May 16, 2023 A Look Inside the Actian Internship Program The Actian internship program offers an engaging, unique, and educational opportunity for college students to learn, expand their skill sets, and make connections in the data analytics industry. The program started in 2020, but is already proving to be successful for dozens of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students, as well as students… Read More
May 4, 2023 Actian Employees Give Back for Earth Day As a company that strongly believes in making human connections and embracing corporate social responsibility, Actian supports employees who volunteer their time and talents to help their communities. Our staff members around the globe are using volunteer time off to inspire positive change by building stronger communities. For example, many of our employees recently… Read More
April 19, 2023 Steffen Kläbe Wins Best Paper at 2023 EDBT/ICDT Conference We’d like to recognize Steffen Kläbe, a Research Engineer at Actian in llmenau (Thuringia, Germany). He attended the 2023 joint conference by EDBT/ICDT in Greece, one of the top database conferences worldwide, where he presented two research papers. For his research on Patched Multi-Key Partitioning for Robust Query Performance he received an award for… Read More
April 11, 2023 Actian’s Hamburg, Germany Team Volunteers at Local Food Bank At Actian, we believe that giving back to the community is an essential part of our corporate social responsibility. That's why the local team in Hamburg, Germany, was thrilled to have the opportunity to volunteer at a local food bank. On the volunteer day, they were greeted by Deacon Franz Sauerteig and other volunteers.… Read More
March 8, 2023 Leadership at Actian: Expert Advice for Women in STEM Empowering women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is important year-round and can reap significant rewards for businesses and individual employees. These efforts are especially important today—International Women’s Day—and throughout March, which is Women’s History Month and Gender Equality Month. Actian has a rich history of supporting women in the many types of… Read More
November 28, 2022 What Makes an Innovative IT Leader? These Are the Top Skills to Hone Technology leaders face a plethora of new challenges as they attempt to deliver novel solutions and adapt to change more quickly. Obstacles include budget cuts due to inflation, technical skills shortages, and repercussions from rushing recent technology adoption, which can lead to security gaps, compatibility issues, poor performance, and much more. However, IT leaders… Read More
November 25, 2022 Actian has been recognized as a Top Workplace of 2022 by the Austin American-Statesman We’re thrilled to share that Actian has been recognized as a Top Workplace of 2022 by the Austin American-Statesman for the third year in a row! The Austin American-Statesman’s Top Workplaces of Greater Austin project recognizes the best places to work in the Austin metro area, based solely on employee feedback. The program considers… Read More
November 18, 2022 Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader Leaders across every organization learned valuable lessons about leading their teams more thoughtfully during the pandemic. Here at Actian, we learned that being a flexible, adaptable, and empathetic leader goes a long way in building trust with our teams. The pandemic and resulting seismic shift in how we interact with our colleagues shed light… Read More
October 21, 2022 Actian is a Timmy Awards Finalist Source: Timmy Award submission We have exciting news to share: Actian has been named a finalist in two categories for Tech in Motion’s 8th Annual Timmy Awards! We’ve been selected as top contenders in both the “Best Tech Enterprise Employer” and “Best Tech Work Culture” categories. Since the Timmy Awards launched in 2015, their… Read More
August 24, 2022 Intern Summer Snapshot #4 Written By: Madeline Heath, Marketing Intern The fourth week of August signals the final week of our 2022 summer internship session. Our interns have spent the last 11 weeks contributing in engineering, finance, technical course development, marketing, and people. For the fourth and final installment of our Intern Summer Series, we take an in-depth… Read More
August 18, 2022 Intern Summer Snapshot #3 With August in full swing, our 2022 summer internship is coming to a close. Our interns have spent the last 10 weeks contributing to different teams throughout Actian. For the third installment of our Intern Summer Series, we take an in depth look at what our interns, Madeline Heath and Gabrielle Kray, have been… Read More
August 11, 2022 Intern Summer Snapshot – #2 For the month of August, we will be sharing a weekly post about our interns, their insights into the program, and how they’ve been developing their professional skills. For the second installment of our Intern Summer Series, we take an in depth look at what our interns, Andi Wagner, Ashwin Ramakrishna, and Josh Reyes… Read More
