MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise™ Now Generally Available Worldwide

For the first time, MicroStrategy's analytics platform combines traditional business intelligence functionality with data discovery, mobile analytics and powerful enterprise security.  MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise builds on proven enterprise capabilities to make sophisticated, high-performance analytics more accessible, easier to use, and faster. 

MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise is a groundbreaking solution that combines analytics, mobility, and security in a single integrated platform," said Michael Saylor, CEO, MicroStrategy Incorporated. "It delivers outstanding enterprise functionality through an intuitive and easy-to-use interface for every user that is powerful enough for the most demanding organizations.  We are confident that IT and business leaders will be impressed with MicroStrategy 10™ and its ability to create stunning new applications that deliver tremendous value to the enterprise."
MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise contains a host of new features and enhanced functionality:

• Revamped data discovery offers enhanced exploration and visualization capabilities on both Mac OS and Windows. New built-in data wrangling capabilities enable users to quickly prepare data for analysis without using other tools.
• New governed data discovery makes it simple to promote dashboards from the desktop to the enterprise, providing a seamless path from self-service analytics to enterprise BI. 
• New native Hadoop access makes analyzing petabytes of multi-structured data easy. MicroStategy 10 offers native HDFS connectivity within a complete enterprise analytics environment.
• Bigger, better in-memory performance lets users put more data on parallel-partitioned in-memory cubes, so organizations can run faster queries across larger volumes of data.
• Completely redesigned HTML5 interface makes self-service analytics faster, more intuitive, and easier to use, so users can quickly connect to any data and drag-and-drop their way to business insights in an instant.
• New Operations Manager enables administrators to save time and drive efficiency by managing and monitoring all of their environments from a single interface.
• Cutting-edge platform security, powered by biometric and multi-factor authentication, provides enhanced security for every method of analytics delivery, conveniently and seamlessly. 
• Convenient user verification with a smartphone app replaces the need for users to log in with a password.
• Out-of-the-box employee productivity app, built on MicroStrategy's proprietary telemetry database, gives managers powerful insight into employee activity and performance.

Version 10 underscores MicroStrategy's commitment to serving the enterprise analytics needs of global organizations.  Here are what some of our customers and partners have to say about MicroStrategy 10:
"The new HTML5 interface in version 10 is a game changer," said Kevin Curley, Executive Director of Business Intelligence at Catalina Marketing. "The new interface and functionality have significantly improved the self-service user experience, while at the same time, have cut the learning curve for new users.  Furthermore, having the ability to easily integrate with advanced analytics and open source libraries like D3 has significantly increased our ability to visualize data exactly the way we want."
"We currently rely on the MicroStrategy Analytics Platform™ to track programming investments, analyze ad and affiliate sales trends, and review sales team performance," said Madhur Sawhney, Sr. Director Data & Analytics Technology at Discovery Communications.  "After testing MicroStrategy 10 as an early adopter, our team really likes the new functionality -- in particular, the ability to easily wrangle and parse data as well as save/import wrangling scripts functionality.  The enhanced data blending features and on-the-fly data manipulations made possible with version 10 and Visual Insight provide incredible speed-of-interactivity and ease of use."
"MicroStrategy 10 is a workhorse built to support a wide variety of end users," said Frank Zhou, Software Development Manager at PayPal.  "In testing, we successfully loaded a cube with over two billion rows (~400GB) while supporting sub-second query execution and greater user scalability, thanks to the new high performance in-memory architecture."
"We have had the opportunity over the last several months to test the beta version of MicroStrategy 10, and I'm here to tell you that they got it right with MicroStrategy 10," said Jim Butz, Principal at Southport Services Group.  "MicroStrategy 10 is packed with exceptional functionality and capabilities, including a redesigned data discovery interface for easier and better data exploration, native HDFS connectivity for faster access to Hadoop, and new in-memory architecture for faster performance.  I'm excited about the upcoming release and seeing how the broader market receives the latest product offering from MicroStrategy."
"After implementing MicroStrategy 10 as an early adopter, we are delighted with the cleaner streamlined interface, the new analytical capabilities, and the ability users now have to personalize their analytics experience," said Peter Zaballos, Vice President of Marketing & Product, SPS Commerce. "In the omni-channel retail era our customers are facing, analytics is critical to understanding the ever-changing demands of the consumer. The improved accessibility and rich data visualization capabilities of MicroStrategy 10 will enable our retail and CPG customers to better track consumer buying trends and inventory availability to grow their business."
Attend a Symposium Near You  MicroStrategy is presenting version 10's powerful capabilities to symposium attendees in cities around the world and providing a complimentary copy of the new data discovery and visualization product, MicroStrategy Desktop 10.0, valued at $600, to every attendee. To experience a full day of learning, live demonstrations, hands-on workshops and networking, and also receive a complimentary copy of the new MicroStrategy Desktop 10.0, register here: http://www.microstrategy.com/us/events/symposium.  To learn more about MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise, watch this video or visit MicroStrategy online.

