Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
May 7, 2013
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: May 7, 2013. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Database Plugins, a provider of data-centric computing solutions, has announced the addition of a secure transcoding framework to its line of media management software. The solution, "dbTranscoder," addresses the storing, streaming and transcoding of media data in an Oracle database. "This mechanism allows you to store your multimedia data in the database but still manipulate it through common file-based semantics by programs that are expecting that multimedia data to exist in a file somewhere," Steve Guilford, founder and CEO of Database Plugins, tells 5 Minute Briefing.
Strategic analytics provider Alteryx, Inc. has announced Alteryx Project Edition, a free analytics solution designed to enhance the capabilities of business and data analysts. Compatible with all data sources, the Project Edition utilizes the newly available Alteryx Strategic Analytics 8.5 platform, enabling analyst to build, iterate and deploy an analytic workflow or application without the delay sand budget restrictions of legacy solutions. Users can create and run their analytic workflow and deliver their required output up to 15 times, or with incentives for additional output.
Datawatch Corporation, provider of information optimization solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Lavastorm Analytics, an analytics software vendor, to provide customers the ability to expand their use of unstructured and semi-structured data sources when developing analytic applications.
To enable customers to connect any cloud and on-premise applications without software, appliances or coding, Dell Software has launched Dell Boomi AtomSphere Summer '13. Further strengthening its end-to end-solutions portfolio, Dell also announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an enterprise cloud-management software and services provider that delivers single and multi-cloud management capabilities.
MapR Technologies is integrating LucidWorks Search with the MapR Platform for Apache Hadoop to enable customers to perform predictive analytics, full search and discovery; and conduct advanced database operations on one platform. Integrated search and discovery on the MapR Big Data platform is currently in beta, and will be generally available next quarter in MapR's just-released M7 Edition, which combines Hadoop with NoSQL capabilities.
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