Data Management

The recent developments in database architectures and storage methods have not necessarily made life any easier. We can store data in various encoded forms, as arrays, as hierarchies, in large quantities, and so on. The core problem of bringing data together for analysis has not necessarily been helped, despite the…

Treasure Data primarily addresses data connection, ingestion and integration issues via a cloud based service. It also comes with some add on tools for analysis and the creation of data processing workflows. With the number and variety of data sources most businesses access only set to increase, the problem of…

Article sponsored by Sisense:  Businesses are gaining insights from data that simply were not possible just a few years ago. This capability is powered by a new breed of data visualisation tools, and the ability to morph complex data into a form that is suitable for analytical purposes. While most…

Paxata Review Summary Paxata is a surprisingly easy to use data preparation platform enabling business users, analysts and others to access and prepare data for their own diverse needs. The increasing speed, diversity, complexity and volume of data mean that traditional approaches to data preparation are no longer adequate, and…

Talend Open Source Data Integrator provides multiple solutions for data integration, both open source and commercial editions. Talend offers an Eclipse-based interface, drag-and-drop design flow, and broad connectivity with more than 400 pre-configured application connectors to bridge between databases, mainframes, file systems, web services, packaged enterprise applications, data warehouses, OLAP…

Datawatch Review Summary Datawatch provides a data to visualization platform that provides connection to a very large and diverse set of data sources. It does the difficult things like extracting formatted data from invoices or PDFs, as well as accessing the somewhat more straight forward files, databases and other structured…

Self-Service Data Preparation Summary. Once upon a time data was neatly arranged into rows and columns. It was a natural format for the highly structured data that accompanied most administrative functions within the business. Sales orders, employee data, purchase orders, accounting information – each transaction was exactly the same format…

Lavastorm Review Summary. Lavastorm technologies are truly interesting and innovative. This is not another data visualization or ETL toolset, but a platform that enables a complete workflow from data connection, through data wrangling (merging, cleaning, transforming, profiling), to the creation of visualizations and analytical models, and last but not least…

Datameer Review Summary Datameer makes big data, and specifically the Hadoop platform, accessible for business users and analysts. It never was going to be the case that most businesses would employ an army of technicians to wrestle with mapReduce and other aspects of Hadoop, just to make it work. Big…