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Reporter’s Notebook: 6 Key Takeaways from Strata + Hadoop World

The big data ecosystem was on full display at last week's Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose. At the ripe old age of 10, Hadoop is still the driving force, but newer frameworks like Spark and Kafka are gaining Read more…

Skip the Ph.D and Learn Spark, Data Science Salary Survey Says

Prospective data scientists can boost their salary more by learning Apache Spark and its tied-at-the-hip language Scala than obtaining a Ph.D., a recent data science survey by O'Reilly suggests. In its 2015 Data Scien Read more…

Using Analytic Pipelines to Drain Data Swamps

Hadoop excels as a platform for storing vast amounts of data, but it may or may not be the best place for enterprises to run analytic queries. Now enterprises may want to consider an emerging big data architecture that f Read more…

From Data Lakes to State Analytics

Earlier this year, I published my thoughts around a data lake use case that I called “The Union of the State.” Since this post published, the topic of data lakes and data analytics has become more widely debated than Read more…

Pentaho Eyes Spark to Overcome MapReduce Limitations

Pentaho today announced it's supporting Apache Spark with its suite of data analytic tools. While supporting Spark gives Pentaho performance advantages over MapReduce when executing data transformations and running queri Read more…

How Big Data Is Remaking Customer Loyalty Programs

Retailers spend about $2 billion every year to build and run loyalty card programs in the hopes of creating lifelong, devoted customers. However, those loyalty programs often fail to deliver as advertised. But now, advan Read more…

What You May Have Missed at Strata + Hadoop World 2014

Talk about information overload. If you were one of the lucky 5,000 to attend the Strata + Hadoop World conference last week, then you were subject to a marathon session of big data keynotes delivered continually for the Read more…

This ‘Bulldog’ CPO Aims to Help Pentaho Grow

The data explosion has made the reporting and analytics field a very busy place right now. The latest release of Gartner's Magic Quadrant included 27 players in this market--with another 32 on the bubble. Smack dab in the middle of the pack is commercial open source software upstart Pentaho. With the hiring of chief product officer Christopher Dziekan--a BI veteran who's been called a "bulldog"--the company signaled it's ready for growth. Read more…

Pentaho Goes All In with Big Data Blending

The advent of NoSQL and Hadoop data stores is giving organizations powerful tools to collect vast amounts of data. However, driving actionable insights out of that data--and doing so in a reasonable timeframe--is easier said than done. Now, data analytics firm Pentaho thinks it has a solution for that dilemma with its new "blend at the source," near real-time data integration capability for big data stores. Read more…

Eliminating complexity to ensure fastest time to big data value

While most organizations recognize that big data analytics is key to business success, efforts are often stymied or slowed due to operational procedures and workflow issues. In fact, many companies find they now face the challenge of dealing with difficult, new and complex technologies. Read more…

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