Category: Actian

Feed: Actian. Author: Emma McGrattan. Today we announce the introduction of the next release of Actian Vector in Hadoop, extending our support of Apache Spark to include direct access to native Hadoop file formats and tighter integration with Spark SQL and Spark R applications. In this release, we also incorporate performance improvements, integration with Hadoop security frameworks, and administrative enhancements. I’ll cover each of these in greater detail below.Combine Native Hadoop Tables with Vector Tables In previous releases, Vector in Hadoop required data to be stored in a proprietary format which optimized analytics performance and deliver great compression to reduce ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sean Hughes. If you’re headed to Gartner Catalyst 2017 in San Diego, CA August 21 – 24, or if this is your first time at a Gartner event, here’s your essential guide to get the most out of the upcoming conference. We hope you find it useful.This is a conference for technical professionals. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to meet with your peers across all disciplines including CIOs, CTOs, solution architects, developers, database admins, data scientists, data engineers, business analysts and devops, amongst others. Gartner has lined up a host of hot topics and session tracks, so ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Alex Sherwood. One important trend in database management is integrating location data better to improve insights about events and activities that matter to your business. …Interest in analyzing geospatial/location data has increased over the past four years from 26% to 36%.” Source: Gartner Survey Analysis: Big Data Investments Begin Tapering in 2016, September 2016 Tracking customer location can be critical for offering location-based services, particularly for travelers (think Uber matching cars to riders, or restaurants making offers to customers nearby) and for shoppers (to optimize shelf locations for popular items and perhaps make realtime offers).  Tracking and managing ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Greg Coates. I am excited to share news of our most recent release of DataConnect 11.1. This release wraps up a significant phase in that it provides backwards compatible support for our customers who use EDI x12, HIPAA, and HL7 connectors and components. If you use Data Integrator version 9 to process those documents, you can now begin your upgrade to version 11!Some other enhancements, fixes, and improvements include: Standalone engine for AIX for on-premise deployments Multi-mode table selector to quickly create schemas and build maps to relational databases Samples repository project for out-of-the-box, working examples to ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Dahye Huh. Deploying new applications is a fact of life in business. But oftentimes, a seemingly simple integration can quickly become more complex and costly than anticipated.If you are one of the thousands of organizations planning to use, or already using, ServiceNow, you’ll want to keep in mind a few things to make your investment as successful as possible. We can all likely agree that an effective integration strategy is critical, especially in the case of an application like ServiceNow, which needs to be connected to other applications and data to provide maximum value. Here are four ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Greg Coates. We are proud to introduce the latest release of Actian DataConnect. We listened to our customers and adopted a ‘back to basics’ approach with the new product architecture. A lightweight desktop installation for design and a flexible SDK and CLI for run-time are the core components which will plug into any existing job management infrastructure you may have already built around a previous version. For users who want to take advantage of our out-of-the-box, robust and secure cloud infrastructure, DataCloud is the preferred deployment option.Backwards compatibility with Actian DataConnect versions 9 and 10 is another ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Mike Hoskins. The Age of Data has arrived, with new data sources, targets and processing models proliferating madly across enterprises of all sizes. While data has never been more valuable to a business — it now informs the who, what, where, when and how of decision making — this new hybrid data landscape introduces new challenges. We anticipate the following innovative efforts in data management, integration and analytics to address these challenges.The rise of HTAP – best of both worlds in Data ManagementOne of the most exciting trends for the balance of this decade will be HTAP ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. We’re excited to be at Knowledge17 this year to show how the Actian hybrid integration platform can connect ServiceNow to your existing data sources, including on-premise and cloud-based applications. The ServiceNow model can define, structure and automate the flow of work within your enterprise, but only if you can connect to other applications and data supporting IT, human resources, facilities, field service and more. You certainly don’t want to hand code your connections and map every field shared with Workday, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP and NetSuite.Actian provides pre-built, certified integration connectors that map most of the ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. This is part 2 of our conversation with Forrester analyst Michele Goetz. Please click here to read the first post: Rethink Hybrid for the Data-Driven Enterprise.After a recent Actian webinar featuring Forrester Research, John Bard, senior director of product marketing at Actian, asked Forrester principal analyst Michele Goetz more about next-generation data management solutions. Here is the second part of that conversation (see part one here):John Bard, Actian:  What are key business imperatives that are forcing a greater priority of speed of query processing for systems of insight? Michele Goetz, Forrester:  More and more businesses are becoming digital ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Alex Sherwood. Last week, Actian introduced the the new Ingres – Actian X Hybrid Database, combining the industry-leading Ingres RBMS with the record breaking analytic database Vector. With column-based storage, vector processing, multi-core parallelism (and more), Actian X puts amazing performance in the hands of Ingres developers.We’ve also bundled two other really big features: 1) the latest release of Actian’s integration solution, DataConnect 11 for Actian X, to extend your application’s connectivity inside and outside of the enterprise, and 2) the Enterprise Monitoring Appliance to keep your Ingres systems available and reliable.Actian X also includes a long ... Read More