Tag: Migration

Feed: What's New. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Today, we are releasing a new JDBC driver with features such as Array data type support, bug fixes, and performance improvements. The 2.x version of the driver is a major version upgrade from the last version. A complete list of enhancements is available in the release notes. We recommend that you review the changes between the old (1.x) ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sandy Krishnamurthy. Why do organizations use OLAP Cubes?OLAP cubes are used extensively today, because it is impossible for many database platforms to analyze large volumes of data quickly. This is because most database software does not fully leverage compute and memory to deliver optimal performance. Some of the symptoms of this are: Large queries end up hogging server resources Response becomes slower as data size and the number of users increases Supporting concurrent queries becomes difficult or impossible Additional aggregated/materialized tables, indices and sometimes even individual Data Marts fail to deliver the required performance and concurrency. OLAP ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: E.G.Nadhan. “Customer experiences are defined by peak moments”, said Dan Heath, in his typical charismatic fashion during the keynote on the Executive Track of the SAS Global Forum 2018. Customer experiences is not an alien term by any means but "peak moments?" What was that? The best way to get a detailed understanding is to simply get your copy of The Power of Moments authored by the Heath Brothers. Heath went on to use examples from a bank in Canada where the ATM would have a human dialog with the surprised consumer just walking up to withdraw a few ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Dan Aharon, Product Manager, Cloud AI Back in November, we announced the beta of Dialogflow Enterprise Edition. Today, on the heels of introducing Cloud Text-to-Speech and updating Cloud Speech-to-Text, we’re releasing Dialogflow Enterprise Edition for general availability, complete with support and a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that businesses need for their production deployments. It’s been a busy month for Cloud AI and conversational technology! Hundreds of thousands of developers already use Dialogflow (formerly API.AI) to build voice- and text-based conversational experiences powered by machine learning and natural language understanding. Even if ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. Kentico on Windows Server 2012 R2: Kentico CMS is a free edition web content management system for building websites, online stores, intranets, and community sites. Create, manage, and integrate communities socially to encourage conversations about your brand. OpenText Process Suite 16.3 Marketplace Info VM: With intelligently automated, content-rich processes that you can quickly build and easily modify, Process Suite gives you the power to deliver a variety of new digital experiences with a much lower IT workload. Content Suite 16 (January 2018): OpenText Content Suite Platform is a comprehensive enterprise content management (ECM) ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based policy research organization dedicated to developing evidence-based insights that improve decision making, strengthen communities, and make people’s lives better.As a leader in data-driven policy research, the Urban Institute was looking for a solution that would enable it to run sophisticated data analytics and microsimulation models with flexibility, speed, and accuracy. The organization was running complex, data-driven microsimulations developed over years, and wanted to evolve its processing platform while retaining select legacy code. They also hoped to improve information sharing, lower costs for storage and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sandy Krishnamurthy. Why do organizations use OLAP Cubes?OLAP cubes are used extensively today, because it is impossible for many database platforms to analyze large volumes of data quickly. This is because most database software does not fully leverage compute and memory to deliver optimal performance. Some of the symptoms of this are: Large queries end up hogging server resources Response becomes slower as data size and the number of users increases Supporting concurrent queries becomes difficult or impossible Additional aggregated/materialized tables, indices and sometimes even individual Data Marts fail to deliver the required performance and concurrency. OLAP ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; NEW YORK, April 02, 2018 — Logicworks, a leading cloud services provider, today announced dramatic expansion of its cloud services business for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017.  Following a $135 million investment from Pamplona Capital Management, the company made significant investments in target market expansion, product development, and human capital to capture the vast market for public cloud adoption.  During this same period, Logicworks’ consulting revenues grew in excess of 300%, with managed cloud business revenues growing over 30%.“2017 was a critical year for Logicworks as we aggressively scaled the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Microsoft Build is returning to Seattle in May. Build is the ultimate annual Microsoft developer event, where the most innovative minds in tech meet under one roof to get inspired, create tomorrow, and code the future. The conference takes place May 7–9, 2018, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. The Microsoft Business Application Platform allows you to customize, extend, and build all the apps you need. Build with PowerApps or on top of Dynamics 365 or Power BI to transform the way business gets done and ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; Getting ready to migrate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud? Companies that are looking to modernize existing business applications often realize the best way to do so is to migrate them to the cloud. By doing so, you can improve agility, performance, and cost savings by moving all, or a key subset, of your workloads to the cloud.However, many companies struggle to develop the right staff, tools, and processes to migrate quickly and cost-efficiently. Below Logicworks and CloudHealth Technologies share a well-tested methodology for migrating to AWS and how to confront unexpected ... Read More