Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
GFOS mbH announced that its modular HR software, gfos 4.8, is certified by SAP to integrate with cloud solutions from SAP, helping organizations extract employee data from SAP SuccessFactors solutions to further process the information within the gfos software.
Posted July 27, 2022
OutSystems, a global leader in high-performance application development, announced it is now an official member of the SAP PartnerEdge program, with a Build focus, underscoring its commitment to providing high-value low-code to businesses using SAP solutions. While twice as many OutSystems customers connect to SAP technologies as any other system of record, the new relationship will make it even easier for additional businesses within the SAP ecosystem to discover and connect with OutSystems.
Posted July 27, 2022
SAP is acquiring Askdata, a startup focused on search-driven analytics, to help organizations make better-informed decisions by leveraging AI-driven natural language searches. With this acquisition, users are empowered to search, interact, and collaborate on live data to maximize business insights, according to the vendor.
Posted July 27, 2022
The pandemic has expedited businesses' need to digitally transform. Surging digital demands paired with talent shortages while using legacy technologies have made it nearly impossible for businesses to keep pace with change, innovate, and stay ahead of the competition. To meet these challenges, organizations need technologies that make it easier to build applications and streamline workflows. The answer? Low code development.
Posted July 27, 2022
Modernization is now becoming a crucial part of the strategy for many companies and BlueFinity has worked with many MV customers on the successful modernization of their previously static MultiValue systems. For a fast-growing number of companies, the introduction of apps that provide complete integration with a company's existing MultiValue systems and databases has proved to be a successful way of modernizing.
Posted July 27, 2022
Whether users are delaying the move to Informer 5 due to a lack of migration and IT resources, the thought of transitioning reports, or other projects, Entrinsik wants to help facilitate the migration with some best practices and migration resources. Entrinsik provides users with a Migration Guide that has tools for a successful migration. The Data Gathering Workbook can collect and document the information needed during the Informer 4 to Informer 5 migration to keep track of its progress.
Posted July 27, 2022
Rocket Software is offering a series of livestreams featuring its product roadmap for the future. The Rocket MultiValue product roadmap outlines the vision, direction, priorities, and progress of a product over time. It represents the plan of both short and long-term goals for Rocket's products.
Posted July 27, 2022
Cloudian announced that HyperStore object storage is now validated to work with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, giving Azure Stack HCI customers the scalability and flexibility benefits of public cloud in a secure and cost-effective, cloud-native storage platform within their own data centers.
Posted July 26, 2022
MANTA, the data lineage platform, is launching Release 37, offering new enhancements to data lineage platform that include modeling tool and scanner upgrades to offer efficient data lineage experiences for customers. With Release 37, MANTA further upgrades its platform to meet the modeling requirements of users scanning new properties into MANTA Flow to infer end-to-end data lineage.
Posted July 26, 2022
Schneider Electric announced it is making a series of updates to its vendor-agnostic and CPD-accredited digital education platform, Schneider Electric University, to address the data center sector skills gap. Available in 14 languages and accessible globally for free online, the dedicated professional development platform helps industry stakeholders upskill and stay up to date with the latest technology, sustainability, and energy efficiency initiatives affecting the data center sector.
Posted July 25, 2022
Augtera Networks, a provider of AI/ML-powered Network Operations platforms, is introducing a holistic Network AIOps Data Center solution, addressing the pain points, use cases APIs, ITSM integrations, equipment/vendor integrations, data types, and constructs specific to data centers.
Posted July 25, 2022
Model9, a provider of cloud data management for the IBM Z mainframe, announced it will participate in The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative with 20 programs and working groups that enable collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources.
Posted July 25, 2022
IBM is expanding its Power10 server line with the introduction of mid-range and scale-out systems to modernize, protect, and automate business applications and IT operations. The new Power10 servers combine performance, scalability, and flexibility with new pay-as-you-go consumption offerings for clients looking to deploy new services quickly across multiple environments.
Posted July 25, 2022
Pecan AI, a provider of AI-based predictive analytics for BI analysts and business teams, is adding one-click model deployment and integration with common CRMs, marketing automation, and other core business systems. Pecan's customers can now take immediate actions based on the highly accurate predictions for future churn, lifetime value, demand and other customer-conversion metrics generated by Pecan, according to the vendor.
Posted July 21, 2022
Oracle and Microsoft announced the general availability of Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure, allowing Microsoft Azure customers to easily provision, access, and monitor enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with a familiar experience.
Posted July 21, 2022
Dataiku is releasing Dataiku 11, a pivotal update of the company's data science and AI platform that helps organizations deliver on the promise of Everyday AI. This packed release provides new capabilities for expert teams to deliver more value at scale, enables tech-savvy workers to take on more expansive challenges, helps non-technical workers more easily engage with AI, and provides strengthened AI Governance to ensure projects are robust, transparent, and ready for success at scale.
