DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real
time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors,
log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of
vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.
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"Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies,
Industry Verticals & Forecasts"
Key Findings:
In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware,
software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further
expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually
accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for
acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between
IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)
Eclipse at Cloud Expo
Actuate, the people behind BIRT, the Eclipse Business Intelligence and
Reporting Tools open source project, is going to acquire Toronto-based Xenos
and its roughly 90 employees for $3.29 a share cash, a net price of $26.7
million after subtracting the roughly $8.74 million Xenos had in the bank
back on September 30.
We're talking a 56% premium here.
The combined company is supposed to expand the market opportunity for the
BIRT Web 2.0 development environment by transforming content and structured
data into BIRT-based Rich Information Applications (RIAs).
Xenos, which has got a string of 350 brand name customers, including 170 of
the Global 1000, provides a scalable Xenos Enterprise Server that extracts,
transforms, repurposes and personalizes data and documents culled from
clients' supply chains for storage, real-time access, e-presentment, pr... (more)
BIRT Introduced OLAP style data cubes and crosstabs in version 2.2 and while
they have been around for some time we still get a lot of questions on how to
use and manipulate them. Below are just some of the resources that have been
posted to BIRT Exchange that should help you with cubes and crosstabs.
Introduction Resources
To get an idea of what a BIRT cube is and how to tie it to a crosstab report
item, take a look at this article which provides a detailed write-up of the
technology and supplies some examples.
To see a recorded demonstration of a crosstab style report being build see
this tutorial video.
Event Based Scripting Resources
BIRT provides event based server side scripting for almost all report items,
including crosstabs. A detailed blog post is available here with an example
that demonstrates implementing a crosstab with event handler script.
Client Side Cros... (more)
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Accel Partners, a leading
Silicon Valley venture capital firm focusing on early stage and growth equity
investments today announced that it is allocating $100 million for its new
Big Data Fund 2 and has added Anthony Deighton, CTO of QlikTech Inc. and
Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva to the Big Data Fund Advisory Council.
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Building upon the firm's Big Data portfolio, the additional capital will
support entrepreneurs that are using the technology platforms that were built
in the first wave of big data startups, to create Data Driven Software (DDS)
designed to help the workforce at large make smarter decisions through deeper
... (more)
Beyond the IoT Buzz Is a New Horizon of Embedded Intelligence, Information
Flows and Seriously Smart Apps
By Allen Bonde
Editor's note: Allen Bonde, of embedded analytics leader Actuate (now a
subsidiary of OpenText), believes that the opportunities around Big Data,
Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables are about to change our world – and
that of business applications. - bg
There are officially now more mobile devices in the world than people – the
number crossed over in 2014 somewhere around 7.19 billion mark. Our craving
to be connected 24/7 wherever we are means that mobile devices are
multiplying around five times faster than we are. Our wired up lives and new
creations in the area of wearables and sensors has triggered a data gold
rush. But such growth does not come without its demands.
For a start, how are we going to manage the data swirling around us as the ... (more)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Catalyst Systems Corporation,
the pioneers in Enterprise Build Management, announced at the SD West
Software Development Conference in Santa Clara, CA, the release of Openmake
version 6.3.1. Openmake 6.3.1, also referred to as "Patch 4," is now
available for download from http://www.openmake.com/.
.Net, Java and z/OS developers will particularly benefit from the Openmake
6.3.1 release. For Microsoft .NET developers, features included improved
support for building multiple .NET Solutions and multiple .NET
configurations. Java developers will benefit from new Build Types that
support Weblogic J2EE and SQLJ. For z/OS developers, Openmake 6.3.1 allows
for parallel compiling and linking of multiple binaries providing substantial
performance improvements for z/OS builds.
In addition to the above, support for building Actuate R... (more)
Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet
Applications Without Limits™, today announced that it will be highlighting
its commercial value added offerings for Eclipse BIRT by exhibiting and
speaking at the 2009 IBM Rational Software Conference. Eclipse BIRT is the
leading open source information application development environment and a
top-level Eclipse project founded and co-led by Actuate. Additionally, Virgil
Dodson, Actuate’s BIRT Evangelist, will be co-presenting a session titled
"Advanced Reporting with IBM(R) Rational(R) ClearQuest(R) 7.1 and Business
Intelligence and Reporting Tools” together with Sean Wilbur, Software
Engineer with IBM Rational, on Wednesday, June 2 at 10:00 Eastern Daylight
Time.
Actuate experts will also be showcasing BIRT Exchange which consists of two
sites:
BIRT-Exchange.com - a product and services si... (more)
SILVER SPRING, MD -- (Marketwire) -- 05/29/12 -- AIIM, the global community
of information professionals, today announced a new Industry Watch Report
titled, "Big Data - Extracting value from your digital landfills." The
research publication offers business insight into the key drivers, issues and
deployment of Big Data, including the demand for unstructured analysis
techniques. The study found 70 percent of business and technology
professionals have a killer application idea for Big Data that could be used
for competitive advantage, running the business smoothly or detecting
non-compliance, although the majority of respondents regard details as
closely guarded trade secrets.
More than half of respondents want to make use of Big Data and, over the next
three years, plan to invest in consultancy services, hardware and software.
Issues holding users back include lack... (more)
Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), The BIRT Company™ – delivering more
insights to more people than all BI companies combined – today announced
that it has acquired Quiterian S.L., a privately held software company that
provides visual data mining, social media analytics and predictive analytics
for business and other non-technical users.
Quiterian fits very well into Actuate’s core business and strengthens its
unique ability to help more end users identify and operationalize insights
derived from any data source. Quiterian Analytics will be integrated into
Actuate’s flagship product, ActuateOne, and will be known as BIRT
Analytics. BIRT Analytics will empower business users far beyond the
capabilities of existing data discovery and business intelligence
technologies to present them with a powerful combination of analysis,
visualization and information delivery op... (more)
International Data Corporation (IDC) today released the Application
Development & Deployment (AD&D) forecast component from the Worldwide
Semiannual Software Tracker. The AD&D market is expected to generate revenue
of $80.6 billion in 2012, which represents growth of 3.7% over the 2011
revenue of $77.8 billion. The collective outlook for the overall AD&D market
is for moderate growth in 2012 due to slower than expected sales in the
second half of the year followed by a return to higher single-digit growth in
2013 and beyond.
The Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker monitors more than 330 software
vendors in the AD&D markets, across a total of 49 countries globally.
Information provided include biannual market size, vendor share, and forecast
data for the twenty-three functional markets that comprise the AD&D software
market, which are grouped by the following seco... (more)
NEW YORK, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new
market research report is available in its catalogue:
Cloud Business Solutions, Social Media, and Platform Systems of Engagement
Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019
http://www.reportlinker.com/p01171942/Cloud-Business-Solutions-Social-Media-and-Platform-Systems-of-Engagement-Market-Shares-Strategies-and-Forecasts-Worldwide-2013-to-2019.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=IT_Hosting
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts (May 1, 2013) – WinterGreen Research announces
that it has published a new study Cloud Business Solutions, Social Media, and
Platform Systems of Engagement: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts,
Worldwide, 2013 to 2018. The 2013 study has 673 pages, 165 tables and
figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve continuing growth as the
cloud com... (more)
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