Tag: data warehouse

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot.  “Would you like fries with that?”If you’ve ever ordered a sandwich at a fast food restaurant, then you’ve likely heard these words, but have you stopped to consider why fast food chains train their employees to ask this question? It’s because of what’s called “market basket analysis,” a technique based on the theory that if you buy a certain group of items, you are more (or less) likely to buy another group of items. Market basket analysis is the key to cross-selling. It works by looking for combinations of items that occur frequently in transactions ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. All customers are not equal – there are some your business just can’t afford to lose. Do you know who they are and what is required to retain them? With predictive analytics powered by Actian Avalanche, you can do just that.Companies have been using statistical modeling, data correlation and behavioral forecasting for many years to profile customers. Unfortunately, traditional capabilities have been limited by the amount and types of data they have been able to include in the analysis, leading to incomplete and inconclusive results. With Actian Avalanche, you can increase the accuracy of your ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; Big data doesn’t need to be a daunting challenge for small or midsized business (SMBs). Accessing, storing and exploring big data can be done by businesses of any size. An influx of data from sensors, streaming audio and video log files, web, and social media are increasing the volume, velocity, and variety of data. But that means there are new opportunities for well-prepared SMBs to uncover insights and unlock value.Harnessing big data – data sets of a size or type is beyond the ability of traditional relational databases ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Preview | News & updates | Technical content | Azure shows | Events | Customers, partners, and industries Now in preview Hybrid storage performance comes to Azure When it comes to adding a performance tier between compute and file storage, Avere Systems has led the way with its high-performance caching appliance known as the Avere FXT Edge Filer. Last week at NAB, attendees will got a first look at the new Azure FXT Edge Filer, now with even more performance, memory, SSD, and support for Azure Blob. Since Microsoft’s acquisition of Avere last ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: David Annis. More and more organizations are moving to the cloud, but for some moving data isn’t an option. With a remote managed software and services (RMSS) solution deployment, however, it’s still possible to experience the benefits of cloud, without the data or solution ever leaving your premises or existing cloud provider. As organizations move to cloud and software as a service, they are becoming less willing and interested in having their own internal experts manage every single piece of software that they use. They’ve become accustomed to the cloud vendor taking care of things for ... Read More

Feed: Events. Author: . We hope you enjoyed Next ’19 as much as we did! The past few days brought our Google Cloud community together to learn about lots of new technologies and see how customers and partners are pushing their ideas and businesses forward with the cloud. It was a lot to digest, but we’ve boiled it down here into all the announcements from the week across infrastructure, application development, data management, smart analytics and AI, productivity, partnerships, and more.1. We announced two new regions in Seoul, South Korea and Salt Lake City, Utah to expand our global footprint ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. We are living in a golden age of innovation, where personalized medicine is making it possible to cure diseases that we never thought curable. Digital medicine is helping people with diseases get healthier, and we are constantly discovering how to use the body’s immune system to target and eradicate cancer cells. According to a report published by ClinicalTrials.gov, the number of registered studies hit 293,000 in 2018, representing a 250x growth since 2000. However, an internal rate of return (IRR) analysis by Endpoints News, using data from EvaluatePharma, highlights some interesting trends. A flourishing trend ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Rick Negrin. In this blog post, the first in a two-part series, I’m going to describe pre-modern databases: traditional relational databases, which support SQL but don’t scale out, and NoSQL databases, which scale out but don’t support SQL. In the next part, I’m going to talk about modern databases – which scale out, and which do support SQL – and how they are well suited for an important new workload: operational analytics. In the Beginning: OLTP Online transaction processing (OLTP) emerged several decades ago as a way to enable database customers to create an interactive experience ... Read More

Feed: Events. Author: . Expanding our identity and security offeringsSecurity is at the core of everything we do, and it continues to be a major focus of Google Cloud. Today’s announcements are all designed to bring you more visibility and more control over your security environment and help you adopt the BeyondCorp security model to improve IT, developer, and end-user efficiency.What we announced: securityAccess Transparency (new GA and beta services, GA for G Suite) and Access Approval (beta) give you meaningful oversight over provider operations.Data Loss Prevention (DLP) user interface (beta) and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service Controls (GA) help ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . April is an exciting month for Power BI Desktop! Our April update has major updates across the entire product.  This release adds the ability to define the titles of your visuals and the URLs of your buttons based on DAX expressions, which is only our first step towards making every property of a visual expression-based. You can also now easily link reports within a workspace together with across-report drillthrough support. We have a lot of new connectors this month and several  of our preview connectors are now generally available, ... Read More