August 9, 2022 Lesbians Who Tech #PrideSummit 2022 – Highlights, Key Takeaways, and What Actian is Doing Next In true LWT fashion, we have to start out this blog with a ✋! As part of Pride Month, I had the honor of attending one of tech’s most highly anticipated annual events, Lesbians Who Tech #PrideSummit2022, which was held virtually from June 6 – June 10. Actian is a proud sponsor of Lesbians… Read More
August 4, 2022 Intern Summer Snapshot – #1 The first week of August kicks off our Intern Summer Series! For the month of August, we will share a weekly post about our interns, their insights into the 12-week virtual program, and how their internship has helped develop professional skills. First up, we have our wonderful Cloud Operations Analyst Intern, Henry McKinney, and… Read More
July 28, 2022 Introducing Our 2022 Interns! It’s National Intern Day, which means it’s time to talk about Actian’s Summer Internship Program! Since launching this 12-week program in 2020, Actian’s internships have been centralized around intern capstone projects, engaging virtual events, all while being fully remote – this year however, they were able to add the exciting addition of a hybrid-remote… Read More
October 19, 2021 Josh Steigerwald Internship Experience About the author: Josh is currently a senior at Stony Brook University, where he pursues studies in computer science and finance. Having spent most of his life fascinated by technology and pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors from a young age, he hopes to leverage his computer science skills and business savvy to make his mark in… Read More
July 28, 2021 Introducing Our 2021 Interns! Summer is in full swing which can only mean one thing… Actian’s internship program is back! For the second year in the row, Actian is hosting a 12-week virtual internship program designed for college students to explore careers in tech. This year, our interns will get a chance to gain experience with teams in… Read More
April 7, 2021 Getting to Know Actian CEO Lewis Black Lewis Black joined Actian in November 2018 as CFO, moving into the CEO position this past fall. He's worked in tech for more than three decades for an assortment of leading telecommunications and software companies, including AT&T, Lucent, Avaya, Citrix, Nexmo, and Vonage. As Lewis closes in on his six-month anniversary as CEO, we… Read More
November 9, 2020 Actian acknowledged as one of the top workplaces in Austin When I moved to Austin 10 years ago from the California Bay Area, little did I not know that I would be working in a company that gets acknowledged as the Top Workplaces in Austin today. This accolade was nominated and selected by the employees of the company. Actian Corporation came about as a… Read More
July 29, 2020 Introducing Our Interns! Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with… Read More
March 20, 2020 A letter regarding COVID-19 from Actian CEO Rohit De Souza A letter to our customers and partners: At Actian, our hearts and thoughts go out to the people who have been affected by this unprecedented global event and we appreciate the healthcare workers, local communities, and governments around the world who are on the front line working to contain this pandemic. Our focus is… Read More
February 4, 2020 Actian Partner Showcase – AG-Tech Who is AG-Tech and what is the company history? AG-Tech is a company that specializes in bringing software developed outside of Japan to the Japanese market. This involves everything from the software and its documentation’s localization into Japanese, its testing with Japanese data and OSes, to its local support, marketing, sales and distribution into… Read More
January 31, 2020 Employee Spotlight: Helena Marsikova Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with… Read More
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 2, 2020 Actian Partner Showcase – Goldstar Software Each month, we are featuring a different partner in our Actian Partner Showcase series. In January, the spotlight shines at Goldstar Software Inc., our long term US Actian Zen distributor. Goldstar Software were awarded 2018 Best Data Management Partner, U.S. and Worldwide. Tell us about Goldstar Software? Goldstar Software Inc. specializes in everything related… Read More
December 20, 2019 Merry and Happy How does your company get festive around the Holidays and year end? We at Actian go all out! It all started with a series of Holiday Parties in all our offices globally – some hosted at the office, some at local pubs, and ALL were amazing! The Palo Alto office gathered in the astonishing… Read More
December 4, 2019 Actian Partner Showcase – SOS Software Service Each month, we will be featuring a different partner in our Actian Partner Showcase series. In December, the spotlight belongs to our long term Actian Zen distributor in Germany, SOS Software Service, who was also awarded 2018 Best Data Management Partner, EMEA. Tell us a bit about SOS Software? SOS Software Service was established… Read More
December 3, 2019 Employee Spotlight: Nithaya Thavisouk Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with… Read More
