Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics: IBM
Next in my discussion of big data providers is IBM. Big data plays right into IBM’s portfolio of solutions in the information management space. It also dove tails very nicely with the company’s Smarter Planet strategy. Smarter Planet...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 31st January '12
Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics Part 2- SAS
Next up in my discussion on big data providers is SAS. What’s interesting about SAS is that, in many ways, big data analytics is really just an evolution for the company. One of the company’s goals has always been to support complex...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 15th December '11
SAP moves to social media analysis with NetBase partnership
Today, SAP and NetBase announced that SAP will resell NetBase solutions as the SAP® Social Media Analytics application by NetBase.
What does this mean?
According to the announcement: “SAP Social Media Analytics is a cloud-based solution that...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th December '11
Attensity on Big Data and Big Data Analytics
I am often asked whether it is the vendors or the end users who are driving the Big Data market. I usually reply that both are. There are early adopters of any technology that push the vendors to evolve their own products and services. The vendors...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 17th November '11
The Inaugural Hurwitz & Associates Predictive Analytics Victory Index is complete!
For more years than I like to admit, I have been focused on the importance of managing data so that it helps companies anticipate changes and therefore be prepared to take proactive action. Therefore, as I watched the market for predictive...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 29th September '11
Informatica announces 9.1 and puts stake in the ground around big data
Last week, Informatica announced the release of the Informatica 9.1 Platform for Big Data. The company joins other data-centric vendors such as EMC and IBM by putting its stake in the ground around the hot topic of Big Data. Informatica defines...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th June '11
EMC and Big Data - Observations from EMC World 2011
I attended EMC’s User Conference last week in Las Vegas. The theme of the event was Big Data meets the Cloud. So, what’s going on with Big Data and EMC? Does this new strategy make sense?
EMC acquired Greenplum in 2010. At the time...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 20th May '11
What is Networked Content?
This is the first in a series of blogs about text analytics and content management. This one uses an interview format.
I recently had an interesting conversation with Daniel Mayer, from TEMIS, regarding his new paper, the Networked Content...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th April '11
Five vendors committed to content analytics for ECM
In 2007, Hurwitz & Associates fielded one of the first market studies on text analytics. At that time, text analytics was considered to be more of a natural extension to a business intelligence system than a content management system. However,...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 6th April '11
Highlights from the Hurwitz & Associates Advanced Analytics Survey
Hurwitz & Associates conducted an online survey on advanced analytics in January 2011. Over 160 companies across a range of industries and company size participated in the survey. The goal of the survey was to understand how companies are using...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 24th February '11