Data in Motion - What's Innovative?

The journey to hybrid cloud is basically a modernisation journey. Don’t throw away something that works, and that you trust, if it can still be useful.

Finding a story that shows the value of underlying, background technologies for both business leaders and end-users is a gem to be treasured.

Andy Hayler explores the background of data warehouses, and looks at Greenplum, a highly scalable open-source massively parallel warehouse.

Sustainability is a strategic imperative touching all elements of Stakeholder Engagement in a Mutable Business™.

Machine augmentation may well automate routine business jobs out of existence but it will still be important that decisions can be explained in human terms.

YourDataConnect is doing something nobody else is doing, something which addresses the issue of helping you turn data in to business value.

The Digital.ai Value Stream Management platform integrates existing tools such as Collabnet VersionOne, XebiaLabs and Arxan.

The appointment of new IBM CEO, Arvind Krishna might be one of the most significant weeks in its history as it sets foot on the path to a culture change.

Dynatrace and others now offer the ability to monitor and manage the whole of the infrastructure stack in a public and hybrid cloud environment.

How machine learning is driving innovation in detecting and responding to security events.

BEAM offers users with only a reasonable amount of training access to advanced analytics capability to undertake predictive, clustering and analytical functions

New storage solutions are able to ingest vast amounts of real-time data from IoT sensors and probes. AI & data analytics solutions decode the data & predict IT Infrastructure problems.

An introduction to Snowflake a true data warehouse for the Cloud

Jennifer Roubaud is the VP for UK and Ireland of Dataiku, who market an enterprise analytics platform the Data Science Studio.

TigerGraph is a graph database that has just been formally released. It is targeted at real-time graph analytics.

Thoughtspot is a complete rethink of how analytics and BI should be done and its a huge success and it will challenge the market

Saltare delivering BI and analytics as it should be done, looking at people and process as well as technology

A look at the major features of Board 10.1

New approaches to data virtualisation threaten incumbents

Verifiable models of business decisions are just as useful as the process models used for model-driven development

The second blog about Zizo, discussing its analytic capabilities.

The first of two blogs discussing Zizo, an analytics vendor. This blog discusses the underlying database.

Qlik has just released Qlik Sense 3.0. It has some advanced data preparation capabilities.

SAS is being innovative in a number of areas, not least of which is opening up to other languages

Statistica leverages Boomi for the Internet of Things

EnterpriseWeb is suggesting that the way to tackle the API problem is by abstracting the technical handshaking

Uneartha is a suite of products that provides requirements-driven data integration and data preparation capabilities.

Reltio provides analytic applications - think actionable insight - on top of an MDM foundation

Privacy Analytics has un-bundled its Risk Monitor. You can monitor the risk of re-identification in data masking environments and prove compliance.

Deepfield are offering a new approach to network analytics for Telcos promises much and delivers business changing insights

IBM and Informatica have both just come out with big data integration and governance products

dashDB is IBM's in-cloud warehousing as a service

Capsenta is doing some seriously interesting things in the area of data federation and semantics.

SYSTAP is implementing its graph database using Nvidia GPUs. This has some serious price/performance benefits for large scale analytics.

Chartio have brought a point and click reporting tool to market that combines a low TCO, with ease of use and professional looking results.

Load DynamiX's appliance stress-tests large throughputs and infrastructures addressing the "what-ifs"

The Internet of Things is going to require distributed stream-based processing

I think I finally understand the difference between Watson and Watson Analytics

Companies are already making announcements ahead of next week's Strata conference.

Adeptia have announced the release Adeptia Connect; a cloud application run on Amazon Web Services, designed for business users to create data connections.

I recently shared a webcast with the CIO of Informatica

Springbok is a data preparation platform for business users.

Data preparation is emerging as a market in support of data scientists. Tamr is the new kid on the block but its antecedents suggest that it will be successful

Dell Boomi has released the latest iteration of its data integration product.

EnterpriseWeb aims to automate connectivity

Attunity's replication solution is well worth a serious look

There are a number of search/BI tools but SBS VALID is unique (I think) in being based on graph technology - and that provides significant advantages

Data preparation is the biggest part (around 80%) of and data discovery/mining exercise. Trifacta specialises in making this easy in a big data world.

Query approximation can improve performance, especially for iterative processes

IBM has launched Data Click to provide self-service data integration

Datawatch has acquired Panopticon - how intelligent of them.

A review of recent Pentaho announcements

All the major independents in the CEP space have now succumbed

Actian exploits its ParAccel, Pervasive Software and Versant Corporation acquisition as two new cloud offerings.

A look at how analytics can extend the capability of an already comprehensive operational management tool

Technology enables us to bring together vast quantities of data, and nowhere is that truer that in a Telco.

Cirro has introduced a data federation solution designed for big data. It could give the established vendors a run for their money.

QlikTech has bought expressor Software. Why? And what's it going to do with it?

There a variety of techniques that data integration vendors could use to make ETL simpler, but generally speaking they aren't doing so

There are a lot of start-ups trying to link CEP to Big Data but it is likely that the major vendors will push them out of the way.

Complex event processing is a part of the big data story but surprisingly few vendors recognise this

IBM use their ability with analytics to bring a superior fan experience to the US open tennis

We take a close look at IBM pureScale Application System and Oracle Exadata X2-2, comparing their scalability, clustering technology, performance, implementation and administration ease, and costs.

A quick look at how IBM have handled the many acquisitions that they have assembled to underpin their Business Analytics and Optimisation practise

A brief explanation of what applications to exploit Big Data currently look like and what they do which is different

Agile BI is a marketing term often used but rarely defined, and I want to start to define and describe what it is

Whilst the tin and wire of Big Data is gaining a lot of attention, how to actually use the data and turn it into information is still in its infancy

CXAIR is a BI tool that supports queries against both structured and unstructured data

How do you combine structured and unstructured data for query purposes?

Endeca Latitude tightly integrates BI and search: neither is simply an appenadage to the other

Data virtualisation is all the rage. But it's not data federation. Or not always.

Queplix describes itself as being in the data virtualisation space but it is more of competitor for MDM, especially in the mid-market.

Predixion is a data mining provider that uses Excel and the Cloud! At least sometimes.

The third article in a series about the architectural weaknesses of most SIEM products

I have previously discussed why I think that System S is unique. Now I want to put some meat on the bones. System S has been the name of an IBM research project for some years and last...

It is now pretty much agreed that in data warehousing environments you need a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture in order to handle very large data volumes. The important factor is...

How can you test whether you have correctly completed a (data/content) migration project? TRUcompare provides an answer.

A pot pourri of news about matters pertinent to data migration

Netuitive offer probably the most innovative performance management suite available today. It's a real time offering able to adapt dynamically to meet business needs.

Data migration has typically been viewed as a big bang exercise - which is one of its problems - Celona offers an iterative approach.

Symantec will shortly be announcing an appliance for database security and auditing that will use event stream processing under the covers.

The traditional definition of Operational BI needs to be updated to include BI vendors that use event stream processing.