November 21, 2019 Giving Back Together I once read, “One of the greatest gifts you can give is your time.” Although I am fairly certain I read this on a coffee cup or tumbler in a craft store, its words still rang true. So, this week, while I was visiting our Round Rock office, I was excited by the opportunity… Read More
November 11, 2019 Veterans Day Employee Spotlight Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with… Read More
October 31, 2019 Mary Poppins Rocking the Actian Halloween Costume Contest A very diverse yet joyful group of masks including Tuesday Taco, Fortune Teller, Squid, Superman, Bob Marley, Hippie, Mary Poppins, Morphsuit, Top Gun’s Maverick, Dead-Priest-Joker, Walrus, Game of Thrones' Melisandre, a Slytherin, and Actian’s People Programs Manager abducted by an alien was sighted marching around the Embarcadero Place in Palo Alto, California, on Tuesday,… Read More
October 25, 2019 Simply Zentastic Partner Conference “One of the best conferences we had in the last 20 years”… that is how one of the Actian Zen partners appraised our 3 day partner meeting that took place the week of October 14th in Actian’s office in Austin, Texas. With Actian Zen reaching new heights, mainly in the mobile and IoT space,… Read More
September 6, 2019 Employee Spotlight: Rob Walsh Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with… Read More
September 5, 2019 Where is the Red Panda? It was a lovely Friday morning in San Francisco. The skies were azure blue, the sun was shining, and the nice fresh ocean breeze was blowing, when we all started gathering in an Actian designated area in the center of the San Francisco ZOO. Us - the Actian-ers and our spouses, kids, nieces, nephews… Read More
September 4, 2019 Learn How to Get Started with Actian Are you new to Actian or currently testing out Actian Products? If so, check out our new Getting Started learning channel at https://communities.actian.com/s/getting-started-quick-tutorials. These bite-sized tutorials will get you started quickly with some of our core products: Actian Avalanche Actian Zen Actian DataConnect Actian DataFlow And we'll be adding more! Read More
August 1, 2019 Austin’s First Salsa and Guacamole Contest I am so thrilled to tell you about all about our first social event which put a little “spice” into everyone’s work week! We sponsored a best salsa and guacamole contest. We asked everyone to bring in their favorite salsa and guacamole recipe and let their fellow colleagues’ taste and vote for the best one in each category. There were several entries, and everyone got a chance to place their vote anonymously.… Read More
July 26, 2019 New Actian India Office We would like to make everyone aware that on July 16, 2019, we announced the launch of our new Actian India facility hosted by HCL. This is very exciting news for the team in India. The team has grown to a point that a new and larger facility was needed. As well, we needed… Read More
June 18, 2019 Ready, Set, Dough Actian employees run for the gold..en donuts All work and no play make for a hungry team according to Actian employees, or at least that’s what we found out during a local community event. With our new location nestled in the quiet little city of Round Rock, it was time to venture out and… Read More
June 3, 2019 Employee Spotlight: Marc Potter At Actian, we have outstanding employees from a variety of backgrounds. We believe that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with a blog post dedicated to them – I am pleased… Read More
May 30, 2019 Whimsical…lotus? Ladies of Actian, Palo Alto get together for a Paint Nite When I received the offer to join the Actian family as the People Programs Manager back in April, I was elated! Through my interviews, one thing that really stood out to me was the friendly, inviting culture – which would make my new… Read More
April 12, 2018 HCL Technologies and Sumeru Equity Partners to Acquire Actian Corporation We’re excited to announce that HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, and Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP), a technology-focused private equity firm, have signed a definitive agreement to assume 100 percent ownership of Actian Corporation. For Actian, it means the company will benefit from HCL’s expertise in delivering next generation solutions for the… Read More
March 17, 2018 See Actian at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London Are you in London, England and attending the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit? Why not drop by and see Actian at Booth #S4 where you can discuss the latest and greatest in databases, hybrid data, analytics, Internet of Things, and software innovation at the InterContinental London - The O2 from Sunday, March 18 through… Read More
February 26, 2018 Get Ready for the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2018 in Grapevine, Texas The next big data and analytics conference is right around the corner with the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, hosted at the Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas from March 5-8, 2018 and Actian will be present, both on the show floor and in a presentation. Emma McGrattan, SVP, Engineering, will… Read More
