Data Integration Articles
RedPoint Global, a provider of data management and customer engagement technology, has made updates to the RedPoint Convergent Marketing Platform to solve what it describes as a customer engagement gap facing marketers today. The new version of the platform is aimed at helping marketers become more effective in coordinated cross-channel campaigns, including those integrating Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Posted September 20, 2016
Melissa Data, a provider of global contact data quality solutions, has introduced active data quality tools and services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Posted September 20, 2016
Accenture and Oracle announced that infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings will now be available through the Accenture Oracle Business Group, adding to the already-existing software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities.
Posted September 19, 2016
In his keynote on Monday at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd showcased customer success stories and offered three new predictions for the future of cloud, which, he said, represents a generational shift in the IT market.
Posted September 19, 2016
"In this coming year, you'll see us aggressively moving into infrastructure-as-a-service," Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief technology officer and executive chairman of the board, said to kick off the company's OpenWorld conference Sunday night at the Moscone Center. In the first of his two scheduled keynote addresses, Ellison went on to outline a number of strategic announcements that aim to strengthen the company's offerings, as well as to help it compete with Amazon.com, one of its top challengers.
Posted September 19, 2016
Nuxeo, developer of an enterprise content management platform for managing complex digital content at scale, has announced that Goldman Sachs has made a $20 million investment in the company, adding to the $10 million commitment by Kennet Partners announced in June, for a total of $30 million.
Posted September 14, 2016
As data volumes continue to grow along with the number of (mobile) devices, agile jacks-of-all-trades such as enterprise apps are taking the place of standard applications. These programs allow companies to combine analytical functions and transactional capabilities to design flexible business process. At the same time, apps support smart decision-making and offer a link to social networks.
Posted September 14, 2016
The year 2015 was especially rich in cyberattacks with companies such as T-Mobile, Kaspersky, and Anthem having had their security compromised and all sorts of personal information about users exposed. The urgent need to solve the problem of anomaly detection lies in the fact that any deviation from a general picture showing the current state of the system may carry important information about the existing issue.
Posted September 14, 2016
Percona, provider of MySQL and MongoDB solutions and services, is releasing an open source database performance analysis tool that will enable DBAs and application developers to optimize the performance of their MySQL and MongoDB databases.
Posted September 13, 2016
erwin Inc. has acquired UK-based Corso Ltd, a provider of enterprise architecture solutions. erwin has also announced general availability of erwin CloudCore, an integrated cloud bundle consisting of erwin Data Modeler and Corso Agile EA.
Posted September 12, 2016
At its partner conference this week, Teradata is announcing three key new offerings to support customers choosing hybrid environments spanning cloud and on-premise, and relational and big data technologies.
Posted September 12, 2016
Conventional wisdom insists that IT will migrate to the cloud entirely at some point. But practical experience shows that enterprises that have invested in legacy architecture that still has many years of life left in it are not likely to rip and replace, at potentially astronomical costs. Instead, implementing a Bimodal IT approach supported by SDDC on integrated systems will allow companies to address scalability needs with agility, while also ensuring the mission-critical functions of their legacy systems are not compromised.
Posted September 12, 2016
Data lakes are quickly transitioning from interesting idea to priority project. A recent study, "Data Lake Adoption and Maturity," from Unisphere Research showed that nearly half of respondents have an approved budget or have requested budget to launch a data lake project.
Posted September 12, 2016
Capgemini, a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services, and SAP SE are deepening their strategic partnership with the launch of a new joint initiative to help clients in the discrete manufacturing industries.
Posted September 08, 2016
Data governance is sometimes viewed as a roadblock that keeps data scientists and analysts from turning data into business insights quickly and efficiently. Yet, in the enterprise data and analytics work that we've undertaken for clients across diverse industries, we've found that it's often a lack of sound data governance that prevents organizations from realizing the full value of their data.
Posted September 07, 2016
Can Oracle and its partners keep up with the increasing demands of customers for real-time digital capabilities? Is the Oracle constellation of solutions—from data analytics to enterprise applications—ready for the burgeoning requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT) and data-driven businesses? For Oracle—along with its far-flung network of software vendors, integrators, and partners—times have never been so challenging.
