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Pivotal’s MPP platform giddy-ups analytics horsepower
The end game so many customers seek from the smorgasbord of technologies they’re buying lately is often big data analytics. Deriving intelligent insights from data requires a sometimes cumbersome amount of advanced infrastructure and software. A massively parallel processing (or MPP) data platform can provide some of the needed horsepower. “Users are looking for an ...
Plain-language translator makes peace between business and data science
Business people might logically incline that decisions should be based on data — but do they feel and act like they they should be based on data? The shroud around complex data science keeps line-of-business people and managers a step shy of total trust in data insights. Tools that explain in plain terms what data is ...
Smart contracts: AI could help negotiators close better deals
What’s so great about contract life cycle management? Isn’t it basically just a digitized cardboard box filled with old contracts, kept merely for compliance purposes? Not with new machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies baked in, it’s not. We’ve entered the third phase of CLM, according to Bob DeSantis (pictured, left), chief operating officer of AppExtremes ...
Conga e-document suite is customer-satisfaction king at Salesforce
Salesforce.com Inc.’s ecosystem is a bustling group of consulting partners, independent software vendors, and others bringing the future of work to enterprises. As these relationships evolve and scale over time, some companies take on new roles within the ecosytem. AppExtremes LLC (doing business as Conga) even has Salesforce reselling its electronic-document software to customers. Simplus is ...
Cloudera wants to be multicloud king for enterprise big kids
It can be difficult for a technology company to get its bearings these days. The on-premises-public-cloud teeter-totter has customers going this way one minute and that way the next. Cloudera Inc. is trying to bridge the gap between computing environments while sending a data-centric message to the biggest enterprises on the block. “It’s going to ...
Will Infor customers stick around for micro-vertical apps, or will Oracle intercept?
It’s not easy being best-of-breed in anything — doing an expert job across a wide swath of vertical domains is almost unthinkable. But Infor Inc. has buried its nose deep in research and development in an attempt to do just that in the enterprise-grade software market. With Wall Street gnats screened off, it may have the ...
Is mountain-boarding a thing? It is now, thanks to e-skateboards
Last-mile transportation, such as portable bikes and boards, frees commuters from the tyranny of gas-guzzlers and crowded subway cars. They are also luring recreational users seeking an electric boost in outdoor sports like mountain biking. “I talk with a fair amount of people in the bike industry, and my understanding is that lots of the ...
Cloud 9? iPhone-easy, on-prem cloud with individual resource scaling
A lot of companies these days want to snap their fingers and make their data centers go poof. But depending on their size and economics, they may not be able to swing the cost of the all-in, public-cloud high life. For them, on-premises private cloud options that pair public-cloud-like scale and composability with iPhone-easy operation ...
Supercomputing for science is a practice, not a product
Think getting accurate big-data analytics insights for a retail business is a big hassle? Try solving some of the planet’s most menacing challenges, such as marine-life preservation and global warming. The answer is: a monster of a supercomputer that requires two-way collaboration between scientists and researchers and the makers of the necessary hardware and software. Lenovo Group ...
Lenovo and NetApp go deep to stretch global market reach
In technology, there are partnerships and then there are partnerships. When one company tacks another company’s thingamajig onto its own portfolio, it’s generally nothing to get too excited about. Other partnerships can change the fortunes of companies in their global market reach and revenue outlook. The team-up between Lenovo Group Ltd and NetApp Inc. would be ...
