Birst-ing into mainstream: Machine Learning meets Semantics in a networked world
Birst is one of the poster children of self-service analytics. Convergence and democratization are the key themes underlying Birst's new release out today, as Birst is trying to balance self-service with enterprise requirements, and making a case for some of the industry's defining trends while at it.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be the buzzword du jour for organizations, but this is not an obvious or straightforward transition even for those building advanced products and platforms. Many organizations are still struggling with digital transformation to become data-driven, so how should they approach this new challenge?
Read More →Out of the Hadoop box: SQL everywhere and AtScale
AtScale has made a name for itself by providing an access layer on top of Hadoop that enables it to be used directly as a data warehouse. AtScale is now announcing support for Teradata DW and Google Dataproc and BigQuery, offering what it calls a Unified Analytics Platform. Why this move now, how does it work and what does it mean?
Read More →From Brexit to Trump: How organizations can use data to prepare for and respond to political events
Politics and data do mix, apparently, so we try to count the ways.
Read More →How Trifacta is helping data wranglers in Hadoop, the cloud, and beyond
Trifacta is known for doing one thing, and doing it well: data wrangling. Because of this, the company has an informed, data-driven view on the big data and not-so-big data market. Trifacta's insights have driven its latest product release, but are also relevant to draw a big picture of big data.
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