Business Intelligence (BI) is the blanket term we all use to describe a broad field of tools designed to organize all the data generated and/or gathered by a business and then using it in ways that will be of benefit to the organization. In that sense the theory behind isn’t all that different from the one behind most other segments of business software: being an asset in the pursuit of evermore optimization of processes.
Founded in 2004, EnterpriseDB has made it its mission to disrupt the strangle-hold that Oracle has on the enterprise database industry. We talked to President and CEO Ed Boyajian, who’s no stranger to the open source software industry, about open source solutions and the pain-points that enterprises are currently experiencing in database solutions.
The PivotLink Retail Performance Management Suite is designed to provide retailers with in-depth business performance insights.
Microsoft Machine Learning Server is a big data analytics platform that is designed to be flexible while analyzing data at scale, building intelligent apps and discovering valuable insights across a business. The software is able to run both on-premises and in the cloud on Azure Virtual Machines and also has a lower start-up investment and total cost of ownership.
The traditional image of business intelligence dashboards is of stale, old fashioned visualizations that seem to view intuitiveness and clarity as foreign concepts. As the current trend of IT consumerization spreads to BI, Yellowfin’s Lachlan James argues, we’re set to see a huge sea change.
JReport is a software suite that can handle all of your reporting needs. With a drag and drop system, the JDashboard allows you to make your tables and reports and to explore data with the option of filters, drill downs, and sliders.
As a distributed file system for organizing and analyzing big data (think pedabytes), Hadoop has a lot of things going for it: affordability, scalability and flexibility to name a few, yet it’s far from perfect.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a big data veteran, and their HPCC systems are a direct competitor of Apache Hadoop. We spoke with Flavio Villanustre, Vice President of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, on their strategic advances and what the future of big data will look like.
IBM BigInsights has been become an industry standard Hadoop offering that has combined open source software and enterprise-grade capabilities. The platform provides businesses a cost effective method to manage and analyze big data.
IBM Streams is a data analytics platform that allows user-developed applications to collect and analyze information to help make smarter business decisions. The software provides users to analyze and watch information and events at sub-millisecond response times.