“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential” - How does Anaplan match up to Churchill’s famous quote?
Anaplan compete against the planning tools of the big analytics vendors, its different and possibly superior
Reconsidering Qlik
Despite its being over 20 years old, Qlik uses - and has always used - technologies that are now all the rage.
Getting to Actionable Insight
There are too many types of self-service tools for business analysts
Apache Trafodion DBMS - Innovation for Big Data with SQL access to Hadoop.
Apache is going to offer a lot more than just Hadoop analytics processing, with a database that can federate OLTP and big data analytics.
Mobile assumptions
Assumptions are always dangerous in IT. Assumptions about what mobiles are and how they are used (amongst others) are a particularly egregious example.
TIBCO goes private
TIBCO is being privatised, so what next?
GrayMatter and Guavus point the way forward, they sell solutions and not just capability
Too many so called solutions are just capability, a capability that is rarely fully realised. Vendors need to sell solutions that speed the time to profit.
How much data do you need?
Sometimes you need a lot of data and sometimes predictive models aren't useful
Perforce embraces OSS – in part
Perforce has given some of its IP to the OSS community
Guavus: transforming the business model for communication service providers
Guavus are a relatively new analytic vendor specializing in the Telecoms market, and with a very focused approach.