Analytics helps hospitals avoid billing losses
Opera Solutions' machine learning technology helps hospitals' clinical and administrative systems interoperate better, and bill more accurately.
Big on Data
Veteran data geek Andrew Brust covers Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics.
Andrew Brust
Andrew J. Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology.
Latest Posts
Making Hadoop Safe for Clusterophobics
Hadoop focuses on what it needs to do to become more consumable for the enterprise; a tooling ecosystem addressing “clusterophobia” and consumption.
Teradata Aster integrates Hadoop metadata natively
Data warehousing kingpin Teradata's Aster unit and Hadoop ecosystem all-star Hortonworks have teamed to integrate Hadoop's meta data store into Aster Database's. This will facilitate remote queries, locally persisted data, and relational-Hadoop data mashups.
Hadoop comes to the desktop with Datameer 2.0
Datameer is announcing its 2.0 release today, including a $299 Personal edition that runs on the desktop and a $2999 Workgroup edition that runs on a single server.
Cloudant brings NoSQL to Microsoft's cloud
The NoSQL Data Layer as a Service company gets hitched with Microsoft's Platform as a Service cloud.
Cloudera announces its 4.0 release
Cloudera, maker of the most widely deployed Hadoop distribution, announces version 4 of the open source distro and its Cloudera Enterprise commercial offering.
Revolution R v6.0 comes to town
Revolution Analytics is to "R" what Cloudera is to Hadoop. And with a new version of Revolution R Enterprise, this little programming language graduates to Big Data exploration powerhouse.
Spotting Big Data trends, without MapReduce
Big Data is not always about Hadoop, and it's not always about new technologies. As Trendspottr shows us, sometimes hardcore algorithms, even older ones, provide new breakthroughs.
Big Data in NYC is all business, and that's a good thing
At the NYC Data Business Meetup, constituencies congregate to foster Big Data, beyond its mere technology.
Pentaho adds native integration with MongoDB
A leading open source Business Intelligence player and a NoSQL darling integrate their products as the broader worlds of Big Data, BI and NoSQL grow ever more intertwined themselves.