by Jessica Davis Streaming and batch big data analytics technology Apache Apex has been elevated to a Top-Level Project by the Apache Software Foundation. Used by organizations including Capital One and GE, the technology can help developers more quickly create apps that leverage real-time data. The rise of interest in Apache Spark has demonstrated just how important streaming data has become in the big data ecosystem. Real-time data and the technologies that support it were perhaps the biggest stars of last month's Strata + Hadoop Worldconference in San Jose. So it's prob...

By Vamsi Chemitiganti The Financial Services industry is undergoing a major transformation. Innovation in data technologies is driving growth of predictive analytics and data mining techniques that will dramatically change banking over the next few years. This is the second in a series of posts that will describe that transformation. The first can be found here. This second post examines concrete use cases enabled by a data-driven approach in the industry. “Data! Data! Data!” he cried impatiently. “I can’t make bricks without clay!” – Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle’s “Th...

By Michelina M Jones

Visualization of data is a keystone of reporting. Different sets of data require different types of visualizations to provide maximum insight. Fixed libraries of visualization types for use in reporting can be very limiting to a report author trying to present the data in the most consumable format. Providing a mechanism to extend the visualization options allows a report author to pick or define new visualization types to meet the needs of their business users. The most recent release of Cognos 10.2.1 includes extensible visualization capabilities whi...