Collaborative BI and performance management platform accelerates smart decision making.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hadoop's growth spurt has produced growing pains -- which the Hadoop community has worked feverishly to address. These efforts are bearing demonstrable fruit.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- February 4, 2014
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Some companies are hugely successful in using BI, others are not. In a new book, well-known analyst Cindi Howson uses exclusive survey data and case studies to show how companies are deploying state-of-the-art BI for competitive advantage.
                    
			            - By Linda L. Briggs
- February 4, 2014
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.