Sybase IQ
“What if” analysis? Sybase IQ 15.4 leads the way
A common thread amongst data and analytics driven organizations is to push the boundaries of discovery, outcome probabilities, and forecasts. In their quest to understand and act on every opportunity related to innovation, revenue, and savings, these visionary firms tend to rely on answers to a string of “What if” questions. And rightfully so, a [...]
Big Data, Big Opportunity
Would you believe that Fortune 1000 companies could gain $2.01 billion each year in employee productivity if they merely increased usability of their data by 10 percent? As revealed in a research study by the University of Texas at Austin, we found that many leading enterprises are not realizing the true value and opportunities of [...]
Partners in Crime – Data Mining with Sybase IQ
What if a computer could process a visual image, extract key characteristics from it, and then use that data to find comparable images with a high degree of accuracy? That’s exactly what state of the art image processing algorithms can do. One of Sybase’s OEM partners is using IQ as a platform for its facial [...]
Fluid Scalability with Sybase IQ 15.3
Just in time for those dog days of summer – a cool Dreamsicle to refresh and energize your organization – Sybase has just announced the release of Sybase IQ 15.3 PlexQ™.
This analytics grid offers so many treats for architects of an intelligent and agile enterprise:
A fluid “shared everything” massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture – this [...]
Text Analytics – Slaying the Unstructured Data Dragon
The origin of the word “dragon” has been traced to a Greek word meaning “sharp-sighted one”. The dragon is purported to have unusually acute vision, and in legends is known as a guardian of temples, paradises and hidden treasures.
Today’s dragon in the world of data is the massive amount of unstructured text that originates from [...]
Spicing Up Analytics with Data Variety
They say that variety is the spice of life.
Unless you’re in IT. Then it’s a source of indigestion.
BUT like Big Data, Data Variety is a huge opportunity to find patterns across all the information within an enterprise. Many work processes depend on documents, emails, images, proprietary formats, and even multimedia. To limit your [...]
Is Big Data Really Small Data?
There are two ways to read the question.
Is Big Data really a problem with managing Small Data? In other words, when we talk about managing Big Data are we not really talking about managing data at a more granular level? Adding more dimension and detail to the data we choose to record?
Now someone is going [...]
Threads of Change in Analytics
Exciting times in analytics. The industry is changing. Rapidly. While the industry has been around for decades, I think its true integration into core business processes is still in its early phases. It’s going to change the technologies companies use and the roles business analysts play. It reminds me of the now famous quote from [...]
When Customers are Collateral Damage
Last week Oracle announced they are dropping software support for Itanium, effectively killing HP servers as a platform for Oracle databases. Apparently half of HP Superdome servers run Oracle. Ouch.
Enterprises looking to upgrade to the latest version of Oracle will face a dilemma. Purchase shiny new Sun hardware at the same time or migrate to [...]
Ruminations on Big Data from a Hang Gliding Site
This past week, I embarked on a true adventure, and traveled to Lookout Mountain Flight Park in Georgia to learn how to hang glide. What possessed me to take such a bold step, you might ask? I am not a pilot, not an extreme sport enthusiast, and get queasy looking down from high places. But [...]