Posted July 20, 2022
CData Software, a provider of data connectivity and integration solutions, is offering an all-new AWS Glue client connector for CData Connect Cloud, expanding access to hundreds of data sources and destinations for AWS Glue customers. CData now offers cloud-native connectivity solutions that seamlessly integrate with the applications and systems previously unavailable within AWS Glue.
Posted July 20, 2022
Druva Inc. is expanding its cyber resilience portfolio with cyber-attack readiness innovations, including new capabilities for data posture assessment and observability. These advanced tools provide customers with a centralized view of their data security posture, deep visibility into data entropy changes, and the ability to assess data risks, according to the vendor.
Posted July 20, 2022
TIE Kinetix, a provider of supply chain digitalization and a current member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that TIE Kinetix FLOW Connector for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. TIE Kinetix FLOW Connector for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing now extends TIE Kinetix's cloud-native solution, EDI-2-FLOW, where Oracle Cloud SCM users have the opportunity to benefit from a fully integrated EDI solution via a standard connector.
Posted July 20, 2022
Oracle NetSuite is making updates to NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, helping organizations further enhance decision making and uncover new revenue streams. The latest updates boost the prebuilt data warehouse and analytics solution for NetSuite customers by making it easier for customers to blend relevant data sets and introducing new pre-built visualization capabilities.
Posted July 20, 2022
Oracle is introducing the Oracle Construction Intelligence Cloud Analytics platform, combing data from Oracle Smart Construction Platform applications to give owners and contractors a comprehensive understanding of performance throughout their operations. With this insight, organizations can quickly spot and correct issues and target ways to drive continuous improvement across project planning, construction, and asset operation, according to the vendor.
Posted July 20, 2022
What's the hardest part of managing a merger, acquisition, or divestiture? The answer may seem to be getting lawyers and regulators to sign off on the deal or handling the business restructuring that follows. But here's another hairy M&A and divestiture challenge which executives too often underestimate: migrating massive amounts data, most of it unstructured, between entities.
Posted July 20, 2022
D2iQ, an enterprise Kubernetes provider for smart cloud-native applications, is partnering with Aqua Security, a pure-play cloud-native security company, to enable organizations to create a seamless DevSecOps experience that accelerates the deployment of secure smart cloud-native applications.
Posted July 18, 2022
NVIDIA is releasing a unified computing platform for speeding breakthroughs in quantum research and development across AI, HPC, health, finance, and other disciplines. The NVIDIA Quantum Optimized Device Architecture, or QODA, aims to make quantum computing more accessible by creating a coherent hybrid quantum-classical programming model.
Posted July 18, 2022
Solace, an enabler of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, is joining the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners which provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS.
Posted July 18, 2022
Kyligence's Intelligent Cloud OLAP Platform now offers support for Amazon EMR Serverless, a serverless option from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easier for data analysts and engineers to run open source big data analytics frameworks. Using automatic on-demand provisioning and scaling capabilities available through Amazon EMR Serverless, Kyligence Cloud cost effectively meets the changing processing requirements across all data volumes, according to the vendor.
Posted July 15, 2022
Grafana Labs is introducing the Kubernetes Monitoring solution for Grafana Cloud, enabling all levels of Kubernetes usage within an organization. Kubernetes Monitoring is available to all Grafana Cloud users, including those on the generous free tier. Grafana Cloud users can install the Grafana Agent onto their Kubernetes cluster(s) and in minutes, the Kube-state metrics will be shipped to Prometheus and Grafana, according to the vendor.
Posted July 15, 2022
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to solve the AI efficiency gap, announced it has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round, enabling the company to expand its go-to-market activities, as well as further accelerate the company's R&D efforts. The funding round was led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Square Peg, Emerge, Jibe Ventures, and Fort Ross Ventures, as well as new investor ICON. The investment comes just seven months after Deci secured $21 million in Series A funding, also led by Insight Partners, bringing Deci's total funding to $55.1 million.
Posted July 14, 2022
Ensono, an expert technology adviser and managed service provider, is acquiring AndPlus, a cloud native and data engineering firm. This acquisition continues Ensono's strategic investment in scaling its cloud and data engineering capabilities and reinforces the company's commitment to helping clients plan, build, migrate, and operate in the cloud, according to the vendor.
Posted July 14, 2022
AI is delivering new benefits and efficiencies to organizations through greater automation capabilities, ease of use, and accessibility—across a variety of use cases. Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and a host of other compounding factors such as climate change and sustainability, supply chain delays, the Great Resignation, and the war in Ukraine, companies are scrambling to take advantage of what AI has to offer during this upheaval.
Posted July 13, 2022
Following the integration and acquisition of several backup and recovery companies and solutions, Jungle Disk is rebranding as CyberFortress—a global company providing managed data backups built to prevent business disruption through rapid recovery. The acquisitions include KeepItSafe, LiveVault, and OffsiteDataSync from J2 Global.
