Inside the BriefcaseYammer’s new offices across three floors near “Silicon Roundabout” have been opened by the Duke of York, Prince Andrew. According to Tech Week Europe, the prince claimed to have used Yammer to organize a dinner party for 200 guests.
Blogs, Featured BlogsAs we have been discussing recently, big data is old news: some organizations have been leveraging their big data to extract tremendous business value, for probably as long as computers have existed. But the operating word here is “some” organizations – not all of them. And these organizations tend to belong to the wealthiest industries – financial, retail or travel to name a few. For these businesses, harvesting and processing vast amounts of diverse data drives them to obtain a competitive advantage that translates into measurable return on investment.
Is the Federal Government trying to put round pegs in square holes? That certainly seems to be the case with the acquisition and contract writing systems they are buying.
Blogs, Featured BlogsMore results from LogiXML’s recent survey of more than 750 IT professionals on business intelligence (BI) trends and BI users.
Blogs, Featured BlogsWith the amount of hype around Big Data it’s easy to forget that we’re just in the first inning. More than three exabytes of new data are created each day, and market research firm IDC estimates that 1,200 exabytes of data will be generated this year alone.
In his book, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, Charles Babbage wrote ‘On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.’
At the dawn of database technology in the late 1960s through the 1970s hierarchical and network databases emerged. Hardware was really slow and really expensive. To get databases to perform for an application, one denormalized the data and made sure that all of the data you wanted for the application was physically adjacent on the same disk drive. In the end, the database design worked for one and only one specific application.
Blogs, Featured BlogsThe Hadoop community recently promoted YARN — the next-gen Hadoop data processing framework — to the status of “sub-project” of the Apache Hadoop Top Level Project. The promotion puts YARN on the same level as Hadoop Common, the Hadoop Distributed File System, and MapReduce. It had been part of the MapReduce project; the promotion means it’ll now get the spotlight and developer attention its proponents believe it deserves.
Blogs, Featured BlogsWhen LogiXML asked more than 750 IT professionals this very question, most said “Pacman – traditional, but entertaining,” or “Call of Duty – cool and sophisticated, but hard to use and somewhat violent.” Others said “Pong – traditional, but useless,” “Solitaire – one man operation,” “Minecraft – new and agile,” or “Frogger – move or die.”
Blogs, Featured BlogsOn August 10 -11, the first two-day OpenStack Asia-Pacific Conference (OSAC) was held in Beijing and Shanghai concurrently. This conference is jointly organized by CSDN (Chinese Software Develop the Net), the world’s largest Chinese IT technology community and the OpenStack user group (COSUG).
Blogs, Featured BlogsAround the beginning of this year I had offered some predictions about where networking might venture in 2012. Perhaps a tad behind schedule, but as if on cue, software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged at the front and center of networking this year, with VMware’s acquisition of Nicira. In this blog post, I am here to suggest that over a billion dollars later, this marriage’s ability to realize the software-defined networking vision remains, shall we say, incomplete. But you gotta start somewhere.
Blogs, Featured BlogsHeat maps use cell size and color to display complex information in an intelligible way. Aside from just looking cool, the heat map is one of the most useful and powerful data-analysis tools available in business intelligence.
Blogs, Featured Blogs“Democratization” is the kind of buzzword one expects from politicians, not open source software developers. Yet democratizing Big Data has become the latest focus of Talend, according to the company’s recent announcement of its collaboration with the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program. Here’s the scoop, and what it could mean for businesses large and small with an interest in managing Big Data.
Blogs, Featured BlogsAs Apache Hadoop has risen in visibility and ubiquity we’ve seen a lot of other technologies and vendors put forth as replacements for some or all of the Hadoop stack. Recently, GigaOM listed eight technologies that can be used to replace HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) in some use cases. HDFS is not without flaws, but I predict a rosy future for HDFS.
Blogs, Featured BlogsBetween the arrival of both MATE 1.4 and KDE 4.9 and the emergence of SolusOS’ brand-new GNOME Classic on the scene, there’s no denying it’s been an exciting few weeks here in the world of Linux desktops. That, in turn, has made it all the more difficult to witness the identity crisis that has apparently befallen GNOME itself.
Blogs, Featured BlogsHere in the world of Linux, with hundreds of distributions to choose from, it seems safe to say that there’s something for just about everyone. Of course, that doesn’t mean we can’t all dream a little. While Linux is famous for its virtually infinite customizability, sometimes we may wish our favorite distro were a little bit different, even if just in some minor way.
