Middleware: News in Brief
Drawing an Optimized Flight Plan with GE
According to GE, commercial airlines spend about $22 billion every year managing flight plan efficiency. To help curb those expensive costs, GE put out what they call the “Flight Quest Challenge,” encouraging data scientists and analysts to crunch flight plan numbers and come up with better algorithms. Read more...
Building Big Data Applications with Kapow
With the size of datasets increasing steadily for all organizations, spreadsheet data extraction and aggregation has become a more cumbersome task. Kapow, with their recently released Kapow Enterprise 9.2, hopes to alleviate that frustration with things they call “Kapplets” that aid in the building of big data applications that can be designed for data extraction optimization. Read more...
Middleware: This Just In
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...
Software AG Executive Speaks at Georgia Technology Authority Summit on Data Management
Software AG’s Vice President of State, Local & Provincial Government Solutions, David W. Taylor shares best practices in breaking through the chaos that can inhibit control of data in his remarks at the Georgia Technology Authority Summit on May 6 from 1-2 p.m. EDT in a session titled “Governance: Data Sharing with Discipline.”Read more...
Mellanox’s Unstructured Data Accelerator a Finalist for Best of Interop
Mellanox Technologies announced that the UDA has been selected as a finalist for the ‘Best of Interop’ in the ‘Performance Optimization and Testing’ category. Read more...
Progress Software's Big Data Connectivity Expands with DataDirect Connect XE
Progress Software expanded its big data capabilities with ODBC driver technologies that leverage data warehousing applications. Read more...
Internet2 and Networking Partners Develop SDN, OpenFlow Applications
Juniper Networks, Ciena, Brocade and Internet2 announced the Call for Proposals for the 2013 Innovative Application Awards program.Read more...
‘Long Data’ to Drive Workforce Analytics, Says Mercer
The latest release of Mercer Analytics addresses this challenge by leveraging the power of Long Data to provide insights into an organization’s most valuable asset – its talent.Read more...
PROS to Showcase Big Data Applications at SAPPHIRE NOW
PROS, a big data software company, today announced plans to spotlight sales effectiveness in booth 3221 at SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference being held May 14-16 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.Read more...
