SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Capabilities Built for Big Data with PolyBase PolyBase provides a fundamental breakthrough in data processing by enabling integration between traditional data warehouses and “Big Data” deployments. Standard SQL queries (instead of MapReduce) to access and join Hadoop data with relational dataQuery Hadoop data without IT having to pre-load data first into the warehouseNative Microsoft business intelligence integration allowing analysis of relational and non-relational data with familiar tools like ExcelRead the SQL Server 2012 PDW Solution Brief Next-generation performance at scale Go beyond your traditional SQL Server deployment with PDW’s massively parallel processing appliance that can handle the extremes of your largest mission-critical requirements. Engineered for optimal value
SAP Today, finance executives do much more than monitor and report on enterprise performance. They actively drive change to stay ahead of the competition. But to excel in an uncertain business world, there are unique challenges. You’re invited to visit the new CFO and Finance Leadership Center. Learn from top CFOs and industry experts such as Aberdeen, IDC, Forrester, and more how to achieve a 360-degree view of enterprise performance, embed risk management and controls, and streamline financial functions. At the leadership center, you’ll gain access to valuable tools and resources, as well as comprehensive solutions to enable your company to: Learn more about finance transformation from SAP today. Regards, SAP Americas
BOOM -- Berkeley Orders of Magnitude -- Declarative Languages And Systems SAP to Acquire Disclosure Management Solutions from cundus AG WALLDORF, Germany - December 16, 2010 - Adding to its portfolio of solutions that create instant value for customers worldwide, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its intent to acquire disclosure management solutions from cundus AG — headquartered in Duisburg, Germany — comprising cundus Financial Statement Factory and cundus informationCollector, including intellectual property, customer contracts and certain employees. As a result of this acquisition, SAP will extend its market-leading portfolio of finance solutions with a collaborative offering that helps enterprises achieve a timely, accurate and more cost-effective financial close process. In current economic conditions, companies and their finance departments are under greater pressure to comply with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and requirements to file financial and business information using extensible business reporting language (XBRL). Copyright © 2010 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
Parallel Data Warehousing (PDW) Explained | James Serra's Blog Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), formally called by its code name “Project Madison”, is an edition of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 that was released in December 2010. PDW is Microsoft’s reworking of the DatAllegro Inc. massive parallel processing (MPP) product that Microsoft acquired in July 2008. It only works with certain hardware (two so far), the first of which is HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance (Dell Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance is the other, with a couple more to come in the near future: IBM and Bull). So what is MPP? MPP is also available from other companies such as EMC Greenplum, Teradata, Oracle Exadata, HP Vertica, and IBM Netezza, but those use proprietary systems, where PDW can be used with commodity hardware, providing a much lower cost per terabyte. Microsoft has had clustering capabilities in SQL Server for a while, but the scalability part was lacking. In short, PDW is ideal for large data warehouses and BI, but not for OLTP systems.
BPC Bootcamp -- Business Planning and Consolidation CRM 2014 • Nice, France • May 14-16, 2014 The premier event for SAP sales, marketing, e-commerce, service, and interaction center management. Co-located with SCM 2014. Register by May 12 and save €100! Join the conversation on Twitter: #CRM2014 (Twitter handle: @InsiderCRM) Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2014 • Nice, France • May 14-16, 2014 The most important event of the year for organizations using SAP solutions to drive operational excellence across the extended supply chain. Co-located with PLM, Manufacturing, Procurement, and CRM 2014. Join the conversation on Twitter: #SCM2014 (Twitter handle: @InsiderSCM) GRC 2014 • Nice, France • May 21-23, 2014 In-depth education, including comprehensive workshops, lectures, demos, and panel discussions—presented by top experts at SAP, leading customers, and the most authoritative consultants in the SAP solutions for GRC arena. Co-located with Financials 2014, BI 2014, HR 2014, and HANA 2014. Register by May 19 and save €100!
Data Extraction, Web Screen Scraping Tool, Mozenda Scraper BPC Bootcamp -- Business Planning and Consolidation CRM 2014 • Nice, France • May 14-16, 2014 The premier event for SAP sales, marketing, e-commerce, service, and interaction center management. Co-located with SCM 2014. Register by May 12 and save €100! Join the conversation on Twitter: #CRM2014 (Twitter handle: @InsiderCRM) Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2014 • Nice, France • May 14-16, 2014 The most important event of the year for organizations using SAP solutions to drive operational excellence across the extended supply chain. Co-located with PLM, Manufacturing, Procurement, and CRM 2014. Join the conversation on Twitter: #SCM2014 (Twitter handle: @InsiderSCM) GRC 2014 • Nice, France • May 21-23, 2014 In-depth education, including comprehensive workshops, lectures, demos, and panel discussions—presented by top experts at SAP, leading customers, and the most authoritative consultants in the SAP solutions for GRC arena. Co-located with Financials 2014, BI 2014, HR 2014, and HANA 2014. Register by May 19 and save €100!
Hadoop Quickstart: Use Whirr to automate standup of your distributed cluster on Rackspace We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well). These are very low cost ways of building reliable, production ready capabilities for enterprise use (commercial and government). And Bryan Halfpap has provided a Quickstart guide which shows you how to build a Hadoop Cluster (leveraging Cloudera’s CDH3). With this post we would like to provide you with some additional tips that flow from these other posts. What is Whirr? Whirr provides:A cloud-neutral way to run services. And the great news is you can use Whirr as a command line tool for deploying clusters. If you follow the tips below you can use Whirr to quickly standup distributed clusters. SSH into your Rackspace account by terminal window: sudo ssh root@50.56.237.236 After logging in, it is always a good idea to make sure you have the latest packages. sudo yum upgrade Now it is time to install Whirr. yum install whirr ssh-keygen -t rsa -P ” You will see:
Great resource for ideas about data! by amw96 Aug 17