Networked cars, BI and Hadoop

Ford Motor Company has been walking in front of the mobile car. The carmaker is trying to build the most intelligent networked cars and bring them to a whole new level of mobility. "How do we transplant our customers experience from mobile devices to our cars?" "Jim Buczkowski, director of the Electronics and electrical systems at Ford Motor Company, conducted a keynote speech at the Xconomy Forum Symposium," The Mobile boom: the theme of innovation in the 2014. ”

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It is not easy to combine the two mobile experiences. Although Apple can launch a new version of the iphone every 18 months or so, the production cycle of cars--networked cars or other cars--certainly takes longer. "So, how do you balance these two cycles?" "Buczkowski said.

Ford's answer is to build the technology that allows applications to be on smartphones, but also on networked cars. The carmaker launched a project called AppLink. Allows external application developers to connect to Ford's communication connectivity system through application programming interfaces (APIs) and synchronize. These APIs allow developers to access Ford's voice and HMI and integrate with any mobile application they create. This means that the driver can access it through voice commands, such as the Pandora application, without the need for finger manipulation. (as a final step in production, this application will be tested by Ford Motor.) ）

"There are 60 applications that are connected to AppLink products, and application developers connect and sync through AppLink faster than other methods," Buczkowski said.

Competition among business intelligence firms is intensifying

What information was delivered in the Magic quadrant of Gartner's business intelligence and analytics platform for 2014? Data visualization companies are slowing the innovation of traditional business intelligence (BI) platforms. In 2013, large software vendors such as IBM, SAP and Oracle continued to pursue – data visualization companies represented by tableau, TIBCO software and Qlik, which provide enterprise-class capabilities, the report says. Make a leap in management capacity and scalability.

In the 2014, competition among software vendors will become increasingly fierce. Analyst at Gartner, Rita L. Sallam,joao Tapadinhas, Josh Parenteau, Daniel Yuen and Bill Hostmann said They expect both traditional software vendors and new vendors to add new functionality to the data visualization tool and shift focus to the product. In the case of Qlik, they have specifically created a new platform for the Enterprise, and will debut later this year.

In traditional manufacturers, the report points out that SAS has made "the boldest move by all vendors to replace its existing enterprise BI platform with visual analysis (which integrates with all applications and decision management layers)." ”

Other noteworthy information in the annual report? Business intelligence based on the cloud computing model continues to heat up, while the most concentrated quadrant is "specific domain", and is prepared for "intelligent" data discovery and data preparation, including semantic automatic recognition and automated advanced analysis, specifically designed for non-professional professionals.

The "leaders" of this magical quadrant are: Tableau, Qlik, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, SAS, TIBCO, Oracle, MicroStrategy, and information builders.

New Magic Quadrant Analytics Debut

Gartner also unveiled its first magic Quadrant designed for advanced analytics platforms, which includes 2 billion of dollars in market value for predictive analytics and data mining. The advanced analysis market is no stranger-it has existed for 20 of years. However, the report notes that there is a high demand for tools within the enterprise to avoid any skill gap while gaining access to new sources of large data and data. The authors of the report encouraged companies to break through the traditional supplier model, as they would continue to "keep a realistic choice", but "will try to keep pace with the innovations of the new firms." ”

Analyst Gareth Herschel, Alexander Linden and Lisa Kart point out that the leader of this magical quadrant is Sas,ibm,rapidminer and Knime.

Today, do businesses have to use Hadoop?

As the market for large data tools and technologies continues to evolve, the trend report, "The Big Data Age Hadoop solution, the first quarter of 2014", provided by Forrester Research, may help CIOs.

The report's authors, Mike Gualtieri and Noel Yuhanna, focused on Hadoop because they thought it was "a data platform that a large enterprise must have, which would be the cornerstone of any future flexible data management platform." "In addition, the report says:" As Hadoop's open source continues to deepen and grow within the enterprise, it is unstoppable. ”

Of course, CIOs should stay calm when faced with the Hadoop boom. Forrester experts suggest that it executives should first determine whether Hadoop is the solution they need, and then decide which type of commercial release is best suited to their business needs. The report provides three different solutions for enterprise customers:

Use Apache open source or download software directly, do not need software vendors. "Customers who choose this option must have a complete solution and give up formal business support from software vendors," the report notes.

Select vendors that offer Hadoop commercial distributions, such as Cloudera and Hortonworks.

Select Large enterprises that provide a commercial distribution of Hadoop, such as Oracle and IBM.

The leaders in this report include Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR Technologies, Pivotal Software and Teradata. The leader is Intel and Microsoft.