Oracle, Teradata Offer Next Gen BI, Location Intelligence

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:

1. 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
2. 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.
3. Location intelligent (LI) solutions are now more prominent in the vocabulary of the mainstream IT players
4. Customers are demanding location-based data analytics.
5. There's no mention of:
   • 
     Oracle Spatial integration
   • Oracle Exadata Appliance - an applicance for big data
   • 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.

Esri and BI, “big data”

Someone wrote to us asking about the recent acquisition of SpotOn Systems by Esri. So, let me give you my take. 

Four Drivers for the Geocloud #GWF

Steve Hagan, VP of Development, Server Technology, Oracle, discussed platforms issues for the development of geocloud at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad. He identified four global drivers for geospatial cloud computing:

• Big data - terabytes and petabytes of data
  • Sensors, RFID, LiDAR, etc.
• Big Software
  • Spatially enable all applications: ERP, CRM, BI
• Real time Analytics
  • Big value from fastest response – streams and events
  • Tracking in real time and predicting where people, or payloads will be
  • BI in real time
• Big hardware
  • Cloud platforms
  • Massively parallel data base machines

And scalability is needed to support all of the above.

Podcast: Using NAVTEQ & DigitalGlobe Data with Oracle Spatial

In podcast we invite you to learn how NAVTEQ’s vector map data and DigitalGlobe’s worldwide image data have been specially formatted for the Oracle Database, and how it can be used to enhance customers’ business intelligence and enterprise applications. We will hear from Steve Lytle, a Senior Account Manager NAVTEQ and Jim Beckley, Director of Business Development for DigitalGlobe, as well as Jim Steiner, Oracle’s Senior Director for Server Technology. This podcast also provides an in-depth review of Oracle 11g’s advanced geospatial features including support for 3D types and functions as well as Java programming with 3D and OGC web services such as WFST, WMS and the web catalog services.

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Podcast: Why is it so Hard to Sell Geospatial Technology to the Enterprise?

Senior executives from leading technology companies, speaking at our Location Intelligence Conference last week shared that the entire value proposition for spatial enablement is a “push” to the market rather than a “pull” or demand for the technology. Our editors ask: Are we doing an adequate job of selling the technology to more of the people that will eventually implement geospatial tools with other IT solutions.?Why is it still so hard? What are we not doing well? Will it take another “Google Earth” to push the technology deeper into corporate computing or a new crop of graduates to be more geospatially enlightened?

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