Zoomdata Improves Data Sharpening and Security

Zoomdata enhanced its patented data sharpening technology in response to continued growth in big data volumes. The company released a new algorithm and improved memory management that enable data sharpening to handle much larger data sets with faster performance. Zoomdata also added drill-to-detail capabilities so users can drill from a chart with summary data to the raw data in the database.

Data sharpening enables users to analyze partial query results while the query is still processing. With better memory management, the technology only renders data that users visualize, reducing the chance of running out of memory.

Zoomdata also announced delegated security, which leverages the security present in the users’ database. This eliminates need to configure security in Zoomdata.

Actian Announces Actian X, a hybrid database

Actian, a provider of data management, integration, and analytics products, announced Actian X Hybrid Database. The new product combines its Ingres and Vector database into a single offering that can process both transaction and analytics workloads at the same time. Now, users do not need to move transactional data to Vector for analysis. Actian will continue to sell Vector separately and support prior versions of the Ingres database. Actian X is the new version of the Ingres database.

Actian also announced DataConnect11, the latest version of its data integration platform. This version has a number of added features, such as code completion and performance feedback along with an improved search and replace function.

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Infor Acquires Birst 

Continuing the trend of recent BI acquisitions, Infor, a provider of industry-specific business applications, acquired Birst, which offers an end-to-end cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform. With Birst, Infor gains ETL, operational reporting, data discovery, and data blending capabilities and more.

Infor hopes to combine its knowledge of industry processes with Birst’s BI platform to offer a product with best of breed analytics and features. This will enable Infor customers to consolidate their BI footprint.

Birst will remain an independent company and sell its product separately, but now has Infor’s sales team to back it.