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Analyst Report: ESG Technical Validation
ESG Technical Validation Report of the Avalanche Cloud Data Platform

PredictX Case Study
The Avalanche Data Platform helps UK spend provider move to the cloud without code changes.
TDWI Best Practices Report: Modernizing Data and Information Integration for Business Innovation
TDWI Best Practices Report research focused on modernizing data and information integration for business innovation.

Customer 360 Video Customer Profiling
This 2-minute feature overview highlights how Actian Avalanche Cloud Data Warehouse can help you get unified view of the customer across systems and channels.
Customer 360 Solution for Micro Segmentation
This 2-minute video will show you how Actian’s Customer 360 Solution can fuel better engagement through micro segmentation.

Customer 360 Solution Overview
This brief video highlights the many ways Actian is helping customers accelerate customer 360 analytics to drive more revenue and provide superior customer experiences.
MarTech Webinar: Simplify your Customer 360 Journey with Real-Time Data
As customers interact with your business through various channels, the streams of information they provide can be endless. But, that data can also be hidden and difficult to tap into.
Revenue Optimization Solution Brief
You need accurate, actionable, comprehensive, timely information delivered on-demand. Avalanche Revenue Optimization, as-a-service delivers that information, enabling any business user to contribute significantly to business growth and customer satisfaction.
The Data-Driven Experience Economy, a 451 Research Business Impact Brief
Post Covid-19, business are reassessing how they gauge and react to customer behavoiral shifts. Key to understanding and reacting in an agile fashion will be the ability to build a unified view of their customer data. This short brief identifies and explains that a key impediment to this effort is the number and types of silos typically seen by businesses across their systems underlying their day to day business process.
Actian Vector Hybrid Data Warehouse
Actian Vector Hybrid Data Warehouse
High performance data warehouse for operational workloads
How to use the high speed Btrieve 2 API from Node.js
Developers building real-time, data-intensive Edge applications are increasingly turning to Node.js. It’s not in itself a programming language but an open-source, multi-platform, run-time environment that leverages JavaScript and its ecosystem — and turns out to be quite well suited for today’s data streaming and JSON API applications. This application note details how to use the Btrieve 2 API to support Edge Data Management with Actian Zen.
Ventana Research Viewpoint: Critical Elements for a Modern Data Warehouse
Avoid unpleasant cloud data warehouse surprises by understanding the nuances when evaluating different solutions.
Avalanche on Google Cloud
Learn how Avalanche hybrid cloud data warehouse seamlessly integrates with the Google Cloud ecosystem to deliver breakthrough performance and cost savings.
Zen Python demo for Facial Recognition on a Jetson board
This video describes how Open Source Machine Learning (ML) canned routines for facial recognition and cameras can do real-time detection and database storage on Zen of various facial profiles.
Operational Cloud Data Warehouse Basics for Dummies
Actian Avalanche as an example of a hybrid cloud data warehouse that can deliver immediate business benefits and cost savings to the customer across all industries.
Actian Zen Powers Edge Data Management Inside Taifun ERP, the Leading ERP in Germany and Austria for Building Tradesmen
Taifun Software is the leading German ERP software provider of comprehensive ERP for Building Tradesment in Germany and Austria. For over 3 decades and several iterations of their software on multiple platforms, Taifun has reselected Actian Zen Enterprise for its high-performance, Zero-DBA, embedded data management capabilities as well as for its OEM packaging and small footprint.
Bringing the IoT to ERP: One Stop Shopping for Global Shop Solutions
Global Shop Solutions, GSS, is a global supplier of a comprehensive and sub-verticalized ERP package, covering manufacturing, transportation, and logistics. For over 30 years GSS has depended on Actian Zen Enterprise and now, with the adoption of IoT into manufacturing, GSS has extended their platforms to IoT with new Edge data management support from Actian Zen Core.
Avalanche vs Snowflake Comparison
In this head-to-head comparison of two cloud data warehouse solutions, find out why Avalanche comes out on top.
Actian Avalanche cloud platform expands with a collection of analytic and data management products
James Curtis of 451 Research published a report on Actian Avalanche – Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouse.
Actian Managed Services
Manage Databases. Meet SLA’s. Drive Business Value. Actian has you covered.
Actian Database Health Check Services
The Actian Services Health Check provides a complete evaluation of your Actian database products Actian X and Vector management, reliability and performance.
Real-Time Decision-Making
Real-Time Decision-Making In times of market uncertainty, you need real-time operational insights to reduce cost, manage risk, and deliver business agility
Zen Technical White Paper
In this Technical white paper, we describe Actian Zen, a single, secure, and scalable NoSQL and SQL database, designed for deployment into modern Edge IoT and Mobile use cases.
