Just ahead of the opening of Strata + Hadoop World in New York City tomorrow, Cloudera today unveiled a new open source project to enable real-time analytic applications in Hadoop and an open source security layer for unified access control enforcement in Hadoop.The first project, Kudu, is an in-memory store

When it comes to BI, it still largely operates like it did at a company I worked for in the '90s. A businessperson comes up with an idea, it requires some data, and she's forced to ask IT not only to provide the data but often the report as well.Usually

It's easy to think most of the big, urgent questions around Hadoop are technical: What's so special about Spark vs. MapReduce? What are the data governance tools like?But judging from the turnout at a session at the Strata+Hadoop World 2015 conference in New York yesterday, the most urgent questions may

Organizations have made big advances in Big Data analytics, but there’s still a long way to go even though many are already starting to see a significant impact on their bottom line. That’s the biggest takeaway from a new survey conducted by Forbes Insights, sponsored by Teradata Corp., in partnership

The customer journey is undergoing a monumental change. Customers have access to more information, use more channels, and are connected via more devices than ever. A critical part of this change is customer service. Customers expect companies to provide support on new channels and address data from an exponentially growing

There are always two aspects to data quality improvement. Data cleansing is the one-off process of tackling the errors within the database, ensuring retrospective anomalies are automatically located and removed. Another term, data maintenance, describes ongoing correction and verification – the process of continual improvement and regular checks. Often, businesses

A new tool from SAP will allow companies to analyze distributed Hadoop data alongside corporate data using the ERP giant's Hana in-memory computing platform. Announced on Tuesday, SAP Hana Vora is an in-memory query engine that taps the Apache Spark execution framework to deliver interactive analytics on Hadoop.More>>

The landscape of enterprise data is changing with the advent of enterprise social data, Internet of Things (IoT), log and click streams. The reason this is called big data is because this exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems.More>>

Google announced the general availability of two big data products formerly in beta: Google Cloud Dataflow and Google Cloud Pub/Sub. The two tools complete Google’s plan to bring its entire suite of internal big data tools into general availability.More>>

Two Google big data toolsets have finally moved out of beta and into full commercial release, adding to its cloud portfolio a data analysis framework and a service for managing data streams in real-time.More>>