Subscribe to RSSVentana Research Selects Information Builders as Hot Vendor in the 2009 Value Index for Business Intelligence
Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Ventana Research, a leading benchmark research and advisory services firm, named the company as the overall Hot Vendor in its first-ever Value Index on Business Intelligence. Information Builders secured a weighted top-ranking position for [...]
MEGA Introduces Powerful Risk Management Capability
MEGA, a leader in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software solutions, has integrated a powerful mathematical tool to measure risk exposure into its MEGA GRC Suite, making it the first time such a capability has become part of a comprehensive GRC solution.
The MEGA GRC Suite will contain an expanded risk quantification and analytics [...]
Kognitio Partners With 2e2 to Offer On-Demand Data Warehousing as a Service (DaaS)
Kognitio, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing solutions, today announced that it has awarded innovative technology services provider 2e2 a contract for the hosting of Kognitio’s Data Warehousing as a Service (DaaS™) environments.
Under the terms of the agreement, 2e2 will work with Kognitio to develop the [...]
Green BI To The Rescue
As carbon credits start to take the form of complex derivative financial instruments, dashboard-enabled BI will have to merge with detailed financial/statistical analysis so that companies can determine advantageous positions on associated price spreads and manage carbon credit risk and volatility accordingly. In the recent past, many companies have been falsely or erroneously touting [...]
The ParAccel Analytic Database Running on Sun Servers Establishes Dramatic 30-Terabyte TPC-H Benchmark Records for Performance and Price-Performance
ParAccel, Inc., today announced that the ParAccel Analytic Database™, a high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel (MPP) columnar database management system (DBMS) for data warehousing and analytics, running on Sun Fire™ X4540 storage servers and OpenSolaris™, set TPC-H (ad-hoc-decision support) benchmark world records for performance and price-performance at the 30-terabyte scale factor. The TPC-H-audited Sun-ParAccel configuration ran [...]
Talend Launches Talend Integration Suite RTx, Real-Time Data Integration Platform for Enterprise Integration Needs
Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Integration Suite RTX, a new real-time data integration platform for enterprise application integration needs.
Based on Talend’s award winning, enterprise-grade data integration platform - Talend Integration Suite - the new solution [...]
NBA Draft Lottery Pick Analysis
As a huge college basketball fan, more specifically a die-hard Duke fan, I recently got into a heated debate about what school has the most top draft picks. So of course that sparked an interesting dashboard idea, with the NBA finals and upcoming NBA draft this month.
The result is an Xcelsius dashboard with all of [...]
Webinar Reminder- Xcelsius Data Connectivity Series: When to Utilize Standard Xcelsius Connectivity and Integration
Webinar Title:
Xcelsius Gurus Data Connectivity Series: Part 2 - When to utilize non-Business Objects connectivity for your dashboard?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 10:00 am (Pacific Standard Time)
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Speakers: Mico Yuk (EverythingXcelsius.com); Ryan Goodman (Centigon Solutions)
Following up from Part 1 of their successful Data Connectivity Series, Ryan and Mico, 2 of the top Xcelsius Gurus [...]
New website: Mobile Data Visualization
I am excited to announce a new web site today called MobileDataVisualization.com. This new site is geared toward an innovative new technology, RoamBi, and will feature general best practices and emerging trends for mobile business intelligence.
As the chief editor of MobileDataVisualization.com, I will contribute my own experiences and insights as the demand for mobile visualization [...]
Google I/O Developer Conference
Just got back from an exciting Google conference where Centigon Solutions was invited to share our GMaps Plugin at the developer sandbox. We had a lot of interesting discussions and came back with great new ideas for improving the map’s performance and speed for plotting points.
The best part was Google provided everyone with a brand [...]