You will learn:
- About Zen architecture and specific editions targeting a range of devices, gateways, intelligent machines, and compute platforms
- Why Zen can be used as a single replacement for File Managers, SQLite, Document Stores like MongoDB and Couchbase, and Time Series databases like InfluxDB
- When and where to use NoSQL vs. SQL to store, retrieve, and process and analyze data locally on device, peer-to-peer, or shared across intranet, internet, and cloud environments
Avalanche Real-Time Connected Data Warehouse
Learn about the first and only cloud data warehouse solution with native, self-service enterprise integration for non-IT users.
Bloor Research Analytic Databases and Warehouse Market Update
Bloor Research’s latest Market Update explains the key trends driving the Analytic Databases and Warehouse market, and evaluates 13 vendors according to key dimensions such as performance, architecture, and ease of use.
TDWI: Data Management Essentials for the Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouse
If your organization is incrementally offloading its data warehouse to the cloud, you will need to support a hybrid multicloud/on-premises environment for some time that minimizes data silos, expensive data movement, and reduces complexity.
Actian Integration for Healthcare
Actian is your proven partner for data integration/translation, customer data on-ramps, claims processing, and data auditing.
Total Cost of Usage By Early Adopter Research
Learn why TCO is no longer the right metric to apply in the cloud world.
Zen Facial Recognition in Python on Jetson
On a Jeff Fritz podcast, Tom Bates from Actian describes how he used Open Source ML routines and cameras to do real-time facial recognition detection and Zen DB storage on a Jetson.
The Case for Modern Edge Data Management
Why the Coming Fusion of IoT, 5G, and Artificial Intelligence Needs Modern Edge Data Management
A Step-by-Step Guide to Adopting a Hybrid Integration Platform
Checklist report by TDWI
Tsubakimoto High-Speed Conveyor Belt 10K per hour Tracking with Actian Zen
Tsubakimoto’s Material Handling System is capable of sorting up to 10,000 items per hour.
Actian Zen is the database infrastructure, supporting an extremely high-speed operation.
2019 Hybrid Data Trends Snapshot
What are the pain points and opportunities that exist for the data-driven organizations of today?
Operational Data Warehouse Basics
This e-book provides an insightful introduction to the operational data warehouse
Actian Avalanche Hybrid Federated Query
Learn how you can easily harness insights from data distributed across on-premises and multiple clouds without moving the data around
Top 4 Persistent Myths of Cloud Data Warehouses By Early Adopter Research
In this white paper “Persistent Myths of Cloud Data Warehouses” by Early Adopter Research, we debunk this myth and other common misconceptions around cloud data warehouses, and discuss what to watch out for during evaluation so you can make the smart choice.
How to Choose Between Different Integration Approaches
A Guide for Application Integration leaders and Enterprise Architects
Top 10 Use Cases for Integration-Platform as-a-Service
Application leaders can successfully use iPaaS as a pillar of their hybrid integration platform strategy.
Bill Inmon: The Evolution of the Data Warehouse
Bill Inmon, the father of data warehousing shares his insights into the creation of data warehousing.
Why a Cloud Data Warehouse Should Be Part Of Your Strategy
Limited time on-demand access to this informative webinar on the reality behind the shift to cloud data warehousing.
The Future Of Machine Learning In The Cloud
On-Demand TechTALK with Mike Gualtieri, VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester and Pradeep Bhanot, Director of Product Marketing at Actian
Empowering Users Through Faster Data
Learn how Actian Avalanche and Looker customers benefit from better insights, faster, through secure, governed real-time visualization of operational data warehouse data.
Hybrid Integration Platforms – Fuel Your Digital Transformation Initiatives
In today’s digital world, businesses must rapidly disrupt, integrate and adapt to changing business requirements with greater agility to improve customer loyalty and create a sustainable competitive advantage.
DataConnect Inside
Learn how Actian DataConnect Inside can power your applications and connect your ecosystems around it
Elastic Scaling in Actian Avalanche
Peek under the hood of the new elastic scaling feature in Actian Avalanche.
Actian Avalanche on Azure
Learn how Actian Avalanche has been designed and optimized to deliver breakthrough performance and capabilities on the Azure cloud platform.
Teradata Phased Offload to Avalanche Solution Brochure
Learn how Actian Avalanche can help you incrementally migrate or offload from your Teradata data warehouse until it can be retired according to your timeframe and your terms.
Teradata to Avalanche Migration Guide
Read this guide to learn the steps required to execute the migration of a Teradata system to Actian Avalanche cloud data warehouse.
What’s New in OpenROAD 6.2
In this 3 minute video, Chris Clark of Actian Engineering details the latest feature updates in OpenROAD 6.2. These include improved Windows patching, script editing, json and testing enhancements.
Real-Time Analytics for Blockchain Transactions powered by Actian
Digital Asset uses Actian’s integration and analytics technologies to power their smart contracts applications.
Actian Partner Program
Competitive solutions, industry-leading incentives and a comprehensive support package.
Actian Avalanche Connect
Learn how easy it is to move data into the Avalanche cloud data warehouse using its 200+ pre-built connectors.
