iLuminate 4.0 has just been released, and its parent firm, Illuminate, is ramping a campaign to join the “new analytic DBMS” party. With a very different architecture based on storing and indexing values in an inverted-list like model, the “correlation database” or CDBMS has been winning some traction with a powerful value proposition: shorter “timeContinue reading “iLuminate Aims To Enable Exploratory Analytics”
Category Archives: On Business Intelligence
Lucidera Hysteria Misses The Point
It’s early yet and the whole story has not been told. But the flurry of Lucidera “news” – mostly retweets and wild speculation – needs at least a brief response. It appears, in several stories from apparently reputable news outlets quoting thus-far unnamed sources, that LucidEra, a SaaS BI startup, is shutting its operations down.Continue reading “Lucidera Hysteria Misses The Point”
ParAccel Rocks the TPC-H – Will See Added Momentum
ParAccel, another of the analytic database upstarts, has weighed in on Sun hardware with a record-shattering benchmark that its competitors have thus far avoided – the 30 TB TPC-H. It’s been two years since anyone has published a 30 TB TPC-H, and only 10 of any size (all smaller) have been published in the past year. OneContinue reading “ParAccel Rocks the TPC-H – Will See Added Momentum”
Can GoldenGate Software Continue to Grow Transactional Replication?
GoldenGate Software may not be a well-known name, except in circles where transactional replication is a hot topic, but after 15 years in business, they have assembled a sizable base of some 500 customers, with 4000 solutions deployed, and partnerships with vendors as diverse as Teradata and Ingres on the database side, and Microstrategy and AmdocsContinue reading “Can GoldenGate Software Continue to Grow Transactional Replication?”
TruCast Listens to Customers For You. You Learn, and Act
Visible Technologies, a privately held 75-person firm founded in 2003, believes the formation of communities in social media offers an opportunity for targeting better. Sounds obvious, doesn’t it? There’s ample evidence that product matters in the blogosphere and the web in general – 2/3 or more of posts mention product names, and there is a rhythmContinue reading “TruCast Listens to Customers For You. You Learn, and Act”
Report Mining – Minimally Invasive BI
Every organization of any size has reports – usually too many, often largely unread, and typically a gold mine of information not available elsewhere without substantial investment of time and resources, even if the tools are available. Where existing reports are in place and in wide use – such as those accompanying packaged ERP, CRMContinue reading “Report Mining – Minimally Invasive BI”
Aster Data Systems: Specialty DBMSs Will Change the Market
In a market suddenly awash with new analytic DBMS entrants, Aster Data Systems differentiates itself with an aggressive posture: in-database computations, MapReduce integration and commodity hardware. Like several other firms I’ve talked to recently, the San Carlos-based vendor has a Big Customer (mySpace), a Recent Launch (May 2008) and a Core Team of Hotshots with industryContinue reading “Aster Data Systems: Specialty DBMSs Will Change the Market”
InfoSphere Streams Is A Game Changer
IBM has made it clear that InfoSphere Streams, the commercialized part of the System S research project that has been underway for some years, is a priority, and they are committing substantial investments to it. In fact, the release was hurried a bit, as I noted in my (hopefully) humorous post about naming for complex event processingContinue reading “InfoSphere Streams Is A Game Changer”
Information Builders Prepares to Ramp It Up
The last couple of years for Information Builders (IBI) have been a mixed bag. On the one hand, WebFocus, their flagship BI offering, has received stellar reviews, getting top marks from Gartner and Forrester in published research. On the other hand, growth stalled and sputtered a bit for the past year or two, and then theContinue reading “Information Builders Prepares to Ramp It Up”
Sybase IQ: Buy One, Get Microstrategy Free
Sybase held an analyst event today at the NY Stock Exchange, and reviewed a stellar year since their last one. Quarter after quarter, the Dublin, CA. firm has set new records for revenue, increased profitability, and gained market share. I’ll discuss more of the content of today’s event in a later post, but this one justContinue reading “Sybase IQ: Buy One, Get Microstrategy Free”