Parallax Acquires ERwin as Part of Big Data Strategy

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DBTA 5 Minute Briefing: Information Management is a summary of key news and trends in the technologies that control, protect, deliver and enhance the value of data and information assets. To subscribe, visit here.     Visit DBTA at: April 12 2016 SPONSORED BY   Complimentary White Paper for Immediate Download MISSION POSSIBLE: NEARZEROIMPACT ORACLE MIGRATIONS USING SHAREPLEX Gain a deeper understanding of the key challenges, critical success factors and technology landscape for 2016 from the industry experts. Download Your Copy Today Sponsored by  Database Trends and Applications   In This Issue... NEWS FLASHES Parallax Acquires ERwin as Part of Big Data Strategy Sisense Speeds In-Chip Analytics with Sixth Generation Intel Core vPro Processor Voting has Opened for the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards Splunk Unveils Updates to Signature Platform to Optimize Storage Cost Savings Impelsys and Ontotext Partner to Provide Smart Content Melissa Data Unveils BusinessCoder Cloud Service Qubole Open Sources SQL Data Virtualization Engine for Big Data   THINK ABOUT IT 13 Data Security Essentials   News Flashes Parallax Acquires ERwin as Part of Big Data Strategy Private equity firm Parallax Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of data modeling solution ERwin from CA Technologies. ERwin will now operate as ERwin, Inc., and will be led by Adam Famularo, who has been named CEO of ERwin. According to Famularo, Parallax acquired the ERwin assets from CA with the intention of building a big data software company, of which ERwin will be the flagship product. Full Article  Sisense Speeds In-Chip Analytics with Sixth Generation Intel Core vPro Processor Sisense has announced improvements in its In-Chip Analytics software to help business users and data analysts more easily gain insights from complex data with disparate datasets. According to the vendor, when tested with Intel’s recently-released 6th Generation Intel Core vPro processor, it was able to deliver a 300% improvement in speed over older chips. “Sisense as a company was founded to simplify business analytics - and particularly simplify business analytics for complex data,” explained Jeremy Sokolic, vice president, Sisense. Full Article  Voting has Opened for the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards Voting is now open for the DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards. The DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards are unique in that the winning information management solutions and services are chosen by you - the people who actually use them. Go here to vote.  Splunk Unveils Updates to Signature Platform to Optimize Storage Cost Savings Splunk Inc., a provider operational intelligence solutions, is introducing a new version of its enterprise platform along with a new cloud offering. "We've optimized storage costs for long-term data retention. This will allow customers to keep data in Splunk for much longer periods of time and reduce their storage costs for that data," said Shay Mowlem, vice president of product marketing and management. Full Article  Impelsys and Ontotext Partner to Provide Smart Content Impelsys, provider of publishing and learning technology solutions, and Ontotext, a provider of semantic technology, are releasing an integrated technology offering. Full Article  Melissa Data Unveils BusinessCoder Cloud Service Melissa Data, a provider of quality solutions, has rolled out the BusinessCoder cloud service, which enhances business data with firmographic information on more than 25 million business records. BusinessCoder incorporates multi-sourced business data to help organizations improve analytics, generate leads, and boost marketing efforts based on knowing customers and prospects better. Full Article  Qubole Open Sources SQL Data Virtualization Engine for Big Data Qubole, a big data-as-a-service company, is open sourcing its Quark platform, a cost-based SQL optimizer. “This is something we saw as being needed by a lot of accounts in our customer base,” said Ashish Thusoo, co-founder and CEO. “We eventually decided to give this back to the community with the hope that it will help in simplifying the analysts' experience.” Full Article    Think About It 13 Data Security Essentials It seems every week there is another data breach in the news, which translates to millions and millions of personal records, credit card numbers, and other pieces of confidential information stolen each month. The victims of these breaches include important companies with professional IT staff. Now, you may be thinking: "Shouldn't the network guys be responsible for security?" Full Article

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