Avalanche Technical Whitepaper
Learn how Actian Avalanche achieves extremely fast performance for analytics workloads and how it can incorporate data from a broad spectrum of data repositories and applications, residing at the edge, in the cloud and existing data centers.
Netezza Phased Offload to Avalanche Solution Brochure
Learn how Actian Avalanche can help you incrementally migrate or offload from your Netezza data warehouse until it can be retired according to your timeframe and your terms.
Netezza to Avalanche Migration Guide
Read this guide to learn the steps required to execute the migration of a Netezza system to Actian Avalanche cloud data warehouse.
Actian & Looker Case Study
The AA UK leverages Actian and Looker capabilities to analyze data to help with competitive pricing.
Actian DataConnect iPaaS
Actian DataConnect iPaaS empowers Anyone to Integrate Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
What’s new in Actian DataConnect Studio and Integration Manager
Actian DataConnect Studio 11.5 and Actian DataConnect Integration Manager New Features
Plurilogic Student and Asset Management Tracking platform with Zen Edge Server
Plurilogic uses Actian Zen to implement an RFID-based solution for automated student and asset tracking for primary and secondary schools.
5 Key Reasons to Consider a Hybrid Integration Platform
If you are struggling with growing integration complexity, consider an agile hybrid integration platform.
10 Steps to Jumpstart Your Integration Projects
Checklist: Questions to ask before beginning any data integration project
Follow this checklist before you begin any data integration projects to avoid integration pitfalls
Actian DataConnect Security Overview
This white paper describes the latest DataConnect security features to fortify your data and integrations in the hybrid data landscape.
The Data Integration Challenge
This white paper describes the key challenges faced by business users, developers, IT solution integrators, and systems administrators alike.
Zen Core database for Android
Actian Zen Coredatabase for Android focuses squarely on the needs of Edge and IoT application developers, providing persistent local and distributed data across intelligent applications embedded insmart devices.
Actian DataFlow – Technical Overview
This paper discusses how Actian DataFlow solves the challenges of accelerating data preparation and transformation using its scale-up and scale-out architecture.
Actian Services Enterprise Monitoring Appliance Plus
This Actian service provides proactive database monitoring and alerting for Actian Vector
Offloading from Netezza to Actian: Faster performance, lower TCO
This case study discusses the benefits a global bank experienced by offloading from Netezza to Actian.
Zen Edge Server database
Zero DBA, embeddable database for edge applications on complex instrumentation, machinery, vehicles and IoT gateways
Zen Enterprise Server database
Actian Zen Enterprise Server database, Zero DBA, embeddable database for data-driven application intelligence
Actian and Qlik Data Sheet
The combination of Actian databases and data integration with Qlik provides Game changing insight at volume and scale
Actian DataFlow Data Sheet
Actian DataFlow provides a visual end-to-end solution for data preparation, analytics development and execution on Hadoop.
5 Reasons Why You Must Embrace Hybrid Data
This informative CITO Research paper talks to the pervasiveness of hybrid data, discusses three use cases and the business impact of embracing a hybrid data management strategy.
Hybrid Data Will Change the Face of Your Business
A cosmetics industry case study discussing their use of hybrid data written by Cito Research
The Challenges of Hybrid Data
A Cito Research case study of an Airlines use of their hybrid data solution
The Reality of Hybrid Data: Reducing Churn
A Cito Research case study based on a cable provider’s need for hybrid data management.
Summary Actian Vector Performance Benchmark Report
Summary report for the five cloud databases that McKnight Consulting Group (MCG) performance tested on AWS. These include Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Microsoft SQL Server, Cloudera Impala, and Actian Vector.
EVOLUTION AND CONVERGENCE HYBRID DATA
This paper discusses the evolution of analytics databases including the use of specialized schema structures and OLAP cubes to the emergence of purpose built columnar databases.
PRIVACY AND ONLINE DATA: CAN WE HAVE BOTH?
Significant change has arrived in how computing and storage consumes data concerning individuals. Merchants, data collection and aggregation companies are legally required to protect personal data. Those legal requirements are increasing this year with the enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives individuals the ability to better control their personal data.
Not all databases do a good job of protecting personal data. Read this white paper to learn more.
Actian PointConnect: Instant ServiceNow Integration
Actian PointConnect delivers instant, hassle-free ServiceNow integration using pre-built workflow templates that reduce your integration implementation time from days or weeks to mere hours.
The Hidden Costs of Hand Coding Your Integration
Learn the development, maintenance and support pitfalls that could hinder your custom integration strategy.
The 5 Myths of ServiceNow Integration
Quickly achieve time-to-value and avoid the common misconceptions of ServiceNow integrations so you can simplify the maintenance of your application integration.
Egide Informatique Case Study
Egide Informatique relies on Actian for its low maintenance, high performance database.
Five Myths of ServiceNow Integration
Learn the common misconceptions about ServiceNow integration to avoid the usual pitfalls.
PointConnect Data Sheet
Actian PointConnect helps you achieve instant, point-to-point integration by providing pre-built workflow templates.
