News

data warehousing

Article | 13/06/2013 Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress
Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the seco...
Article | 6/06/2013 SAP at work on Sentinel, an 'Amazon for Stocks'
SAP is at work on a new product called Sentinel that is supposed to be "nothing less than the Amazon for Stocks and the Facebook for Investors," accor...
Article | 16/05/2013 SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem
Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's...
Article | 7/05/2013 SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service
SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.
Article | 3/05/2013 SAP launches free online training for HANA, other new technologies
SAP is hoping to sow more seeds of interest in its newest technologies, including the HANA in-memory database, through a new online training program a...
Article | 22/04/2013 Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform
Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as...
Article | 9/04/2013 Oracle rolls out new in-memory applications, scaled-down Big Data Appliance
Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between it...
Article | 5/04/2013 SAP's effort to get startups on HANA bandwagon chugging along
SAP has spent the past year wooing entrepreneurs around the world in hopes they'll be entranced enough by its much-hyped HANA in-memory database to bu...
Article | 13/03/2013 IDC: Big Data hype still here, but maturity beckons
Few tech industry buzzwords have gotten as vigorous a workout as "Big Data," but while the hype remains plentiful, it is starting to give way to real-...
Article | 5/03/2013 Oracle adds virtualsation, faster performance to Database Appliance for SMBs
Oracle has rolled out version X3-2 of its Database Appliance for small and medium-sized businesses that it says delivers up to twice the speed and mor...
Article | 25/02/2013 Hortonworks brings Hadoop to Windows
Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops.
Article | 15/02/2013 SAP looks to score points for its HANA database through new NBA statisics site
SAP is hoping to nail a slam dunk for its HANA in-memory platform through a partnership with the National Basketball Association on a new HANA-powered...
Article | 15/02/2013 Amazon's cloud-based data warehouse Redshift becomes generally available
Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premis...
Article | 31/01/2013 Long-desired Java feature misses deadlines, won't make it into Java EE 7
Java EE (Enterprise Edition) programmers will have to wait a bit longer before they can use JCache, a long-desired standard caching API (application p...
Article | 24/01/2013 Gartner: Hadoop will be in two-thirds of advanced analytics products by 2015
The Hadoop open source programming framework for large-scale data analysis is already one of the highest-profile technologies in the "big data" market...