
Day #2 => Cloud Expo, A Few Pictures & Associated Thoughts
This first one is of Effective UI a company out of Denver, Colorado. You’re probably asking yourself, why are they at a cloud conference? I asked the same question and they brought up a really good point. Most cloud computing interfaces are horrible. I have to agree, most are or at least have been pretty […]

Jaspersoft Adds Big Data Support
Jaspersoft (see previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based BI vendor, today announced support for big data sources for Business Intelligence reporting. They recently released a ramped up version 4 targeting embedded BI market. With today’s release, Jaspersoft support native reporting for Hadoop, NoSQL and Massively Parallel Processing Analytics Databases. In this era of big […]

Jaspersoft Ramps Up Their Offering To Meet Embeded BI Market Needs
Jaspersoft, the San Francisco based Business Intelligence vendor, yesterday announced the newer version of their product, Jaspersoft 4, with embedded BI market in mind. Jaspersoft 4 leverages a new modular UI architecture which makes it easy to customize and embed, thereby making the BI tool more attractive to users. This version has a new GUI […]

5 Open Source companies that will rule the post-ERP world
It was promoted as the final showdown. During the preceding months there had been vicious campaigns run against the other. Brutal, ugly propaganda campaigns aimed to persuade the judges. The event was the Columbian Exposition. Westinghouse and Tesla stood on one side, equipped with the alternating current system. On the other side Thomas Edison and […]

The Quest For a Personalized Enterprise Dashboard
Most executives and managers digest multiple streams of information on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Tying this information together quickly and acting on it is challenging and the end result is usually an executive or manager that is reacting instead of being proactive. One reason is that the majority of those executives […]

Rightscale Brings Business Intelligence To The Clouds
Business Intelligence Suites are crucial for the success of any company. They help us understand past, present and future aspects of the business by mining the company data. Once upon a time, Business Intelligence (BI) software were proprietary software and the exorbitant cost made sure that only big enterprises could afford such software. Just like […]