Posted July 13, 2022
MANTA, the data lineage platform, is partnering with IBM to drive data-driven success for enterprise-level customers by providing MANTA's data lineage platform with IBM Cloud Pak for Data to offer businesses historical, indirect, and technical data lineage capabilities. MANTA's automated data lineage platform is designed to provide a line of sight into data environments by building a powerful map of all data flows, sources, transformations, and dependencies to help improve data governance, streamline migration projects, and accelerate incident resolution.
Posted July 13, 2022
DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, interconnection, and managed services, is partnering with Corsa Security, a provider in automating firewall virtualization, to deploy, scale, and optimize its Palo Alto Networks ML-powered VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewalls with speed, simplicity, and savings.
Posted July 13, 2022
Ermetic, the cloud infrastructure security company, is offering a new capability for the Ermetic Platform that enables organizations to automate the process of granting developers and DevOps teams "Just in Time" (JIT) access to cloud infrastructure environments.
Posted July 12, 2022
Striim, Inc. is expanding its existing agreement with Microsoft to meet increasing customer demand for real-time analytics and operations by enabling customers to leverage Striim Cloud on Microsoft Azure. This move allows for continuous, streaming data integration from on-premises and cloud enterprise sources to Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI, taking full advantage of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform.
Posted July 12, 2022
Signal AI, a global External Intelligence company, is launching its External Intelligence Graph, a comprehensive view of an organization's external world built on real-time data and content. Signal AI's External Intelligence Graph maps the relationships between the things a modern organization needs to care about, like climate change, supply chain risk, or competitor intelligence, and highlights how an organization is "associated" to these important topics.
Posted July 12, 2022
Swimlane, the low-code security automation company, announced it has received $70 million in a growth funding round, accelerating the company's ongoing growth and operations on a global scale while continuing to advance its platform innovations in security automation ahead of the competition.
Posted July 11, 2022
SingleStore, the cloud-native database built for powering real-time data-intensive applications, announced it has been accepted as a Gold Status Partner in Intel's Disruptor Initiative. The program helps companies push the limits of innovation through technical enablement and multi-channel go-to-market activities. As a result, SingleStore customers will benefit by realizing enhanced database performance to address real-time data challenges while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
Posted July 11, 2022
According to a new report by ResearchAndMarkets.com the "Hyperscale Data Center Market - Global Outlook and Forecast 2022-2027," the global data center support infrastructure market is set to reach $75.8 billion by 2024, registering a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.4% over the analysis period. Growth in the global market is being fueled by the rapidly rising volumes of data that needs to be stored and processed in a reliable and efficient manner.
Posted July 11, 2022
IBM announced it has entered a new 33-month work order under its contract with the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) to provide security services designed to enhance the Department of Defense's (DoD) microelectronics supply chain for critical mission platforms. As part of the Trusted Foundry Access II program, IBM Consulting will continue to establish secured microelectronics manufacturing flows at commercial state-of-the-art fabrication facilities.
Posted July 11, 2022
IBM is acquiring Databand.ai, a leading provider of data observability software that helps organizations fix issues with their data, including errors, pipeline failures, and poor quality. The acquisition further strengthens IBM's software portfolio across data, AI, and automation to address the full spectrum of observability.
Posted July 11, 2022
GigaSpaces is partnering with IBM and Wix to design a joint Digital Acceleration Hub (DAH), aiming to accelerate the pace at which enterprises and start-ups can build and deploy new digital services. The joint solution combines GigaSpaces' high-performance in-memory data platform with the capabilities and cutting-edge technologies of IBM and Wix.
Posted July 11, 2022
To serve the data analytics and applications for business growth and operational needs, data lakes are being widely adopted as the data infrastructure because of their scalability and flexibility. Data lakes are strong at parking petabytes of data and production delivery as a result of their "schema-on-read" structure. But every coin has two sides. Data lakes, as a semantically flexible data store and bypassed governance efforts, have been seen as muddy swamps and inefficient in data management.
Posted July 11, 2022
The traditional approach of providing data access to applications via remote database servers is not ideal for microservices. And while SQL provides standard access to relational databases, GraphQL can be used with any type of database—and it returns JSON documents.
Posted July 07, 2022
Ask a data engineer why they got into the field, and they'll likely share how they looked forward to bringing concepts to life or solving complex challenges; or they wanted to share their expertise in a collaborative, agile environment; or they simply wanted to provide better visibility into the way products work for end users—and how it could be improved.
Posted July 07, 2022
Optimizing the performance of operational databases and the applications that access them is a constant battle for DBAs. Of course, writing efficient SQL is the most important aspect of ensuring optimal database performance but no amount of SQL-tweaking or system-tuning can optimize the performance of queries run against a poorly designed or disorganized database. Therefore, time must be spent on tuning and optimizing the design, parameters, and physical construction of database objects, specifically tables and indexes, and the files in which their data is stored. The actual composition and structure of database objects must be monitored continually and changed accordingly if the database becomes inefficient.
Posted July 07, 2022