Power BI Momentum
Microsoft used its data insights summit to tout the progress of its flagship business intelligence offering introduced two years ago as a cloud-based platform that provides connectivity to critical enterprise data stored 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…
Smaller BI Vendors Dominate Rankings
Smaller, agile analytics vendors rank highest in terms of customer satisfaction and market credibility, according to a new study of the business intelligence market. The survey released by market researcher Dresner Ad Read more…
Data Deals Heat Up
It's looking more like buyers' market as the number of data analytics deals grows. Seeking to break out of the pack of business intelligence and analytical tool vendors, Tibco Software said it would acquire data scien 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…
Sisense Adds Machine Learning to BI Platform
Machine learning continues to make serious inroads in big data markets, most notably in the automation of tedious business intelligence tasks. Among the emerging applications is discerning and highlighting patterns in en Read more…
Cloud-Based Analytics Shift Gains Momentum
In the abbreviated version of the precipitation cycle many of us memorized in high school science class, moisture evaporates to forms clouds. Much the same appears to be happening with big data as an up-and-coming busine Read more…
Arcadia Upgrades Visual Analytics Platform
The latest version of Arcadia Data's enterprise platform sharpens the visual analytics software vendor's focus on generating data-driven applications with the long-term goal of making Hadoop and data lakes more accessibl Read more…
Birst Dishes Up Data Prep, ML Automation, and More
Groups of data scientists and regular users will be able to collaboratively prepare and share their data for analysis with the latest release of Birst's analytics platform. Version 6 of the company's suite also adds more Read more…
Putting Data into Action: BI is the Differentiator in Most Industries
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In today’s highly competitive world, businesses need a way to stand out from the competition. Business intelligence (BI) is the key to gaining this advantage and is becoming increasingly important to the success of bus Read more…
Expand Your Company’s Use of BI with a Scalable and Easy to Use Solution
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Companies today want to increase their use of business intelligence (BI) derived insights to deliver better customer service, improve operations, and make better decisions. Recent studies find that those organizations th Read more…
Another Self-Service Database Tool Emerges
The democratization of big data continues apace with a new self-service analytics tool that allows non-data scientists to query databases and get answers without formal training in, for example, SQL. The startup VQL T Read more…
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