Vectorwise Newsletter - August2012 - English

Welcome to this month's edition of our Actian Vectorwise newsletter. Here is the latest information and news on the record-breaking analytic database that is helping companies around the globe achieve the best price/performance ratio in order to monetize their Big Data.

Vertical spotlight focus - Analytic Service Provders / Data Aggregators

This month we are pleased to showcase the use of Vectorwise by organizations that are analytic service providers and data aggregators. Many companies in this space need to not only tell the BI and analytic story, they need to show it live in action. Unfortunately, in many cases, they do not have the right analytic and BI platform in order to show their clients what is actually possible with their data. This is where Actian Vectorwise is perfect for them - the record-breaking analytic platform not only helps you to talk about BI and analytics, but also show it too.
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Vectorwise Product News - Actian and Dell smash the 1TB TPC-H benchmark!

Following the news that Actian Vectorwise holds the current TPC-H benchmark records for both single-server performance and price/performance for 100GB and 300GB databases using Dell hardware, Actian now holds the world record for the TPC-H benchmark for 1TB of data. Find out more about this exciting news by reading the blog post by Dell, with whom we partnered to run these benchmarks!
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Vectorwise in action - IsCool Entertainment

We are pleased to announce that IsCool Entertainment - European leader in social gaming applications on Facebook - recently chose to install Vectorwise as its analytic engine for business intelligence. As a result, the fast database has accelerated the analysis of high volumes of user data, helping IsCool to drive customer retention and new business opportunities. Click on the link below to read more about this new exciting use of Actian Vectorwise.
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Vectorwise in the news

Here is an interesting article that showcases the need to think differently when looking to analyze more data more quickly. It seems the concept of doing the "same old, same old" just does not cut it anymore. It is time to stop thinking that more hardware is the answer to big data analytics.
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Partner in the spotlight - Tableau Software

Actian partners with a number of BI application vendors in order to offer the perfect analytic and BI solution. We believe that Tableau Software is one of the most advanced BI application vendors and that their BI visualization tools complement Actian Vectorwise perfectly. It is no surprise that a number of our clients are also using Tableau Software to learn and do more with their data.
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Upcoming events

Come and learn more about Actian Vectorwise at the following live events coming up soon. These include:

September 13-14, 2012 - Boston, US
Boston Big Data Innovation

September 19-20, 2012 - London, UK
Big Data World Europe

October 8-9, 2012 - Cologne, Germany
German Ingres User Group

October 9, 2012 - Paris, France
Talend Connect

November 26-27, 2012 - Bussum, Netherlands
Sogeti/Ovum BI Symposium

December 6, 2012 - Paris, France
Decideo Forum 2012

On-demand events

Did you know that if you missed one of our live events or webinars, you can catch up and find them online? Here is just a selection of the on-demand events that you can find online.

Vectorwise: The Need for Speed Webinar

Vectorwise: Yellowfin Mobile BI Webinar

Vectorwise: Big Data for Little Dollars Webinar

Vectorwise: How to Enable Agile BI Webinar

Connect with Actian

Apart from the Actian website, you can always follow us and connect with on social media, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube. More recently, we are pleased to announced two new channels on Xing (German-speaking) and Viadeo (French-speaking).