Tag: BI

Feed: BDN Daily Press Releases Discussions - Big Data News. Author: Andrei Macsin. SAN JOSE, Calif., June 27, 2017  -- To dramatically increase the ROI that corporations can gain from their big data, Xcalar today announced availability of its business analytics platform, Xcalar 1.2, which gives the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective access to actionable insights from big data. Xcalar also announced it has secured over $21 million in venture funding to date with its Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. Other investors include industry visionaries Andy Bechtolsheim and Diane Greene, and Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Merus Capital. Co-founded by former Oracle technologist Vikram Joshi, and Rebecca ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Last month we celebrated the Microsoft Data Insights Summit with a Data Analytics Challenge, and as usual we were highly impressed with all the submissions! We asked for entries in three different categories: Complex Data Preparation, Advanced Analytics, and Just for Fun. Entries were judged on the following criteria: Data Prep: How well you tackle the data prep challenges associated with the dataset Insightfulness: How well you answer the analysis topic, and what insights you uncovered Data visualization and storytelling: How well you create a report and visuals to ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. What’s it worth? During a recent business-value consulting engagement with a global telecom company, the CEO told me he believed that the investments he was making in enterprise information assets were generating huge value. The only problem was he could see no evidence of it other than the retained revenue and revenue growth reported by his marketing team. Shortly after, the director of BI and analytics confided that, in his opinion, the advanced analytics team was a lot more valuable than the company’s information assets, and wanted to know if there a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today, we are excited to announce a new Power BI solution template - the Campaign/Brand Management template for Facebook! This solution template adds to the growing library of social analytics solution templates including the Campaign/Brand Management for Twitter and Advanced Search for Bing News solution templates. Powerful Yet Easy to Use This latest solution template provides powerful yet easy to understand analytics on any Facebook page. After defining one or many Facebook Pages to follow, you can quickly navigate posts and comments, identify key trends, understand user sentiment, and ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jeff Bean. Just today we heard another question about integrating Apache Hadoop with Business Intelligence tools. This is one of the most common questions we receive from enterprises adopting or evaluating Hadoop. In the early stages of their projects, customers are generally not sure how to connect their BI tools to Hadoop, and when it makes sense to do so. As I wrote in BI Considerations and Hadoop Part 1, Cloudera encourages you to use your existing infrastructure wherever possible, and this includes your investments in Business Intelligence. BI tools traditionally were designed ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Stephanie McReynolds. We’ve seen the trend first hand. Organizations who are so successful in their adoption of self-service analytics, that their own business intelligence (BI) evangelists worry that they’ve created an analytics “wild west.” When they see a data catalog for the first time, they’re thrilled that a product exists that can govern the west and increase analyst productivity. This week Dresner Advisory Services released their Data Catalog Market Study and BI end users validated the market for data catalogs.If you’re not familiar with them, Dresner Advisory Services conducts broad-based, end user studies of the BI market ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Aaron Kalb. Tools like MicroStrategy and Tableau make it easy for business users to quickly turn raw data into visualizations and reports. But before you can even start, you have to find a relevant data set, understand it, and trust it. Then you have to connect to it, which can involve many steps and typing many slashes and dots (mysql://10.1.abc/xyz, etc.).Even if you have Alation Catalog to facilitate finding, understanding, and trusting data assets, the process of actually connecting to data can be intimidating, difficult, and error-prone. It introduces needless friction in what should be a smooth ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Satyen Sangani. I’m excited to announce an expansion of our partnership with Trifacta.If you’re someone interested in where the BI/Analytics industry is going, a CIO/CDO trying to pick the stack for your BI/Analytics investments, or if you’re an analyst just trying to figure out which tool is most relevant for your needs, here’s why I think this news is important: You could frame most technological innovations in terms of democratizing access. Publishing used to be the province of big newspapers. With blogs, anyone can now write and distribute an article and with message boards anyone can post ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift Spectrum enables you to run Amazon Redshift SQL queries against data that is stored in Amazon S3. With Amazon Redshift Spectrum, you can extend the analytic power of Amazon Redshift beyond the data that is stored on local disks in your data warehouse. You can query vast amounts of data in your Amazon S3 “data lake” without having to go through a tedious and time-consuming extract, transfer, and load (ETL) process. Amazon Redshift Spectrum applies sophisticated query optimization and scales processing across thousands of nodes to deliver fast performance.In this blog post, we have ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The Quick Start builds an AWS-validated architecture that includes:• An Amazon Redshift data warehouse, which is an enterprise-class relational database query and management system. • Tableau Server for business intelligence (BI) and data visualization capabilities, and a sample Tableau Server dashboard that demonstrates how to connect to multiple data sources in AWS.• A sample dataset that's loaded to an Amazon Redshift cluster to support efficient creation of aggregates at large data scale, and an associated SQL worker instance. You can also choose to load your own dataset.• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) with PostgreSQL, to provide ... Read More