INSIGHT: Why Kiwi firms still need a little of that human touch
New Zealand businesses that rely solely on technology run the risk of losing personal relationships with customers.
New Zealand businesses that rely solely on technology run the risk of losing personal relationships with customers.
To beef up its mobile marketing portfolio, analytics systems supplier Teradata has acquired Appoxee, a Tel Aviv startup that develops in-app and push messaging software designed to increase mobile user engagement.
Enterprise data sets have gotten so voluminous that they can't fit into even the largest data warehouses anymore, many businesses find. Now, companies running these overstuffed data stores have an on-ramp to newfangled, big-data style processing through a combined effort between analytics systems supplier Teradata and Apache Hadoop distribution provider MapR.
Teradata has made its third acquisition of a company specializing in big data within about a month, with the latest deal involving consulting firm Think Big Analytics
Teradata has bought the assets of Revelytix and Hadapt in a bid to grow out its capabilities for the Hadoop big-data processing framework.
With Teradata QueryGrid, your data warehouse can now intelligently use the functionality of multiple, heterogeneous processing engines, including Hadoop.
Teradata is hoping to gain ground in the hotly competitive data-warehousing and analytics market with QueryGrid, a new product that allows users to run a single SQL-based query across multiple data stores, from Teradata's own system to Hadoop and rival databases.
The Warehouse Group needs no introduction. As one of NZ’s largest retailers, Warehouse Group deals with a wide range of products from clothing, entertainment, technology and music to sporting, gardening, grocery and many others, across multiple brands, since 1982.
Acquisitions such as Teradata's planned purchase of Aster Data Systems are driven by the growing demand for technologies that can help enterprises mine massive volumes of unstructured data, analysts say.
Acquisitions such as <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9212918/Teradata_buys_Aster_Data_boosts_big_data_wares">Teradata's planned purchase of Aster Data Systems</a> announced Thursday are driven by the growing demand for technologies that can help enterprises mine massive volumes of unstructured data, analysts said.
Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a start-up analytic appliance vendor known for its use of the open-source MySQL database and a SQL processing chip to boost query performance.
NCR has announced plans to spin-off its Teradata data warehousing subsidiary as an independent company. Bob Fair, vice president of business strategy and the chief marketing officer at Teradata, spoke with Computerworld about the factors behind the decision.
SAP keen on gaining access to data warehouser's customer base