Posted September 07, 2016
The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) is excited to be joining the Oracle technology community in San Francisco once again at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, September 18-22. IOUG's 30,0000+ member community is comprised of the top Oracle technology experts from around the globe, several of whom will be presenting sessions on hot topics like Data Intelligence, iOT, Data Security, and Cloud migrations.
Posted September 07, 2016
Oracle is acquiring LogFire, a provider of cloud-based warehouse management applications for integrated warehouse, inventory and workforce management. The pending addition of LogFire Cloud is expected to complement the logistics functionality of the Oracle Supply Chain Management product suite by adding cloud-based warehouse management capabilities. Oracle also said it is currently reviewing the existing LogFire product roadmap and will be providing guidance to customers.
Posted September 07, 2016
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced plans for a spin-off and merger of its non-core software assets with Micro Focus in a transaction valued at roughly $8.8 billion. The software assets include HPE's Application Delivery Management, Big Data, Enterprise Security, Information Management & Governance and IT Operations Management businesses. According to the vendors, added to Micro Focus' complementary portfolio, the combined assets will create one of the world's largest pure-play software companies
Posted September 07, 2016
Datawatch Corporation unveiled an enhanced version of its self-service data preparation solution, making the platform faster and more intuitive. Datawatch Monarch 13.5 empowers business users and data analysts to overcome traditional data access and preparation challenges by enabling them to easily and rapidly mine data from virtually any source and then manipulate, blend, enrich, and prepare it for use in analytics tools or optimizing manually intensive business processes.
Posted September 07, 2016
Dell has completed the acquisition of EMC, creating a $74 billion company with a technology portfolio spanning hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, platform-as-a-service, data analytics, mobility and cybersecurity. Describing itself as the world's largest privately-controlled technology company, the combined entity will be known as Dell Technologies.
Posted September 07, 2016
VMware and IBM have announced the availability of cloud services to expedite the movement of enterprise workloads to the cloud.
Posted September 06, 2016
Software AG has formed a strategic OEM partnership with Cumulocity, an IoT application enablement platform vendor. By incorporating Cumulocity's device connectivity and management product, Software AG says its Digital Business Platform will provides the foundation for enterprises to securely integrate, link and scale to a network of millions of connected devices, distributed globally over thousands of tenants.
Posted September 06, 2016
GigaSpaces, a provider of in-memory computing (IMC) technologies, has launched InsightEdge, a data grid-enabled real-time analytics platform that incorporates Apache Spark to enhance data analytics. InsightEdge is the first product to be incubated and launched as a result of GigaSpaces' Open Source initiatives for its IMC business.
Posted September 06, 2016
It is widely accepted that to realize the full potential of blockchain technology we will need a next-generation blockchain to supplement the one provided in the Bitcoin implementation. Ethereum represents just such a next-generation blockchain.
Posted September 02, 2016
Nimble Storage's Predictive AF-Series All Flash arrays are now certified by SAP as an enterprise storage solution for the SAP HANA platform. As a result, Nimble customers can leverage their existing hardware and infrastructure components for their SAP HANA-based environments, providing an additional choice for organizations working in heterogeneous environments. This certification adds to the SAP HANA certification Nimble previously obtained for its Adaptive Flash CS-Series arrays for use as enterprise storage solutions for the SAP HANA platform.
Posted September 01, 2016
Wipro Limited, an information technology, consulting, and business process services company, and Stibo Systems, a provider of master data management solutions (MDM), have formed a partnership through which the two companies will collaborate to offer MDM solutions.
Posted August 31, 2016
Teradata has introduced four accelerators to help companies derive value from Internet of Things (IoT) data more quickly. Teradata's "Analytics of Things Accelerators" (AoTAs) are comprised of technology-agnostic intellectual property (IP) and professional services, derived from field engagements in manufacturing, transportation, mining, energy and utilities.
Posted August 30, 2016
The elastic and distributed technologies that run modern applications require a new approach to operations — one that learns about your infrastructure and assists IT operators with maintenance and problem-solving. The interdependencies between new applications are creating chaos in existing systems and surfacing the operational challenges of modern systems. Solutions such as micro services architectures alleviate the scalability pains of centralized proprietary services but at a tremendous cost in complexity.
Posted August 25, 2016
Logz.io, a company that offers ELK (Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana) as a cloud service, is introducing a new analytics solution that combines machine learning technology with human experience. The new solution, called Cognitive Insights, aims to help companies give their customers a better experience by uncovering data issues before they become problems.