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Introducing Talend Integration Cloud

Talend Integration Cloud
Your job just got easier.

Connect all your data and applications in the cloud or on-premises with Talend Integration Cloud, a secure cloud integration platform. Powerful, graphical tools and prebuilt components and connectors make integration simple to connect, enrich and share data, so IT can focus on more strategic integration challenges.

Unlock the power of the cloud with Talend Studio.

Talend Integration Cloud includes the powerful Talend Studio and new web-based designer tools to maximize your productivity. Speed cloud integration using robust graphical tools and wizards inside Talend Integration Cloud. More than 800 connectors and components simplify development of cloud-to-cloud and hybrid integration flows to deploy as governed integration services. Build simple or complex integration flows inside Talend Studio that connect, cleanse, and transform data. Simply push a button to publish and go live in seconds. Easily de-duplicate and standardize data to increase information accuracy and completeness.

Manage hybrid integration with instant, elastic and secure capacity.

Respond easily to increasing volumes of data without breaking your budget using hybrid integration. Talend Integration Cloud allows you to shift workloads from on-premises to run in a secure cloud with cloud-to-cloud or cloud-to-ground connectivity. Built to meet rigorous enterprise-level security requirements, add new users, jobs or connections while enforcing current security policies. As a service managed by Talend, hardware and software is automatically available to meet capacity.

Enable real-time big data insight at a fraction of the cost.

Fast analytics requires fast access to accurate data. Only Talend takes advantage of the massively parallel environment of Hadoop through native and optimized code generation. When integrating big data systems like Amazon Redshift or Amazon EMR, Talend Integration Cloud enables you to run processing when and where you need it for the best response time, lowest latency, and most cost-effective use of resources. With support for batch, real-time and big data integration, Talend meets all your integration needs.

Empower anyone to integrate data with self-service tools.

Give business users control to connect, enrich and share data in the cloud with self-service integration tools. Using a web-based designer and hundreds of pre-built components from the Talend Exchange, anyone can quickly export, cleanse, and import data between popular applications and data sources including Salesforce, Marketo, NetSuite, Redshift, and SAP. More business line autonomy means more time for IT to focus on strategic, revenue-generating projects.

 The Fastest Way to Hybrid Integration

> Use visual integration tools to design, test, manage, and monitor cloud integration jobs.
> Use profiling and data matching tools to understand and cleanse cloud data more accurately.
> Easily deploy, run and manage the same job in the cloud or on the ground.
> Scale up with instant, elastic and secure capacity.
> Speed delivery with the Talend Exchange, an online community for sharing cloud templates, components and best practices.

Register today to get notified when Trail version is Avaliable 

https://info.talend.com/prodevaltic_waitinglist.html

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Talend Teams with Hortonworks to Help Big Data Projects Deliver in Real Time

Latest Talend release leverages Apache Storm to provide more options for the rapid analysis of streaming data

