Beyond data volume, a key concern was data integration of structured and unstructured data.
In 1993, he co-founded Informatica at a time when data integration was not nearly the buzz-phrase it is today.
Nimble Technology, a developer of Web software for data integration, is also a recent Madrona bet.
Data integration is a problem cited by 67%, and 39% have issues in locating where the data may reside.
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And outside the open source search domain, companies like Rosslyn Analytics have developed a platform approach to complex data integration problems.
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The broader value comes from combing work on a common infrastructure, data standards and integration of the data.
Howard-Sarin: You should insist that anybody who has a big pool of data like this solve integration problems.
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Infochimps, already providing a cloud-based platform for data-science-as-a-service, announced the integration of Storm and Kafka.
This new mission is SnapLogic, a commercial software company that provides data and application integration tools for connecting Cloud data sources.
Pentaho Data Integration can be applied to a single file, to data from any number of sources, from spreadsheets to MPP databases, and also to MapReduce programming.
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The vision for big data integration is coming to life in a series of steps.
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Data integration accuracy and fidelity can galvanize a small business faster than any other single IT investment.
If we think of Watson as a framework and integration engine for aggregating medical big data sources we may be able to fight the next war instead of the last one.
The combined forces of the Software-as-a-Service deployment model, the role of Salesforce.com as the master data aggregator and integration point, buying habits of marketing departments and cooperative efforts among vendors have created a situation in which IT plays almost no role in supporting the use of marketing technologies.
"We are now starting to work on the integration of this data fusion system into a mobile telephone, " said researcher Enrique Marti.
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Data integration processes (often called ETL when building a data warehouse or data prep when an analyst is massaging data) can take place in Pentaho so that the massive work of massaging and cleaning data does not have to be tightly bound to a specific data warehouse technology or to complicated programming methods.
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Meanwhile, the construction of a new data center in North Carolina may herald an era of tighter integration between software and services at Apple.
Like the use of other technologies such as cloud computing, which, as we will see, is an integral part of Manufacturing Moneyball, the integration of BI and Big Data is no longer a domain reserved for IT.
Once a SnapLogic server is installed, SnapLogic has an environment for creating integration between data sources and applications.
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Natural language-processing experts, visualization and integration engineers, and product managers also play a role in the data analysis chain.
In February Workday acquired Cape Clear, a small integration firm in Dublin, Ireland that could help Workday's software pull data from Oracle's.
Fully mature Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software along with energy market integration that has a detailed model of power consumption, cooling, and the ability to manage servers, turning them on or off or putting them in a lower power state, completes the picture and enables the full benefit of a software defined data center to be realized.
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These services offer what you would expect in 2013: a variety of templates to choose from, easy uploading of data, good metrics to track campaign responses, integration with customer relationship management (CRM) applications and affordable pricing.
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