Gartner noted that Teradata "has historically encountered little opposition" for its high end data warehousing products, such as its 50 petabyte capable Extreme Data Appliance 1550 Teradata did respond to the high end threats by, among other things, cutting prices and bundling more features into its products, said Forrester Research Inc analyst James Kobielus, who noted that competitors are doing the same 3 A "renewal in single vendor appeal" is underway, and that could bode well for competitors that offer a complete stack of tools, including extraction, reporting and OLAP products However, Gartner did describe as "false" competitors' claims that Teradata's technology is proprietary and doesn't play well with others 
Share:  Gartner noted that <span class="company">Teradata</span> "has historically encountered little opposition" for its high end data warehousing products, such as its 50 petabyte capable Extreme Data Appliance 1550<span class="sent"> <span class="company">Teradata</span> did respond to the high end threats by, among other things, cutting prices and bundling more features into its products, said Forrester Research Inc analyst <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span>, who noted that competitors are doing the same</span> 3 A "renewal in single vendor appeal" is underway, and that could bode well for competitors that offer a complete stack of tools, including extraction, reporting and OLAP products However, Gartner did describe as "false" competitors' claims that <span class="company">Teradata</span>'s technology is proprietary and doesn't play well with others...Gartner noted that <span class="company">Teradata</span> "has historically encountered little opposition" for its high end data warehousing products, such as its 50 petabyte capable Extreme Data Appliance 1550<span class="sent"> <span class="company">Teradata</span> did respond to the high end threats by, among other things, cutting prices and bundling more features into its products, said Forrester Research Inc analyst <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span>, who noted that competitors are doing the same</span> 3 A "renewal in single vendor appeal" is underway, and that could bode well for competitors that offer a complete stack of tools, including extraction, reporting a Tweet this 

"What is in very short supply are experts who are familiar with analytic techniques and know how to apply them to industry specific decisions The Accenture SAS Analytics Group would bring together the market leader in advanced analytics software with the industry and applied analytics expertise of a global services firm," Morris said The companies plan to address the contemporary needs of the market, investing in industry specific applications that target the financial services, health care and public service sectors, according to the release Later, they plan to establish additional cross industry applications for the customer and enterprise management arenas as well The grand promise of predictive analytics – still largely unrealized in most companies – is that it will become ubiquitous, guiding all decisions, transactions and applications, James Kobielus, senior analyst for market research firm Forrester Research wrote in a November blog 
Share:  "What is in very short supply are experts who are familiar with analytic techniques and know how to apply them to industry specific decisions The Accenture <span class="company">SAS</span> Analytics Group would bring together the market leader in advanced analytics software with the industry and applied analytics expertise of a global services firm," Morris said The companies plan to address the contemporary needs of the market, investing in industry specific applications that target the financial services, health care and public service sectors, according to the release Later, they plan to establish additional cross industry applications for the customer and enterprise management arenas as well<span class="sent"> The grand promise of predictive analytics – still largely unrealized in most companies – is that it will become ubiquitous, guiding all decisions, transactions and applications, <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span>, senior analyst for market research firm Forrester Research wrote in a November blog</span>..."What is in very short supply are experts who are familiar with analytic techniques and know how to apply them to industry specific decisions The Accenture <span class="company">SAS</span> Analytics Group would bring together the market leader in advanced analytics software with the industry and applied analytics expertise of a global services firm," Morris said The companies plan to address the contemporary needs of the market, investing in industry specific applications that target the Tweet this 

