Hadoop disrupted, and in some ways became synonymous with big data, by offering a framework for cheap storage and scale out processing. Parallel to Hadoop came the flurry of NoSQL solutions that also ...

The popularity of Microsoft Excel has never waned. Today, a whopping 1.1 billion users globally rely on it for multidimensional analysis in areas such as "scenario planning, supply chain optimization, ...

In the fog of the Big Data era, OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing) gets little mention from the press or the industry analysts. The reality is, OLAP is quite vital today for a simple reason: most ...

Write this down: Converged transactional and analytical data platforms stand for digital business. None of us has been alive long enough to remember a time without the printing press, but such a time ...