Want a career in ‘big data’? You’ll need more than a degree

Teradata's third State of Business Intelligence survey finds a significant gap between students interested in data-savvy careers and the number of employable candidates in the field.

Israeli ‘big data’ startup SiSense gets $10M & reports 520% revenue spike

SiSense closed a $10 million funding round today for its "big data" technology that competes with giants like SAP and Oracle.

Data-visualization startup Tableau Software files for $150M IPO

“Our mission, to help people everywhere see and understand data, isn’t all that different from Google’s,” Christian Chabot, the company’s cofounder and chief executive, told VentureBeat.

6 killer startups that are reshaping the mobile enterprise

Whether the concern is making BYOD actually work, beefing up security, or taking business intelligence mobile, these six startups are reshaping the landscape of mobile enterprise.

From Nike+ and Fitbit to nuclear plants and corporate databases, embedded analytics are everywhere (infographic)

Even though analytics is already a $34 billion industry, only 25 percent of workers have access to BI tools -- mostly due to costs which are still too high, and complexity, which is still too great.

Anaplan raises $30M to replace old-school business intelligence

Anaplan raises $30M for its cloud-based modeling and planning solutions for the enterprise.

Forrester’s top 15 emerging technologies

Everyone knows that mobile, social, cloud, and data are big freight trains of change that are blowing up old business models and old business practices. But let's face it: that train is in the station. What's next?

Zettaset nabs $10M to help manage your Hadoop cluster

Zettaset, a company that helps its customers deploy Hadoop, the open source computing framework that can process large data-sets, has closed a $10 million funding round.

Continuuity gets $10M to help developers build Hadoop apps

So you've got an idea for a "big data" application, but building it seems to be a nightmarish prospect? Continuuity is here to help.

Pentaho shifts focus from business intelligence to “big data”, nabs $23M

For Pentaho, the startup that claims to be the first business intelligence (BI) provider to shift its focus to "big data", the bet is paying off.

Data analytics startup iJento doubles its funding (and its fun)

Data analytics company iJento has raised $8 million in its second round of funding.

Cloudera’s Impala tool binds Hadoop with business intelligence apps

Cloudera's new product, known as "Impala", addresses many of the concerns that potential customers still have about Hadoop, namely that it does not integrate well with traditional business intelligence applications.

‘Big data’ startup Platfora wants to unleash the potential of Hadoop

Platfora, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed "big data" startup, unveiled the product it has been baking for over a year at Strata, a data-focussed conference today.

BIScience pulls in $3.5M with its spying tool for advertisers and media buyers (exclusive)

Former AOL executive Orey Gilliam has launched a "competitive intelligence" tool to let sales and marketing professionals, as well as media buyers, spy on their competitors.

‘Big data’ startup Splice Machine breathes new life into SQL, pulls in $4M

In the ongoing battle between the NoSQL and SQL databases, Splice Machine is one of the few young companies that has come down firmly on the side of the latter.

Birst’s CEO says data warehouses are not dead

Birst, a Sequoia-backed business intelligence startup, rolled out a new feature today that targets data warehouses and makes potentially juicy data accessible to business users.

The new product, known as Distributed Business Analytics, combines structured data from data warehouses and …

GoodData brings in $25M to supply Big Data analytics

GoodData racked up $25 million in a third round of funding for its big data analytics service.

GoodData offers operational dashboards, metrics and performance reports, data storage, analytics, and collaboration tools in a single platform. The company focuses on user …