Forrester Research Report
Create a Road Map for a Real-Time, Agile, Self-Service Data Platform
Download this complimentary report for creating an agile data platform
Superior Energy Hero Profile
Provides products and services to help oil and gas companies with their drilling, completion and production-related needs.
BX Attachment
BXAttachment service provides BX customers the capability to send electronic support documents along with an electronic transaction as required by their trading partner. For example, a signed delivery ticket can be scanned and sent through BX attached a customer’s invoice. This will allow a supplier to fully automate processes while maintaining traditional supporting documentation.
Customer Portal Knowledge Base Search Tutorial
How to do a Knowledge Base search in the Actian customer support portal.
Streaming Flight Data into Ingres From a Raspberry Pi
This video highlights Ingres geospatial data capabilities and GIS functions, high volume streaming data capture and integration with third-party tools. Actian shows the development of an application that collects and decodes ADS-B flight data using a Raspberry Pi. Apache Kafka provides a message queue and loads the data into Ingres 10.2 where it can then be accessed to automatically update (every 20 seconds) an HTML web page with embedded SQL and the Google Maps API.
Ingres Geospatial and Google Maps
A simple application demonstrating how to take data from Ingres and display it geospatially.
What’s New in OpenROAD 6.2
What’s new in OpenROAD 6.2. This first of three parts covers new features to meet new business requirements, reduce development costs, and improve the deployment experience.
Actian OpenROAD 6.2 Loadnrun
The OpenROAD 6.2 Loadnrun tool manages client deployments and updates to OpenROAD applications from a central server. This deep dive into Loadnrun covers how to manage deployments and updates to any OpenROAD client machine and how to eliminate manual installation of OpenROAD applications.
BX Manager
BX Manager is a web-based portal where users can track and manage documents and partner relationships. The Actian Business Xchange platform is a fully automated document exchange service.
BX Transaction Tracking
Online feature for tracking the progress of documents and associated dollars
BX Manager Document Flip
Auto-populate an outbound webform with information from inbound documents (ex. Invoice response to a purchase order).
BX OperatorConnect
This managed Web-based data exchange service enables Operators to send and receive business information electronically in a seamless, timely and secure manner regardless of their enterprise system. It takes information from one company, translates it to their trading partner’s format, and then delivers that information precisely where it’s needed.
BX SupplierConnect (Oil&Gas)
This managed web-based data exchange service enables Suppliers to send and receive business information electronically in a seamless, timely and secure manner regardless of the enterprise system. Information is taken from one company, translated into their trading partner’s format, and delivered precisely where it’s needed.
BX PortalConnect
This managed Web-based data exchange service enables third party portals to send and receive their clients’ business information electronically in a seamless, timely and secure manner regardless of their enterprise system. BX PortalConnect is a cloud-based solution that also brings the added benefit of a 25 year legacy of integration technology and one of the most comprehensive lists of application and file adapters.
BX Onboarding
The BXOnboarding team is a veteran group with more than a decade of B2B Integration services and B2B document exchange experience. Our average implementation time is well below typical on-boarding times thanks to our streamlined implementation process and deep experience.
BX Validation
BX Validation allows you to check documents against custom business rules to reduce errors and rejects. Validations ensure that only correct data is sent from the Actian Business Xchange platform to the receiving party’s system.
BX Archiving
BX Archiving allows users to store historical transactions for auditing, reporting, and other functions.
Enterprise Monitoring Appliance Data Sheet
The Actian Enterprise Monitoring Appliance (EMA) is a single interface for monitoring your Actian X and Ingres environments.
What’s New in PSQL v12
The new features in PSQL v12 SP1 include online defragmentation, improved unicode support and updates to the ADO.NET, JDBC, JCL and PDAC SDKs.
Bx PortalConnect Data Sheet
Bx PortalConnect is a fully managed onboarding service that enables Portal providers to more rapidly connect with Buyers and Supplier systems to facilitate transfer of P2P business documents such as orders, invoices, and remittance documents.
Customer Portal How to Register Create a login ID
How to register on the Actian customer support portal and create a new ID.
Actian Vector versus Apache Impala Database Performance Benchmark Report
McKnight Consulting Group (MCG) profiled Actian Vector performance on AWS compared to Apache Impala and discovered significant scalability and concurrency limitations making Actian Vector more than 100 faster at 10 TB
Actian Vector versus Snowflake Cloud Database Performance Benchmark Report
McKnight Consulting Group (MCG) Global Services profiled Actian Vector performance on AWS compared to Snowflake and found that that complex join queries from the Berkeley Big Data Benchmark ran up to 20 times faster on Vector. This report illustrates how scaling to 20 concurrent queries, Actian Vector’s kept pace with the user growth better than Snowflake which encountered severe concurrency limitations.
