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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Update: Rolta’s founder, chairman and chief executive, Kamal K Singh responds to the allegations and details the company focus on homeland security.
- DNA India
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The Hindu has an in depth report that suggests that confusion in contracts between Rolta, which delivered a custom package of software from Intergraph, Bentley and Oracle for image analysis, and the Indian Army have led to software slowdowns and the need to reinvest to updated licenses. There is also a suggestion that Rolta repackaged Intergraph software without permission.
- The Hindu
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/29 at 05:42 AM |
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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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Here's the new product: Oracle NoSQL. Gory tech details and downloadable open source community edition are here. I see no indication geospatial is supported natively.
The consensus of smart people (who know more about this than I) suggest Oracle's entry into the space is validation of the technology (including Mike Loukides at O'Reilly).
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has said that the company’s database strategy is to take new technologies and absorb them. Next up: Big data and NoSQL.
That from Larry Dignan at C|net who cites the event program to note a Hadoop loader and a NoSQL database (I did an intro at DM).
What are the implications for geospatial? We may find out next week.
- ZDNet Oracle Blog w/HT to @cageyjames
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/11 at 08:27 AM |
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At the Oracle Spatial User Conference last week in Washington, D.C., the users took center stage to discuss their recent deployments that encompassed one huge requirement: "handle big data"
What's "big data?" Safra Catz, Oracle's Co-President said this recently, "We'll let others mess around with mere terabytes of data. We have much grander plans."
Oracle clients, like the U.S. Census Bureau have huge databases. On a "productive" day, the Bureau can produce 2.3 maps per second accessing a geospatial database of 73 million edges, 22 million faces, and 160 million nodes. These data supported Census workers who had to canvas 730,000+ assignment areas for the 2010 Census. Said Atri Kulluri, Assistant Division Chief of the Geography Division, "Our success is dependant on Oracle Spatial and the topology data model.
Chris Nelson of Time Warner Cable (TWC) and their partner IMMCO have developed "MapZilla" a enterprise -wide decision support that integrates geospatial technology. "We use Oracle everyday for all kinds of reports. And we use a team that is very good with databases," said Nelson.
Eight years in development, the MapZilla project replaced "ink and mylar." TWC did not have a visualization tool previously. The goals were extensive and now provides network data publishing as well as asset visualization and analysis. Through multiple versions of tools the entire geospatial solution is based upon many vendor tools including MapInfo, FME, Esri and Bentley. Nelson commented that it took longer than expected but the tool is now widely used.
Aeroports De Paris, a public company since 1945, manages all of the regional airports in Paris: DeGaulle, LeBourget, and Orly. Olivier Dubois, manager of Oracle Spatial Consulting and Resourcing Services (OSCARS) described an extensive project that required real-time vehicle tracking, event maps, and geolocated reports that needed to be available 24/7. The real-time component for vehicle tracking was monitoring all airport vehicles and the ability utilize a linear referencing system.
by Joe Francica on 05/23 at 02:00 AM |
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