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Kalido “Cascades” Continue Cadence on Designed DW Development

September 13, 2010 by Merv Adrian 2 Comments

Kalido‘s ongoing evangelization of automation for governed, designed data warehouses has delivered fine results for the small, Massachusetts-based firm. In a recent conversation, the team shared recent results: a profitable fiscal year, with a Q4 that was up 35% and momentum that carried into the traditionally slow Q1 with 25% year over year growth. Since I last discussed Kalido at the time of its virtual conference a year ago, new name sales in the US and Europe as well as add-on business in existing accounts are a healthy sign . New partnerships, new data source support,? and a new release all are likely to sustain and even increase the momentum in the? autumn and winter selling seasons. Read more of this post

Filed under Industry trends Tagged with data governance, data modeling, data warehouse, Data Warehousing, DW, Kalido, MDM, Netezza, On Business Intelligence, QlikView, Teradata

More TDWI Notes – ParAccel Rolling On, HP Stalled, Vertica Leading Insurgents

August 20, 2010 by Merv Adrian 1 Comment

On my second day at TDWI, I was in meetings all day – events like this are a great opportunity for analysts to catch up with many of the companies they follow at one time, and this particular one was packed with sponsors. Congrats to the folks who sell sponsorships – they had a packed exhibit hall, and a lot of very interested attendees. I got a chance to chat at a few booths (all buzzing), ask a few attendees some real-world questions (and was asked some surprising ones myself), and get a sense of the workload in the trenches (heavy and growing.)

Tableau Breaks Out With Advanced Visualization

April 6, 2010 by Merv Adrian Leave a comment

When I last spoke to business analytics vendor Tableau Software in April 2009, the company had run off a string of uninterrupted growth. In a? challenging 2009, Tableau continued to grow, and in our most recent conversation the team was upbeat. Q1 was looking very good, and the company has over 4000 named accounts now. Its revenue? growth was about 50% overall at the end of the year, and direct sales are growing faster than indirect as its sales model shifts with increased visibility. Tableau is among the leaders of the new advanced visualization players, and the battle is heating up. Read more of this post

Filed under Data Warehousing, On Business Intelligence Tagged with advanced visualization, BI, data warehouse, DW, Gartner, Microsoft, On Business Intelligence, Oracle, PowerPivot, QlikView, Spotfire, Sybase IQ, Tableau, Teradata, Tibco, Vertica, VerttiPaq

Programmers: Pervasive’s Parallelization Provides Punch, Profit

January 19, 2010 by Merv Adrian 1 Comment

After 27 years of steady growth, Austin, Texas-based Pervasive (PVSW) has become a?$47M?annual run rate software provider. Its portfolio includes?a “zero admin, light footprint database” (the former BTrieve, now PervasiveSQL), data integration software (for SaaS and on premises applications), and data synchronization products for such apps as salesforce.com,?Quickbooks and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.?In 2009, it began?leveraging its DataRush processing engine as a product, providing a solution for companies that want to take advantage of multicore architectures to drive dramatically enhanced performance on much smaller footprints, for programming data services tasks such as aggregation, de-duplication, cleansing, integration, matching and sorting,?as well as data mining and predictive analytics. Read more of this post

Filed under Data Management, Data Warehousing, Event Processing, On Business Intelligence, SaaS, Software infrastructure Tagged with AMD, Data Integration, data synchronization, data warehouse, database, DataCloud, DataMatcher, DataProfiler, DataRush, DBMS Blogs, debugging, DW, ETL, IBM, Informatica, Java, JVM, MapReduce, multicore, Oracle, parallelism, Pervasive, PervasiveSQL, predictive analytics, R, SaaS, salesforce.com, SI, SQL

Xkoto’s Database Virtualization Expands Cloud Opportunities

November 30, 2009 by Merv Adrian 1 Comment

Xkoto,?the database virtualization pioneer, has generated substantial interest since its first deployments in 2006. Still privately held and in investment mode, Xkoto?sees profitability on the horizon, but offers no target date,?and appears in no hurry. Its progress?has been steady: in early 2008, a B round of financing led by GrandBanks?Capital allowed a step up to 50 employees as the company crossed the 50 customer mark. 2008 also saw Xkoto adding support for Microsoft SQL Server to its IBM DB2 base. Charlie Ungashick, VP of marketing for?Xkoto,?says that 2009 has been going well, and the third quarter was quite strong. And at the end of September 2009, Xkoto?announced GRIDSCALE version 5.1, which adds new cluster management capabilities to its active-active configuration model, as well as Amazon EC2 availability. Read more of this post

Filed under Data Management, Data Warehousing, Hardware platforms, On Business Intelligence, SaaS, Software infrastructure Tagged with active-active, Amazon, BI, Data Management, Data replication, Data Warehousing, DB2, DDL, disaster recovery, DML, DR, DW, EC2, failover, HA, high availability, IBM, Industry trends, Kerberos, Microsoft, On Business Intelligence, Oracle, RAC, SaaS, SQL, SQL Server, TDS, Teradata, virtualization, Xkoto

Teradata Transition On Course in Steady Quarter, With Exciting New Offerings Ahead