Actian Vector versus Microsoft SQL Server Cloud Database Performance Benchmark Report
McKnight Consulting Group (MCG) Global Services profiled Actian Vector performance on AWS compared Microsoft SQL server and found that the aggregation queries from the Berkeley Big Data Benchmark ran up to 10 times faster on Vector. This report illustrates how scaling to 20 concurrent queries, Actian Vector’s kept pace with the user growth better than SQL Server.
Actian Vector versus Amazon Redshift Cloud Database Performance Benchmark Report
McKnight Consulting Group (MCG) Global Services profiled Actian Vector performance on AWS compared Amazon Redshift and found that complex queries ran 13.8 times faster on Vector with 20 concurrent users. This report illustrates how database size increased scaled from 1 to 5 to 10 Terabytes the performance advantage provided by Actian Vector on Hadoop grew.
451 Research Report
Matt Aslett of 451 Research explains how HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian
Bx SupplierConnect Data Sheet
Bx SupplierConnect is a proven, fully managed and engineered web-based data exchange service to send and receive procure-to-pay business documents such as orders, invoices, and remittances, translating these documents into desired formats for ERP integration and better cash flow.
Complement Teradata with Fast Analytics
This white paper makes the case for complementing existing Teradata databases with newer analytics technology to address analytic backlogs, improve performance and lower costs.
Bx OperatorConnect Data Sheet
Bx OperatorConnect supports standards such as PIDX to speed up the processing of business transactions between oil & gas operators and their various suppliers. Connect to any trading partner electronically regardless of back-office technology or trading format to streamline the cash flow process.
DataConnect Integration Manager
Learn about the centralized management console for configuring, monitoring and managing your on-prem integration deployment
Hybrid Data agenda-at-a-Glance
Download the complete agenda for the 2017 Hybrid Data Conference.
Bx BuyerConnect Data Sheet
Bx BuyerConnect is a fully managed, web-based data exchange service that translates business documents (PO’s, Invoices, Shipping Notices, Acknowledgements) from your suppliers into a format that can be read by your own systems, streamlining transactions to reduce transaction costs, earn discounts, and avoid fees.
Hybrid Data Conference Agenda-at-a-Glance
Download the complete agenda for the 2017 Actian Hybrid Data Conference.
Business Xchange Data Sheet
Business Xchange is a fully managed and engineered, web-based B2B data-exchange suite with services for both buyers and suppliers. Using Business Xchange accelerates invoicing and payments to reduce outstanding payments, increase accuracy, and improve cash flow.
Introducing DataConnect Hybrid Integration Manager
Join this technical webinar to learn the key new features of DataConnect 11. See for yourself how the new Hybrid Integration Manager makes it possible for you to monitor and control all integrations from a single console.
Actian Hybrid Integration Product Family Brochure
Learn the unique advantages you can gain with the industry’s only “Integrate Anywhere” technology

Actian Vector in Hadoop Turbocharges Spark Performance
Native support for Apache Spark on VectorH delivers unprecedented performance and scale on Hadoop
Performance Troubleshooting Tips for Actian VectorH
This post lists the common areas that should be investigated when trying to improve query performance.
Actian Vector Analytic Database Family Product Brochure
Address the challenges of hybrid data using Actian’s range of best-fit analytics solutions to get to business insights faster.
Harness Hybrid Data Management for More Impactful Analytics featuring Forrester Research
Speakers: Mike Gualtieri, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester and Mike Hoskins, Actian Technology and Product Evangelist
DataConnect Upgrade Fast Track Service Package
Read this document to find out how you can fast track your DataConnect 11 implementation using the expertise of the experienced Actian Professional Services team.
OpenROAD 6.2 – New Features from Client Perspective
This presentation provides an overview of the newest features in OpenROAD 6.2, and how they will positively impact users.
Data Integrator 9 vs DataConnect 11 features comparison
View this document to understand the major changes in DataConnect 11. You will also find a table of features that detail the differences between Data Integrator 9 and DataConnect 11.
OpenROAD 6.2 – New Features Part 2
This presentation is second in a series of overviews on the newest features in OpenROAD 6.2
DataConnect packaging options
Actian DataConnect allows you to Integrate anything, anywhere, anytime. Find out the different options that will support your integration needs today and in the future.
OpenROAD 6.2 – New Features Part 1
This presentation is first in a series of overviews on the newest features in OpenROAD 6.2
Actian Integration: Jumpstart your integration
Learn how Actian DataConnect and PointConnect can help you achieve instant integration, whether it’s point-to-point or managing hundreds of connections.
OpenROAD 6.2: New Client-Server and Multi-Tier Deployment Overview
This presentation contains more information on ways to deploy OpenROAD, and do so with richer and more robust support for management of OpenROAD Client-Server and OpenROAD Multitier architectures.
