Dell just unveiled a slew of new features for its Toad Business Intelligence Suite, a database management platform that helps enterprises extract insights from both traditional and non-traditional data sources.

Toad 2.0 ships with a number of enhancements, including new data connectors for Microsoft Analysis Services and Amazon’s DynamoDB and Redshift database services. The reworked solution also features storyboarding capabilities that empower users to collaborate on analysis online, and self-service data integration that makes it easier to share data and queries with colleagues.

Concordia University, a private liberal arts university based in Portland, Oregon, is an early user of Toad. The resident BI team deployed the platform for two reasons: to iron out bottlenecks in the university’s multi-vendor database environment, and to simplify the integration of a new student recruitment system into that deployment.

The latest version of the Toad Business Intelligence Suite will become generally available later this quarter for $9,995 per five named users.

“Instead of being hamstrung by legacy BI technology that evolved to address separate and discreet data sources, Dell Software delivers a modern set of tools that encompasses all enterprise data as it grows in volume, velocity or variety. As a result, Toad Business Intelligence Suite provides a data-agnostic foundation, high-value visualizations and a well-governed virtual data mash-ups layer to facilitate actionable insight and self-service BI,” said John Whittaker, director of product marketing for Dell’s information management business.

A few weeks ago, a company called Platfora released its own business intelligence solution: a BI-over-Hadoop layer that fills in for the data warehousing and ETL software traditionally used in conjunction with the Big Data framework.   Platfora’s platform supports every major Hadoop distribution, including the vanilla version, and can run on-premise or in the cloud.