Oracle’s recent announcements of a big-data appliance, a public cloud and a social network all deal with scaling out innovations that were developed by others. The big-data appliance includes open source Hadoop, which was an obvious selection, but Oracle surprised some observers by including a version of R, the open source statistical package, and …Read More
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Oracle’s release of Exalytics, a new data warehouse appliance specifically for business intelligence (BI), is its third entry in this product line and gives the company a way to sell both hardware and software at higher margins. This is a powerful system that includes an in-memory database to support advanced visualization capabilities for BI. Like …Read More Business intelligence (BI) systems vendor MicroStrategy has expanded its cloud offerings to include MicroStrategy Cloud Personal, which enables individuals to upload spreadsheet data, analyze it and share it with others. Users can create dashboards using the various visualizations MicroStrategy supports and share them via Facebook, Twitter, blogs, websites and MicroStrategy Mobile. These distribution options align …Read More Karmasphere has introduced version 1.5 of its Analyst product, which helps organizations analyze “big data” stored in Hadoop, the open source large-scale data processing technology. Karmasphere Analyst 1.5 provides an interactive graphical interface through which users assemble queries using a SQL-based development environment that incorporates syntax checking and provides prompts to help in the process. …Read More Splunk focuses on analyzing large volumes of machine-generated data that underlies applications and systems, including application and system logs, network traffic, sensor data, click streams and other loosely structured information sources. This type of data is generated constantly by many sources throughout an organization, in large quantities and forms that typically are less structured than …Read More Mobile technologies can be used to access analytics and business intelligence (BI), but to date software developers usually have opted to publish static text, charts and tables to Web pages viewable on a smartphone or tablet. In contrast an application called Roambi converts the output of BI reports and dashboards from IBM Cognos, Microsoft, Oracle, …Read More Some corporate departments (notably Sales) have been quick to seize on the advantages of using business software through cloud computing. Prominent among those that have not is Finance. This is partly due to Finance’s innate conservatism and partly to the fact that its back-office functions fit comfortably behind the firewall. But as organizational structures evolve, …Read More The ever-increasing popularity of social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter has raised awareness of collaborative platforms and created the critical mass that is a necessary ingredient for successful collaboration. But consumer-oriented social media tools are not adequate to enable the collaborative use of business intelligence. That requires a sophisticated combination of workflow, information …Read More Opera Solutions takes an unusual approach to predictive analytics software. The company employs approximately 150 data scientists (along with hundreds of other employees) who provide the domain expertise many organizations need but lacking to be able to create and apply predictive models to specific business activities. Once the models are created, Opera continues to operate …Read More Our recently completed benchmark research on how finance departments use analytics makes clear that while they have competence in this area and execute the basics well, a majority of companies don’t make use of advanced finance analytics. Regardless of industry or geography, few finance departments use predictive analytics or delve into important areas such as …Read More |
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