Actian X Overview – Register Now to View On Demand
Speaker: Alex Hanshaw, Director of Engineering, Actian
Actian X Analytics – Register Now to View On Demand
Speaker: Karl Schendel, Software Development Architect, Actian
Monitoring with EMA – Register Now to View On Demand
Speaker: Daryl Monge, Senior Principal Consultant, Actian
Integration with DataConnect for Actian X – Register Now to View On Demand
Speaker: Vincent Vinot, Technical Account Manager, Actian
NetSuite Basic Implementation Services SOW
Draft statement of work for basic implementation services to provision, set up, and configure the NetSuite Connector for Salesforce, and provide an overview and orientation.
DataCloud Service Agreement
This click-through business agreement for DataCloud services covers licensing, usage, pricing, billing and other terms and conditions that must be agreed to for an order to be accepted.
Actian hopes to show it has the ‘X factor’ with new hybrid data focus
451 Research discusses Actian’s move to combine Ingres and Vector as the new Actian X hybrid database for transactional and analytic workloads, as well as offering Vector as a standalone product.

Actian Introduces Actian X and DataConnect 11
Actian today announced a new vision and set of solutions designed to unify diverse data across the enterprise. Actian X is the first native, hybrid database that combines the power of the proven Actian Ingres OLTP database with Actian’s industry leading Vector analytics query engine to deliver break-through performance and scalability critical to powering the next generation digital enterprise.

Featuring Forrester: The Future of Data Management, Integration and Analytics
Hear from Forrester analyst Michele Goetz and Actian executives on the impact of hybrid data.

Special Event for Data Integrator 9 customers: Deep Dive into DataConnect 11
Designed for Data Integrator 9 customers, view this webinar to learn about all the exciting changes we’ve made in the latest release of DataConnect—and how to import your artifacts in just minutes.
Actian DataConnect Professional Services
With experience in hundreds of integration engagements, the Actian Professional Services can make a significant difference in the success of your DataConnect deployment. We have helped numerous organizations gain significant improvements in the performance, scalability, and integration capabilities enabled by DataConnect.
The Future of Data Warehousing
DBTA paper. Considerations for delivering analytics at the speed of business.
Actian Avalanche Federated Query for Hybrid Data Analytics
Download the solution brief to learn how easy it is to connect Actian Avalanche to Spark data files as external tables and perform distributed queries across clouds and on-premises data sources.
Actian Avalanche versus Redshift Price-Performance Report
Actian Avalanche Cloud Data Warehouse delivers critical operational insights faster and better price than Amazon Redshift.
Actian Avalanche Data Sheet
Actian Avalanche Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouse delivers critical insights to enable data-driven decision making.
Actian Avalanche Migration Assessment Professional Services
The Actian Avalanche Migration Assessment offers a pre-defined set of professional services tailored to your requirements. The service is designed to assist you with understanding the requirements to migrate to Actian Avalanche and to impart recommendations important to your migration strategy formulation, planning, and implementation.
Actian Avalanche QuickStart Professional Services
The Actian Avalanche QuickStart package offers a pre-defined set of professional services, tailored to your requirements. The package is designed to help you get value from Actian Avalanche quickly and efficiently
Actian Avalanche Connector QuickStart Professional Services
The Actian Avalanche Connector QuickStart package offers a pre-defined set of professional services, tailored to your requirements. The package is designed to help you access data from your preferred SaaS apps including Salesforce, NetSuite, ServiceNow & Workday
VectorH Quickstart Professional Services
The Actian VectorH Implementation QuickStart Package is a pre-defined set of professional services, tailored to your requirements, that is designed to help you realize product value quickly and efficiently from the time of purchase.
Actian Vector Quickstart Professional Services
The Actian Vector Implementation QuickStart Package offers a pre-defined set of professional services, tailored to your requirements, that is designed to help you realize product value quickly and efficiently from the time of purchase.
Actian & NetSuite – Lead to Cash Flow Demo
Learn how Actian, Salesforce, and Netsuite integration works to improve the lead to cash process.
Actian NetSuite to Salesforce CRM Demo
The NetSuite connector for Salesforce by Actian integrates NetSuite ERP with Salesforce CRM behind-the-scenes to allow a 360-degree view of customer data throughout the lead-to-cash process. Watch this demo to see the app in action!
Secrets to Simple Hybrid-Cloud Integrations
Ray Wang, Constellation Research, shares common pitfalls and challenges that often over complicate hybrid-cloud integrations and provides tips to help you simplify your integration strategy.
Getting Data to Deliver Value Like Your People Do
For most companies, people are one of the most valuable assets. Ray Wang, Constellation Research, shows the best practices that enable us to interact with data in a way that makes it just as valuable as interacting with our colleagues.
The Path of Right Resistance
Ray Wang, Constellation Research, discusses the importance of a balanced signal to data ratio within a dataset to cut through the noise and help you find the answers to the questions that provide true business value.
Three Simple Steps to Avoid Integration Haze
The three key steps to planning a successful data integration. Watch the video from Ray Wang, Constellation Research, to see the questions you should be asking before you begin.
Five Winning Elements to Timely Data Onboarding
Ray Wang, Constellation Research, reveals the five elements that need your attention in order to achieve a timely data onboarding.
