One-On-One with Alexei Agratchev
BVI News: Dashboard Insight recently spoke with Alexei Agratchev about retail metrics, product customization and the use of video data in modern BI applications.
Dashboard Insight: Where does BVI Networks sit on the B.I. stack?
Alexei Agratchev: BVI Networks’ RetailNEXT is a vertical-based BI application for retailers. Unlike many BI systems which are more focused at a general business-process level, RetailNEXT is able to give more meaningful insights for retailers. We handle all layers of the BI stack from aggregating video-camera data with video analytics – and collecting data from POS systems – to displaying interactive dashboards of key retail metrics and overall in-store custom reports. We also have powerful data analytic algorithms that run in the background to find trends in shopper behavior.
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June 30th, 2009 | Filed under
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MDM vendors improve data quality, stewardship, according to Gartner
D&B Purisma News: A new emphasis on data quality analysis and data stewardship roles were among the developments over the last year in the master data management (MDM) for customer data market, according to Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant Report.
Responding to customer demands, vendors like IBM, Oracle and Initiate Systems have added or improved data stewardship and governance functions, and data quality profiling, visualization and analysis capabilities, according to John Radcliffe, an analyst with the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm and author of the report.
By Jeff Kelly
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June 29th, 2009 | Filed under
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Infobright, Pentaho team up with Sun to offer new BI infrastructure
Pentaho News: Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), have teamed with Sun Microsystems to offer a hardware and software system for the deployment of BI infrastructure. The system consists of either the Sun Fire X4275 storage server or Sun Storage 7310 unified storage system, which along with Sun’s Open Network Systems offers a platform to run internet applications. It also consists of Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition, which reportedly addresses the spectrum of end-user BI needs for interactive reporting, analysis and dashboards, along with data integration capabilities, and Infobright’s column-oriented analytic database. The database is integrated with Sun’s MySQL and provides a self-managing database designed for BI.
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June 26th, 2009 | Filed under
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Fujitsu America featured in Channel Insider: Fujitsu Inks First Deal in North American Outsourcing Push
Channel Insider covers Fujitsu’s America’s deal with Alliance Data and notes that, “…there’s a new player with a familiar name looking to break into the space: Fujitsu America.â€?
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Fujitsu America featured in eWEEK: Fujitsu America Grows Managed Services Capabilities
This eWEEK article covers the deal with Alliance Data and quotes Fujitsu America’s F. Ali on the company’s growth of its managed services business.
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June 25th, 2009 | Filed under
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Bending the back office: Open source CRM and ERP
Pentaho News: The back office for any company requires many different layers of software. Essentials like e-mail and a basic Web site are relatively simple commodities to run. The hardest job is delivering the kind of software that acts as the spinal cord for the business that cares for all of the most essential details, big and small, that keep the customers paying the invoices and ensure the bank accounts hold enough money to make the payroll.
These systems go by names like customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP), but they’re really just a carefully crafted collection of database tables with a set of routines that keep the employees from messing up the information. They are usually so essential to a business that the database administrators can puff up their chests and make credible statements like, “Our company is really just a big database with a sales force and a warehouse that do its bidding.” They’re not far from the truth.
By Peter Wayner
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June 25th, 2009 | Filed under
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Examiner – All-in-one network device–winner or house of cards?
Examiner’s Jeffrey Fritz posted a story on June 25 concerning all-in-one networking devices: “True, the all-in-one box concept does have its advantages. There is the potential for less finger pointing because one vendor (Cisco or Vyatta in this case) supports all the functions. There is a potential for energy and space savings as one device can now do the work that multiple devices performed in the past. You have less purchase orders to sign, and fewer devices to manage in your network. But not all is nirvana with such an all-in-one approach. Your network now has one whopping single point of failure. Should your magic box suffer a major failure, its services and applications will all come crashing down like a house of cards. Plus you lose best of breed. Now, you have to settle for whatever comes in the all-in-one box.”
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June 25th, 2009 | Filed under
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Pentaho Corporation is a Finalist for the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards
Pentaho News: Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), recently announced that it has been named a finalist for the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. According to SourceForge.net, “This category recognizes the best company-managed open source project with commercial intent.”
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June 24th, 2009 | Filed under
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Seagate introduces FreeAgent external HDDs for Mac; up to 2TB
Seagate on Wednesday introduced its new lineup of mobile and desktop FreeAgent for Mac storage drives, including the portable Go and Go Pro models, a 2TB Desk model and the Go Dock+, a powered USB-hub and dock for the FreeAgent Go.
Intended for creative professionals and multimedia enthusiasts — in other words, Mac users — the new FreeAgent for Mac external hard drives offer increased capacity and performance, Seagate says.
By Andrew Nusca
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June 24th, 2009 | Filed under
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Pentaho Named Finalist for “Best Commercial Open Source Project� in SourceForge.net 2009 Community Choice Awards
Pentaho News: Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that it has been named a finalist for the “SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.� According to SourceForge.net, “This category recognizes the best company-managed open source project with commercial intent.�
Since its founding in 2004 as the first commercial open source business intelligence company, Pentaho has developed a large, productive community around its open source projects including the Pentaho Reporting project, the Mondrian OLAP project, the Kettle data integration project, the Weka data mining project, and the Pentaho BI platform project. Some community members participate in one key area of interest while others contribute across multiple projects.
