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As we get deeper into an era of new software platforms both, big players and newcomers are industriously working to reshape or launch their proposed new-generation analytics platforms, especially aiming to appeal to the growing community of new information workers or “data scientists” ㅡa community always eager to attain the best possible platform to “crunch the numbers”ㅡ, examples include those including Teradata with its new analytics platform or Cloudera with its Data Science Workbench . So now the turn is for IBM, which recently unveiled its Integrated Analytics System . IBM’s new offering represents the company’s unified data system aimed to provide organizations with easy, yet sophisticated platform for the development of data science within data from on-premises, private, public of hybrid cloud environments. The new offering coming from the “Big Blue” company is set to incorporate a myriad of data science tools and functionality features as well as the proper data managem...

(Image Courtesy of Teradata) In a recent announcement made during its 2017 Partners conference data management software provider, Teradata made an important new addition to its global Teradata Everywhere initiative with a brand new analytics platform . The new offering to be available for early access later this year will aim to enable users to use the analytics environment of their choice. According to the company, the new analytics platform is planned to enable access to a myriad of analytics functions and engines so users can develop full analytics processes and business solutions using the tools of their choice so initially, the new platform, will natively integrate with Teradata and Aster technology (Figure 1) and in a near future will enable integration with leading analytics engines including Spark , TensorFlow , Gluon , and Theano . Figure 1.  Aster Analytics Functions (Courtesy of Teradata) As corporate data is increasingly captured and stored in a wider ...

In October of 2014, Salesforce announced the launch of Salesforce Wave , the cloud-based company’s analytics cloud platform. By that time, Salesforce had already realized that to be able to compete with the powerful incumbents in the business software arena—the Oracles, SAPs and IBMs of the world—arriving to the cloud at full swing would require it to expand its offerings to the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market and to the enterprise mobile app market. Safesforce has realized this goal with Wave Analytics and Salesforce’s analytics app for Sales Cloud customers Wave App . Since then, there have been many developments in the analytics field and especially in the areas of advanced analytics, where most major software vendors have expanded their analytics offerings to the cloud. These events signal Salesforce’s entry into the never-ending race for the ultimate intelligence solution—or not? From Salesforce’s Perspective Cloud-based analytics solution provider Be...