Your Future is Multimodal
Right now most companies have their data sitting in multiple locations requiring different point solutions. Ray Wang, Constellation Research, talks about the implications of multimodal and how this will change our use of the cloud.
Two Things IT Should Stop Doing Right Now
Ray Wang, Constellation Research, shares two important steps that IT should take to move their organization in the right direction and make data matter.
Ingres 10.2 Data Sheet
Ingres is a leading enterprise-grade database management system designed to reduce IT costs and time-to-value. Ingres 10.2 adds enhancements for geospatial features, performance, system administration and internationalization. And with its new SQL capabilities, you can take your first steps into big data analytics.
Recognizing Your Integration Journey Before You Choose a Strategy
Before developing your integration strategy, Ray Wang, Constellation Research, says it is important to understand the desired end result and how it will scale in the future. See how to choose a strategy that solves complex problems in a simple manner.
Actian NoSQL 9 Data Sheet
Actian NoSQL offers all the transactional capabilities of a robust Enterprise database, including the support of ACID transactions, distributed two phase commit, interfaces to third party transaction monitoring systems such as Tivoli, optimistic and pessimistic locking schemes and more.
Actian NoSQL FastObjects .NET Data Sheet
FastObjects .NET consists of a core database server that provides the essential database functionality, and a set of client-side application libraries used by your application.
PSQL v12 Data Sheet
Actian PSQL is one of the most reliable, low maintenance, high-performance database management systems in the world. Actian PSQL v12 offers important additions: multi-core optimization, improved backup support with Actian Backup Agent and VSS, enhanced 64-bit support, updated license administration, IPv6 support and updated developer tools.
PSQL Online Defragmenter Data Sheet
Over time, a busy database becomes fragmented as records are created, updated, or deleted. File access time grows and transaction response slows. The PSQL Defragmenter utility solves these problems by finding data fragmentation and letting you correct it while the engine is running. It rebuilds indexes and removes unused space so that clients can access files efficiently again.
OpenROAD 6.2 Data Sheet
OpenROAD is a database-centric, object-oriented, 4GL application development tool that lets you develop and deploy mission-critical, n-tier business applications against databases such as Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 UDB. Developers using the newest release, OpenROAD 6.2, will find a much improved platform that can easily restyle existing applications, extend and customize business objects, field types and frame types and add new behaviors that either required a lot of code or simply weren’t possible before.
OpenROAD 5.1 Data Sheet
OpenROAD has always provided features that enable rapid application development and deployment. OpenROAD version 5.1 takes this further, providing robust support for using XML in your OpenROAD applications. Now OpenROAD Workbench can import and export applications and components using XML.
Actian X – X100 Data Sheet
The X100 engine, from Actian’s analytic database ‘Vector’, brings to your Actian X instance the power of column-based data-storage, x86 vector-processing with in-cache direct decompression, and other notable technical advances.
Solution Brief: Healthcare Analytics
Using analytics, healthcare providers and payers are improving healthcare delivery, reducing re-admissions, promoting preventive care and accelerating research.
Solution Brief: Retail Banking
Analyze all your customer data, not just a sampling, to gain deeper insights that can help attract and retain customers while abiding by all regulatory requirements.
Solution Brief: Capital Markets
Learn how to overcome today’s challenges and stay competitive by applying analytics to achieve an appropriate level of risk to maximize profits and minimize loss.
DataConnect 11 Technical White Paper
Read this white paper to learn the features that were included with DataConnect 11 in technical depth.
Actian DataConnect Data Sheet
Actian DataConnect is for Anyone who wants to Integrate Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
DataConnect for Actian X Data Sheet
DataConnect for Actian X provides an end-to-end solution for designing and deploying data integration with your Actian X and Ingres applications.
Actian X Data Sheet
Actian X Hybrid Database is the combination of the industry-leading Ingres transactional and Vector analytic databases, bundled with world class integration and enterprise monitoring.
Zen/PSQL Backup Agent Data Sheet
Actian PSQL Backup Agent works with third-party backup software to back up live databases and ensure accurate, reliable point-in-time recovery for partial or complete backups.
Enterprise Monitoring Appliance Data Sheet
The Actian Enterprise Monitoring Appliance (EMA) is a single interface for monitoring your Actian X and Ingres environments.
Forrester Report: Address Today’s SaaS Integration Challenges to Increase Business Value
What is the dark side of moving to SaaS applications? Forrester describes common challenges for application development and delivery as you move to SaaS, and lists some best practices to maximize business value from integration across today’s solutions.
Zen / PSQL AuditMaster Data Sheet
Actian AuditMaster operates as part of the PSQL database to log database events and transaction-driven changes, tracking accidental errors and intentional fraud, and providing a path for recovery. AuditMaster requires no changes to application code or the database, so businesses can get data access security and accountability quickly, easily, and with very low maintenance overhead.
