October 29, 2021 Affinity Analytics using Actian Avalanche Cloud Data Warehouse Affinity analytics is the practice of finding relationships and patterns in data. Businesses can use the results from affinity analytics for many positive impacts. Here are just two examples from real customer use cases. First, in retail, management wants to know what products typically sell well together for product placement and advertising purposes. This… Read More
January 9, 2018 When BIG Data Doesn’t Have to Be Using a Vector FARM to Make Big Data Analytics Fast and Easy I’ve been working in the IT industry a long time. What goes around, comes around. My favorite example is how centralized mainframe timesharing gave birth to decentralized client-server computing, now we are going back to timesharing, but in the cloud. Technology does… Read More
December 27, 2017 High-Performance Realtime-Analytics on Hadoop Data The Challenge I have spent many years working with Actian's customers on database solutions and thought it'd be useful to discuss a recent customer experience at a large media company (I will call it "XYZCo"). This experience is similar to what I continue to see with other customers and the lessons learned apply to… Read More