Posted August 25, 2016
Magnitude Software is introducing a new platform that will integrate heterogeneous ERP data into SAP S/4 HANA in real time. The solution, dubbed RTD Stream, will enable access to the entirety of an organization's fragmented ERP data, allowing finance professionals to centrally control their operations in a shared services environment.
Posted August 24, 2016
Progress now provides day one support for Hadoop Hive, Spark SQL, MongoDB and more with latest update to its DataDirect suite of connectivity tools. With this new upgrade, Progress DataDirect on-premises ODBC and JDBC drivers will support any new versions of supported data sources.
Posted August 24, 2016
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has announced significant updates to the SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA). Version 10.2 supports MySQL as a back-end database in addition to SQL Server and Oracle Database, includes visualization and analysis tools to help DBAs optimize for and resolve blocking, locking, and deadlock issues, and adds support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
Posted August 24, 2016
EMC has unveiled new products and support to optimize the protection of VMware workloads to enable protection everywhere. The enhanced support spans VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vSphere and expanded data protection options for VCE VxRail Appliances.
Posted August 23, 2016
Rocana, a company that provides software for operational visibility, has released Rocana Ops 1.6 introducing role-based access controls (RBAC) and support for new application performance metrics (StatsD) to enable deeper visibility with greater control across the enterprise.
Posted August 23, 2016
Perhaps the biggest and most overlooked is how to create accurate test data. You're implementing a new system in order to deal with a massive amount of data, and perhaps your relational database can't handle the volume, so it's vitally important to properly test this new system and ensure that it doesn't fall over as soon as the data floods in.
Posted August 23, 2016
SHARE recently wrapped up its summer conference in Atlanta. James Vincent, immediate past president of SHARE, reflected on the changes that have taken place in the IT industry during his tenure and the key takeaways from the event which took place July 31-August 5. "One takeaway is that SHARE is on the right track when it comes to its focus on the new IT generation, what we call zNextGen," said Vincent.
Posted August 22, 2016
Waterloo is known as the site of Napoleon's downfall. But it was the insufficiency of communication - a failure to deliver vital information concerning the proximity of enemy garrisons on the march - that deserves the lion's share of the blame. In the battle of conducting business today, information endures.
Posted August 20, 2016
Tableau Software has updated its signature platform with a completely refreshed design, new analytical and mobile enhancements, options for preparing data, and a host of new enterprise capabilities.
Posted August 19, 2016
SnapLogic is making improvements to its Elastic Integration Platform, adding new integration components, which it calls "Snaps" to its library in the Summer 2016 release. The core platform also offers improved performance and new data governance features for hybrid deployments. The Summer 2016 release introduces several enhancements to SnapLogic's support for Hadoop- and Spark-based big data integration, as well.
Posted August 18, 2016
Salesforce, which recently announced plans to buy Quip, a provider of a business productivity software suite for web and mobile that enables collaborative creation and editing of documents and spreadsheets, is also buying BeyondCore, provider of an enterprise analytics tool.
Posted August 18, 2016
Waterline Data, the Smart Data Catalog company, is releasing an enhanced version of its Smart Data Catalog, allowing users to gain easier self-service access to trusted, high quality data for faster discovery, understanding, use and governance.
Posted August 17, 2016
Nervana has announced its planned acquisition by Intel, a move it says indicates that Intel is formally committing to pushing the forefront of AI technologies. The company will continue to operate out of its San Diego headquarters. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by industry estimates placed it at more than $400 million.
Posted August 16, 2016
Magnitude Software, a provider of enterprise information management software, has acquired Simba Technologies Inc., a provider of cross-platform standards-based data access solutions for relational, multi-dimensional, and non-relational data sources. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed.
Posted August 16, 2016
As IT decision making moves out of the IT department and into the functional areas of organizations, partnerships and collaboration become even more critical. According to an article in strategy+business on why CEOs must become more technology savvy, "the majority of technology spending (68%) is now coming from budgets outside of IT, a significant increase from 47% in 2014." What this means is that many critical technology decisions are being made without the consultation of IT professionals.
Posted August 16, 2016
Regulatory compliance is a critical aspect of the IT landscape these days, and the ability to audit database activities showing who did what to which data when is a specific requirement of many industry and governmental regulations. There are six primary methods that can be used to accomplish database auditing.
Posted August 16, 2016