Big data should have been the rocket fuel that launched business intelligence (BI) into the stratosphere, so why are so many companies still stuck in neutral when it comes to harnessing the power of Apache Hadoop, or, more specifically, BI on Hadoop, for improved business insights? It’s because BI has failed to keep up with…

A lot has changed at Arcadia Data since 2012, when we were just four founders thinking about ways to connect non-technical business users to big data. What hasn’t changed is the problem we ended up solving. In fact, continuing growth in data volume and complexity has exacerbated the obstacles we are helping our customers overcome. …

This post originally posted here. Co-written by Dan Wilson, Director of Partnerships for Cloudera Data Warehouse, and Dale Kim, Sr. Director of Products and Solutions, Arcadia Data Among the many reasons that a majority of large enterprises have adopted Cloudera Data Warehouse as their modern analytic platform of choice is the incredible ecosystem of partners that have emerged…

Now that football season is upon us, I felt I should borrow from football lore for the title of this blog. But I admit, BI performance isn’t everything, and it certainly isn’t the only thing, but it still is very important. Before I dive into that topic, let me first take a step back. We…

When was the last time you had to explain to someone how to use an Internet search engine? Perhaps never? That’s not surprising considering that search engines are amazing in their simplicity from a user perspective while also delivering the outcomes we desire. Can we aspire to have a similar system for the data we…

A few days ago someone asked me why people aren’t using more Microsoft Excel with ApacheHadoop. I started to think about it and on the surface it made sense. After all, the biggest databases and most important applications in the world run on Microsoft Excel, right? Some will laugh at this statement but there is truth to it….

“Traditional Business Intelligence tools are killing Apache Hadoop!”   There… I said it! (Keep reading…. There is a solution) Traditional business intelligence (BI) tools such as Tableau, Qlik, and others evolved with traditional relational database management systems (RDBMSs). Both use ANSI SQL for querying (i.e., retrieving) data for analysis.  Traditional SQL databases include products like…

This blog was first published on Medium. A LITTLE HISTORY: Developed by Yonik Seeley in 2004, Solr was an in-house project at CNET Networks to provide search capabilities for its company website. CNET Networks then donated it to the Apache Software Foundation in 2006. In 2009 Yonik Seeley joined Lucidworks which provided commercial support, training, and consulting…

An increasing number of our customers and prospects are asking us what options we provide for cloud BI with Arcadia Enterprise. Some customers are just experimenting, others are moving their test and dev environments off premises, and a few brave souls are all in on cloud for their enterprise production applications. The key driver for…

Do you know what big data is? Do you excel in big data analytics? What if I told you that you don’t actually know what big data is about? You might think you do, but you don’t. Or maybe you DO know. Interestingly, I’ve found that many people have a misconception about big data. Think…