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Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. How quickly does your business environment changes? Are your leaders using outdated information, and do they know it? Do you find your data is slowing your decision-making processes and preventing you from being truly agile? Imagine what you could do if you were to harness the power of real-time data.Modern businesses operate in a constantly changing, intensely complex and data-rich environment. The term “dynamic” doesn’t come close to expressing how fast things are changing. Business environments are fluid – as soon as one thing moves, everything else shifts to adapt to the change. Just because ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Nidhi Rai. People, products, processes and systems may come and go, but, regardless, of the structural components of your business, data is the one thing that brings all the pieces together, so you can perform as a cohesive unit.There is no question modern businesses are evolving quickly. Market opportunities are short-lived, technology advancements are happening at a startling pace and customer preferences are constantly shifting –requiring companies to become more agile in how they identify and respond to both opportunities and threats. Business strategies, supply-chain relationships, organizational structures and business processes must all be nimble to adapt ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. The previous blogs in this series discussed the top 5 pitfalls of traditional data warehouses and defined the Operational Data Warehouse (ODW) as a potential solution.  Below is a list of my Top 10 desirable benefits of an effective ODW:Current: Having the data being continuously updated by micro batches or streamed singleton updates throughout the day provides the most current information for analytics-based decision making. Fast: Changes to an ODW data need to be made with the lowest performance penalty. Columnar data blocks that maintain their min-max value metadata eliminate the overhead of creating indexes ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. Actian DataFlow is a parallel workflow platform for end-to-end data access, transformation, preparation, and predictive analysis that eliminates performance bottlenecks in your data-intensive applications.  Complementary to the Actian Vector analytic database, DataFlow leverages concurrency, parallelism and pipelining to accelerate data movement between locations in your data architecture, creating faster results.  DataFlow eliminates memory constraints, as well as the need for data movement into specific data stores before analytics are run. DataFlow understands the available resources before breaking up the execution into smaller chunks that can be run in parallel to take maximum advantage of horizontal ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Data warehouses have been around for decades, and have established themselves as reliable reporting systems with consistent value. They have also evolved into data marts, specialized appliances and EDW variants to meet emerging needs, but all of these solutions have their drawbacks when it comes to meeting today’s business demands. Some of the common pitfalls to avoid include stale data, slow query performance, long development cycles and high costs associated with these variants. There is a better approach. An operational data warehouse (ODW) addresses the need for operational analytics with the characteristics listed below, without ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. This week Lifeboat announced their new contract to distribute our Actian product lines through their vast reseller channels as well as direct to their customers (you can find details here).  Speaking as the Actian Product Management and Marketing lead for one of those product lines, the Actian Zen Edge database family, this is a major step forward for us. Lifeboat has a broad line-card that represents best-of-breed software and hardware vendors that complement Actian Zen for developers, data scientists, database administrators and business analysts. Allow me briefly to explain why Lifeboat’s brand recognition with Developers and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. I recently took a last-minute trip from San Francisco to India.  The best fare in economy I could find was on a sixteen-hour Air India flight, direct to New Delhi.  I figured I’d get a lot of work done on the flight and, if not, at least I could catch-up on movie watching.  Turns out I was zero for two on this as my in-seat entertainment center didn’t work and I couldn’t get much of my work done either – I guess that means I was two for two on being surprised.  Don’t get me ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Over the past two decades data warehouse solutions have evolved and diverged to address a myriad of use cases. Meanwhile, the pace of business continues to accelerate, making it harder to remain competitive. These new demands can stretch the abilities of traditional data warehouses. Below are 5 of the common pitfalls that can trip up traditional data warehouses.Currency: As the demands for organizations to operate in real-time or in the moment increase, data warehouses need to deliver ever more current data. SQL Hadoop databases commonly fail to handle continuous streams of updates as the file ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. We all hear about how forward-thinking companies, small and large, need to be more customer focused, even customer obsessed, to be successful in this hypercompetitive world. Data drives knowledge about your customers’ needs and behaviors, so you can actively tailor your messaging and offers to rise above the competition and win their business. This knowledge comes from an increasing variety of 24/7 sources, through digital systems and increasingly a sea of sensors, devices and mobile applications that track those activities. But the volume of data can be overwhelming, and the value of your data can ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Greg Coates. Greetings Actian DataConnect Community,It’s my pleasure to announce the availability of Actian DataConnect version 11.3 and I’d like to introduce you to some amazing new features! Orchestration Invoker The new Orchestration Invoker process design component provides you with the ability to create more reliable and efficient integration templates by invoking combinations of smaller, compartmentalized workflows that perform specific operations as part of a larger orchestrated workflow. The invoker runs each step as a separate job on Integration Manager simply by configuring the URL, username, and password. The invoker also has actions to get the job ... Read More