Blogs, Featured BlogsBirst, the business intelligence start-up that I first wrote about last fall, is back today with an interesting new capability that combines data that resides in the cloud or on-premise into a single customized view.
Blogs, Featured BlogsWe have to turn our databases inside out. As long as we are only saving (and not using) information, the time and effort we have spent producing and storing it was all for nothing. Read more about these and other findings from our large-screen monitor projects …
Blogs, Featured BlogsLast time, we unveiled the secret of our monitor wall. Today, we’ll go one room further and show you what else you can do with a wall full of on-screen parameters – besides, of course, stealing the show from the PowerPoint people.
Blogs, Featured BlogsActually, we wanted to keep this to ourselves a bit longer. But before someone else copies it and takes all the credit, we’re announcing it now: Peeking through the keyhole is out. Panoramic views are the future way of working in financial controlling…and elsewhere.
Blogs, Featured BlogsThis week Forrester Research released its report on Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) vendors. We’re glad to see Tableau ranked #1 according to the 29 criteria defined by Forrester.
Blogs, Featured BlogsDo you wish you had a better picture your company’s reach within the marketplace? Have you searched and searched for a simple way to create reports that integrate all your data and have yet to find the right solution? Atcore Systems understands this challenge and our new SugarLogi Integration can help you!
Blogs, Featured BlogsThe Ninth Annual Technology ROI Awards highlight organizations that have successfully leveraged IT deployments to maximize value per dollar spent. Islington Council, which provides parking enforcement and other local government services to the London Borough of Islington, reduced contract costs, reduced staff overhead, and improved customer relations within the first few months of using Logi Info, LogiXML’s flagship BI solution.
Blogs, Featured BlogsTruly successful BI projects will look like IT project failures to many people. For anyone used to delivering traditional IT systems (desktop productivity, back office and front office automation, data entry systems, etc.), BI has always seemed frustrating. The model of defining requirements, delivering requirements, and then maintaining the system over a three to five year life span just doesn’t seem to work in BI. Many BI practitioners, particularly first-time implementers, will report with a large degree of frustration, “Every time we give them what they asked for, they come back with changes in their requirements; we never seem to get it right, they can’t tell us exactly what they need, and we can’t keep up.”
Blogs, Featured BlogsThere may be no end in sight to the ongoing Secure Boot Saga in the Windows 8 world, but the same, alas, cannot be said for Mozilla’s Thunderbird. No, as was apparently prematurely revealed by a leaked email earlier this month, the “end” for the desktop email client may be all too near now that it’s no longer “a priority for Mozilla’s product efforts.” Rather, while security maintenance updates for the software will continue, any further feature development is being turned over to the community.
Blogs, Featured BlogsIt’s not exactly any secret that Linux dominates the world of high-performance computing, so perhaps it should go without saying that last week’s exciting Higgs Boson announcement would involve Linux in some not-insignificant way. The reality, however, turns out to be far greater than marginal significance.
Blogs, Featured BlogsInformatica 9.5 is scheduled to be available by month-end, with additional capabilities coming by year-end. It’s a major release for the integration vendor, driven by what Informatica sees as the three major Big Data problems enterprises face: using social data, data in the cloud and Hadoop datasets. Informatica’s chief marketing officer, Chris Boorman, explains in this interview with IT Business Edge’s Loraine Lawson.
Blogs, Featured BlogsThere are many topics that tend to come up in a recurring manner around water coolers throughout the Linux blogosphere, and not just the great “Year of” debate, either. No indeed, another shining example more than a little familiar to most of us who spend any time here is the much-abused command line — specifically, whether it’s outlived its usefulness in this era of the GUI. Well guess what? The debate is back!
Blogs, Featured Blogs, SOCIAL BUSINESSIn insurance risk management there’s a lot of data and users need to analyze it quickly and effectively. With Origami, we were trying to achieve a seamless user experience for the analytics where it was very easy for any risk manager to drive into the data. We wanted to be able to embed a reporting tool into our application so it still looks like Origami and is very easy for the risk manager to use, but also has powerful dashboard and reporting capabilities.
Blogs, Featured Blogs, SOCIAL BUSINESSDigital marketers know they must measure and optimize all of their efforts, with the goal of increasing sales. They must also be able to prove a positive return on their investments. That said, digital marketers are constantly on the hunt for the latest technologies to help with both.
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