Warehousing Your Data in the Cloud with ETL

DWH on the CloudThe process of taking data from different systems and putting it into a data warehouse for business analysis can be a complicated affair. In this article, we look at what is involved and how the cloud has made matters potentially trickier.

A data warehouse is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing. It usually contains historical data derived from transaction data, but it can include data from other sources..

JReport Enhances Dashboard and Mobile Delivery 
with In-Memory Performance

 

Jinfonet Software announces that JReport 11.1 is now generally available. The new release boasts increased performance for better scalability and report generation as well as enhanced data visualization and interactivity for reports and dashboards through Web and mobile interfaces.

JReport 11.1 allows the user to analyze data faster than ever before. JReport Server Live can now automatically “push down” summary computations to the database to allow reports to run up to 100 times faster for larger data sets. This is JReport’s first step towards delivering analysis for customers with increasingly huge amounts of corporate, Web, and social media data. By distributing computation logic closer to where data resides, “push down” technology will also be used by JReport for its Big Data implementation.

Fundación Telefonica Uses Pentaho to Manage its Program against Child Labor

Pentaho Corporation announced that Proniño, Fundación Telefónica’s charitable social action program, has implemented Pentaho Business Analytics to explore and visualize its data in real time and help define targeted measures for eradicating child labor in Latin America.

BI USABILITY: evolution and tendencies

Introduction

What is known today by the name Business Intelligence (BI) has an origin and evolution that should be looked at in order to introduce the concept that will be the subject of this article: “BI Usability”.

One of the principal goals of BI is that users find the information they need to make decisions in due time and proper form. The form includes, among other things, the format in which the information is presented and the level of interaction expected to obtain the desired result. The previous points make up the term “BI Usability”.

 

Usability can be defined as software’s ease of use, in which factors such as the familiarity of the design, comfort, attractiveness, level of interaction permitted, response time, etc. also come into play.

Various definitions of usability have been selected to complement the concept: (*1):

Oracle Buys Endeca

 

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca Technologies, a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions.
A privately-held company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Endeca provides powerful and highly intuitive products that help companies analyze unstructured data, gain better business intelligence, and deliver a superior customer experience..

 

ParAccel Announces Amazon as Investor in Latest Funding Round

ParAccel, Inc., provider of the world’s leading analytic platform, today announced that it has closed its latest funding round.  Amazon.com, Inc. joins ParAccel’s existing investors, Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Bay Partners, Walden International, Tao Venture Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank in the financing.  The Company will use the investment to capture the growing demand for ParAccel’s Analytic Platform and extend its technology lead.

“Powerful database solutions help customers with their most complex analytics work involving large data sets,” said Jeff Blackburn, senior vice president of business development for Amazon. “ParAccel has an industry-leading solution and is rethinking databases for the cloud – we’re excited to back such a strong team.”

IBM Unveils Breakthrough Software and New Services to Exploit Big Data

 Commits $100 Million to Massive Scale Analytics Research

As companies seek to gain real-time insight from diverse types of data, IBM today unveiled new software and services to help clients more effectively gain competitive insight, optimize infrastructure and better manage resources to address Internet-scale data. For the first time, organizations can integrate and analyze tens-of-petabytes of data in its native format and gain critical intelligence in sub-second response times.

 

Systech Solutions Inc. joins Quiterian’s Growing Partner Network in the US

Adding a fifth partner since entering the US market in October 2010, Quiterian expands its area of market influence in North America. Systech Solutions joined Quiterian at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles, CA this month.   Barcelona, May 17, 2011 – Systech Solutions Inc., a leading business intelligence services provider has joined Quiterian Partner Network of leading business intelligence (BI) specialists, making a strong commitment to Quiterian DDWeb, the fastest and most user-friendly advanced and predictive analytics tool designed for business users who manage big data. The Quiterian Partners Network delivers complete custom BI solutions leveraging the power of data and information to eliminate sources of inefficiency in business processes, reducing time, cost and increasing revenue. is a worldwide group of distributors specializing in BI, ISV-OEM and implementation consulting firms.  Systech Solutions, Inc.,

QlikTech Unveils User-Driven Business Intelligence for iPad

QlikTech announced the availability of QlikView on iPad within the month. It delivers an engaging iPad BI experience that provides business users with anywhere, anytime access to live data and analytics. Unlike first-generation iPad BI apps that only offer prepackaged static reports with limited views, QlikView on iPad allows users to understand what’s happening with their business as it happens. It also offers the flexibility to instantly adapt analyses, data sources and visualizations to meet changing business needs.