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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 use and provisioning of the service to existing and new customers. Furthermore, 2e2 will offer its current and new customers the option of using DaaS to implement their data analytics solutions, by using the scalable architecture that is already in place to offer an on-demand service.
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 component based on Bayesian scenario calculation, a proven, but advanced means to produce the complex operational risk models that experts agree are the best way to measure risk exposure and aid in decision making.
The Bayesian modeling technique provides a simple, yet robust way of combining existing data and knowledge in the form of probabilities, while keeping uncertainties in the data and knowledge explicit. These principles are used to model complex real-world problems in a unified framework.
Ventana 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 products and customer assurance supporting BI. According to Ventana Research, those earning the highest Hot Vendor classification are certified to best represent buyer value based on a thorough evaluation and audit of the company and its products based on research and verified facts.
“The market for business intelligence continues to be a top agenda item for CIOs and those in business and IT who want to gain the insight and knowledge to guide their business forward. Information Builders’ achievement as a Hot Vendor for BI is an indicator of their business focus and technology that is innovative and proven in enterprise deployments,” said Mark Smith, CEO and executive vice president of Ventana Research. “Our thorough analysis across the standard spectrum of technology evaluation criteria from product capability to vendor validation provides a more efficient and effective method to evaluate vendors and our Value Index represents those who were willing to be placed under our detailed examination.”
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 allows IT organizations to accelerate the velocity of data across IT systems. With up-to-the-minute data, customers receive a higher level of data consistency across applications, providing more accurate decision making capabilities.
RTX provides organizations with benefits in many areas. For example, with RTX, companies can save time and money by developing and maintaining data integration processes in a fraction of the time and cost it takes with proprietary technologies. For online merchants, RTX provides the information necessary to make promotional offers on-the-fly, based on user behavior, resulting in more targeted offers with better response rates. RTX also improves customer service by synchronizing and maintaining data from multiple sources so that all stakeholders within an organization can access accurate information.
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 7 times faster and provided 16 times better price-performance than the previous category leader. With this breakthrough benchmark, ParAccel also announces support for the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Operating System (OS).
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 themselves as “carbon neutral” entities. The real problem is that the Federal Trade Commission has not set forth clear guidelines and standards on what true carbon-neutrality is.
Solace Systems Partners with SL Corporation for Real-Time Operational Visibility
Solace Systems, the leader in messaging middleware and content networking hardware, today announced a partnership with SL Corporation, a leading provider of real-time monitoring, analytics and visualization software. SL’s widely-adopted RTViewÔ platform will be used with Solace’s content router management framework, to provide customers with a visual, real-time way of monitoring, analyzing and managing the many types of messaging supported by Solace’s Unified Messaging Platform.
“Monitoring and management are critical aspects of maintaining the competitive advantage that a hardware-based messaging infrastructure provides,” said Shawn McAllister, chief architect at Solace Systems. “SL’s RTView is a highly effective means of keeping global deployments operating at peak efficiency, and will bring immediate value to our customers.”
In addition to its robust monitoring capabilities, RTView enables users to archive historical performance data and compare it to real-time data for trending analysis as well as capacity planning.
72% of Organizations are Restricted by Their Trading Capabilities
Sybase, Inc., an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced the results of a global survey of 220 investment bankers and risk managers in April 2009, which shows that many organizations’ technology is restricting their trading capabilities.
“Firms are openly admitting that they are restricted by their current trading capabilities and as they adapt their strategies to cope with the current financial crisis and identify new ways of making money, the need to improve existing trading platforms is even more prevalent,” said Stuart Grant, Business Development Manager for Capital Markets, Sybase. “Despite cutbacks in the financial services industry, there is noticeably a need to move away from restrictive, traditional technologies and for investment in new fit for purpose technology that delivers a clear view of the markets and business activities in real-time. This confirms what we have seen this past year in our customer base with the rapid adoption of Sybase® RAP – The Trading Edition™ as the leading technology platform for real-time analytics in capital markets.”
Pentaho Named as a Finalist for “Best Commercial Open Source Project” in SourceForge.net 2009 Community Choice Awards
Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that it has been named a finalist for the “SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.” According to SourceForge.net, “This category recognizes the best company-managed open source project with commercial intent.”
Since its founding in 2004 as the first commercial open source business intelligence company, Pentaho has developed a large, productive community around its open source projects including the Pentaho Reporting project, the Mondrian OLAP project, the Kettle data integration project, the Weka data mining project, and the Pentaho BI platform project. Some community members participate in one key area of interest while others contribute across multiple projects.
Beyond its vibrant open source community, Pentaho has shown significant commercial traction in the multi-billion dollar business intelligence market, recently announcing the world’s largest open source BI deployment at Specsavers, and a proprietary BI replacement at Otto International, the latest in a series of such replacements.
Infobright Announces Technology Alliance and Joins Actuate BIRT Global Partner Connection
Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, today announced the company has joined the Actuate BIRT Global Partner Connection as a BIRT Business Partner. The collaboration will provide integrated bundles of the companies’ products, which include Infobright’s self-managing analytic database software and Actuate’s value-added offerings for Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), the leading open source information application development environment and a top-level Eclipse project co-founded and led by Actuate.