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TIBCO Says In-Memory Platform Supports Both Historical and High Velocity Analytics
Sometimes you want to run analytics on large volumes of historical data – aka Big Data analytics. And other times you need to perform analysis on data as it arrives at your front door – aka real-time analytics. Wouldn’t it be great if there were one platform that allowed you to do both, with each ...
NTT Extends Big Data Services Practice with MarkLogic Partnership
NTT Data has decided it best not to go it alone when it comes to Big Data. Smart move. The Japanese systems integrator and services firm has inked a reseller and OEM partnership with MarkLogic to extend its data management practice into Big Data territory. NTT will leverage MarkLogic’s non-relational database platform to assist customers ...
From Services to Software, Still Waiting for Big Data Leadership from IBM
At Strata Conference last month, my Wikibon colleagues and I had the pleasure of chatting with Anjul Bhambri, Vice President of Big Data in IBM’s software group. While we had a pleasant discussion, I expressed to Anjul that we as an industry are waiting for IBM to show a higher level of leadership in the ...
Partnership Merges Unified Information Access with Self-Service Business Intelligence
Business intelligence users know they can’t afford to ignore unstructured data and content, but actually merging documents, emails, and social media updates into BI platforms for analysis is a monster of an integration challenge for IT departments. A new partnership between Tibco Spotfire and Attivio aims to remove that burden entirely and allow business users ...
Services A Must For White House Big Data Initiative to Succeed
Count the Obama administration as the latest high-profile organization to embrace Big Data. The White House will announce today its “Big Data Research and Development Initiative,” which spans multiple federal agencies and seeks to exploit Big Data Analytics to improve the efficiency of Medicare and Medicaid, better coordinate disaster response services, and improve terrorist threat ...
EMC Takes a Predictive Approach to Customer Service
There’s no better way to handle product quality problems than to prevent them from happening in the first place. That’s just what IT giant EMC intends to do and it recently launched an ambitious Big Data predictive analytics project to do it. To understand the customer experience, EMC regularly survey’s its customers, talks with customer executives ...
Think Big Analytics Launches AWS Consulting Practice, Training Courses
Think Big Analytics is bringing its professional services to the public cloud. The Amazon cloud, to be specific. Think Big Analytics announced today a new consulting practice to help its clients deploy and leverage Big Data technologies on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The company is partnering with the AWS product team to deliver ...
EMC Draws Back the Curtain on Chorus Social Analytics Platform
Big Data isn’t just about 1s and 0s. More than most IT functions, Big Data and Data Science in particular are collaborative disciplines. Therefore, as I wrote in my 2012 Big Data predictions post, Big Data analytics platforms “are to Data Scientists what playgrounds are to five-year-olds: They’re both areas where exploration and socialization should ...
Associated Press Taps Big Data to Monetize News Content
Whether for compliance reasons or simply because they didn’t know what else to do with it, enterprises have been storing large volumes of data for ages. With the advent of Big Data, those large volumes have grown to gargantuan volumes thanks to social media data, machine-generated data and unstructured content. The promise of Big Data ...
Greasing the Big Data Integration Wheels
Everyone knows that there is no shortage of data sources today. From internal corporate databases and applications to social media feeds and other publicly available data, the possibilities for mixing and merging data are nearly endless. But that doesn’t mean actually performing Big Data integration is a trivial exercise. In fact, it requires significant expertise ...