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Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software intothe burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source frameworkfor processing large sets of information, the company announcedlast week. Spotfire 4.5 will become generally available this month andfeatures a data service connector to Hadoop, which is known for itsability to handle unstructured data such as weblogs, sensorinformation, and text. The connector will allow users to combineand analyze information from Hadoop clusters along with structureddata from business applications such as an SAP or Oracle ERP(enterprise resource planning) system. [ Explore the current trends and solutions in BI with InfoWorld's interactive Business Intelligence iGuide . Keep up with the latest approaches to managing informationoverload and staying compliant in InfoWorld's Enterprise Data Explosion newsletter. ] The release also features new, SQL-based integrations withHewlett-Packard's Vertica analytic database as well as SAP's SybaseIQ database. Both of those products employ columnar storage, anarchitecture that provides improved performance for datawarehousing and BI (business intelligence) applications. In addition, Tibco is touting its close partnership with enterprisesearch vendor Attivio. Thanks to a tie-in with Attivio's ActiveIntelligence Engine platform, Spotfire can now present "datavisualization, enhanced analytics of unstructured content andintuitive search and discovery, all in the same dashboard," Tibcosaid. Other aspects of the 4.5 update concern predictive analytics. Therelease includes a library of "pre-packaged predictive methods" aswell as access to analytic models from SAS Institute and Mathworks'Matlab. Spotfire 4.5 also features an iPad deployment kit and improvementsfor systems monitoring and management. Overall, the announcement drew a measured reaction from ForresterResearch vice president and principal analyst Boris Evelson. "Spotfire by itself could already do data exploration and discovery-- looking at data without prebuilt models," he said via email."Now with Hadoop connectors they can do it on much bigger data setsand with Attivio they can also mash it up with unstructured data." The software also had some predictive analysis capabilitiesstemming from Tibco's 2008 acquisition of Insightful, Evelsonadded. However, the integrations with SAS Institute and Matlab areimportant "because it'll let clients leverage their existinginvestments and experience with these languages and not have torewrite the routines in order to integrate with Spotfire," he said. However, other aspects of the release, such as the managementtooling and iPad support, are less than earth-shattering, Evelsonsaid. Mobility has become a "basic requirement of any BI platform" andenterprise-grade features for management and scalability are simplynot optional as products such as Spotfire become more mature andtheir vendors seek to win larger deals, according to Evelson. Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technologybreaking news for The IDG News Service . Chris's email address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com . The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Portable Calibrator Manufacturer , Single Phase Meter Test Bench, and more. For more , please visit Energy Meter Testing Equipment today!
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