Primary Data is a data virtualisation startup that emerged from stealth earlier last week at DEMO Fall 2014 and announced the involvement of Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak as Chief Scientist of the company. Steve Wozniak has joined old colleagues from Fusion-io and is expected to guide the San Jose, Calif.-based

San Mateo based marketing intelligence firm Everstring announced the appointment of its new Vice President of Finance Eric Amblard. With over ten years of experience in the predictive analytics industry, Eric will be a great asset to Everstring bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He will be responsible for

Max Kanaskar is an Associate for Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company). He has extensive experience in IT capability development and data management, and has advised companies in transformational data management programs, including data strategy, management and governance. He’s a regular commentator on big data and technology. His views can be found

TIBCO Software Inc. announced today a new offering on AWS Marketplace, TIBCO Spotfire® for AWS. Users will now be able to use Spotfire® data visualization and dashboards technology on an hourly, pay-as-you-go basis for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Redshift and more.  Spotfire for AWS provides technology professionals with easy

Tableau Software, the Business Intelligence and Analytics outfit, continued its growth run as it touched $100 million in the third quarter. Co-founder and CEO, Christian Chabot, seems to have more reasons to be optimistic owing to the company’s growth run lately. In an interview with GigaOM last week, he stressed

Press Release: Global business intelligence (BI) software firm Phocas Software has ranked on top of its competitors in 13 categories and scored outstanding results in 26 others in its two peer groups ad-hoc reporting and visual discovery in the latest findings from the world’s largest survey of business intelligence software

Snowflake Computing, a cloud data warehousing startup that’s coming out of stealth mode with intentions to disrupt the data warehousing market, has secured $26 million in Series B funding from prominent venture capital firms Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing Ventures, to do just that. The total investment has

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.