IBM has announced, a bit earlier than originally planned, DB2 9.7 as well as InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 (we’ll cover the latter in another post). A steady 3rd place in the DBMS market behind Oracle and Microsoft, DB2 nonetheless continues to make gains. IBM claims that its non-mainframe (IBM calls it “distributed”) DB2 revenue grew at aContinue reading “DB2 9.7 Focuses on Costs, Simpler Management”
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Gogo Inflight – Internet at 35,000 Feet. Yes, it works. Well.
On my last trip, I was delighted to see that American Airlines had added Gogo Inflight Internet on my plane. I’ve seen the occasional story about it, being the traveling dweeb that I am, but this was the first direct encounter. The flight attendant gave me a discount coupon!
EnterpriseDB’s Big Boost From IBM Only Part of the Story
EnterpriseDB has had a steady build as an Oracle-compatible alternative DBMS. IT Market Strategy had a chance to catch up with Andy Astor, co-founder and EVP of business development, in the midst of the frenzy around the launch of IBM’s DB2 version 9.7 (discussed here). Andy was gracious enough to make himself available late (veryContinue reading “EnterpriseDB’s Big Boost From IBM Only Part of the Story”
DB2 Runs PL/SQL. Say WHAT?
Today IBM announced new features, products, and solution packages in its DB2 9.7 (Cobra ) release. And a new version of InfoSphere, including Informix and z versions. I’ll post about those later, but here I’d like to just highlight a buried item that got little play: DB2 can now run PL/SQL. Natively. In the engine.
Birst Hopes to Ride On-Demand BI Wave
Birst CEO Brad Peters checked in with IT Market Strategy to update us on the most recent developments in the on-demand BI market. They’ve been busy; when we last talked in January, Birst had just hired Randi DiPrima to head up a global partners program, and a significant new round of financing was freshly deposited.
Tableau Software: Visibly Catching On and Catching Up
Data visualization specialist Tableau Software spent some time with us this week talking about where they’ve come from and where they are going. After early project work for the DoD, founder Pat Hanrahan and his PHD student Chris Stolte joined forces with Jock MacKinlay, who spent some time at Xerox PARC. They spun out of Stanford in earlyContinue reading “Tableau Software: Visibly Catching On and Catching Up”
IBM’s BAO Initiative Will Change the Landscape, But More Is Needed
IBM Global Business Services (GBS) has added its first new service line since IBM acquired PWC and launched itself into the services business. GBS generated nearly $20B in revenue in 2008, a few hundred million more than the hardware side of IBM. Two other units, the software group and IBM Research, have joined with GBS to create theContinue reading “IBM’s BAO Initiative Will Change the Landscape, But More Is Needed”
Expressor Software Hits the Complex Data Integration Market Running
In April, Expressor Software visited the Boulder BI Braintrust (BBBT) and spent a few hours taking us through their story. Positioning themselves as a provider of high performance semantic data integration software, Expressor shipped their first commercial release in May of 2008 and are targeting Global 2000 and government entities in the US and EMEA.Continue reading “Expressor Software Hits the Complex Data Integration Market Running”
PPT Wins Poll on Analysts’ Preferred Soft Copy Briefing Formats
Preliminary votes and comments are in – nearly two-thirds of our 46 respondents as of April 10 prefer Powerpoint format to PDFs, and a small minority is using annotatable PDF format, though several didn’t even know it exists. (Adobe, are you listening? Some work to do here.) Key themes in comments from AR and analysts:Continue reading “PPT Wins Poll on Analysts’ Preferred Soft Copy Briefing Formats”
Kognitio Targets US Market, Bags Award
Kognitio, a UK-based player, has set its sights (and funded some moves) on the US market with its WX2 data warehouse offerings and is beginning to gain some traction here. If you’ve been around a while, you may remember White Cross, an appliance vendor before they were called that – it’s not much of a stretchContinue reading “Kognitio Targets US Market, Bags Award”