I had to do a double-take when I saw this announcement that Teradata, a company focused on "big data," and Oracle were teaming to create solutions for what the press release stated was the "next generation BI capabilities." It took me by surprise as I believed these companies were competitors. One blogger from datanami referred to the relationship as being that of "frenemies."
Even more surprising was that the relationship seems to hinge more on geospatial technology integration than just basic business intelligence applications. According to the release:
Newly released next-generation BI capabilities empower IT and business professionals to effectively leverage geospatial analytics, improve system performance, and enhance management of complex BI environments. The new capabilities include: Teradata Geospatial with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) mapping capabilities – joint technologies work together to better inform companies' business decisions with automated, integrated location intelligence.
Big data, BI, location intelligence, geospatial ... be still my beating heart. This alliance signals a few things:
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Location-based information is becoming a real data hog and must rely on data appliances that can handle the volume and process it with BI technology
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Teradata, while having some BI tools, is looking for more fire power in apps, while Oracle probably sees an opportunity to sell more BI apps.
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Location intelligent (LI) solutions are now more prominent in the vocabulary of the mainstream IT players
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Customers are demanding location-based data analytics.
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There's no mention of:
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Oracle Spatial integration
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Oracle Exadata Appliance - an applicance for big data
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Oracle's partnership with Cloudera to bring Hadoop to the Oracle Big Data Appliance
Of course, this press release came from Teradata. Oracle has many solutions for handling big data but I just found it odd that Teradata Geospatial is mentioned without Oracle Spatial seeming to be in the mix. I hope to have a statement from Oracle soon.
Regardless, this announcement is somewhat self serving for my interests because both organizations will be present at our Location Intelligence Conference 2012 this may and will sit on the "Big Data" power panel. Pat Sack, CTO of Oracle's National Security Group and Robert Trentkamp, senior partner of Claraview, a division of Teradata, will be on the panel.
by Joe Francica on 01/29 at 10:29 PM |
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Someone wrote to us asking about the recent acquisition of SpotOn Systems by Esri. So, let me give you my take.
I think that Esri is simply covering all bases with this acquisition. SpotOn was a small BI company that leveraged Esri's platform. So many BI players are getting into geospatial analytics that this is a move to let customers know they have not forgotten about BI. If you look at all the major BI players, they are doing some kind of business intelligence that is integrated with geospatial information. Esri has for a long time had relationships with companies like InformationBuilders and others. The major player is still Oracle because they not only acquired several BI companies long ago, but their Fusion initiative that integrated Oracle Spatial with their BI solutions has now been completed. Also, the ability to get into big data is something that is also on Esri's mind. Teradata showed up at the Esri UC this year and now that Netezza has been acquired by IBM, another close partner of Esri's, this is certainly an area of interest that Esri is watching. There's just too much unstructed data that needs to be integrated with structured geospatial data that Esri will have to address this with a big data partner like Teradata. However, big data is Oracle's sweet spot. But, companies like Teradata and Netezza may make a dent in Oracle's market share. So once again, Esri is trying to cover all bases.
by Joe Francica on 11/07 at 05:06 AM |
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Apparantly, Steve Jobs can spell "geospatial" just fine. In a report by Robin Harris, ZDNet's blogger for "Storage Bits," Jobs discussed Apple's iCloud initiative by touting his large Teradata-powered data centers. Harris pointed out that one function of the Teradata servers was "Geospatial services" that in his analysis:
Very handy for the location aware services that iCloud provides. And valuable for retailers and manufacturers who want deep insight into their customer’s buying habits and geographical spread.
I think what Harris just implied was that Apple has now jumped into the expedition to seek the "holy grail" of location-based advertising. Not a surprise; almost expected. But Apple isn't toying with the latest iPhone "check-in" LBS toy. They went straight for the business intelligence play that Teradata can serve up should it need to analyze massive amounts of location-based "big data." How much is "big data." Harris says that Teradata's "Extreme Data Appliance" is expandable to 4,000 nodes and 180,000 terabytes of data.
Teradata flirts with geospatial data support. They haven't jumped into the fray to the degree that Netezza or Oracle has. Will that change? I guess if they are supporting Apple's iCloud and their LBS services, I suspect we'll hear more about this soon.
by Joe Francica on 06/06 at 06:35 PM |
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