"What is in very short supply are experts who are familiar with analytic techniques and know how to apply them to industry specific decisions The Accenture SAS Analytics Group would bring together the market leader in advanced analytics software with the industry and applied analytics expertise of a global services firm," Morris said The companies plan to address the contemporary needs of the market, investing in industry specific applications that target the financial services, health care and public service sectors, according to the release Later, they plan to establish additional cross industry applications for the customer and enterprise management arenas as well The grand promise of predictive analytics – still largely unrealized in most companies – is that it will become ubiquitous, guiding all decisions, transactions and applications, James Kobielus, senior analyst for market research firm Forrester Research wrote in a November blog 
Share:  "What is in very short supply are experts who are familiar with analytic techniques and know how to apply them to industry specific decisions The <span class="company">Accenture</span> SAS Analytics Group would bring together the market leader in advanced analytics software with the industry and applied analytics expertise of a global services firm," Morris said The companies plan to address the contemporary needs of the market, investing in industry specific applications that target the financial services, health care and public service sectors, according to the release Later, they plan to establish additional cross industry applications for the customer and enterprise management arenas as well<span class="sent"> The grand promise of predictive analytics – still largely unrealized in most companies – is that it will become ubiquitous, guiding all decisions, transactions and applications, <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span>, senior analyst for market research firm Forrester Research wrote in a November blog</span>..."What is in very short supply are experts who are familiar with analytic techniques and know how to apply them to industry specific decisions The <span class="company">Accenture</span> SAS Analytics Group would bring together the market leader in advanced analytics software with the industry and applied analytics expertise of a global services firm," Morris said The companies plan to address the contemporary needs of the market, investing in industry specific applications that targ Tweet this 

So, even as the US State Department and others in the US federal government seek answers on China's purported role or complicity in the attacks, the repercussions on cloud computing and enterprise security are profound and may be long term We're going to look at some of the answers to what this donnybrook means for how enterprises should best protect their intellectual property from such sophisticated hackers as government, military or, quasi government corporate entities and whether cloud services providers like Google are better than your average enterprise, or especially medium sized business, at thwarting such risks We'll look at how users of cloud computing should trust or not trust providers of such mission critical cloud services as email, calendar, word processing, document storage, databases, and applications hosting And we'll look at how enterprise architecture, governance, security best practices, standards, and skills need to adapt still to meet these new requirements from insidious world class threats So, join me now in welcoming our panel for today's discussion: Jim Kobielus , senior analyst at Forrester Research; Jason Bloomberg , managing partner at ZapThink; Jim Hietala , Vice President for Security at The Open Group; Elinor Mills , senior writer at CNET, and Michael Dortch , Director of Research at Focus 
Share:  So, even as the US State Department and others in the US federal government seek answers on China's purported role or complicity in the attacks, the repercussions on cloud computing and enterprise security are profound and may be long term We're going to look at some of the answers to what this donnybrook means for how enterprises should best protect their intellectual property from such sophisticated hackers as government, military or, quasi government corporate entities and whether cloud services providers like <span class="company">Google</span> are better than your average enterprise, or especially medium sized business, at thwarting such risks We'll look at how users of cloud computing should trust or not trust providers of such mission critical cloud services as email, calendar, word processing, document storage, databases, and applications hosting And we'll look at how enterprise architecture, governance, security best practices, standards, and skills need to adapt still to meet these new requirements from insidious world class threats<span class="sent"> So, join me now in welcoming our panel for today's discussion: <span class="analyst">Jim Kobielus</span> , senior analyst at Forrester Research; Jason Bloomberg , managing partner at ZapThink; Jim Hietala , Vice President for Security at The Open Group; Elinor Mills , senior writer at CNET, and Michael Dortch , Director of Research at Focus</span>...So, even as the US State Department and others in the US federal govern Tweet this 

