Category: Actian

Feed: Actian. Author: Actian Corporation. Lewis Black joined Actian in November 2018 as CFO, moving into the CEO position this past fall. He’s worked in tech for more than three decades for an assortment of leading telecommunications and software companies, including AT&T, Lucent, Avaya, Citrix, Nexmo, and Vonage.As Lewis closes in on his six-month anniversary as CEO, we sat down with him to talk about his career, the executives he looks up to, and his love for the game of rugby. How did your previous finance leadership roles prepare you to lead a technology business with over 3,000 customers worldwide? ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Jeremy Hankinson. On-Premise, you’re groundedThe emergence of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and the ability to create a data lake of such unprecedented depths – on standard hardware no less! – was such a breakthrough that the administrative pain and the hardware costs involved with building out an HDFS-based analytic solution were acceptable casualties of innovation. Today, though, with an analytic tool like Actian Avalanche containerized, running in the cloud, and taking advantage of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), there’s no reason to put up with those pains. Indeed, because Avalanche on GKE treats compute and storage ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Ryan Dudgeon. Tech stacks are getting more complicated by the day. Marketing Operations, Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, IT, Analytics, and Executives—we are all doing business using digital automations, including integrations, that allow us to target and interact with our customers and prospects in more meaningful and rewarding ways than ever before.Take a moment to consider. Are you using a single unified app or platform to strategically grow your revenue? Or are your teams still operating in silos and spreadsheets while losing out on opportunities to make a bigger impact? If you are like many strategic marketing and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. In the opening installment of this blog series—Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Hubs: Do we need another choice? I explore why simply migrating these on-prem data integration, management, and analytics platforms to the Cloud does not fully address modern data analytics needs. In comparing these three platforms, it becomes clear that all of them meet certain critical needs, but none of them meet the needs of business end-users without significant support from IT. In the second blog in this series —  What is a Data Analytics Hub? — I introduce the term Data Analytics ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. And why is it better than a Data Lake or an Analytics Hub? In the opening installment of this blog series—Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Hubs: Do we need another choice?  I explore why simply migrating these on-prem data integration, management, and analytics platforms to the Cloud does not fully address modern data analytics needs. In comparing these three platforms, it becomes clear that while all of them meet certain critical needs, none of them meet the needs of business end-users without significant support from IT. What we in fact need is a platform ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Processing data in real-timeEvery organization processes data in many ways. For example, batch data process still exists for heavy data-process workloads, such as payroll. Many of these data processing requirements are executed by batch scheduling software; however, there is a growing need for data processing to be more automated and processed in real-time. Processing data in real-time is becoming more and more crucial to many organizations, especially for supporting customers in so many ways not thought of before. Today’s consumer is empowered, mobile, and can ask for services or products anywhere and anytime. Organizations have ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. There’s a long-standing debate, dating back to the early days of Hadoop, about what kind of data repository is best for a given data analytics use case. A Data Lake? A Data Hub? A Data Warehouse? Despite Hadoop’s fall from grace, the debate not only persists but grows more complicated. Today’s cloud-based repositories, including AWS S3, Microsoft Azure ADLS, and Google Cloud Store, look very much like Data Lakes in the Cloud. Similarly, cloud-based offerings like Snowflake look very much like Enterprise Data Warehouses but in the cloud. Granted, for an apples-to-apples comparison for Data ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. There’s a long-standing debate, dating back to the early days of Hadoop, about what kind of data repository is best for a given data analytics use case. A Data Lake? A Data Hub? A Data Warehouse? Despite Hadoop’s fall from grace, the debate not only persists but grows more complicated. Today’s cloud-based repositories, including AWS S3, Microsoft Azure ADLS, and Google Cloud Store, look very much like Data Lakes in the Cloud. Similarly, cloud-based offerings like Snowflake look very much like Enterprise Data Warehouses but in the cloud. Granted, for an apples-to-apples comparison for Data ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Business strategyA business strategy consists of setting goals, objectives, and priorities for the business vision and mission. The strategy owners use their portfolios of assets, services, and products to achieve the business’s goals. A business will often have multiple strategies, such as having a digital strategy that supports their service or product strategy. One of these strategies might be a data management strategy for supply chain visibility. Within this strategy, there will be multiple goals supported by multiple objectives for achieving the strategy’s results. Within most strategies is the objective to maintain, grow and innovate ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. DatabasesDatabases are everywhere. They store data and information organized by fields and tables. There are different types of databases that organize data into relational tables, hierarchical structures, networks, and objects. Databases can be personal, corporate, and shared resources. They can be used for recording business transactions to support decision making. The value of databases today is tremendous for every industry and every consumer. With the great value that databases contribute, there are many challenges related to overall management, data integrity, data security, performance, availability, and many others. Yet, the challenges currently do not outweigh the ... Read More