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Informatica courts marketers with data lake made just for them
Amid predictions that heads of marketing will soon outspend heads of IT on technology, Informatica LLC is rolling out a version of its Intelligent Data Lake integration and analysis platform targeted specifically at marketers. And in the spirit of eating one’s own dog food, it said it has tested the new Marketing Data Lake product inside ...
Cray cozies up to enterprises with analytics supercomputer
Cray Research Inc., a computer maker better known for supplying research scientists than data analysts, would nevertheless like to be your analytics vendor. The company is releasing today the Urika-GX Agile Analytics Platform, a supercomputer for the rest of us that fits in a standard data center footprint and supports a host of open source ...
Earnings preview: Can HPE maintain the momentum?
By most accounts, splitting off from the PC and printer side of the former Hewlett-Packard Co. business has been a good move for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE). In March, the company topped analyst expectations for the first quarter results and issued strong guidance for the remainder of the fiscal year. Now investors and customers ...
EY targets auto makers with reliability analytics service
Ernst & Young Global Ltd. (EY) has introduced a new service for manufacturers that leverages large volumes of both structured and unstructured data for use in predicting equipment reliability. Built on SAP SE’s HANA database, SAP HANA Vora software, SAP– Predictive Analytics and Hortonworks Inc.’s Data Platform (HDP), the EY Predictive Reliability Analytics service provides a ...
Tibco boosts analytics features, adds graph database
Real-time messaging and data integration company Tibco Software Inc. announced a broad range of enhancements to its analytics offerings, including new data manipulation features in Tibco Spotfire, new code-free operational intelligence dashboards in Tibco LiveView Web, a new user-inspired developer community and component exchange, and a new acceleration package for Apache Spark and the Internet of things ...
Birst buffs up embedded analytics platform
Enterprise business intelligence vendor Birst, Inc. has enhanced its embedded analytics capabilities with new data integration, visualization and security features. New JavaScript APIs now enable third-party applications to interact with Birst using bi-directional data filters. That means applications can dynamically update based upon events and data signals that happen in Birst. Birst can also recognize filters ...
Battle cybercrime by treating it as a business, HPE report asserts
“The business of hacking is a business just like ours,” write security researchers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) in a new report. “If we think of it like a business, like a competitor, then we can prioritize the most effective efforts to disrupt it.” HPE’s “Business of Hacking” report, which was released today, goes ...
What to watch for in Cisco earnings
Can Cisco Systems Inc. continue to successfully dodge the bullet? The company is scheduled to announce fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday at 4:30 PM EDT, and investors have been bidding the stock up modestly in advance of the release. Consensus estimates call for Cisco to report earnings of 55 cents a share, up a penny ...
6 steps to successful employee advocacy programs
Employee advocacy may be all the rage, but many companies are unprepared to unleash their people as ambassadors for their brands. Among the reasons: Organizations lack a coherent and inclusive strategy, they don’t have an engaging story to tell and don’t show that they value their employees. Asking disenfranchised people to advocate for an organization they ...
10 useful social selling tools you’ve (mostly) never heard of
The first generation of social media monitoring and research tools mostly aggregated streams of content that quickly became noise. The new generation is using machine learning and big data analytics to mine actionable insights from what people are saying. Gabe Villamizar (@gabevillamizar, above), director of social selling at HireVue Inc., presented a list of ...