January 31, 2020 A New Brand for a New Actian Chapter You may have noticed there's both a new look-and-feel and a new corporate logo in evidence at Actian.com. We have recently introduced a new visual identity together with a new website, to mark a big milestone and the beginning of a new chapter for Actian. Actian will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2020.… Read More
January 16, 2020 Layman’s Guide to Machine Learning and Customer Data Privacy It feels like only yesterday that “Machine Learning” and “Artificial Intelligence” were equated with science fiction by most regular folks outside of tech. As a movie-going culture, we have a long history of associating these concepts with self-aware robots or rogue computer programs that could escape the laboratories where they were created and threaten all humanity. But in 2020, ML and AI have been considerably demystified. And yet, even if it seems less… Read More
December 18, 2019 Actian 2020 Predictions: 4 Data Trends for Analytics The transformative agency of data within the enterprise grows more powerful every day, and the ways in which enterprises manage and leverage their data are therefore in a state of profound transformation. New technologies, strategies and trends are taking shape almost daily across analytics, cloud, UX and IoT. In 2020, we're going to continue… Read More
September 11, 2019 Actian Datacast: What’s keeping IT from reaching Cloud Data Warehouse Nirvana? Following is the third installment of our in-depth blog series examining the findings of the recent Actian Datacast 2019: Hybrid Data Trends Snapshot. The survey, which polled 303 IT professionals with influence or decision-making ability at their companies of 250+ employees, identified four key trends which were illustrated in the Datacast Infographic. Our weekly… Read More
September 3, 2019 Actian Datacast: Is Your Enterprise Fully Maximizing the Value of its Available Data? Last week, we announced the findings of the Actian Datacast 2019: Hybrid Data Trends Snapshot, a survey of 303 IT professionals with influence or decision-making ability at their companies of 250+ employees which found that more than half of enterprises today are unable to efficiently manage nor effectively use data to drive decision-making, among… Read More
December 31, 2019 The California Consumer Privacy Act is upon us. Who is ready? Officially passed by the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, and the California State Legislature on June 28, 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act aims to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for California residents. Finally arriving, the bill will become effective on Jan. 1, 2020. With the CCPA on the immediate horizon, technology companies… Read More
