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Tresata Goes Deep on Big Data for Banking
It’s a question that all new software vendors face: Should we deliver a horizontal, customizable platform that appeals to multiple industries or specialize in a single vertical with a highly-specialized software suite and do it better than anybody else? Tresata has decided to go with the latter option. As I describe in detail in a ...
Teradata Looks To Reach LOB Execs With ClickFox Partnership
ClickFox and Teradata have inked a strategic partnership that should add important new analytic capabilities for Teradata customers. Thanks to the new partnership, Teradata customers will have the ability to deploy a new ClickFox Customer Experience Analytic appliance on-premise and connect it to existing Teradata enterprise data warehouses. A new connector allows data housed in ...
Big Data Offers Enterprises New Analytic Opportunities, New Challenges
Who is your most important customer? Think carefully about your answer because your most important customer is probably not whom you think it is. “My most important customers may not be the largest and may not be the most profitable,” said Bill Schmarzo, Global EIM Competency Lead for EMC Consulting. “They may be the ones ...
Cloudera Partners With Pervasive To Improve Hadoop Performance
Cloudera is enlarging its circle of friends. The company announced two new partnerships this week, one with R specialist Revolution Analytics and another with data integration vendor Pervasive Software. My colleague Maria Deutscher explored the Cloudera-Revolution compact earlier this week. As for Pervasive, I spoke with Senior Director of Strategic Market Development David Inbar last ...
Data Scientists Are Rocking the Big Data World
Data Scientists are the new rock stars of the technology world. Don’t believe me? At last week’s Strata conference, throngs of attendees were jockeying so intensely for position to listen to bitly Data Scientist Hilary Mason that I thought I might be at a Bon Jovi concert circa 1986. Ok, perhaps I’m exaggerating just a ...
Big (Data) Impressions from Strata NYC
There were over two-dozen vendors at Strata in New York City this week and I managed to sit down and talk with executives from just about each one. While I’m still in the process of digesting all the data they provided me for a Wikibon piece next week, I wanted to share some of my ...
Speculation Mounts – Time for Oracle to Make Its Big Data Move
OpenWorld is less than two weeks away and speculation is increasing that Oracle is going to make a Big Data-related announcement at the show. Big Data presents a bit of a quandary for Oracle. Oracle is touting its Exadata appliance as the answer to its customers’ Big Data challenges. While Exadata does bring a number ...
Software Services Shifting To Include Strategic Consulting
UPDATE: Check out this post by my colleague Klint. It adds some really good context to the shifting role of services discussion. What I hear again and again from SAP this week at TechEd is that the company is taking a practical approach to Big Data. That means SAP must do more than just help ...
SAP’s Balancing Act
LAS VEGAS – SAP is at an inflection point not unlike it found itself 25 years ago. Back then, SAP put all its money on R3. This time SAP is betting the house on an in-memory data processing engine called HANA. But company executives know they can’t afford to alienate customers running its legacy software ...
IBM Eyes Government-Fueled Market Opportunities
IBM made two analytics-related acquisitions last week. Both Algorithmics and i2 help IBM further fill-out its business analytics stack, but they also will help IBM exploit two markets whose growth was and continues to be fueled by the federal government. The first is financial regulatory compliance. The economic crisis that began in 2008 with the ...