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  • Cascading big data framework gets Apache Tez support

    After about a year-and-a-half of development, big data application platform specialist Concurrent today released a new version of the open source Cascading big data application framework.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 10 June 15 23:54

  • SAP previews new analytics tools for IT, business users

    SAP has made no secret of its desire to be front and center in the trend toward easy-to-use analytics tools, and on Tuesday the company offered a glimpse at several upcoming capabilities for different types of enterprise users.

    Written by Katherine Noyes • 10 June 15 07:50

  • New query language could turn log files into business insights

    IT departments have long relied on log data to help keep systems up and running, but they're not the only ones who can benefit from these vast stores of information. A new analytics language from Logentries could help managers tap log data to gain insights about their business.

    Written by Katherine Noyes • 29 May 15 11:20

  • Salesforce doubles down on big data with new analytics tool

    All the data "lakes" in the world won't amount to much if you can't figure out what they mean for your business. With that in mind, Salesforce on Thursday unveiled Salesforce Wave for Big Data, a new tool designed to help business users make sense of their information stores using the Salesforce Analytics Cloud.

    Written by Katherine Noyes • 28 May 15 22:00

  • Tableau revs its analytics engines with an online speed injection

    Back in April, Tableau released version 9.0 of its flagship analytics software, and on Monday the company followed up with an update to the product's online edition that it says is up to 10 times faster than its predecessor.

    Written by Katherine Noyes • 19 May 15 04:03

  • 5 tools and techniques for text analytics

    There’s a proliferation of unstructured data on the Net and coming into customer call centres. But manually going through the haystack to find the needle is an insurmountable, unrealistic task to complete. Speaking at the recent Big Data TechCon event in Boston, data mining expert, Dan Sullivan from Cambia Health Solutions, discussed several tools and techniques to get you started.

    Written by Rebecca Merrett • 18 May 15 16:29

  • Oracle zeroes in on Hadoop data with new analytics tool

    The rise of Hadoop has created new oceans of data to explore, and Oracle has a new software product that's designed to help. Called Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, it brings new analytic capabilities to Hadoop and NoSQL.

    Written by Katherine Noyes • 15 May 15 08:47

  • Pivotal rolls out Hadoop distro update, new query optimizer

    At EMC World in Las Vegas this week, Pivotal rolled out enhancements to its big data suite, including major component updates to its Pivotal HD Hadoop distribution and up to 100x performance upgrades to Pivotal Greenplum Database and Pivotal HAWQ.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 08 May 15 23:21

  • IBM Watson adds hybrid Cloud developer tools

    IBM Watson this week began rolling out new hybrid Cloud capabilities that will integrate IBM Cloud with a growing number of cognitive computing and content analytics services in the Watson Zone on Bluemix, IBM's open standards-based cloud innovation platform.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 08 May 15 05:40

  • Doing natural language processing with neural nets without the high cost

    Text classification, a part of natural language processing, is a useful way to capture insights from the vast array of unstructured online and digital text that exists on the Web. But doing this effectively can be costly and time consuming.

    Written by Rebecca Merrett • 05 May 15 15:13
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