Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
May 12, 2015
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: May 12, 2015. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Capgemini is extending its long-standing strategic partnership with SAP, allowing Capgemini to act as a single point of contact for customers globally, and delivering SAP products and support services through one consolidated framework. By signing a global value-added reseller (VAR) agreement with SAP, Capgemini is among a select group of global SAP partners that are part of the global program, which has specific entry requirements that include global reach, reseller capabilities and revenue targets.
To transform data into value, IT must move from thinking about what it does to data, and instead focus on business outcomes and what can be done with the data to advance the business, according to Edd Dumbill, vice president, strategy, Silicon Valley Data Science, who gave the welcome keynote at Data Summit 2015.
In order to break down barriers in creating and storing data, understanding the modern data architecture is key. That was the focus of Mike Lamble, CEO at Clarity Solution Group, and Ron Huizenga's, product manager at Embarcadero Technologies, presentation at Data Summit 2015.
Hadoop's Current State and its Future is Examined at Data Summit 2015
Leveraging Hadoop and Your Data Warehouse
Pentaho users will now be able to use Apache Spark within Pentaho thanks to a new native integration solution that will enable the orchestration of all Spark jobs. Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), an effort initiated by Pentaho Labs, will enable customers to increase productivity, reduce maintenance costs, and dramatically lower the skill sets required as Spark is incorporated into big data projects.
Splice Machine is partnering with Talend to enable customers to simplify data integration and streamline data workflows on Hadoop. Through this partnership, organizations building operational data lakes with Splice Machine can augment Talend's data integration technology with its data quality capabilities.