Talend, the global big data integration software leader, has strengthened its partnership with Hortonworks® by supporting a preview version of the latest Apache™ Hadoop® extension, Apache Storm, in Talend 5.6. Apache Storm is ideal for ingesting streaming data that is changing rapidly, such as financial transactions, machine-sensor output, and web click-streams, and enabling real-time responses that can have a massive impact on the bottom line.
“Hortonworks is dedicated to expanding and empowering the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, accelerating innovation and adoption of 100-percent open source enterprise Hadoop. By embracing the latest Hadoop-related capabilities, Talend 5.6 will enable a broad range of customers to recognize the benefits of Apache Storm,” said John Kreisa, vice president of strategic marketing, Hortonworks.
Talend, a Hortonworks Certified Technology Partner, generates native Hadoop code and runs data transformations directly inside Hadoop, offering an easy-to-use graphical development environment to dramatically improve the efficiency of data job design. With Talend users can quickly load, extract, transform and process large and diverse data sets from disparate systems.
“With faster data integration solutions such as Talend 5.6 and Apache Storm, users can run their analytics more quickly for real-time decision-making, helping them achieve competitive advantages that they just weren’t able to do before,” said Ashley Stirrup, chief marketing officer, Talend. “For many businesses such as online retailers and financial services providers, the availability of high quality data that can be immediately acted upon can be the difference between making a sale and losing a customer.”
As well as embracing Storm, Talend 5.6 also incorporates support for Apache Kafka, the fault-tolerant, publish-subscribe messaging system. Kafka can be used in combination with Apache Storm for real-time analysis and rendering of streaming data.
About Talend 5.6
Reinforcing Talend’s commitment to connecting and advancing the data-driven enterprise, Talend 5.6 sets new benchmarks for big data productivity and profiling, drives Master Data Management (MDM) innovation with cutting-edge efficiency controls, and broadens Internet of Things (IoT) device connectivity. In addition, the latest release of Talend’s acclaimed Integration Platform, adds support for the newest Hadoop extensions, Apache Spark and Apache Storm, offering significant performance advantages and enabling real-time and operational data projects.

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Experience Microstrategy BI on Amazon Web Services

MicroStrategy is now available on Amazon Web Services. That means you can deploy the industry’s best BI, web and mobile applications on-demand without having to host or maintain anything onsite.

 

 

 

With MicroStrategy on AWS you get access to all of the features of the MicroStrategy software suite including mobile, web, architect and all of the admin tools. You’ll also benefit from a free on-boarding workshop provided by
a certified MicroStrategy engineer to help you get started. Each MicroStrategy subscription includes standard technical support which includes email
and phone support as well as access to MicroStrategy knowledgebase and community forums.
 

Follow below links for Download & details

http://www.microstrategy.com/us/platforms/analytics/cloud#30-day
http://www.microstrategy.com/us/platforms/analytics/cloud/#aws

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Download your Free Talend Big Data Sandbox

Go from zero to big data without coding in under 10 minutes.

 

The Talend aims to quicken the adoption of large-scale analytics, promising "zero to Big Data without coding in under 10 minutes."
The ready-to-run virtual environment combines the Talend with an Apache Hadoop distribution from Cloudera Inc., Hortonworks Inc. or Map4 Technologies Inc., the data integration company.
To help developers get started quickly, Talend is including a Big Data Insights Cookbook with four ready-to-go scenarios:

• clickstream analysis
• social media sentiment analysis
• log stream analysis of Apache weblogs
• extract, transform and load (ETL) offloading with Hadoop. 

The cookbook also comes with video tutorials.

"Talend enables current data integration developers to quickly connect, transform and manage diverse structured and unstructured data sources without any MapReduce programming, using graphical Eclipse-based tools to generate optimized code."

The Eclipse-based tools can generate Java, MapReduce, Pig or HiveQL code. Developers can build complex transformations and code with multiple languages, such as Pig Latin, Sqoop, MapReduce/YARN, HiveQL and Java.
The sandbox comes with built-in connectivity to more than 800 pre-built data source including Big Data systems, such as Hive, HBase and NoSQL databases. Developers also get access to online video tutorials and the open Talend online community, the company said.
Interested developers can download a 30-day trial of the sandbox.

As the Talend Platform for Big Data is included with the sandbox, users must be running Oracle VirtualBox 4.2 or higher; VMware Fusion 5.0 or higher (on Macs); or VMware Player (for Windows), along with at least 6 GB of disk space and 8 GB of RAM.

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Now Lawyers Can Use the Cloud, Too

"What's a Google Drive?" 

I was having lunch recently with an attorney friend of mine and wanted to share a document with him. Since he already had Gmail, I suggested we just share it on Google Drive as it wasn’t sensitive data...turned out he'd never even heard of Google Drive.  

