When organizations need to optimize their business processes and improve operations and decisions, the often speak of having the right information at the right time, but don’t always make that a priority. This information optimization is often thought to be expensive and time-consuming, especially with advent of big data and disparate data sources across cloud and on-premises environments, as I have articulated. Datawatch can help business get to information of any variety or volume at any time through its access and integration tools. When I published my last analysis of Datawatch, it had made significant advancements in its platform, with enterprise-class reliability and support for business analytics through its data discovery and virtualization processes. Over the last year Datawatch continued to grow its business worldwide, and through investments into its marketing, sales and product efforts is finding more potential from existing and new customers. The company’s energized product efforts earned it our 2012 Technology Innovation Award for Information Applications for its Information Optimization Suite.
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Topics:
Big Data,
MapR,
QlikView,
Cloud Computing,
Information Management,
Uncategorized,
Datawatch,
Information Optimization
At the recent Teradata’s annual Partners user conference, the company outlined its expanding role as a provider distributed information architecture technology. My colleague Tony Cosentino assessed Teradata’s business analytics and big data strategy, but there is more under the covers in regards to the company’s expanding role for big data and enterprise architectures. Over the last several decades Teradata has been known for providing enterprise data warehouse appliances, such as its unveiling of its new Teradata 2700 data warehouse appliance, which uses the latest multicore Intel processors. Now, as organizations continue to invest in distributed approaches in which they store and utilize data on a range of appliances and through Hadoop-based big data technology, Teradata has begun to provide integration with Hadoop, including a direct connector to it and commercialized versions of it in partnership with Cloudera and Hortonworks. Earlier this year, for instance, Teradata formed a partnership with Hortonworks that provides a commercialized edition of the open source Hadoop that now is further integrated.
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Topics:
Big Data,
QlikView,
SAS,
alteryx,
Business Analytics,
Hortonworks,
Information Management,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Strata+Hadoop
I was at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference this week to hear about the latest advancements from the cloud computing software giant. Salesforce has helped revolutionize cloud computing for business, and its social media and collaborative technologies help advance business processes in sales, customer service and improve the interactions between employees, partners and customers. Salesforce has made great advancements in cloud, social and mobile technology, as I have assessed and my colleague did too.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Predictive Analytics,
QlikView,
Salesforce.com,
Social Media,
Gooddata,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
SnapLogic,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
InetSoft,
KXEN,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Cloud9 Analytics,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Domo,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Builder iway,
Information Management (IM),
Roambi,
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