SAS predictive analytics and data mining solutions were evaluated by Forrester against 53 criteria in three categories through vendor surveys, product demonstration and vendor reference interviews SAS earned top overall ranking in all three categories current offering, strategy and market presence including perfect scores for functionality, professional services, licensing and cost, direction, and company financials criteria "Predictive analytics can play a pivotal role in the planning and day to day operations of your business," according to the report by author James Kobielus, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research Inc an independent research company 
Share:  <span class="company">SAS</span> predictive analytics and data mining solutions were evaluated by Forrester against 53 criteria in three categories through vendor surveys, product demonstration and vendor reference interviews <span class="company">SAS</span> earned top overall ranking in all three categories current offering, strategy and market presence including perfect scores for functionality, professional services, licensing and cost, direction, and company financials criteria<span class="sent"> "Predictive analytics can play a pivotal role in the planning and day to day operations of your business," according to the report by author <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span>, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research Inc an independent research company</span>...<span class="company">SAS</span> predictive analytics and data mining solutions were evaluated by Forrester against 53 criteria in three categories through vendor surveys, product demonstration and vendor reference interviews <span class="company">SAS</span> earned top overall ranking in all three categories current offering, strategy and market presence including perfect scores for functionality, professional services, licensing and cost, direction, and company financials criteria<span class="sent"> "Predictive analytics ca Tweet this 

For its part, SAP does offer the transactional pieces, but van de Loo says the company doesn't have to own or ship all the pieces in one box into order to deliver well integrated technology "We have a big building in Walldorf that's full of SAP and partner engineering people who test up and down the stack," says van de Loo "I don't see how it could get much better just because somewhere up the organization you're part of one company" If recent history in the data warehouse appliance market is any indication, the one box, one vendor approach may be more compelling than SAP is counting on "The days of the old, roll your own data warehouse approach are rapidly waning," says James Kobielus, an information management analyst with Forrester research 
Share:  For its part, <span class="company">SAP</span> does offer the transactional pieces, but van de Loo says the company doesn't have to own or ship all the pieces in one box into order to deliver well integrated technology "We have a big building in Walldorf that's full of <span class="company">SAP</span> and partner engineering people who test up and down the stack," says van de Loo "I don't see how it could get much better just because somewhere up the organization you're part of one company" If recent history in the data warehouse appliance market is any indication, the one box, one vendor approach may be more compelling than <span class="company">SAP</span> is counting on<span class="sent"> "The days of the old, roll your own data warehouse approach are rapidly waning," says <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span>, an information management analyst with Forrester research</span>...For its part, <span class="company">SAP</span> does offer the transactional pieces, but van de Loo says the company doesn't have to own or ship all the pieces in one box into order to deliver well integrated technology "We have a big building in Walldorf that's full of <span class="company">SAP</span> and partner engineering people who test up and down the stack," says van de Loo "I don't see how it could get much better just because somewhere up the organization you're part of one company" If recent history in the data warehouse appliance market is any indication, the one box, one vendor approach may be more compelli Tweet this 

With initial versions planned specifically for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, Kona appliances will preconfigure data integration, data modeling and master data management software on Netezza's new appliance "Skimmer offers a good platform that strengthens Netezza and its partner network," says Forrester analyst James Kobielus "Partners will take the lead on software development, and there's strong upside and interest in ready to run analytic applications" In fact, given growing interest in appliances, very few customers are now taking the old approach of separately purchasing and integrating database software and the hardware required for a data warehouse 
Share:  With initial versions planned specifically for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, Kona appliances will preconfigure data integration, data modeling and master data management software on <span class="company">Netezza</span>'s new appliance<span class="sent"> "Skimmer offers a good platform that strengthens <span class="company">Netezza</span> and its partner network," says Forrester analyst <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span> "Partners will take the lead on software development, and there's strong upside and interest in ready to run analytic applications"</span> In fact, given growing interest in appliances, very few customers are now taking the old approach of separately purchasing and integrating database software and the hardware required for a data warehouse...With initial versions planned specifically for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, Kona appliances will preconfigure data integration, data modeling and master data management software on <span class="company">Netezza</span>'s new appliance<span class="sent"> "Skimmer offers a good platform that strengthens <span class="company">Netezza</span> and its partner network," says Forrester analyst <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span> "Partners will take the lead on software development, and there's strong upside and interest in ready to run analytic applications"</span> In fact, given growing interest in appliances, very few customers are now taking the old approach of separately purchasing and Tweet this 

