The Gap as it is known today will split brands such as Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta and Old Navy for better focus. Executives outlined their data strategies in an analyst meeting.
Domo saw a slowdown in closing large enterprise deals as CIOs weigh how the Google-Looker and Salesforce-Tableau deals impact them.
Cloudera's initial release of the Cloudera Data Platform appears to have led to less uncertainty in the second quarter. Separately, Cloudera acquired Arcadia Data to fill in some analytics gaps.
After complaints about a plan to score students on their socioeconomic challenges or privilege, College Board revamps its data strategy with a tool called Landscape that will offer context on high schools and neighborhoods.
The reports, available for registered users, feature grid reports for high level overviews, index reports based on proprietary algorithms that analyze crowdsourced reviews and momentum reports to track innovation cadence.
Celect's cloud analytics platform enables retailers to optimize inventory across channels. Nike plans to use that data science knowhow for its Consumer Direct Offense strategy.
Antonio Neri, CEO of HPE, said MapR's file system technology can round out its analytics portfolio.
The partnership with Cloudera picks up where IBM's link with Hortonworks left off.