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Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop
Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and process large volumes of data for analysis. Numerous companies have invested in supporting Hadoop, and...
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Roambi Provides Digital Platform for Mobile Business
The demand for business information on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets continues to increase, while the technology to support it has not. In our benchmark research on information...
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Kognitio Brings Big Data Experience to Business Analytics
Kognitio has been serving the analytics and data needs of organizations for more than 20 years with an in-memory analytics platform that meets many of the big-data needs of today’s organizations....
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The Pathetic State of Dashboards
Over the last several months, my colleague VP and Research Director Tony Cosentino and I have been assessing vendors and products in the business intelligence market as part of our upcoming Value...
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Salesforce Struggles to Deliver on the Dream of Analytics
I was at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference this week to hear about the latest advancements from the cloud computing software giant. Salesforce has helped revolutionize cloud computing for...
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SAS Makes Analytics Pay Dividends for Business
I recently attended the annual SAS analyst summit to hear the latest company, product and customer growth news from the multi-billion-dollar analytics software provider. This global giant continues to...
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Anaplan Innovates Business Modeling and Planning
Anaplan’s software is designed to help organizations across finance, sales and operations improve accuracy, timeliness and collaboration in their business analytics and planning. I recently attended...
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Informatica Has New Vibe for Information Optimization
Information management is important to every line of business that seeks to improve its business processes and decision-making. In response to pressure from those departments, CIOs and IT organizations...
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Datawatch Acquires Panopticon for Big Data Discovery and Visualization across...
Business analytics can help organizations use data to find insights that lead to new opportunities and address issues unrecognized before. One player in this market is Datawatch, known for its tools...
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Ventana Research Technology Innovation Awards Are More Than Cool
In the realm of technology that matters for business and IT, our firm as part of our responsibility continually assesses the latest technology and how it can impact organizations’ efficiency and...
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IBM Bets a Billion to Mobilize Watson Business Unit and Monetize Cognitive...
With much fanfare and a rarely seen introduction by CEO Ginni Rometty, IBM launched IBM Watson as a new business unit focused on cognitive computing technology and solutions, now being led by Senior...
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MicroStrategy Reveals New Generation of Analytics for Cloud and Mobile Computing
At its recent MicroStrategy World 2014 conference, the enterprise software company introduced a portfolio of products to make it easier to perform analytics and make them easier to access through the...
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Location Analytics Delivers Geographic Insights
Adding geographic and location context to business information enables organizations to develop fuller understanding and optimize the activities of people that use the information. We call this...
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SAS Unifies Big Data for Business and IT
Many businesses are close to being overwhelmed by the unceasing growth of data they must process and analyze to find insights that can improve their operations and results. To manage this big data they...
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Xactly Delivers New Inspiration for Sales to Maximize its Potential
In an analyst perspective at the beginning of this year I wrote that sales organizations must step beyond conventional wisdom to generate the best outcomes. One such step is to invest in software that...
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Teradata Takes Bigger Approach to Big Data
Teradata continues to expand its information management and analytics technology for big data to meet growing demand. My analysis last year discussed Teradata’s approach to big data in the context of...
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Salesforce Analytics Cloud Delivers Wave of Elegant Dashboards
At this year’s Dreamforce more than 140,000 people gathered in San Francisco to share the excitement about the use of technology for business. Salesforce.com’s annual conference has reached megashow...
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Research Agenda: Technology Innovation for Business in 2015
This year presents much opportunity for organizations to use a new generation of technology to compete better, be more efficient in their business operations and engage their workforces to their full...
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MicroStrategy Powers Up Security for Analytics and BI
At its annual MicroStrategy World conference, this provider of analytics and business intelligence systems for business and IT introduced a new version of its flagship product, MicroStrategy 9s. Among...
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The Establishment of Data Preparation
Data is an essential ingredient for every aspect of business, and those that use it well are likely to gain advantages over competitors that do not. Our benchmark research on information optimization...
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