Category: Actian

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. With more and more companies embarking on digital transformation journeys, the focus on enterprise data is greater than ever. Data warehousing is not a new concept, but recent developments in the industry are generating a new wave of executive interest and the need to modernize both the approach and solutions for how enterprise data is managed. Here are the top 5 issues that IT leaders are facing when charting a future course for data warehousing capabilities.Security It is no surprise that Information Security and Risk Management are top of mind for most IT leaders. In ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Ada Acevedo-Penafiel. Actian employees run for the gold..en donutsAll work and no play make for a hungry team according to Actian employees, or at least that’s what we found out during a local community event. With our new location nestled in the quiet little city of Round Rock, it was time to venture out and find new ways to embrace the new surrounds. We caught wind of a new tradition that was going to take place and it involved donuts soooo… what were we waiting for? A small group of us decided to sign up for the ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Data is the lifeblood of a modern company. It provides operations staff with visibility of company operations, marketing and product development teams with insights about what’s occurring in the marketplace and company leaders with the input they need to make informed business decisions.Unfortunately, most companies are struggling to translate their data into true business value and a sustainable competitive advantage. They have too much data, are generating too few actionable insights, and by the time they do harvest a valuable nugget, the window of opportunity to act on it has passed. Here are some of ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. The data consumers within your organization aren’t a homogeneous group, so you must adapt your data management solutions accordingly. At one end of the spectrum is the ideal, “one-size-fits-all” solution. At the other end is a customized set of capabilities for each individual user that seems ideal, but is unworkable. How then do you incrementally approach the ideal solution?The most effective data solutions are formed by generalizing your user community into a few key groups by skillset and role objectives, data consumption habits and applied tools associated with those data needs, and then deploying the ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Cris Ianculovici. Actian Avalanche delivers an operational data warehouse as a managed service in the cloud. Its developer-friendly high-performance analytics engine has been proven to outperform other popular analytics platforms without specialized hardware or complicated software development. Requires minimal setup, provides automatic tuning to reduce database administration effort and enables highly-responsive end-user BI reporting.This is how to connect to Actian Avalanche from a few popular BI tools using the Actian Avalanche JDBC driver. A prerequisite is to have the Actian Avalanche JDBC driver downloaded and available in the environment where the tools run. The JDBC Driver is ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. If you’re a data engineer or a data architect, then you’re probably kept awake at night wondering how to design your data integration, management and analytics support platforms, so your DBAs and IT Ops colleagues can easily manage them while a varied set of data users are able to consume them simultaneously. These users range from new, demanding, hands-on users, such as developers and data scientists, to those who traditionally use the data through SQL and ad hoc queries, such as business analysts, as well as those who interact with the data indirectly through business ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. 2019 is becoming an exciting year for the data management community. Many of the trends of the past few years have successfully made the transition from emerging concepts to mainstream solution approaches.While trends are important building blocks about how companies approach their data management today, they are also providing insights into future capabilities to incorporate the individual pieces into a holistic, integrated solution. The cloud is becoming the first choice for new IT systems Companies have been moving applications and IT components to the cloud for a few years to save costs, improve performance and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Greg Coates. It’s with great excitement that we announce the release of Actian DataConnect 11.5. This release includes a new set of robust and intuitive features to make the integration and design experience simpler and faster. From mapping and process design enhancements in DataConnect Studio to new and improved connectivity tools in UniversalConnectTM and user-management features in Integration Manager, DataConnect has the capabilities you need to connect anything, anytime, anywhere. DataConnect Studio At Actian, we understand how important it is to provide you with the tools to create integrations quickly, manage them as your environment changes and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. There are three key trends that have motivated a rapid yet radical transition in how organizations manage their information environments, namely:AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORMS, such as software as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments, that allow organizations to transition core business and data management functionality to external service providers CLOUD COMPUTING, which provides a broad array of low-cost hosted computing, storage, and application services MODERNIZATION, the desire to consider ways to re-engineer existing business applications to better meet both current and anticipated business requirements Together, these trends have triggered waves of data and process migration out of the ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Cris Ianculovici. Actian Avalanche is the world’s fastest analytic data warehouse delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). It has been designed for simplicity and doesn’t require any complex tuning to deliver consistent real-time performance for even the most challenging queries.   Actian Avalanche is standards based, supporting the latest SQL, ODBC and JDBC standards, which enables it to easily fit into any existing data eco-system.  This post shows how to connect to Actian Avalanche from Denodo, using either the Actian Avalanche ODBC or JDBC driver. If you have not done so already, you will need to whitelist your IP addresses in the Actian Avalanche console (Manage > Update Whitelist IPs). If this is the first time ... Read More