Business Intelligence: Converging Trends Mean Rapid Change for BI Sector

In a post last week we saw that Business Intelligence is becoming easier.   Easy-to-Use consumer-style interfaces are putting sophisticated data analysis tools into the hands of a greater range of users.  Tools that once required extensive support in order to configure and customize and more “self service” in nature.

Other trends to follow in the [...]

Open Source: When Data Management is Rocket Science

NASA has recently contributed their Object-Oriented Data Technology (OODT) to the Apache group, and the technology has been promoted to a Top-Level Project (TLP) at Apache.  As a TLP, OODT will receive project management and resource support from the the Apache foundation.  Development for OODT can be traced back to 1998 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion [...]

Enterprise Search: A Restricted Open Source Search Option Emerges

Lucene and Lucene Solr are well-known Open Source developer tools that are widely embedded in many products.   Both tools are created by the company Lucid Imagaingation.  Lucid Imagination has now announced a new product called LucidWorks Enterprise that is built on top of Lucene/Solr that targets the Enterprise Search market.

In much the same way [...]