Zen and PSQL DataExchange Data Sheet
DataExchange for PSQL offers two types of data replication solution: real-time data backup of a single PSQL database and data synchronization between multiple applications. DataExchange provides a simple to use solution for securing and protecting your mission-critical data from application downtime and data loss.
Solution Brief: Actian Health Care Overview
The Actian integration platform enables healthcare payers and providers, hospitals, administrators, and others to onboard new partners and customers, transform disparate data, and reduce costs while meeting compliance requirements.
Hannover Life Reassurance Hero Profile
Integrates data from diverse clients to enable stakeholders to make more effective decisions, increasing business productivity, efficiency and revenue, while reducing cost.
Bloomberg BNA Hero Profile
Delivers critical legal, tax, regulatory and business information for professionals with a focus on expert analysis, news, practice tools, and guidance.
Bridgepoint Consulting Hero Profile
Uses data integration to reduce business and operational risks, bridge resource gaps and improve overall business performance for leadership teams.
Netwrix Hero Profile
Helps over 6,000 customers worldwide to handle IT infrastructure changes, pass compliance audits and increase the efficiency of IT operations.
451 Research Report: Actian acts on market trends, invests in data management and integration offerings
451 Research discusses Actian’s moves to strengthen its data integration offerings to capture a greater share of the hybrid multi-purpose integration platform as a service market (iPaaS), with a framework that will enable SaaS providers to build their own common patterns of integration on the Actian platform for their customers.
Acme Truck Line Inc Case Study
Reduces DSO and Streamlines Onboarding with fast, scalable and reliable e-invoicing service
Bucap Case Study
Bucap employs Ingres and OpenROAD for customized, flexible, and reliable document management services for 5,000 active users and almost 500M items.
EidosMedia Case Study
EidosMedia uses Actian NoSQL to power their editorial platform used by global publishers like the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
Actian Vector in Hadoop: A Technical Overview
Actian Vector in Hadoop continues the legacy of cutting edge innovation to bring record beating performance, unique update capabilities, YARN resource management and distributed SQL query processing to Hadoop.
Actian Analytics Platform: Creating Transformational Value: A Business Overview
Beyond blazing speed and expansive functionality, learn what the Actian Analytics Platform can do for your organization and how it can be used to create transformational value in areas like customer delight and sustained competitive advantage.
The Four Pillars of Analytics Technology: Redefining Analytical Speed
This white paper outlines the four key pillars of analytics speed that are essential to deliver transformational value with analytics: speed of development, speed of data processing, speed of deployment, and speed of response.
Actian Vector: A Technical Overview
Actian Vector is relational database software for data analytics that exploits performance features in today’s x86 CPUs that most other relational databases do not take advantage of. Learn how exactly it exploits the CPU, how it leverages industry standard best practices and how it has helped other companies.
SQL in Hadoop Buyer’s Guide
In this guide, you’ll learn about the top 10 key capabilities required for a true SQL in Hadoop solution as well as the decision criteria to support long term requirements.
Actian Vector in Hadoop QuickStart Data Sheet
Actian Vector in Hadoop combines the most modern, scalable, high-performing database technology with the power of Spark and Hadoop, enabling users to directly query data stored in HDFS.
Lechler GmbH Case Study
Ingres database enables 50% improvement in response time to customers.
Actian Vector Data Sheet
Actian Vector™ is a revolutionary analytic database that delivers unmatched performance and price/performance-yet requires less hardware and virtually no database tuning.
Lufthansa Systems Case Study
Ingres database powers flight planning software to ensure optimal flight routes and safety.
Actian DataConnect Data Sheet
Actian DataConnect™ is the most powerful integration solution built to invisibly connect to any source. Whether you are managing an entire company or single project, DataConnect makes integration fast and easy.
Actian Analytics Platform Product Brochure – Vector in Hadoop
The Actian Analytics Platform – Hadoop SQL Edition is the first end-to-end analytics platform built to run 100% natively in Hadoop, providing complete data discovery and analytics processing, together with industrialized SQL access to Hadoop data.
Btrieve 12 Data Sheet
Brieve 12 is an up-to-date, supported on Windows 10, ready to run your application, Btrieve 6.15 replacement. Btrieve 12 is file format and API compatible with Btrieve 6.15, allowing Btrieve 6.15 applications to run on the most current Windows OS platforms without a recompile.
HSS Hire Case Study
Upgrade to Ingres v10 database delivers encryption to support 100% secure credit card transactions
Pediatrix Medical Group Case Study
Pediatrix Medical claims reporting is 70% faster with data integration.
TE21 Case Study
Data integration supports growing education company, saving manual work, errors and delays.
TimoCom Case Study
Gains real time insight to provide transport services with more accuracy and security.
Unruly Media Case Study
Helps brands gain real time visibility into the social footprint of their videos as compared to competition.
Xactly Case Study
Accelerates integration of data sources that are critical to incentive compensation services.
Zoho Case Study
Offers customers fast and easy access to analytics and other productivity apps in the cloud.
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