Organizations face obstacles in building effective unified environments, because these environments are difficult to deploy, and hard to manage with new types of data and multiple systems. Providing ...

Whether your business provides big data and analytics to others, or you use big data and analytics to enhance your own products, research and marketing, it is necessary to have a fast, efficient and ...

Data is the lifeblood of modern enterprises. From gaining necessary insights into customer behavior and streamlining organizational processes to making effective business decisions, data is now a ...

AtScale announced the availability of a universal semantic platform for business intelligence (BI) with Microsoft Azure HDInsight. With this offering, in one click, enterprises gain faster time to ...

It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a "We don't need no stinking SQL" attitude to a "Can I please have some SQL with that?" philosophy. The nonrelational databases that ...

One implication of ubiquitous sensing as evidenced by the rapid growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the explosive increase in data being collected. This data comes from myriad sources: According ...

SAP and SAS announced a new partnership to create a joint product roadmap for in-memory analytics solutions. The aim is to make SAS’s advanced analytics software run smoothly on SAP’s HANA in-memory ...

Part 1 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data analytics and business intelligence space. It’s no surprise that in diagrams and visual ...

If you work for a large financial firm, it’s safe to assume that your data architecture is probably what UBS Group CTO Rick Carey calls a “big red blob.” Like many technologists whose job it is to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. Over the years, the cost of designing a system on chip (SoC) ...

Big data analytics tools have become indispensable, as they offer the insights necessary for organizations to make informed decisions, understand market trends and drive innovation. These platforms ...