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Arcadia overhauls analytics-on-Hadoop engine with Google’s Material Design
Arcadia Data Inc. has overhauled the user interface in version 4.0 of its Arcadia Enterprise 4.0 big data platform, making it easier for users to perform visual analytics directly on Hadoop data stores. The company also enhanced security for extranet deployments, making it easier to share models with internal and external constituents. Arcadia Data is one ...
How a scheduler helped one financial firm rein in its batch processing load
Real-time streaming data applications may get all the press, but the reality is that much of the business world still runs in batch mode. As companies grow, so does the volume of management reports that must be run overnight. At Raymond James Financial Inc., that growth threatened to swamp the batch processing systems and delay ...
Nimble raises $9M to expand its social CRM service
Nimble Inc., the social customer relationship management company founded by GoldMine Software Corp. co-founder Jon Ferrara (pictured), has raised $9 million in funding. The Series A round of financing was led by Imagen Capital Partners along with Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, Google Ventures, Indicator Ventures and a consortium of angel investors. The company earlier raised ...
Reltio boosts third-party integration with master data management service
Reltio Inc., a platform-as-a-service company that provides master data management services for disparate data sources, has announced the newest iteration of its cloud data management platform. The new version features integration with SnapLogic Inc.’s application program interface manager and improved integration with Dun & Bradstreet Corp. data. Master data management is a technique for defining ...
Trillium folds offline information into data-as-a-service offering
Trillium Software, a Syncsort Inc. subsidiary that specializes in data quality, today announced the availability of Trillium Precise, a new data-as-a-service offering that enables organizations to get a single view of validated, verified customer and prospect contact information, including offline data. Trillium Precise combines the company’s world-wide postal and geocoding data cleansing service with data ...
Salesforce.com beats earnings forecasts and raises guidance, but investors sniff
Salesforce.com Inc. beat revenue forecasts, matched earnings-per-share estimates and raised its full-year 2018 revenue guidance, but all that wasn’t enough to please picky investors. The provider of customer relationship manager services saw shares decline about 1.5 percent in after-hours trading. The issue appeared to be somewhat softer guidance the company issued for the current fiscal quarter, ...
Chip cards are driving more fraud online, study finds
Retailers suffered a 79 percent greater risk of fraud in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared with the same quarter a year ago. Merchants in the U.S. — and in the apparel industry in particular — bear the brunt of the growth, according to a new analysis from Forter Inc. a maker of fraud prevention software. ...
Alfresco pitches integrated content/workflow manager at digital transformation
Hitching its wagon to the current craze for “digital transformation,” Alfresco Software Inc. is combining its open-source enterprise content management and business process management services into an integrated package topped by an application development platform. The Alfresco Digital Business Platform is used to create automated workflows involving multiple documents and users in areas such as ...
Study finds big rewards in IoT adoption, but troubling security worries
A new study of 3,100 information technology and business decision makers across 20 countries finds strong adoption plans for smart devices – or the so-called Internet of Things — but also serious concerns about security and confusion about how to use the data those devices create. The survey, which was conducted by Hewlett Packard Enterprise ...
Q&A: Application containers finally take off as barriers crumble
Enterprise use of containers — those simple, portable software wrappers for applications — is set to explode, with up to 80 percent of organizations expected to be in production by the end of this year. Brian Gracely (pictured) follows this phenomenon closely both in his role as a director of product strategy at Red Hat ...
