Companies offering cloud-based analytics platforms have received considerable attention over the past few years and it is undeniably a hot place to be today. Take the release of Oracle RightNow Analytics Cloud last week, as an example of this, or GoodData’s recent funding announcement. SalesForce is also preparing an analytics

Zoomdata, a Big data Visualisation startup, has landed $17 million recent funding for its proprietary platform capable of analyzing billions of records in seconds, bridging old and new data management platforms. Zoomdata’s mission is to make the processing and visualising of big data an accessible field to all; their technology

Business intelligence has gained considerable traction over the past decade. The explosion of data and the importance it now has on every modern business has led to a dramatic rise in BI vendors offering various solutions to improve the ways in which a company stores, collects and analyses its data.

I met with a client last week that was trying to determine what and how to deal with one of the most common and complex problems that organizations both small and large have to deal with – data management.  This oil and gas company had data coming out of its

Over a year ago, an article written for Dataversity™ on Business Intelligence (BI) stated “at some point in the near future BI analysis will simply be another routine aspect of the job for business professionals looking to maximize the use of what will be viewed as a standard resource.” This

Brian Gentile is Sr. Vice President & General Manager of the TIBCO Analytics Product Group within TIBCO Software. Formerly, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jaspersoft, which was acquired by TIBCO in April 2014.  Today’s businesses are overrun with data. Yet without the right information, data provides no

Press Release: TIBCO, a global leader in infrastructure and business intelligence software, today unveiled its vision for the TIBCO Analytics platform, and previewed new solutions and updates for TIBCO Spotfire® and TIBCO Jaspersoft®. TIBCO detailed how it will make enterprise data accessible more quickly to all users, wherever they are, and

Microblogging innovator, Twitter and tech giant IBM have entered into a partnership to amalgamate Twitter’s vast data silos with IBM’s cloud-based analytics, customer engagement platforms, and consulting services. Early last week, the move was announced and both parties believe will “help transform how businesses and institutions understand their customers, markets

With all the excitement around how companies are using data today, it’s hard for anyone outside of a job specifically dealing with data to know how to effectively use it for their day to day work. Yet, there isn’t a single career that isn’t impacted by the use and understanding

Press Release: TIBCO, a global leader in infrastructure and business intelligence software,today announced the open source release of version 5.6 of its award-winning TIBCO Jaspersoft® business intelligence platform, available for free download on the Jaspersoft® Community site. This new version includes several product updates, including new Big Data connectors, interactive reporting upgrades,