Will Databricks lakehouses change the AI and data world?
Databricks is convinced that the lakehouse will help them kick-start a new industry trend. After data warehouses advanced the business intelligence (BI) world and data lakes simplified data science, the next step should be a data pool to support all kinds of applications. Are we entering a new era,...
SAP HANA wants to lay the hybrid data foundation for enterprises
SAP is working hard to develop its HANA portfolio. Whereas the in-memory database was initially launched in 2010, it is now an SAP brand that enterprises rely on to solve multiple issues. But what is HANA like today? We spoke to Matthew Zenus, Global VP of SAP HANA Product & Solution Management...
Qlik BI switches to end-to-end data platform
Qlik aims to play a bigger role in the data analytics journey of enterprises. This means addressing both Business Intelligence (BI) and data integration. A unified approach which Qlik calls an end-to-end data platform, ultimately leading to 'Active Intelligence'.
The BI industry is experiencing ...
How automation increases the success of your organisation
Companies are increasingly embracing new systems, services and processes to increase business opportunities. IT operations (ITOps) teams are usually responsible for these new IT assets. Responsibility that comes on top of tasks like managing legacy IT. As a result, companies rely on ITOps more than...
Making optimal use of industrial IoT data with digital workflows
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to develop faster and faster. Therefore, it is no surprise that many industries are wondering how to use incoming data. Think, for example, of data that can be used to improve maintenance activities. In order to optimise this, a platform is needed with which a...
Qlik works on a platform for the next phase of business intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) is a data discipline that is just entering a new phase. At least, that's the message Qlik's Elif Tutuk from the Research & Development department conveyed to us in a recent interview. The software supplier is busy preparing for this 'third generation BI', as Tutuk des...
How do you create a data culture in your company?
Organisations with a clear data culture are more profitable than companies that do not. But where is a data culture? And if you want to, where to start? Just installing new software is not enough, according to Tableau, the vendor of software for data analytics and visualisation.
While travelling...
Datto brings structure to portfolio
At the
recent DattoCon conference in Paris, we received an update on Datto's growing
portfolio. The company has grown with data backup solutions but is increasingly
looking at other activities. Networking is becoming very important, just like
professional service automation (PSA). With its portfoli...
Tableau wants to make analytics understandable for everyone
For the twelfth edition of the Tableau Conference (TC19), 20,000 data enthusiasts travelled to Las Vegas in mid-November to emerge themselves in data visualisation for three days. The central message: data makes the world a better place, as long as data tells the story well. NLP and Machine Learnin...
Databricks sees open-source as the way to innovate in data science
Within the data science world, a number of young companies are on the rise. Databricks is an example of this. By making open-source leadingfor its software, the company has gained a foothold in a relatively short period of time. We recently visited the company's Spark + AI Summit, where we spoke wi...
Salesforce accelerates sales process with Einstein Voice
Salesforce showed some innovations in the field of speech
at its recent Dreamforce conference. This not only concerns speech recognition,
by means of Einstein Voice Assistant, but also the analysis of speech in conversations
with customers.
In the United States, half of households already use a
...
ThousandEyes is a Google Maps of sorts for application traffic
For businesses and organizations, the move to cloud
environments is a normal thing to do today. However, this step creates
complexity when it comes to monitoring how applications function across all
network and Internet connections. Monitoring specialist ThousandEyes offers a
complete holistic over...