Retail: Features
Alteryx Driving Towards Line-of-Business Analytics
There is disruption in the air, says Alteryx CEO, Dean Stoecker, who today announced that they have received $12 million in financing to take their offering to the next level. Datanami spoke with Dean about the state of big data, and the challenges his company faces as it takes its next steps.Read more...
On Algorithm Wars and Predictive Apps
Predictive apps are going to be one the next major disruptions in technology as enterprises begin to take advantage of the combined power of big data and predictive analytics says Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri. “I call them robot armies, because the algorithms are the things that scour through the data and do all the work,” he said. Let the algorithm wars begin.Read more...
Can Cloud Bridge the Big Data Talent Gap?
Big Data and cloud are both out pacing the rest of the software industry in growth rate according to recent IDC findings, and according to one analyst, as this trend persists, cloud-enabled big data software may be the tonic to help salve the skills gap that gets talked about so much in the big data arena.Read more...
MapR Revs HBase with M7; Plots Search Integration
This week, MapR Technologies announced that their HBase-infused M7 is now being pressed into production, and dispensed details of their integration of search technology with partner, LucidWorks - a project that is currently in beta.Read more...
Is "In-Chip" Data Processing the Next Revolution?
While in-memory computing has been making the hype circuits recently, analytic startup SiSense says their technology takes data processing to the next level: in-chip. SiSense says that in-chip is the next revolution beating on the big data door, and that it will change the way people think about data processing.Read more...
Retail: News in Brief
Big Transaction Data Creating Big Value
MasterCard collects 160 million transactions every single hour of the day, creating a lot of data to sift through. The key to making it useful, says Andy Mantis, of MasterCard Advisors, is being able to take that data and show trends of consumer spend that retailers can apply in meaningful ways.Read more...
Retail: This Just In
Terry Jones Joins Dynamite Data as Board Advisor
Dynamite Data announced that leading online technology innovator and executive Terry Jones has joined the company as a board advisor.Read more...
Alteryx Unveils Line-of-Business Free Analytics
Alteryx, Inc. today announced Project Edition, a free analytics platform designed to cater to the hundreds of thousands of business and data analysts in every line-of-business group.Read more...
Precog Comes out of Beta, Announces Three New Market Platforms
Precog announced the general availability of its analytics platform for non-relational data. The announcement comes approximately 6 months after Precog launched its public beta.Read more...
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