Tag: BI

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Announcing the immediate availability of Db2 Big SQL on Cloudera platform.  Extending the support on Hadoop platforms, Db2 Big SQL will now add support to Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) v5.x platform along with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v2.6 & v3.1 Db2 Big SQL is an advanced SQL engine optimized for advanced analytics in a Big Data environment. IBM infuses the power of industry leading Db2 in open source technologies for machine learning, interactive and batch analytics use cases. With Big Data, there is overwhelming amount of data but unless you plan and execute the ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. The data consumers within your organization aren’t a homogeneous group, so you must adapt your data management solutions accordingly. At one end of the spectrum is the ideal, “one-size-fits-all” solution. At the other end is a customized set of capabilities for each individual user that seems ideal, but is unworkable. How then do you incrementally approach the ideal solution?The most effective data solutions are formed by generalizing your user community into a few key groups by skillset and role objectives, data consumption habits and applied tools associated with those data needs, and then deploying the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. We recently spent time with Mesh Systems, a Microsoft Gold Cloud platform partner based in Carmel, Indiana, to understand what a day in the life of an Azure IoT partner looks like. They shared some of their recent IoT customer engagements and talked about the types of everyday challenges Azure IoT partners face like building an IoT solution with legacy endpoints, how to approach tracking assets through a supply chain, and integrating an IoT solution with a business application. Finally, we discussed what best practices have driven the success of their IoT practice ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The conference might be over, but there’s so much more in store! Get ready to transform your business with the latest in Microsoft Business Applications. Explore 200+ sessions, workshops, and keynotes from Microsoft Business Applications Summit, available now in the Power BI Community. You can also watch the opening keynote on-demand. Build your skills at your own pace. Learn directly from the engineers behind Dynamics 365, Power BI, Excel, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, mixed reality, and more. Download presentations to review in-depth and connect with experts in community forums. Get ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; This blog is aimed at explaining an overview of cross replication between PostgreSQL and MySQL, and further discussing the methods of configuring cross replication between the two database servers. Traditionally, the databases involved in a cross replication setup are called heterogeneous databases, which is a good approach to move away from one RDBMS server to another. Both PostgreSQL and MySQL databases are conventionally RDBMS databases but they also offer NoSQL capability with added extensions to have the best of both worlds. This article focuses on the discussion of replication between PostgreSQL and MySQL from an ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Cris Ianculovici. Actian Avalanche delivers an operational data warehouse as a managed service in the cloud. Its developer-friendly high-performance analytics engine has been proven to outperform other popular analytics platforms without specialized hardware or complicated software development. Requires minimal setup, provides automatic tuning to reduce database administration effort and enables highly-responsive end-user BI reporting.This is how to connect to Actian Avalanche from a few popular BI tools using the Actian Avalanche JDBC driver. A prerequisite is to have the Actian Avalanche JDBC driver downloaded and available in the environment where the tools run. The JDBC Driver is ... Read More

Feed: Mr. Fox SQL. For those not aware there’s some excellent local SQL events coming up here in Melbourne and Sydney… SQL Saturday 769 (Sat 30 Jun 2018) Melbourne.  SQL Saturday 771 (Sat 07 Jul 2017) Sydney.  For those looking for some great free local SQL / Azure / BI / etc learning, you simply cannot go past a SQL Saturday anywhere in the world!  And this one right here in Melbourne will again be no exception.  There is a lineup of fantastic local speakers including Microsoft and MVP’s as well as international speakers too. SQL Saturday Pre-Con Training (Fri 29 Jun 2018).  Melbourne.   Leading ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. June is off to a busy M&A period for Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Visualization tools with Tableau being acquired by Salesforce in a deal worth $15.7 billion, and Looker being acquired by Google for $2.6 billion. The initial media coverage has focused on the financial analysis and business strategy. Was the price right? How does this change the competitive landscape? They all acknowledge the growing importance of data and analytics as Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, and Amazon battle for cloud supremacy.   Left unevaluated at this point is the impact this may or may not have on customers of Tableau (and Looker). I put Looker ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. If you’re a data engineer or a data architect, then you’re probably kept awake at night wondering how to design your data integration, management and analytics support platforms, so your DBAs and IT Ops colleagues can easily manage them while a varied set of data users are able to consume them simultaneously. These users range from new, demanding, hands-on users, such as developers and data scientists, to those who traditionally use the data through SQL and ad hoc queries, such as business analysts, as well as those who interact with the data indirectly through business ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . As we kick off the Microsoft Business Application Summit with our amazing community at Atlanta, I wanted to share some exciting Power BI news as part of the event. You can join us live for the keynote at 8:30AM ET. In a world in which data is coming from everywhere, Power BI is about helping our customers embrace a data culture, where every employee can make better decisions based on data. The growth of Power BI has been staggering – customers ingest more than 20PB of data to Power ... Read More