It's a Skimmer Netezza announces TwinFin's little sister, a small capacity data warehouse appliance that can be used as a basis for applications appliances, testing or as a spoke Information Management Online, , 2010 , 2010 –  Data appliance provider Netezza today announced Skimmer, a new appliance product intended to expand the company's capabilities across the enterprise. Using the same basic core technology as TwinFin, Skimmer takes TwinFin off the rack and into a non expandable configuration "It's new and it's not new," says James Kobielus, senior analyst for Forrester Research who describes Skimmer as key to the partner focused analytic solution component of Netezza's strategy "Skimmer is a much smaller capacity platform that's a sister to TwinFin – and they play well together" 
Share:  It's a Skimmer <span class="company">Netezza</span> announces TwinFin's little sister, a small capacity data warehouse appliance that can be used as a basis for applications appliances, testing or as a spoke Information Management Online, , 2010 , 2010 –  Data appliance provider <span class="company">Netezza</span> today announced Skimmer, a new appliance product intended to expand the company's capabilities across the enterprise. Using the same basic core technology as TwinFin, Skimmer takes TwinFin off the rack and into a non expandable configuration<span class="sent"> "It's new and it's not new," says <span class="analyst">James Kobielus</span>, senior analyst for Forrester Research who describes Skimmer as key to the partner focused analytic solution component of <span class="company">Netezza</span>'s strategy</span> "Skimmer is a much smaller capacity platform that's a sister to TwinFin – and they play well together"...It's a Skimmer <span class="company">Netezza</span> announces TwinFin's little sister, a small capacity data warehouse appliance that can be used as a basis for applications appliances, testing or as a spoke Information Management Online, , 2010 , 2010 –  Data appliance provider <span class="company">Netezza</span> today announced Skimmer, a new appliance product intended to expand the company's capabilities across the enterprise. Using the same basic core technology as TwinFin, Skimmer takes TwinFin off the rack and into a non expandable configuration<span class="sent"> "It's new and it's not Tweet this 

In 2010, many DW vendors will lower the price of their basic appliance products to less than $20,000 per usable terabyte (TB), which constitutes the new industry threshold pioneered by Oracle, Netezza, and other leading DW vendors But that's just a metric of price, not price performance Ideally, each DW appliance vendor should be able to provide you with a metric that tells you exactly how much performance "bang" you're getting for all those bucks 
Share:  <span class="sent">In 2010, many DW vendors will lower the price of their basic appliance products to less than $20,000 per usable terabyte (TB), which constitutes the new industry threshold pioneered by Oracle, <span class="company">Netezza</span>, and other leading DW vendors</span> But that's just a metric of price, not price performance Ideally, each DW appliance vendor should be able to provide you with a metric that tells you exactly how much performance "bang" you're getting for all those bucks Tweet this 

So will the new generation of BI mashup offerings for premises based deployment, especially mashup oriented BI tools from IBM Cognos and Microsoft. User friendly predictive modeling comes to the information workplace : Predictive analytics can play a pivotal role in day to day business operations. If available to information workers—not just to Ph.D statisticians and professional data miners—predictive modeling tools can help business people continually tweak their plans based on flexible what if analyses and forecasts that leverage both deep historical data as well as fresh streams of current event data. 
Share:  <span class="sent">So will the new generation of BI mashup offerings for premises based deployment, especially mashup oriented BI tools from <span class="company">IBM</span> Cognos and Microsoft. </span> User friendly predictive modeling comes to the information workplace : Predictive analytics can play a pivotal role in day to day business operations. If available to information workers—not just to Ph.D statisticians and professional data miners—predictive modeling tools can help business people continually tweak their plans based on flexible what if analyses and forecasts that leverage both deep historical data as well as fresh streams of current event data. Tweet this