In this contributed article, John Schwarz, CEO and co-founder of Visier, explains why Business Intelligence tools, in their current incarnation, simply don’t work for most businesses. Rather, he states the case for “Applied Business Analytics,” solutions built to meet specific business needs, answer specific business questions, and are delivered as a service to both businesses and end users.
AtScale 6.0 Brings the Benefits of its Universal Semantic Layer to the Google Cloud
October 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
AtScale, the company providing enterprises with a universal semantic platform for BI on Big Data, announced the general availability of AtScale 6.0. With this release, customers will see unparalleled cost savings when deploying analytical workloads on Google BigQuery and will benefit from best-in-class experience between Microsoft Excel and the Google platform.
Kinetica Partners with NVIDIA and InterWorks to Deliver Supercharged Platform for BI
September 26, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Kinetica today announced a new solution combining the immense power of NVIDIA DGX Station, the desk side supercomputer, and Kinetica’s GPU-accelerated database to speed up Tableau queries, providing users the ability to make faster data-driven decisions. Available immediately from NVIDIA and Kinetica business partner InterWorks, the new solution allows customers of Tableau, the global leader in visual analytics, to modernize their underlying databases to take full advantage of the valuable insight Tableau provides.
ASG Technologies Empowers Business Users with Data Intelligence 9.0
August 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
ASG Technologies announced Enterprise Data Intelligence 9.0. The solution’s new functionality solves a growing business challenge as organizations are increasingly tasked with allowing business users to access, prepare and analyze their own data. By delivering secure self-service, Enterprise Data Intelligence empowers business users to find and use data to inform decisions, while ensuring the organization retains visibility, control and compliance.
Impetus Workload Migration Solution, StreamAnalytix and OLAP on Big Data solution
August 2, 2017 by Leave a Comment
In this video from the DataWorks Summit / Hadoop Summit 2017 conference in San Jose (June 13-15, 2017), insideBIGDATA’s Managing Editor and resident data scientist Daniel D. Gutierrez chats with Larry Pearson, VP Marketing of Impetus Technologies, Vineet Tyagi, CTO of Impetus Technologies, and Ajay Anand, VP Products of Kyvos Insights.
Information Builders Introduces Design Thinking for BI and Analytics
July 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, data integrity, and integration solutions, announced that the company has developed its own brand of process innovation via the well-known Design Thinking methodology.
Arcadia Data Simplifies Security for Native Visual Analytics on Big Data
July 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Arcadia Data, provider of the native visual analytics software for big data, has extended support for a unified security and management solution native to Apache Hadoop that includes certified integration with Apache Ranger. This announcement continues the company’s security strategy after the in-cluster security solution announced last year that enhanced its capabilities to deliver secure data directly in Hadoop, cloud, and other modern data platforms without sacrificing granular access control, overcoming the complexities of extraction, data movement and fragmented permission models inherent to legacy BI and analytics architectures that run outside of Hadoop.
Octopai Transforms Business Intelligence with Metadata Search Engine
June 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Octopai introduces a cloud-based metadata search engine tool to provide Business Intelligence (BI) groups with full visibility and control of metadata that is scattered across many different BI systems within an organization. By centralizing and automating metadata, Octopai enables BI groups to quickly and accurately discover and govern shared metadata. By taking the guesswork out of […]
MicroStrategy on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Now Available
June 2, 2017 by 1 Comment
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq:MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, announced the general availability of MicroStrategy on AWS. With MicroStrategy on AWS, users can be up and running on MicroStrategy 10™ in the AWS cloud, and will have instant access to an on-demand business intelligence platform that delivers enterprise analytics, reporting, and dashboarding capabilities, within minutes.
The Future of Business Intelligence Is Embedded and Conversational
May 20, 2017 by 2 Comments
In this contributed article, Sheza Gary, a technical director at Algoworks, discusses the importance of embedded analytics or BI as the addition of features you’d normally see in the usual BI software like analytic tools and dashboard reporting or current applications.
