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Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs

Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs

By Merv Adrian on December 10, 2012

At its first re:Invent conference in Late November, Amazon announced Redshift, a new managed service for data warehousing. Amazon also offered details and customer examples that made AWS’  steady inroads toward enterprise, mainstream application acceptance very visible. Redshift is made available via MPP nodes of 2TB (XL) or 16TB (8XL), running Paraccel’s high-performance columnar, compressed […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, Amazon, analytics, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS, hadoop, mapreduce, On Business Intelligence, Redshift, software licensing, Vendor image and communications | 2 Responses

The Big Question In Big Data Is…What’s The Question?

The Big Question In Big Data Is…What’s The Question?

By R "Ray" Wang on June 20, 2012

All The Current Talk Of Big Data Technology Misses The Point The hype around big data has crescendoed to the levels of SOA in the early 2000′s, cloud in the late 2000′s, and social in the past few years.   Unfortunately the hype is creating three main pitfalls: A morass of confused definitions. In fact a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analytics, best practices, BI, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, business intelligence, business value, business value framework, BVF, Constellation Research, Data deluge, data governance, data import, data integration, data quality, data reduction, data retention, data retrieval, data stewardship, data visualization, Data warehouse, Database, Decision Services, R "Ray" Wang;, real-time, Right time, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Tags Comments Date Analytics Title Author Categories Tags Comments Date Analytics Tuesday’s Tip: The Big Question In Big Data Is…What’s The Question? Edit | Quick Edit | Trash | View R "Ray" | 1 Response

SAP HANA – the strategic context

SAP HANA – the strategic context

By Dennis Moore on November 15, 2011

This is part one of a three part series on SAP HANA. Many years ago, SAP’s founders had the dream of implementing accounting and finances in real-time.  They believed this could revolutionize business, making it possible for enterprises to have a clear picture of their financial positions at all time, enabling companies to make better […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, BI, Data warehouse, in-memory database, oracle, sap | 10 Responses

IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance

IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance

By Merv Adrian on June 23, 2011

In the months since IBM closed its Netezza acquisition, the data warehouse appliance pioneer has been busy, if the announcements at this week’s Enzee are any indication. An enthusiastic crowd – 1000 strong – heard CEO Jim Baum deliver the news: new hardware, software and partnerships.The biggest news was The Appliance Formerly Known As Cruiser, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS Blogs, gartner, ibm, Industry Trends, mapreduce, Netezza, oracle

Cloudera-Informatica Deal Opens Broader Horizons for Both

Cloudera-Informatica Deal Opens Broader Horizons for Both

By Merv Adrian on November 26, 2010

Cloudera‘s continuing focus on the implications of explosive data growth has led it to another key partnership, this time with Informatica. Connecting to the dominant player in data integration and data quality expands the opportunity for Cloudera dramatically; it enables the de facto commercial Hadoop leader to find new ways to empower the “silent majority” […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Cloudera, data integration, data quality, Data warehouse, EC2, EDW, hadoop, HDFS, ibm, Industry Trends, Informatica, mapreduce, master data management, Membase, RDBMS, Siperian, Sqoop, Teradata, Vertica | 2 Responses

EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game

EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game

By Merv Adrian on November 4, 2010

The Data Computing Appliance, first deliverable from EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, was announced last month, only 75 days after the acquisition closed, and it doesn’t lack for ambition.  Pat Gelsinger, EMC CEO, pointed to the high level opportunity: unlocking the “hidden value” of enormous and growing data assets every company is increasingly holding, and often […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster Data, backup, Cisco, data load, Data replication, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, DBMS, deduplication, Dell, EMC, Exadata, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, intel, MPP, multicore, oracle, ParAccel, rack, RDBMS, RecoverPoint, recovery, SAN, server, Storage, Sybase IQ, terabyte, Teradata, Vblock, VCE, Vertica

(Part 2) SAP analytics at Levi Strauss

(Part 2) SAP analytics at Levi Strauss

By Brian Sommer on September 22, 2010

Levi Strauss has been on a long march to bring better business analytics to their decision makers.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BI, business intelligence, Data warehouse, Levi Strauss, sap, SAP Analytics

IBM Acquires Netezza – ADBMS Consolidation Heats Up

IBM Acquires Netezza – ADBMS Consolidation Heats Up

By Merv Adrian on September 20, 2010

IBM’s bid to acquire Netezza makes it official; the insurgents are at the gates. A pioneering and leading ADBMS player, Netezza is in play for approximately $1.7 billion or 6 times earnings. When it entered the market in 2001, it catalyzed an economic and architectural shift with an appliance form factor at a dramatically different […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, BI, business intelligence, Business Objects, Cloudera, cognos, Data mining, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, Database, DatAllegro, DBMS, FPGA, GNU, hadoop, hp, ibm, IBM POWER, Industry Trends, Kalido, Kona, mainframe, mapreduce, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, NEC, Netezza, node, oracle, R, SAS, Skimmer, smart analytics system, spatial analysis, spss, statistical analysis, storage engine, Teradata, Tibco, TwinFin, UDF

Kalido “Cascades” Continue Cadence on Designed DW Development

Kalido “Cascades” Continue Cadence on Designed DW Development

By Merv Adrian on September 13, 2010

Kalido‘s ongoing evangelization of automation for governed, designed data warehouses has delivered fine results for the small, Massachusetts-based firm. In a recent conversation, the team shared recent results: a profitable fiscal year, with a Q4 that was up 35% and momentum that carried into the traditionally slow Q1 with 25% year over year growth. Since […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged business intelligence, data governance, data modeling, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, DW, Industry Trends, Kalido, mdm, Netezza, QlikView, Teradata

Research Report: Rethink Your Next Generation Business Intelligence Strategy

Research Report: Rethink Your Next Generation Business Intelligence Strategy

By R "Ray" Wang on June 28, 2010

BI Solutions Must Address The Information Management Matrix A confluence of changing business requirements and on-going vendor consolidation leads many organizations to rethink their business intelligence (BI) strategies.  Many buyers face decisions to move beyond departmental solutions or to stay with an integrated apps based BI solution.  Meanwhile, some buyers must decide whether or not […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Actuate, analytics, approaches and styles, apps strate, Apps Strategy, Aster Data, BI, BIRST, business intelligence, Capscan, data integration, data quality, Data warehouse, DataFlux, DataFlux (A SaaS Company), Datanomic, deployment options, DI, DW, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Epicor, Experian QAS, Greenplum, HP Neoview, ibm, IBM (including Initiate), Informatica, Informatica (previously Siperian), Information Builders, information management, information management matrix, initiate systems, Inquera, Kalido, Lawson, master data management, mdm, Melissa Data, Microsoft (DATAllegr0), MIcrosoft Dynamics ERP, MIcroStrategy, myDials, Netezza, next gen apps, next gen cio, next gen enterprise, Next generation apps, NextGen, Omikron, oracle, ParAccel, Pitney Bowes, pivotlink, Proferi, QlikTech, reporting, reporting paradigms, Research Report, SAP BusinessObjects (FirstLogic), SAP Sybase IQ, Satori, semi-structured data, Siperian, social enterprise apps, structured data, Talend, Terradata, Trillium, Uniserv, unstructured data, Vertica, visualization | 2 Responses

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