Yeah, really. 

This made me really think about consumers of all these mobile devices we use in our work. My friend's job is to be a really good lawyer, and that takes a lot of time and brain power. And as tech savvy as he is (he did his firm's web site), being on top of every bit of tech just isn’t his job. It's the job of IT thinkers like me.   

Cloud Computing for Lawyers and the Like

It was fortuitous synchronicity that I’d just looked at the Egnyte system. So many companies have been hesitant to adopt some sort of cloud file sharing platform due to data security concerns. Egnyte is a hybrid approach that enables large companies to keep their files on premise behind their own firewall but leverage the cloud for access.

So as I was talking to my friend, he was telling me how he needs to be able to work on the same documents with paralegals and other lawyers in the firm. He explained how they are often sitting around court with their iPad, waiting to get their time before the judge, and how easy it would be to get to those files.

As I explained cloud based file sharing to him, he expressed his concern about the security of the files, as this was often very sensitive information as they were putting a case together. So I explained Egnytes concept of “Data Gravity”, and how you can actually keep those files securely in house and not on the cloud, subject to indexing and security breaches. 

He was getting really excited about the possibilities for his firm to be able to securely collaborate and work on files wherever he was and with whatever device he had with him. Oftentimes he would even just be out at some social event with only his phone and something came up he wanted to get in to a document, only to have it at work and not available, so he’d make notes and then merge them up at work later.

Secure Hybrid Computing with a Toaster

Hot on the heels of the announcement of their $29.8 Million “D” round funding, Egnyte has inked a new partnership with Synology. Who is Synology and why is this important you might ask? I wondered, too, so I asked Egnyte co-founder Rajesh Ram some questions.

Founded in 2000, Synology is dedicated to develop high-performance, environmentally-friendly NAS servers.  You have these cool toaster size devices that cost from $300 to $2000 and store from 1tb to 4tb per box that gives you really simple and convenient network storage for SMB or home (the home market is not Egnytes focus however). These devices get you efficient storage for groups of users, allowing you to share files securely, back them up, do printer sharing, mobile support and all sorts of cool features.  

Shawn Gordon: What is the effect on the existing infrastructure and clients?

Rajesh Ram: Egnyte will sit on the Synology device and sync to the Egnyte cloud and provide that same seemless access to files from whatever device you are using.  The convenience and management factors are that you can now just have Egnyte sitting on the Synology NAS device and not have to install it on every desktop computer in the company.  In addition you have a granular security matrix to the files on the NAS, so I can say Sally has full read/write access to the Accounting folder but only read access to Sales Quotes, but Bob has full read/write access to both, etc.

SG: What is the sales, distribution, cost model for this?  Am I going to buy a Synology device from Egnyte?

RR: For the moment it will typically deploy to an existing Synology customer, we’ll just install our software to their already in-house device.  A new customer would acquire the Synology device through one of their resellers, we won’t be reselling the device ourselves.  There is no additional cost above and beyond your typical cost for the device and our service.

SG: What is this bringing to the party?

RR: Really it is a matter of convenience in terms of deployment and use.  There is very little effort to deploy this solution and the benefit is tremendous in terms of security and accessibility.  Remember, we’re keeping your files in place, we aren’t making you put them up in the cloud unless you want to. This really reduces any potential incursion to your data, and with the recent announcements of breaches at Target and Snapchat, we can’t be too careful with regard to data security.

SG: What is the effect on the existing customer base?

RR: No impact whatsoever, it just opens up additional storage solution option, and on the Synology end, gives them easy access to the Egnyte system.

SG: When does this go live?

RR: We’re announcing here at CES and are sharing a booth with Synology as well.  We’ll have the solution shipping in the first quarter of 2014.

And with that Rajesh was back to CES. Storage may not be particularly glamorous, but it is what makes everything happen. As a long time IT guy myself, I’m really excited about anything that makes it easier to secure and share my data in as controlled a fashion as possible, and in that vein, this is a very exciting solution that addresses a huge need in the SMB space.  

Article : http://smartdatacollective.com/socialmktgfella/177416/now-lawyers-can-use-cloud-too

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