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HPE acquires Niara to deliver behaviour analytics
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired Sunnyvale, California-based Niara Inc, a leader in user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA), to use …
Gartner predicts massive increase in data science automation and citizen data scientists
More than 40 per cent of data science tasks will be automated by 2020, resulting in higher productivity levels and more extensive use of data and …
Big Data
Breaking big data into business sense
Ram Vaidyanathan sets out a step-by-step approach to extracting true value from big data. In the year 2002, Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta famously used the principles of sabermetrics to assemble a competitive …
AtScale updates platform to enable BI on Hadoop and big data
AtScale, which bills itself as bridging the gap between business users and their data, has expanded its self-service BI platform from BI on Hadoop to BI on Big Data, both on premise and in the cloud, to realise its …
Solutions
Beware of the ‘data vacuum’
Data should help to drive business decision-making, not simply reinforce decisions already taken, argues Mark Sands. Every day, senior business …
Tableau releases 10.2 version for scalable advanced analytics
Business analytics software vendor Tableau’s latest release enables organisations to unlock their spatial data with advanced mapping capabilities, …
Self-service analytics tops list of 10 analytics trends for 2017
The advanced analytics market will nearly double in size between 2017 and 2020, according to global analytics and advisory firm Quantzig, with …
Ajilon delivers BI expertise to Roy Hill mines
Australian IT consulting and services provider Ajilon, in partnership with Microsoft, has developed a business analytics platform to help Australian …
Timely financial reporting for smart insights
Financials are the lifeblood of every business – and yet gaining access to accurate real-time financial reporting can be more like getting blood …
Eight steps to becoming a data-driven organisation
Steve Singer provides some timely advice on how to employ Kotter's change management model to make data the backbone of an …
MapR launches Customer 360 QSS marketing solution powered by machine learning
MapR Technologies has introduced the MapR Customer 360 Quick Start Solution (QSS) to deliver real-time customer analysis to help marketing …
CrowdReviews.com announces top BI software vendors
CrowdReviews.com, a beta stage software reviewing platform, has released their list of the best 100 BI software providers, based on customer reviews …
Yellowfin launches Data Preparation Module
Data scientists are spending a whopping 80 per cent of their time on data preparation, according to the Data Science Institute. BI software vendor …
Self-service analytics peaks; embedded analytics next priority
Adoption of self-service analytics tools has peaked and is now in a two-year decline, a report by Logi Analytics has found. The 2017 State of …
TIBCO Simplr simplifies cloud-based task automation
Integration, API management and analytics leader, TIBCO Software Inc. has launched its personal automation software-as-a-service (SaaS), TIBCO …
TIBCO launches Insight Platform
TIBCO Software has launched a real-time Insight Platform, which brings multiple technologies together to form “an intelligent digital nervous …