Business intelligence is going through a major transformation, and it’s all for the best… except maybe for CIOs who must rapidly adapt to new technologies and new user requirements, with stagnant or declining budgets. The Big Data buzzword has thrown into the light a number of crucial BI needs for today’s business, including: – Greater Volume, as data growth is [...]

One of the most interesting Big Data software companies I’ve met for some time is WANdisco – which I found a little surprising for a company that’s not from California, but from Sheffield, England. Sheffield is best known as the cradle of the steel industry (and the setting of “The Full Monty,” a movie poignantly depicting the effect of industrial [...]

Malgré le contexte économique difficile, les utilisateurs de SAP en France entendent montrer leur dynamisme et leur volonté de mettre en oeuvre les conditions du redressement. Et cela passe par l’innovation, maître mot de la journée organisée aujourd’hui par le club des utilisateurs SAP francophones (USF). Alors que l’USF avait adopté le thème du Big Data l’an passé, le thème [...]

At the recent Cloud Expo event in London, one of the most interesting themes was that of Big Data and the Cloud. While it is clear that Cloud-based consumer applications are some of the biggest drivers (creators) of Big Data, organisations’ propensity to perform their Big Data analysis in the Cloud is less certain. There are several reasons for this, [...]

Les leaders du capital risque français se sont réunis suite à l’invitation de Leonardo Ventures au « Cercle de l’Union Interallié ». A cette occasion  notre Senior Vice Président des Operations, Franck NASSAH a présenté les tendances du marché du logiciel en mode SaaS, suivi par Jérôme LASCOMBE de Hopscotch qui a présenté l’impact du « Big Data » pour les directions marketing. Les [...]

Every vendor in the data management space does Big Data. Or, at least, everybody talks about it, even when they don’t do much. Analysts firms, like PAC, comment on each vendor’s strategy, and produce rankings and market shares especially of the large vendors. Yet, these rankings may not be aligned with the considerable mindshare among open source and startup vendors [...]

We hear so much about the relationship between Big Data and Cloud but what does this relationship mean?  EMC made the idea famous with its advertising on Big Data and Cloud, and they do not offer a Big Data solution in the cloud – rather their large customers can build one with EMC offerings. One can host an analytics appliance [...]

There is no doubt that SAP HANA is a central piece of SAP’s developing product architecture. According to PAC’s latest survey, SAP users are aware of this fact and are already expressing a lot of interest in the topic. However, customers are not sure yet about the role which SAP HANA should play within their companies. On the one hand, [...]

2013 will be the year of Big Data. You may have heard this, too. And up to a certain point, it’s true: with the number of PoCs we’ve seen this year, 2013 will indeed be the year of many Big Data deployments. But certainly not at the rate vendors and systems integrators would have hoped for. The reason is simple: [...]

Technology plays a very influential role in Indian financial markets, especially capital markets. Changing technologies are making trading faster and improve efficient measure of market risks. The last two decades have seen the increasing use of technology in the form of complex analytical algorithms to predict future market movements and perform valuations of complex products. PAC research has identified the [...]