Beyond its vibrant open source community, Pentaho has shown significant commercial traction in the multi-billion dollar business intelligence market, recently announcing the world’s largest open source BI deployment at Specsavers, and a proprietary BI replacement at Otto International, the latest in a series of such replacements.
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June 23rd, 2009 | Filed under
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The Var Guy: Vyatta Podcast with CEO Kelly Herrell
Var Guy’s Joe Panettieri posted a podcast interview with Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta. As an opening to the podcast, Joe wrote “Vyatta positions itself as the open source alternative to Cisco Systems. But what exactly does that mean? And how is Vyatta working with Citrix Systems, which recently invested in Vyatta? To find the answers, I spoke with Kelly Herrell (pictured), CEO of Vyatta.”
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2009 Emerging Vendors: The Complete List from A – Z
mydials News: Â This year, we found 140 emerging vendors packing more innovative technology at a better price for your customers and putting significantly more cash in your pockets. Here they are from A to Z.
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June 22nd, 2009 | Filed under
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DottNetNuke 5.1 offers new features and enhancements
Post: DotNetNuke News: Â Last week, DotNetNuke Corp. announced the availability of DotNetNuke Professional Edition 5.1. This edition is the latest release of its web content management and application development framework for business-critical websites and web applications built on Microsoft .NET. The DotNetNuke Professional Edition is built on the same open source core as the free DotNetNuke Community Edition but includes several exclusive features and is fully supported and documented. The annual DotNetNuke Professional Edition subscription costs $1,999 per instance.
By Bryan
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June 22nd, 2009 | Filed under
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DotNetNuke Ready For Its Open-Source Channel Close-Up
DotNetNuke News: One of the hottest open-source application frameworks of the past decade recently debuted a commercial edition, and finally has a partner program in the works.
DotNetNuke the corporation grew out of DotNetNuke the project: an open-source web application framework written in VB.net and intended for content management. In 2001, the original DotNetNuke application was born out of an earlier project, IBuySpyWorkshop, which was created by developer Shaun Walker. After a brief sponsorship agreement with Microsoft following the first public release of DotNetNuke, Walker decided the product should be open source, and DotNetNuke remains the largest open-source Microsoft community, boasting more than 700,000 members.
By Chad Berndtson
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June 22nd, 2009 | Filed under
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ShoreTel in TMCnet – Supplier Q&A on IP Contact Center Solutions with ShoreTel
This month’s Supplier Survey is focusing on IP contact center solutions. Replying for ShoreTel are Bernard Gutnick, senior director of product marketing, and Venky Ramen, senior product manager of Interaction Center:
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myDIALS Performance Management Dashboard
mydials News: An interactive dashboard should support timely, effective operational decision making. This requires the ability to visualize relevant performance metrics in a variety of ways and identify alert conditions, as shown in the sample dashboard by the visual alert notification on the Quality Control Chart. The decision maker should be able to obtain information to help characterize performance issues, such as using the information in the Quality Control Chart to see performance “swings” or deviations from the mean, and look at trends over time as shown in the Availability and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Trend dials. Users should be able to collaborate and share knowledge as identified by the notes symbols in the OEE by Product status dial. Intuitive controls are used to set context along multiple dimensions and time periods, and the user can interactively drill into each dial – either by dimension or by drivers to obtain detail and more actionable information.
By Staff
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June 19th, 2009 | Filed under
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2009 Emerging Vendors: The Complete List from A – Z
DotNetNuke News: This year, we found 140 emerging vendors packing more innovative technology at a better price for your customers and putting significantly more cash in your pockets. Here they are from A to Z.
CRN Staff
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Seagate 640GB FreeAgent Go revealed
Seagate revealed a bit more than they might have intended today by posting up information about their 640GB FreeAgent Go on their website. And actually, this is pretty big news, as it’s one of the first drives to exceed 500GB, at least for external storage, that is.
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Network World: What is a router?
Network World’s Jim Duffy includes Vyatta in a discussion of what a router is: “Vyatta, for example, runs Linux-based routing code on x86 hardware. It also runs several other open source network applications on the standard hardware, including firewall, VPN concentration, virtualization, address management, traffic management and intrusion prevention that scales from the branch office to the service provider edge.”
“In the old days, vendors developed a new box around a new function; we’re now seeing a move to bring all of these functions together,” says Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy and marketing at Vyatta. “It doesn’t make sense every place in the network to plop down three different boxes, or four or five and daisy chain them altogether. It makes sense to still have all these functions but as pieces of a larger system that plays in different places in the network — more of a general purpose device that supports a lot of functionality.”
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June 17th, 2009 | Filed under
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ZDNet: Is Vyatta now part of Microsoft keiretsu?
As follow up coverage from ZDNet, Dana Blankenhorn published his blog piece and had this to say “It’s a delicate dance, especially at times like this when growth capital is so scarce. Time will tell whether Vyatta tilts toward, say, Xen in helping craft customer solutions. Or whether it starts pushing Novell’s Suse Linux over, say, Red Hat. ‘
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