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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 [...]
The Sybase IQ Survival Guide
Here at the Sybase IQ blog, we like making our readers aware of resources that can be helpful to them. Have you ever wondered how Sybase IQ worked or needed tried and tested guidance on Sybase IQ? The shiny new Sybase IQ Survival Guide navigates readers through Sybase IQ basics and various day-to-day tasks. Hop [...]
Good Data – The Oil of Business
Sybase has just released the third and final part of an intriguing study that attempts to quantitatively measure the impact of a company’s investment in business intelligence on its business performance. The study was commissioned by Sybase and conducted by researchers from the University of Texas in conjunction with the Indian School of Business. In [...]
Redefining MPP
As part of the overall SAP delegation to the event, we’re making quite a splash this week at the TDWI World Conference in Orlando. It’s a major announcement– one that we’ve been looking forward to making for some time:
Sybase Redefines Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) With Increased Analytic Performance, Scalability and Architectural Flexibility
Sybase IQ 15.3 Customers Benefit From [...]
Redifining MPP
As part of the overall SAP delegation to the event, we’re making quite a splash this week at the TDWI World Conference in Orlando. It’s a major announcement– one that we’ve been looking forward to making for some time:
Sybase Redefines Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) With Increased Analytic Performance, Scalability and Architectural Flexibility
Sybase IQ 15.3 Customers Benefit From [...]
The Wild West?
According to a survey conducted by Deloitte Consulting, about a third of some 1900 business and technology executives said their organizations do not have analytics capabilities or that they don’t know what capabilities they have. Survey respondents identified their top challenge as an internal information silo problem.
This comes as no big surprise to us, seeing [...]
A Hundred Billion Here, a Hundred Billion There…
…pretty soon you’re talking serious money. I think it’s safe to say that the Technoloy CEO Council is, indeed talking serious money with the report they have just issued to President Obama:
The U.S. government can save more than trillion over the next 10 years by consolidating its IT infrastructure, reducing its energy use and [...]
Improved Data – Shown to Promote Innovation
Sybase has just released the second part of a three part ground-breaking study that attempts to measure the direct correlation between a company’s IT investments and its business performance. The study was commissioned by Sybase and conducted by researchers from the University of Texas in conjunction with the Indian School of Business. In a previous [...]
The Benefits of Improved Data – Quantified At Last!
Businesses spend huge sums of money on information technology – computers, networking, data storage, applications, mobilization, education – in the belief that better business intelligence leads to better performance. But which specific investments and improvements lead to the biggest pay offs, and what is the magnitude of the return?
Sybase recently revealed the results of the [...]
Analytics: The Survey Says…
As we have noted more than once in recent weeks, organizations are moving to analytics solutions in unprecedented numbers. We thought it would be a good idea to get a clearer picture of both why and how this is happening, so over the summer, Sybase hand-picked a subset of its 1,800+ Sybase IQ customers for [...]