For the best integration performance for big data challenges, make sure your middleware can leverage in-memory data grid computing, but don't overlook the need for business process management and optimization for the enterprise systems you're integrating.
More than half of respondents in a TDWI survey say they're actively using or evaluating predictive analytics (PA) technologies. That's big -- but whether PA ever sees truly pervasive adoption is another matter.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 11, 2014
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
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
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.
It's about the design of individual databases, but even more about how all databases in an enterprise relate and interact.