Actian hires senior Oracle sales exec. Actian, the SQL analytics company, has hired Oracle veteran Kevin Edmiston as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations.
He had spent 15 years at Oracle and was its Group Vice President, Enterprise Software Sales and Cloud Solutions. Edmiston's hire is a coup for Actian and a recognition of the large market potential for enterprise analysis of big data, which will accelerate as the Internet of Everything grows in size.
Edmiston said, "With traditional systems breaking under new analytic workloads and Hadoop still too immature to meet rapidly growing requirements, enterprises face a conundrum which has driven them to compromise the value they get from their data. " Edmiston managed about $200m in annual sales at Oracle. Ebola crisis vastly underestimated, says WHO. Enigma Publishes 100,000 Public Databases: This Is 'Big Data' Versus Everyone -SVW.
Posted by Tom Foremski - May 1, 2013 Enigma launched today, with an intriguing service: the New York based startup offers an easy way to search through more than 100,000 public databases.
Chris Velazco at TC reports: Founded by Hicham Oudghiri and Marc Dacosta and helmed by CEO Jeremy Bronfmann, Enigma taps into over 100,000 public data sources from state and federal records to SEC filings to lists of frozen assets in the United Kingdom all the way to Crunchbase. The end result is an incredibly simple, incredibly smart way to sift through and find connections in publicly available data. Foremski's Take: Within a single public database there's likely little of interest to society at large but if there's links across tens of thousands of databases then we will see many skeletons coming out of many people's closets, and probably on a scale larger than Wikileaks.
However, you don't have to be elite and famous to feel concerned about the Big Data engines of Enigma. GoodData: Transforming Big Data Into Useful Data. Posted by Tom Foremski - January 14, 2013 Big data is a ubiquitous term in a ubiquitous world of massive amounts of data but it's meaningless if it can't be converted into actionable data.
To become useful data is a tough job requiring an understanding of the underlying data and how it fits together and what questions to ask. GoodData is a company that seems to have solved some key aspects of big data, such as how to generate high quality sales leads and figure out the best ways to close deals. I recently spoke with Roman Stanek, CEO and founder of GoodData. Here are some notes from our conversation: - Roman Stanek is a serial entrepreneur, founder of NetBeans acquired by Sun Microsystems, and Systinet, acquired by Mercury Interactive, then by Hewlett-Packard. - He has raised more than $100m for his startups. . - GoodData specializes in what it calls business data monetization. Brazilian IT giant comes to Silicon Valley. TOTVS said it has established TOTVS Labs, A Silicon Valley based research and development facility that will be used to create new software and spearhead an expansion into North American markets.
TOTVS is the largest enterprise software company in Latin America with more than 10,000 staff. I spoke with Vicente Goetten, executive director of TOTVS Labs. Here are some of my notes from our conversation: - The move is a strategic one and will help the company become a global IT brand by leveraging the specialist cutting edge expertise of top Silicon Valley engineers. - The primary focus is on four areas: cloud computing, social media, big data, and mobile technologies. - Primary development in Silicon Valley will be supported by developers in Brazil. - The company said that it came to Silicon Valley because there are engineers here that know how to develop cloud and other applications that can be quickly scaled.
. - Recruiting engineers has been challenging but the company now has more than 20. Pervasive Software: Betting On A Big Data Hadoop Future. Posted by Tom Foremski - June 28, 2011 I recently met with Mike Hoskins, EVP & CTO of Pervasive Software, based in Austin, Texas.
It's an interesting company that combines a large legacy database management system with developing technologies for big data applications around the Hadoop database. Here are some notes from our meeting: - The Austin tech scene is doing well, there are a lot of startups. And there is a large Hadoop user group. - We are 30 years old which is rare in the software business. . - Our products help companies integrate their IT systems withy applications.
. - Our integration platform is build it into many "cloud" platforms, such as ADP and Intuit's. - We recently opened a marketplace for adapters, where people can resell connectors for various systems. - We have an innovation lab where we focus on new projects. Hadoop & Startups: Where Open Source Meets Business Data. This guest post was written by Kovas Boguta, Head of Analytics at Weebly.
In 2009, Kovas wrote a guest post about visualizing real-time social structures. This same process is now unfolding in the Big Data space, with an open-source ecosystem centered around Hadoop displacing the expensive, proprietary solutions. Startups are creating more intelligent businesses and more intelligent products as a result.