February 16, 2018 Austin IoT Meetup – Connecting an Android Phone to Raspberry Pi Using Actian Zen Interested in Actian's newest databases, Zen IoT Server and Zen IoT Core, and want to link them up to something cool and amazing for everyday use like Raspberry Pi? And you live in Austin? You're in luck--you're invited to our Austin office for a special gathering of the Austin Internet of Things Meetup group… Read More
October 26, 2017 Walt Maguire to Lead Actian Pre-Sales Engineering Walt Maguire has been a voracious consumer of science fiction novels from an early age, and now he loves getting hand-on experience with the technology of the future. He started his technology career taking apart clock radios to explore how they worked, and disassembling the family washing machine. Needless to say, his parents had… Read More
October 23, 2017 Welcome Pradeep Bhanot to Actian Marketing! Pradeep loves to write about technology, which will come in handy as he manages product marketing for our analytics portfolio. He has been up close and personal with database technology as first a DBA for DB2, then as an Oracle sales engineer and product manager . Earlier in his career he even coded in… Read More
June 29, 2022 Introducing Actian in Action Promoting better mental and physical health for all employees, year-round According to the World Health Organization (WHO), global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by 25% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our leadership team has navigated the pandemic with kindness and understanding, offering staff the time off they need to rest… Read More
May 2, 2022 Welcome to IMPACTIAN! It’s been said that we’re all living through unprecedented times. That’s why at Actian, we wanted to put a stake in the ground about how important it is for us to make a positive impact, not only for our customers and employees, but for our communities and society at large. Today, we’re introducing… Read More
April 28, 2020 Employee Spotlight: Emma McGrattan Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with… Read More
January 25, 2019 Year in Review: Actian’s Top 5 Highlights of 2018 2018 was a year of solid growth and progress for Actian, with many announcements and company highlights – including a major acquisition, a proprietary event, product innovations and much more! It was a truly memorable year for us, and as we ramp up in 2019 we wanted to take a look back with you… Read More
May 9, 2018 Visit Actian at the Internet of Things World Conference May 14-17, 2018 The Internet of Things (IoT) World conference is the largest IoT event in the world, combining some 12,000 industry professionals and innovators with hundreds of workshops, breakout sessions, and a 100,000 square foot expo hall filled with more than 300 exhibitors and startups. The event takes place between Monday, May 14 and Thursday, May… Read More
February 12, 2018 See Actian at TDWI Las Vegas, February 12-14, 2018 Starting off the new year in style by hitting Las Vegas and attending the annual TDWI Conference focused on big data and analytics? Come see Actian at on the exhibit hall floor, Booth #205, Forum Ballroom of Caesar's Palace, at these times: Tuesday, February 13: 11:15am - 2:15pm and 5:00pm-7:00pm (Leadership Summit reception in… Read More
November 27, 2017 The Big Show: Visit Actian at AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas The largest cloud computing conference of 2017 is now here in AWS re:Invent and it’s taking over Las Vegas in a big way. An estimated 40,000 engineers, product leads, marketers, technical architects, and expert users from around the world will be descending on The Strip, attending keynotes, bootcamps, demos, hackathons, and in-depth hands-on training… Read More
November 15, 2017 Sparking a Revolution at Big Data London If you’re visiting what’s billed as the United Kingdom’s largest data and analytics events, you know that Big Data London at the Olympia promises to be a massive gathering of experts and analysts across the fields of Big Data, machine learning, AI, cloud technologies, and more. You’ll be able to learn from numerous pioneers… Read More
October 16, 2017 The essential guide to Actian Hybrid Data Conference 2017 in London, UK You are cordially invited to Actian’s Hybrid Data Conference in central London, UK on November 9th, 2017. Unlike many tech conferences, this one is totally free, and is open to Actian Customers, Partners, and the broader Tech Community alike. Bring a friend, or bring a few friends, this is a great technology community networking… Read More
September 20, 2017 Join Actian at Strata Data New York 2017 Join us at the Strata Data New York conference next week at Jacob K Javits Convention Center to learn how our data management and analytics products can help you manage and analyze hybrid data to better gain business insights. This O'Reilly conference takes place September 25-28, with an opening reception from 5-6:30pm Tuesday in… Read More
