Category: Actian

Feed: Actian. Author: Rachel Coffman-Bueb. Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with a blog post dedicated to them.This month, I sat down with our long-time Senior Manager of Regional Sales, Nithaya Thavisouk. Originally from the south of France, Nithaya moved to Paris to study business at Institut Supérieur de Gestion.  After graduating in ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. Migrating to a cloud data warehouse makes strategic sense in the modern context of cloud services and digital transformation.  Operationally, connecting disparate data sources into your cloud data warehouse, managing ongoing change in your IT environment, and delivering on the promises of real-time operational data is both more complicated and difficult. In this, the 2nd of a 3-article series, on how the Avalanche cloud data warehouse and Actian DataConnect integration platform work together to help companies realize the real-time analytics vision faster by enabling customers and users to easily and quickly access the data, analytics, ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. Migrating to a cloud data warehouse makes strategic sense in the modern context of cloud services and digital transformation.  Operationally, connecting disparate data sources into your cloud data warehouse, managing ongoing change in your IT environment, and delivering on the promises of real-time operational data is both more complicated and difficult.  This blog is the first of a 3 part series on how the Avalanche cloud data warehouse and Actian DataConnect integration platform work together to help companies realize their real-time analytics vision faster by enabling customers to ingest, transform, and deliver data from hundreds ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. I wrote an initial blog a few weeks ago on flat files and why embedded software application developers readily adopted them.  Then in the next blog, I covered why embedded developers are reluctant to use databases.  In this third installment I’d like to discuss why they should consider moving away from flat files – after all, the old adage should apply here: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” should apply before we discuss why one option is better than another. Are you suffering from “Who moved my cheese” Syndrome? In most cases, change doesn’t ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Rachel Coffman-Bueb. I once read, “One of the greatest gifts you can give is your time.” Although I am fairly certain I read this on a coffee cup or tumbler in a craft store, its words still rang true. So, this week, while I was visiting our Round Rock office, I was excited by the opportunity to give back to the community where our largest employee base resides. We were fortunate enough to be able to Since 1987, the Round Rock Area Servicing Center has tirelessly supported the community of Round Rock. Their organizations services include a ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pamela Fowler. Learn about the new way to engage Support Services at ActianWe are delighted to introduce the “Live Chat” feature, which was embedded in “Actian Communities” on November 11, 2019. It is a complete chat solution that enables instant chat support with Actian subject matter experts. Each chat request will be directed to the right subject matter expert, based on the Top-Level Product you choose when initiating the chat. Note that in the chat widget, you will see only the Top-Level Products that you own, instead of a long list of all Actian products. Answers can ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Rachel Coffman-Bueb. Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with a blog post dedicated to them. Today, in honor of Veterans Day, we stand with our servicemen and women who have served and sacrificed in the U.S. military. At Actian, we are proud of each and every Veteran in our workforce that ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. Why Embedded Software Application Developers Loath Databases Last week I wrote an initial blog on flat files and why embedded software application developers readily adopted them.  Simply put, they’re always there – if you’ve got an Operating System that’s more than a bare-bones executive kernel it’s there and it’s free.  Also, flat files are really simple to use and, while there may be underlying differences in various file formats, encryption techniques and strengths and other underlying characteristics, from a developer’s standpoint they’re the same at the API level.  But, it’s the alternatives to flat files ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. Why embedded software application developers adopted flat files Recently, my colleague here in Actian Product Marketing, Pradeep Bhanot, wrote a great blog on Data Historians in which he called for their retirement in favor of more modern databases to support time-series data processing and analytics.  But, in some ways, historians are not as historic as one of the most entrenched embedded data management solutions: the flat file.  In fact, I suspect that use of flat files is far more prevalent than use of databases or historians as a means of embedded data management.  It’s hard ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Helena Marsikova. A very diverse yet joyful group of masks including Tuesday Taco, Fortune Teller, Squid, Superman, Bob Marley, Hippie, Mary Poppins, Morphsuit, Top Gun’s Maverick, Dead-Priest-Joker, Walrus, Game of Thrones’ Melisandre, a Slytherin, and Actian’s People Programs Manager abducted by an alien was sighted marching around the Embarcadero Place in Palo Alto, California, on Tuesday, October 29, cheering and wishing random walkers from the surrounding offices Happy Halloween. Having completed the Halloween Parade, the crew gathered in the office to vote for the winner of this year’s costume contest. Results were tight – as photos demonstrate, ... Read More