Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 06 | Page 46

FEATURE: BUSINESS ANALYTICS ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Enhancements to business analytics redefines streaming for improved scalability, flexibility and business performance. MapR’s Converged Data Platform release 6.0.1. has exposed new functionality via multiple APIs, increasing business value for enterprises. Citrix has also enhanced its analytics service, offering simplified IT infrastructure and providing visibility into company-wide user and entity behaviour. Improved business analytics transform M real-time streaming for globally- distributed operations apR Technologies, Inc, a pioneer in delivering one platform for all data, across every cloud, has announced breakthrough capabilities for building powerful, real-time streaming and global IoT applications. New enhancements to the MapR Converged Data Platform release 6.0.1 and MapR Expansion Pack 5.0, including Event Streams (MapR-ES), Apache Spark and Apache Drill release 1.13, support streaming pipelines that can stretch across millions of endpoints while also supporting rich analytics that can be used to divide and aggregate the streams into hundreds-of-thousands of logical topics. “MapR has redefined streaming with a groundbreaking approach. Companies no longer have to think about streams as a separate, short-lived flow that needs to be put in a lake or warehouse before its significance can be analysed and understood,” said Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist, DeepStorage. “MapR has embedded Kafkaesque streams directly into the data fabric. Streams can be persisted in the fabric for years with the same enterprise security 46 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com