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        Mark Smith's Analyst Perspectives

        LucidWorks addresses the growing volume of information now being stored in the enterprise and in big data with two products aimed at the enterprise with search technology. Though you may not be familiar with LucidWorks (previously known as Lucid Imagination), the company has for many years contributed to Apache Lucene, an open source search project, and commercialized and supported for it for business.

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        Topics: Big Data, MapR, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Mobility, Cloud Computing, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Customer Performance Management (CPM), Information Management (IM), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Search, Workforce Performance Management (WPM), Strata+Hadoop

        More than 1,000 people attended the 32nd annual Information Builders Summit conference this week to learn about the company’s advances in big data, business analytics, cloud computing, mobile technology and social media, which CEO and founder Gerald Cohen announced and demonstrated during his keynote address. With WebFOCUS version 8, Information Builders has made significant strides in a range of technology areas to support analytics and visualization since my analysis after last year’s...

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        Topics: Big Data, Mobile, Social Media, Sustainability, Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Information Management, Location Intelligence, Operational Intelligence, Business Performance Management (BPM), Customer Performance Management (CPM), Financial Performance Management (FPM), Information Applications (IA), Information Management (IM), IT Performance Management (ITPM), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Search, Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM), Workforce Performance Management (WPM)

        At this year’s user conference, it was clear that change is afoot at MarkLogic, whose technology platform enables users to access information more easily accessible within applications and devices. Last month the board of directors appointed a new CEO, Ken Bado, created the new position of chief marketing officer (CMO) and named a head of global services and alliances, all within three weeks. The Silicon Valley software company has been growing in the last several years but appears not fast...

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        Topics: MarkLogic, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Reporting, XML, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Mobility, Cloud Computing, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Information Applications, Location Intelligence, Operational Intelligence, Business Performance Management (BPM), Content Management, Customer Performance Management (CPM), Document Management, Financial Performance Management (FPM), Information Applications (IA), Information Management (IM), Information Platform, IT Performance Management (ITPM), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Search, Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM), Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
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