At 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 SchwenkLast week we launched the latest in our series of MWD Insights events. This time the focus is on Customer Analytics. OK, I can hear you yawning. Sure, the concept of putting the customer first isn’t anything new, right? And we all know that finding – and keeping – customers is harder than ever before. [...]
Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Beth BarlingDuring its analyst conference in Athens Greece SAS revealed details of a new business visualisation capability – SAS Visual Analytics Explorer. Adding business focused visualisation functionality to its extensive product line is, we believe, a good thing – it promises to bring analytics to a mainstream audience allowing them to unlock insights from data quickly [...]
Posted on Monday, July 4, 2011 by Helena SchwenkAt its recent Business Analytics Summit, IBM dedicated a session stream to its social media analytics platform Cognos Consumer Insights, an offering that allows organisations to gain a deeper view on consumer attitudes and brand preferences. Given the hype and resulting confusion currently surrounding social media and its value to marketers this was a useful [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 by Helena SchwenkLast week Sybase held its annual analyst event in the heart of New York’s financial district at the New York Stock Exchange. The event provided a useful forum in which to assess the company’s progress since being acquired by SAP in July last year but also gave an opportunity to catch-up on developments with Sybase [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 by Helena SchwenkLast week Teradata announced its intention to acquire Aster Data for $263 million. This equates to 89% ownership of Aster Data; Teradata acquired an earlier 11% ownership interest back in September last year. The deal, which is expected to close some time in the second quarter, is designed to give Teradata a firmer foothold in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Helena SchwenkBarely a few weeks after declaring it would stop actively selling Neoview, its data warehousing platform, HP has announced plans to acquire Vertica, an analytic database vendor, for an undisclosed sum. The deal firmly places HP back within the analytic data management market and marks the first acquisition for Leo Apotheker since he took the [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Helena Schwenk
