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Tableau Software a leader in visual analytics, has announced the roll out of Hyper, the new data engine technology included within Tableau 10.5. With Hyper’s ability to slice and dice massive volumes of data in seconds, customers will see up to 5X faster query speed and up to 3X faster…

Jinfonet Software has just released JReport 15, a productive BI platform used widely by OEMs and in a corporate setting. The press release is below: Jinfonet Software, a leading embedded analytics and reporting software provider, announces the general availability of JReport 15. This latest release offers breakthrough innovations in streamlining…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced new purpose-built platforms and services capabilities to help companies simplify the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, with an initial focus on a key subset of AI known as deep learning. Inspired by the human brain, deep learning is typically implemented for challenging tasks such as image…

JReport is one of the unsung heroes in the world of business intelligence. Its latest release adds some advanced functionality in the form of compound crosstabs, live dashboards and enhanced mobile functionality. The main market for JReport is the OEM and systems integrator, but is also making inroads into the…

Microsoft has announced the next incarnation of SQL Server, namely SQL Server 2017. It is heralded as the first RDBMS with built-in AI and the first version of SQL Server compatible with Windows, Linux and Docker containers. Notably SQL Server 2017 includes in-database support for a rich library of machine…

It seems that AI has reached a sufficient level of sophistication that the technology can be used to monitor enterprise wide communications, and understand what is being communicated. This is of course extremely useful in highly regulated industries such as the financial service sector. Digital Reasoning has just been awarded…

It seems that FICO has done rather well in Forrester’s evaluation of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Solutions, and deservedly so in my opinion. While there are many new kids on the block in this domain, FICO actually has the tools, methods and experience to make the whole thing work…

The vast majority of people in business use Excel, and so it makes sense to integrate Excel with data science resources so that business analysts and data science teams can collaborate. Continuum Analytics has recently released Anaconda Fusion to do just this. The press release is below: Continuum Analytics, the…

We tend to forget that most corporate data is handled by a mainframe – and usually an IBM mainframe. So that data does not have to be moved from its native environment IBM has introduced IBM Machine Learning. The press release is below: IBM has announced IBM Machine Learning, the…