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Jaspersoft and Co-Opetition with AWS

September 13, 2013

Business

Asia, AWS, Business intelligence, Cognos, Data Warehousing, Jaspersoft, Redshift, Windows Azure

Last year, when AWS announced its Data Warehousing service, RedShift, there was much interest from the punditry as to what it meant for the existing companies offering similar services built on top of AWS infrastructure. One of those vendors,…

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Chartio Plus Cloud Data Warehouses – Not Your Grandma’s BI

July 24, 2013

Business

Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, Business intelligence, Chartio, Data warehouse, GitHub, Google Analytics, MySQL

Traditional business intelligence (BI) is a real dog of a thing – big metal storage, heavy applications, long delay times and serious amounts of data wrangling are regular themes when it comes to running an enterprise BI project. The…

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Core Business System Integration – Focus on UX, Not Data

June 12, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Business, Business intelligence, Customer Data Integration, Customer relationship management, Data integration, Scribe, Systems integrator

I was pinged the other day by Scribe (more about them here) – the company is delivering a new take on data integration, making it quicker and easier for non technical folks. Anyway, Scribe has just done a “State…

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EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

May 16, 2013

Business

Big data, Business intelligence, Crunchbase, Databases, Equinix, intacct, Netflix, Sales

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple…

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Chart.io Goes GA, Lots of New Partnerships

November 13, 2012

Business

Business intelligence, chart.io, Chartio, google, Google Analytics, MySQL, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL

I spent some time yesterday talking to Chart.io, a company laser-focused on being an interface for organizational data. That’s a complex way of saying that Chart.io aims to take raw data out of different applications and databases and give…

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Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

August 28, 2012

Business

AppExchange, Business intelligence, Databases, Indicee, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, yammer

I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always…

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Big Data–Over Hyped Buzzword or Enterprise Focus?

August 15, 2012

Business

Apache Hadoop, Big data, Business intelligence, Data warehouse, MapReduce, RainStor, SQL, wikipedia

Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”. So much so that few people can actually agree on what big data…

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Allena Aims to Deliver Plain English BI Insights for Salesforce Users

August 6, 2012

Business

Business intelligence, Force.Com, GoodData, google, Plain English, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, YouCalc

Recently I received an email from Saqib Waqar, CEO of Allena, an interesting new vendor in the “plain English BI” space. Waqar comes from an ERP background having created custom ERP solutions for several customers. Waqar made contact after…

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