Cloud Computing: IBM Buys Yet More Analytics
February 5, 2013
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
IBM says it is buying the software portfolio of Star Analytics Inc, a privately held business analytics firm in California, on undisclosed terms. The acquisition, another in a string of Big Data and analytics acquisitions, is supposed to advance IBM’s business analytics initiatives so clients can get faster access and real-time insight into specialized data sources.
Star Analytics software helps automatically integrate essential information from applications and business intelligence tools across the enterprises, on-premise or from the cloud. It removes custom coding for specialized sources that are hard to maintain and retires manual processes that are cumbersome and time-consuming…
"IBM sees an enormous opportunity for our clients to apply Star Analytics to the information they have stored in their financial applications," said Leslie Rechan, general manager of IBM business analytics, in a statement, "and to then easily access it within their IBM performance management and business intelligence solutions." It’s supposed to let organizations move critical analytics source data at will and use it regardless of which application they need to use it with, providing both flexibility and accessibility, according to Quinlan Eddy, CEO of Star Analytics…
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