Investors Seek Out Lucidworks

Lucidworks, the high-flying search engine platform developer, announced a $100 million funding round. The haul will be poured into its AI-based recommendation tools, including its flagship Fusion search platform. San Read more…

Platform Combines Visual Analytics, Vector Mapping

Geospatial analytics is scaling up for applications like the Internet of Things and climate analysis with the integration of the vector mapping technology and a visual analytics platform. Arcadia Data said this week i Read more…

Inside the Panama Papers: How Cloud Analytics Made It All Possible

In late 2014, an anonymous person offered to send a German journalist 11.5 million encrypted documents detailing the structure of offshore business entities created and managed by a Panamanian law firm in the world's mos Read more…

Hadoop Distros Orbit Around Solr

With recent announcements, the open source search tool, Solr has become a notable focus of at least two Hadoop distro vendors. MapR and Cloudera have recently made announcements addressing the need for easier access to the data across the organization using search using the popular Apache Solr as a foundation. Read more…