'D' of Things

Our technologized society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible. - Honor Harger An idea that I could sense was in the air during my last meeting with Teradata’s crew in California, during their last influencer event , was confirmed and reaffirmed a couple of weeks ago during Teradata’s big partner conference: Teradata is now in full-fledged transformational mode. Of course, for companies like Teradata that are used to being on the front line of the software industry, particularly in the data management space, transformation has now become much more than a “nice to do”. These days it’s pretty much the life breath of any organization at the top of the software food chain. These companies have the complicated mandate to, if they want to stay at the top, be fast and smart enough to provide the software, the method, and the

In October of 2014, Salesforce announced the launch of Salesforce Wave , the cloud-based company’s analytics cloud platform. By that time, Salesforce had already realized that to be able to compete with the powerful incumbents in the business software arena—the Oracles, SAPs and IBMs of the world—arriving to the cloud at full swing would require it to expand its offerings to the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market and to the enterprise mobile app market. Safesforce has realized this goal with Wave Analytics and Salesforce’s analytics app for Sales Cloud customers Wave App . Since then, there have been many developments in the analytics field and especially in the areas of advanced analytics, where most major software vendors have expanded their analytics offerings to the cloud. These events signal Salesforce’s entry into the never-ending race for the ultimate intelligence solution—or not? From Salesforce’s Perspective Cloud-based analytics solution provider Be