David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This year, Teradata rebranded the Teradata users conference from "Partners" to "Analytics Universe", and there is a reason for it. For decades, Teradata has represented the high end of the analytic database, but new innovations and technologies are adding flexibility to Teradata's licensing as they compete. For the full breakdown of Teradata's Analytics Universe 2018, and my analysis of all the largest announcements, watch my hot take video.

Analytics 100

Analytics Technology IT Data Governance 100

BI-Survey

OCTOBER 26, 2018

T he question of the most important drivers for using Hadoop shows a clear trend. Six out of ten responded: “Hadoop is a new technical platform for things we have not previously managed to do”. Three out of ten answered that Hadoop is a “technically better platform”. Only in midsize companies were these two drivers (“optimization through a technically better platform” with 40 percent and “implementation of new types of use cases” with 53 percent), relatively close together.

Technology 40

Technology Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data-driven 40