Hadoop World: Karmasphere and big data intelligence

November 14, 2011

One thing Hadoop isn’t great at right out of the box is data analytics, that’s where a company like Karmasphere comes in.  Karmasphere provides business intelligence software that data analysts can use to use to mine the data that Hadoop sucks up.

Last week at Hadoop World I grabbed some time with Karamsphere’s Chairman and co-founder, Martin Hall to learn more about where he and his company play in the wild world of big data.

Some of the ground Martin covers

  • Where does Karmasphere play in the big data stack, how is it used and by whom
  • (0:38) Where did the idea for developing Karmasphere come from
  • (1:58) What is the Karmasphere “secret sauce”
  • (2:18) What are the main industries and use cases where their offerings are used
  • (3:40) What can we look forward to in future releases

But wait, there’s more!

Stay tuned for more interviews from last week’s Hadoop world.  On tap are: Mark Mims of Canonical, Todd Papaioannou from Battery Ventures, John Gray of Facebook, Erik Swan of Splunk and Nosh Petigara of 10gen/MongoDB.

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Dell has a BI practice?!

August 31, 2010

The week before last I headed out to The Data Warehouse Institute’s  (TDWI) World Conference in San Diego.  I went out to help support our BI team who were using the event as the forum to unveil Dell’s new Business Intelligence practice.

We got a bunch of puzzled looks as people approached the Dell booth and didn’t see any hardware.  Once however they learned what we were there to announce and why, they seemed to buy it (or maybe they just said they got it because they didn’t want to lose out on a chance to win the Dell Mini we were giving away 🙂

BI veteran, Mike Lampa, who has been driving the go-to market effort behind the practice acted as our chief spokesperson.   Here’s the message we were delivering, straight from Mike:

Some of the ground Mike covers:

  • Internally, Dell has one of the top 5 data warehouse implementations in world and we use most of the mainstream ETL, BI and database tools that are out there in the market.
  • The Perot acquisition has given us access to a global services delivery engine and we are marrying this channel with the BI expertise we’ve developed internally.
  • We’ll provide consulting services through our verticals and deliver end to end solutions targeted at vertical markets like Education, Health Care and Financial services.
  • Our goal is to do in services what we did in hardware, be  a disruptive force and bring in higher levels of innovation.

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