November 6, 2009 by Merv Adrian 1 Comment

How good was Teradata’s?Q3? Not bad, but no improvement over a so far lackluster year, which nonetheless has seen the stock? price rise steadily. In 2008,? the striking rise in Teradata’s?Linux revenue growth was matched only by the corresponding drop in its Unix revenue, and that “steady as she goes” performance continues through its still unevenly applied OS transition. In Q3, revenues were down a little (3%) year over year, and margin was flat (down 0.6%). YTD?product revenues are down 11%.? Service revenues were up 5% for the quarter but only 2% YTD. ?Still, net income rose 5%, in part because of strong expense controls.?Since early 2008, Teradata has lost a little momentum through a difficult economy compared to its rivals at Oracle and IBM. Its next?transition – after independence from NCR and the OS shift – is?a product portfolio change catalyzed by the growth of appliance competitors like Netezza.?So far, Teradata has managed to drive the product?changes into the market well,?claiming 65% of its appliance sales are new names. The hot new all-SSD Extreme Performance Appliance is now coming on-stream, and will create a new category advantage if, as Teradata believes, there are customers willing to pay for its spectacular performance. Read more of this post

Filed under Data Management, Data Warehousing, Hardware platforms, On Business Intelligence, Software infrastructure, Vendor image and communications Tagged with Amazon, BI, BYNET, data mart, data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, DW, EC2, EDW, failover, gigabit ethernet, high availability, Linux, NCR, Netezza, On Business Intelligence, operational BI, OS, SATA, SSD, Teradata, VMware, Windows

Will AEP Replace RDBMS? A Dialogue With Charles Brett

November 4, 2009 by Merv Adrian 23 Comments

Analytic Event Processing (AEP) is hot. But does it mean RDBMS begins to decline in importance? Charles Brett of C3B Consulting and I recently had?a quick dialogue about it and came up with different conclusions. That conversation is reproduced here. It’s only the beginning – l hope you will weigh in with your thoughts. Read more of this post

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Pentaho Goes “Open Core” With Lucidera OLAP Viewer

October 11, 2009 by Merv Adrian 12 Comments

Open-source BI vendor Pentaho has purchased technology rights from failed BI SaaS vendor LucidEra, and?plans to combine LucidEra’s Clearview, a reporting and analysis OLAP front end for non-technical users,?with the Mondrian open source OLAP engine used by Pentaho Analysis,? in a new offering called Pentaho Analyzer Enterprise Edition, available both on-premise and on-demand. Clearview will not be available in the free community edition of Pentaho. Existing Pentaho Analysis Enterprise Edition and Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition customers will not be charged additional fees.?Clearview adds substantial value?to the?priced portion of Pentaho’s portfolio – another example of the “open core” business model. Open core is not without its detractors, and a brief flurry of chatter erupted about it in the blogosphere. Read more of this post

Filed under Data Warehousing, Industry trends, On Business Intelligence, SaaS, Software infrastructure, Vendor image and communications Tagged with BI, blogosphere, Clearview, Data Warehousing, DW, Jaspersoft, Jpivot, Mondrian, OLAP, On Business Intelligence, open core, open source, Pentaho

Kalido Virtual Conference Scores Big

October 8, 2009 by Merv Adrian 12 Comments

I’ve been critical of virtual conferences in the past, but I just saw the future, and it works. Kalido, a relatively small vendor, has demonstrated that careful preparation, serious commitment, and the right team can?allow smaller firms to “punch above their weight,” putting on an event that captures great leads, promotes and sustains community, collects?requirements for future product development in a participatory model, and satisfies partners with an event that costs a fraction of?the in-person kind.??If you’re not familiar with Kalido, they deliver what they like to call a fully governed data warehouse, a suite of modeling, governance (including MDM)?and model-driven DW automation tools that have been adopted by over 85 enterprise customers.

TDWI and Wi-fi on San Diego Bay

August 3, 2009 by Merv Adrian 3 Comments

The Data Warehouse Institute?(TDWI) came to San Diego this year, with a sharply reduced crowd but a few intriguing announcements and a crew of attendees determined to get value out of a rich set of educational offerings and informal and formal discussions. I had the privilege of sitting on a panel with analyst and consultant Mark Madsen and Ken Hausman of SAS, hosted by Gaurav?Verma, also?from SAS, and discussing doing more with less. We did some flash polling using technology provided by Turning Point and gained?a few insights from several dozen attendees in the room. Read more of this post

Filed under On Business Intelligence, The Computing Life Tagged with data warehouse, Data Warehousing, DW, LyzaSoft, SAS, TDWI

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Kalido “Cascades” Continue Cadence on Designed DW Development

More TDWI Notes – ParAccel Rolling On, HP Stalled, Vertica Leading Insurgents

Tableau Breaks Out With Advanced Visualization

Programmers: Pervasive’s Parallelization Provides Punch, Profit

Xkoto’s Database Virtualization Expands Cloud Opportunities

Teradata Transition On Course in Steady Quarter, With Exciting New Offerings Ahead

Will AEP Replace RDBMS? A Dialogue With Charles Brett

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