Sunday December 22, 2024

SAP spices up its predictive analytics and visualization apps

SAP has made a series of updates to its InfiniteInsight predictive modeling software and Lumira data-visualization tool in a bid to shore up its foothold in the analytics market. Tweet This Post

SlideShare Axes Its Freemium Model, Makes ‘Pro’ Features Like Analytics Free

 SlideShare, the LinkedIn-owned site that lets you upload and distribute presentations online, is turning over a new leaf today. The service, which has 60 million users, is going free. In tandem with that, SlideShare is dropping its PRO tiers, once priced at $19/month and $49/month, and making extra features like analytics, which used to come […]

Hadoop meets Google Docs: Analytics made easy

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Free data visualization tool brings clarity to analytics

Having a ton of data at your disposal isn’t much good if you can’t make sense of it, so users of big data analytics systems like Hadoop are also making use of data visualization tools. Tweet This Post

Appcelerator Makes Its Platform More Flexible With Native SDK Support, API Builder And Updated Analytics

 The mobile technology company Appcelerator has been around since 2006, and chances are that if you know about it, you mostly think of it as the company behind Titanium, its open-source mobile development environment. In the enterprise world, however, the company has also made a name for itself with its Appcelerator Platform, which is meant […]

Getting your hands on data with mobile analytics

Year after year, organizations cite business intelligence and analytics as top investment priorities, but they’re seldom satisfied with the results. In part that’s because traditional solutions require a handoff to experts who know how to query warehouses full of data — and dutifully return static reports that reveal somewhat less than anticipated. Tweet This Post

Luminoso Lands $6.5M In Series A To Keep Building Cloud Text Analytics Service

 Luminoso, a Cambridge, MA-based text analytics company announced $6.5M in Series A funding today, led by Acadia Woods with Digital Garage also participating. That brings their total funds raised to $8M. Luminoso was born out of research at the MIT Media Labs and spun off in 2010. After getting their seed funding in 2012, they […]

CloudPhysics Grabs $15M In Series C Funding And Announces New Virtual Storage Predictive Analytics

 CloudPhysics has a vision for the data center: It wants to give sysadmins clarity and insight into possible issues that create bottlenecks in a virtualized environment, offer solutions when they happen, and help prevent issues before they even happen — all as a cloud service. Read More Tweet This Post

Cloud-based analytics offer insight to all

The ubiquitous phrase “big data” has worn out its welcome. For most businesses, the emphasis lies in useful analytic results, not the size or the source of data that produces insight. But that doesn’t mean analytics technology should stand still. Tweet This Post

RapidMiner Scoops Up Radoop For Hadoop Analytics Processing

 RapidMiner, a big data analytics startup, purchased former partner Radoop, giving it Hadoop processing and access to the Radoop team’s Hadoop expertise. They did not share the purchase price. RapidMiner enables customers to create a data-analytics workflow and grab data from a variety of sources without scripting using built-in connectors, then process that data to […]