Data

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…

Free and Open Source Data Ingestion Tools Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large distributed systems. Chukwa is built on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Map/Reduce framework and inherits Hadoop’s scalability and robustness. Chukwa also includes a flexible and powerful toolkit for…

Self Service Data Preparation Platforms Summary Greater data variety pretty much translates to greater data complexity. As businesses embrace diverse data sources, so there is a pressing need to make those data more easily accessible and to combine them in ways which can add value. This variety comes in the…

ClearStory Review Summary ClearStory provides a cloud based platform that takes business users from data to visualization with minimal need for technical skills. In common with several other suppliers (Tamr, Paxata, Platfora and others) it uses machine learning techniques and Apache Spark in-memory processing, to take data from its raw…

Platfora Review Summary Platfora provides an end-to-end big data data discovery and exploration platform that starts at data ingestion and ends with visualisation. In many ways it is the right product at the right time. Had Platfora tried to deliver its platform just four or five years ago, it would…

Tamr Review Summary Tamr addresses the seemingly straight forward task of cataloging data sources, identifying attributes, metadata integration over multiple sources, data cleansing, and publishing a cohesive view of data to applications, services and tools that need it. Of course, as anyone who concerns themselves with such issues will know,…

Trifacta Review Summary Trifacta provides a self-service data preparation platform that automates many data preparation tasks and allows users to interrogate their data in an efficient manner. The platform learns as users refine their data so that subsequent operations become more automated. It is a highly visual platform with copious…

EXASOL’s high performance in-memory analytic database is now available in Microsoft Azure, facilitating greater access to fast, flexible and cost-effective data analytics to help businesses secure actionable data insights that drive profit. Companies can now get started with analytics within a few minutes to accelerate BI and reporting projects at…