Why Simple Scalability is the key to Big Data
Everyone is talking about Big Data, the tsunami of information which has been steadily growing and growing as a result of our increasingly digital world. Everything you do these days, from doing driving your car to shopping to watching tv and surfing the web, is now being captured as digital…
Hadoop: The elephant in the room
A wise mentor of mine used to comment on start-ups by saying “it is our job as executives to work out if there’s a pony in the room or just a room full of pony poop.” He would describe how, upon opening the door to a room full of poop,…
SAND SAP PartnerEdge Webinar, July 21
SAP PartnerEdge will be hosting a webinar with SAND on July 21st 2011 at 11:00 am EST/8 am PST In today’s world, the ever growing business needs and enormous amounts of data are very challenging for warehouses to deliver performance. At the same time the user’s analytic, ad hoc requests…
Business Intelligence: Multiply the Value
The key to getting value from analytics is to deliver high performance to a wide audience. If the BI tool is too slow or dragged down by too many users, it becomes worthless. This is why, in the past, it was impossible to widely deploy BI – the underlying technology…
SAND Announces Partnership with Uniserv
MONTREAL, Quebec, June 21, 2011 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column database software today announced a strategic partnership with Uniserv, the largest pure-play supplier of data quality in Europe. “I’m very pleased to have Uniserv as an OEM partner of SAND”, said Mike Pilcher, Chief Operating…
TDWI: V is for Big Data Volume
Philip Russom, writing for *TDWI*, likes the three Vs of big data, and takes a look at Volume: >It’s pretty obvious that data volume is the primary attribute of big data. With that in mind, some people have asked me for a definitive number quantifying the volume, a common question…
How to rapidly deploy BI applications across the Enterprise
Business Intelligence applications are the doorway to unleashing the analytic power of your enterprise data warehouse. But more often than not your data remains locked away, inaccessible to all but a handful of users. So you can’t get the answers you need when you need them. What good is the…
iWeb: Giving BI the driver’s seat
Yolanda Smit, writing for *iWeb Business*, continues her series on how “super-companies” have not kept up with the BI times: >Business intelligence should become the control panel that empowers management to effectively steer the organisation towards strategic achievement. Part of the challenge: >Strategy committees put a lot of effort into…
Formtek: Big Data bringing Big Changes
*Formtek*’s Dick Weisinger, writing about the McKinsey report’s gushing over how Big Data Analytics (BDA), and howit could positively transform our lives: >When applied to applying collected shopper information, big data would give retailers the potential to increase their operating margins by more than 60 percent says the McKinsey report….
SAND Passes the 600 Customer Milestone
MONTREAL, June 1, 2011 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF.ob), announced today that they have exceeded the 600-customer milestone. A pioneer in the column database and advanced analytics space, delivering big user populations on big data, SAND has continually pushed the pace of innovation, both with their own customers and with…