Birst is a multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), and analytics for both public and private cloud deployments. Today we published this On the Radar briefing note that follows a simple “ten questions” format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 by adminOf all the conversations and discussions held at Salesforce’s customer day in Egham this week, one in particular struck a chord with me. Cloudapps, an ISV and partner of Salesforce, spoke briefly about the challenges of capturing, storing and analysing Big Data, in particular telecom mast sensor data, on the Force.com platform. Although there wasn’t [...]
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 by Helena SchwenkToday we launched a new online, on-demand event focused on social analytics. As MWD’s Communications Director with responsibility for our online marketing and social media activities, this is a topic close to my heart. So it was with much interest that I listened to what my colleagues Angela Ashenden and Helena Schwenk had to say… [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 by Beth BarlingJust before Christmas, TIBCO released its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results for 2011 (the intervening holiday is why I haven’t blogged about it until now). While companies like Oracle struggle to deliver performance, TIBCO continues to march relentlessly on. And although it’s perhaps tempting (certainly in comparison to behemoths like Oracle) to paint TIBCO as [...]
Posted on Friday, January 6, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonIn our 2011 Outlook we predicted that investment in Analytics and Information Management (AIM) technologies would remain strong despite the challenging economic backdrop as companies looked to sweat their enterprise data to help support key operational and strategic business initiatives. Not surprisingly given the continuing economic uncertainty we expect this trend to continue into 2012, [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Helena SchwenkSAP HANA, the company’s in-memory appliance, took top billing and once again dominated the keynote sessions at SAP’s premier business event, SAPPHIRE Now . This year in Madrid the company announced, amongst other enhancements, a version of HANA that runs SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BW), enabling users to tap into the high speed loading [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Helena SchwenkAt its BI Symposium in London last week Microstrategy outlined its product and marketing strategy based along four key pillars: Social, Big Data, Mobile and Cloud. While Microstrategy isn’t the only BI and analytics company to push these themes (in fact I’m hard pushed to think of many vendors who don’t) its attention to Social [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 by Helena SchwenkOracle started the Openworld conference this week by announcing the launch of Oracle Exalytics BI machine, an in-memory analytics appliance. Exalytics marks the next permutation in a line of appliances that includes Exadata for data warehousing and Exalogic for cloud computing. But it also marks Oracle’ s biggest foray into in-memory analytics designed to significantly [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Helena SchwenkThe week after Progress’ Revolution customer event in Boston, I spent a few days in Vegas courtesy of TIBCO at its annual TUCON customer shindig. At one level, there are some interesting parallels to draw between Progress and TIBCO*: both vendors are ‘independent’ infrastructure software providers; both are currently pitching visions of responsiveness to their [...]
Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonAt a recent analyst day in Hursley Labs, IBM outlined its current and future plans for Big Data. The company clearly sees a huge business opportunity in this market by helping customers extract value from new, complex and voluminous data sources to uncover deeper and richer insights that have previously not been possible before. However, [...]
Posted on Friday, September 30, 2011 by Helena Schwenk
