Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
May 17, 2016
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: May 17, 2016. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
AtScale, Inc., which provides a self-service BI platform for Hadoop, has raised a Series B round of $11 million, bringing its total funding to date to $20 million. According to Bruno Aziza, chief marketing officer of AtScale, its platform is different from others in three key ways, making it applicable to use cases in an array of industries including healthcare, telecommunications, retail, and financial services.
Bringing another tool to its product portfolio, IDERA has released SQL BI Check, a no-cost option for real-time performance monitoring of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). SQL BI Check, with agentless installation, provides data on performance metrics with graphs and charts that assess and SSAS health.
The Great Data Lake Roundtable at Data Summit 2016