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Arcadia Data adds visualization recommendation engine to its latest business intelligence software
Arcadia Data Inc., developer of a business intelligence platform that works directly on unstructured and semistructured data stored in massive “data lakes,” is adding machine learning-aided visualization recommendations and support for complex data types to the latest release of its platform. The new release of Arcadia Enterprise software, announced today, is different from standard BI tools ...
Oracle overhauls interface and adds candidate-recommendation engine to human capital cloud
Oracle Corp. today gave its Human Capital Management Cloud a social network-style “news feed” interface and bulking up artificial intelligence features for hiring and professional development. The news feed metaphor is the most dramatic change current users will notice. It uses machine learning to highlight the data and details people care about most. Relevant analytics can be displayed ...
Postman brings API development tools to the enterprise
With application program interfaces becoming a mainstay of communication among applications, Postdot Technologies Inc. has introduced a version of its Postman API development environment designed specifically for use by large organizations. Postman Enterprise, announced late last week, features better security than the company’s free single-user platform with enterprise-only features like single sign-on access control, audit logs ...
Io-Tahoe brings machine learning to data discovery and cataloging
Another company has joined the smart data catalog party. Io-Tahoe LLC, a unit of British utility giant Centrica PLC, today is introducing a machine learning-driven data discovery product that it says can find and classify data across a wide range of platforms ranging from traditional databases to semistructured data lakes. At the center of the ...
IBM calls its new machine learning platform ‘the reinvention of the database’
IBM Corp. today unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform that one executive called “the most significant announcement we’ve made about data in years.” Featuring an in-memory database, a real-time processing engine and the ability to ingest and analyze massive amounts of data, the Cloud Private for Data constitutes an integrated data science, data ...
Adobe shares hit a new high as subscription revenue surges
Adobe Systems Inc. once again blew the doors off analysts’ expectations, topping earnings estimates for its fiscal first quarter by nearly 10 percent. Revenue shot up 24 percent from a year ago, to $2.08 billion, also beating consensus expectations of $2.05 billion. Profit before certain costs such as stock compensation hit $1.55 per share, 12 cents ...
In latest cloud push, IBM debuts Kubernetes container platform on bare-metal servers
IBM Corp. said today it will offer the Kubernetes software container orchestration platform on bare-metal servers, becoming the first cloud infrastructure provider to make that option available. The IBM Cloud Container Service is aimed at organizations that are running data- and processor-intensive workloads that require the highest levels of speed and capacity. Because bare-metal servers, ...
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Cloudera founder Mike Olson: ‘We’re moving from automating processes to automating decisions’
The growing momentum of big data in the cloud has been described as a threat to Cloudera Inc., which is ironic given that the company’s original business plan was to sell big data as a cloud service. The market wasn’t ready in 2008, so Cloudera shifted to selling an integrated platform that combines various open-source ...
OneLogin takes cloud identity management inside the corporate firewall
OneLogin Inc. today extended its cloud-based identity management system to on-premises data centers with OneLogin Access, saying it’s the first company to provide integrated access across cloud and legacy applications in a fully integrated product. The company competes in a red-hot market to serve the needs of enterprises that use multiple cloud services and want a single, ...
Nutanix to acquire Netsil in bid to solve container complexity conundrum
Nutanix Inc. is continuing to expand beyond its roots in hyperconverged infrastructure, which uses software to combine computing, storage and networking in one unit, with an agreement today to buy Netsil Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Netsil makes a monitoring and visualization platform for cloud applications that enables organizations to see all services and their dependencies on ...