Category: Actian

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. With increasing competition in the marketplace and shrinking profit margins in many industries, companies are increasing looking for ways to achieve higher levels of business process optimization throughout their supply chain.  This isn’t a new challenge, but it is one that has recently taken on greater importance with the acceleration of the speed of business change.Many optimization techniques, one common problem The entire field of Production and Operations Management has developed over the last 50 years applying various techniques to address this problem.  Companies have learned a lot about how to eliminate waste, achieve consistency ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Jeff Veis. 2018 was a year of solid growth and progress for Actian, with many announcements and company highlights – including a major acquisition, a proprietary event, product innovations and much more! It was a truly memorable year for us, and as we ramp up in 2019 we wanted to take a look back with you at some of our most impactful activity and advancements over the last twelve months.HCL acquisition The first half of 2018 started off with a bang when Actian announced it would be acquired by HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. With digital transformation of business, companies are learning about the importance of data when fueling their digital business processes. Data from on-premise, cloud, infrastructure systems, Internet of Things (IoT) and the edge all have parts to play to enable decision-making and the efficient performance of business processes. Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain and IoT, are increasing the demand for real-time data integration and harmonization.However, machine learning and AI capabilities won’t help you make informed decisions if they don’t have access to quality data. This begs an interesting question for ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. The speed of change in modern business is accelerating.New technologies, globalization, regulatory changes and competitors entering and leaving the market are just a few examples of the types of environmental forces that bombard companies every day. Developing a sustainable, competitive advantage requires company leaders to identify and respond to opportunities and threats quickly, directing both strategic and operational course corrections. Management and employees must then be able to respond to leaders’ directions and implement changes quickly and effectively to capture opportunities before they are gone. This is the essence of business agility. Imagine trying to ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. Digital transformation of business is one of the biggest trends of the IT industry during the past few years and is projected to continue to be an important part of companies’ business strategies through 2020. With digital transformation initiatives, companies are transforming business processes to leverage modern technology in new ways – deeply integrating technology-enabled automation with human-driven tasks to create hybrid business/technology processes. As a result of these new processes, companies are not only seeing incremental productivity improvements (as one would expect from any automation initiative), but also transformative changes in the way companies ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. Face the inevitable: Local persistent data at the Edge will happenIt’s indisputable that Edge Intelligence will grow, whether that’s mobile applications running on Smartphones, IoT applications running in Smart Cars (or the underlying sensors), in the entertainment center, navigation systems, etc.  There will be countless mobile and IoT – taken as a whole, Edge scenarios – where a native application will be a better approach than a web-based application, or where it would be inefficient/potentially less secure to send raw data back from IoT collection points – rather than process the data and locally store ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Modern businesses move fast and the speed of business is accelerating every day with no sign of slowing. To survive, companies must find ways to remove friction in their systems and business processes – leveraging real-time operational data and translating it into actionable insights that drive activities across the company. From strategic decision-making to low-level operations and customer experience, your entire company must have up-to-date information and insights to keep pace with the speed of business. It isn’t okay for your business to be waiting on daily batch updates.Leaders need real-time insights to make informed ... Read More

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