Bringing smart cities to life around the world, Infor Inc. has been a key partner in IBM Corp.’s Smart Cities project, specifically helping with data collection and process automation in their “smart permits” project. Joe Saunders, Global Product Manager of IBM’s Smart Cities, stopped by theCUBE to talk about Smart Cities initiatives and Infor’s participation with co-hosts ...

Infor Inc. made a deal with Amazon.com, Inc. to leverage Amazon’s cloud infrastructure and hasn’t looked back. Now it claims to be the world’s largest cloud enterprise software provider, according to Infor President Stephen Scholl. At the Inforum 2014 conference, Scholl sat down with theCUBE’s Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante to talk cloud adoption, security, and ...

“We’ve conquered everything there was to conquer,” said Joshua McKenty, co-founder and CTO of Piston Cloud Computing. Now, Piston Cloud is “down to the day-to-day tasks of helping people with infrastructure.” To talk OpenStack maturation, cloud strategy, and partner ecosystem, McKenty sat down with theCUBE’s John Furrier at the OpenStack Silicon Valley conference this week. ...

Tableau Software, Inc. is well-equipped to navigate the tech marketplace in the coming years, said John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, reflecting on their learnings from the first day of the Tableau Data 14 conference. Tableau has experienced rapid growth, and is in the process of figuring out how to maintain its customer-centric reputation while continuing ...

Developers, start your engines. The announcement of Apple, Inc.’s first smartwatch this week opens up a whole new avenues of application development. Dubbed the Apple Watch, this new device has unique features, functions, and a compact interface that means developers will need to design for an even smaller screen and respond to different types of input and points ...

The industry as a whole has recognized the value of data-driven business, according to Google Inc.’s, Vishwas Agashe. The search giant’s Global Product Lead of Big Data Technologies visited theCUBE’s roving news desk at the Tableau Software, Inc.’s Data 14 Conference to talk with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly about the rising demand for Big Data-related ...

With 53 partners and counting, Tableau Software, Inc. is in the process of constructing an ecosystem to help them integrate, innovate, and better meet customer needs. Among other undertakings, Tableau and its strategic partner MarkLogic Corp. are currently working together to deliver MarkLogic’s Bi-Temporal project, which is designed to help customers make better data-driven decisions. ...

Tableau would like to be known for it’s customer-first attitude and easy-to-use set of products. Dan Jewett, VP of Product Management at Tableau Software, Inc., helps the company keep its eye on the ball when it comes to creating end-user friendly tools. He sat down to chat with John Furrier on theCUBE at the Tableau Conference ...

Tableau Software Inc.’s ecosystem partners rave about the value Tableau adds to their products. One such partner, MarkLogic Corp., describes itself as “the only enterprise-level noSQL database out there.” Joe Pasqua, MarkLogic’s VP of Product Development explains that Tableau and MarkLogic work together so well because they both collect data and find new ways to ...

Companies are still trying to figure out the best ways to use the data they collect, said Lee Feinberg, President of DecisionViz, a product of e-thusiasm, Inc. On theCUBE at Tableau Software, Inc.’s annual customer conference, Feinberg spoke with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly about the challenges businesses face when it comes to adopting data visualization, ...