A platform once reserved to academia is quietly taking root in the business world, enabling a new generation of advanced analytics that helps enterprises better predict and understand the needs of their customers.
One key to analyzing how consumers will spend is affordability data, which includes hundreds of influential variables.
Splice Machine exposes a full ANSI SQL query facility for HBase, along with support for indices, database triggers, and other data management essentials. It's ACID-compliant, too.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 28, 2014
It's about the design of individual databases, but even more about how all databases in an enterprise relate and interact.
What trends should data analysts be paying attention to this year? From mobile and cloud to visualization and the Internet of things, the CEO and founder of a firm specializing in analytics gives us his list of the five most important movements to watch.
With exclusive survey data and case studies, well-known analyst Cindi Howson shows how highly successful companies are deploying BI for competitive advantage.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- January 28, 2014
If IDC's forecast pans out, sales of analytic and big data software will be one of the few bright spots in an otherwise slumping global market for enterprise software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 21, 2014