Business Intelligence: Multiply the Value
The key to getting value from analytics is to deliver high performance to a wide audience. If the BI tool is too slow or dragged down by too many users, it becomes worthless. This is why, in the past, it was impossible to widely deploy BI – the underlying technology…
SAND Announces Partnership with Uniserv
MONTREAL, Quebec, June 21, 2011 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column database software today announced a strategic partnership with Uniserv, the largest pure-play supplier of data quality in Europe. “I’m very pleased to have Uniserv as an OEM partner of SAND”, said Mike Pilcher, Chief Operating…
TDWI: V is for Big Data Volume
Philip Russom, writing for *TDWI*, likes the three Vs of big data, and takes a look at Volume: >It’s pretty obvious that data volume is the primary attribute of big data. With that in mind, some people have asked me for a definitive number quantifying the volume, a common question…
How to rapidly deploy BI applications across the Enterprise
Business Intelligence applications are the doorway to unleashing the analytic power of your enterprise data warehouse. But more often than not your data remains locked away, inaccessible to all but a handful of users. So you can’t get the answers you need when you need them. What good is the…
iWeb: Giving BI the driver’s seat
Yolanda Smit, writing for *iWeb Business*, continues her series on how “super-companies” have not kept up with the BI times: >Business intelligence should become the control panel that empowers management to effectively steer the organisation towards strategic achievement. Part of the challenge: >Strategy committees put a lot of effort into…
Formtek: Big Data bringing Big Changes
*Formtek*’s Dick Weisinger, writing about the McKinsey report’s gushing over how Big Data Analytics (BDA), and howit could positively transform our lives: >When applied to applying collected shopper information, big data would give retailers the potential to increase their operating margins by more than 60 percent says the McKinsey report….
SAND Passes the 600 Customer Milestone
MONTREAL, June 1, 2011 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF.ob), announced today that they have exceeded the 600-customer milestone. A pioneer in the column database and advanced analytics space, delivering big user populations on big data, SAND has continually pushed the pace of innovation, both with their own customers and with…
Forbes: The Big Opportunity of Big Data
Bill Hewitt, writing for Forbes, goes over some of the big risks, and big rewards, associated with the Big Data revolution: >Not surprisingly, the business of information management – helping organizations make sense of this ever-expanding store of data – is growing tremendously. In just the past few years, Oracle,…
Traditional Data Integration tools aren’t ready for Big Data?
*Storage Newsletter* reports that, according to a Syncsort study of more that 350 IT and business users in North America, traditional data integration tools simply aren’t up to the task of dealing with Big Data. >Growing data volumes and shrinking processing windows pose significant challenges to more than 70 percent…
Meeting the New Demands of Enterprise Analytics with Business Intelligence
Getting more from your analytic environment is critical to successfully enabling enterprise wide business intelligence. As BI adoption grows within your company, your systems will be challenged by exploding data volumes, greater demands for high-speed analytics and pressure from a growing and pervasive community of users. This expanding user base…