Salesforce to Buy Analytics Platform Tableau - WSJ ow.ly/tJ0730oVaLZ Great idea for CRM to buy DATA but concerned DATA will go the way of other great independents when acquired by app firm.

Google buys cloud company Looker for $2.6 billion ow.ly/vuo830oVaU0 Great to see Google expand offerings in BI & analytics platform. Next hybrid data integration?

Cloudera Struggles Highlight Rapid Rise of Public Cloud - WSJ ow.ly/dGqW30oVjJG Cloudera (+ Hortonworks) & MapR has the market, hype & profit left them behind?

Google Cloud, Informatica Team Up to Tame Data - WSJ ow.ly/HQHX30oVjAw Google moving in Azure & AWS direction of more extensive data, integration, analytics platform. Not good news for legacy IT mega-vendors.

I'm quoted in this SearchBusinessAnalytics article: The direction of business intelligence is changing to forward. Predictive analytics will be one of the key trends shaping the next generation of business intelligence platforms, as will the ability to... bit.ly/2XEK745

IBM Completes Red Hat Deal — the Largest Software Acquisition Ever - Barron's ow.ly/K3Lf30p5ZB0 Financial engineering did not help IBM's long-term prospects. Maybe short-term this helps numbers but long-term GOOGL, AMZN & MSFT are not getting knocked off by IBM.

Cisco to Buy Acacia Communications for About $2.6 Billion - WSJ ow.ly/RFjJ30p6bRw Congrats! 2nd acquired company that its founders built. I see their offices from my desk as they are in the same mill complex (DEC's former headquarters in tech history) as our offices.

IBM earnings lag as it tries to capitalize on cloud - CNN ow.ly/ATZM30p9EH0 It's sad to watch the long-term "decline" of a (former) high tech icon. Still lots of great products and people but legacy momentum seems too much to overcome.

nytimes.com/2019/07/18/tec… unlike other legacy tech titans Microsoft has truly become a competitor to amazon, google and lots of VC funded companies. It’s terrific to see MSFT now versus when they were just a Windows & Office company. Azure, PowerBI and even SQL Server are great.

The three states of data -- this short video is from my recent Data Summit presentation Designing a Data Architecture for Modern Business Intelligence & Analytics. Link at the end for the whole presentation. bit.ly/2Oq3cHJ

SearchBusiness Analytics quoted me in this recent article: Analytics revolution has spread the wealth of information bit.ly/2K1TI0x via @BizAnalyticsTT

I'm also quoted in part 2 of this SearchBusiness Analytics article: Evolution of analytics marked by wider dissemination of data bit.ly/36MBZnA via @BizAnalyticsTT

Batch Goes Out the Window: The Dawn of #Data Orchestration via eWeek bit.ly/2RhLCFv StreamSets Gemini Data HVR – a Fivetran Company Dell Boomi Ascend.io Five bucks says that Gartner has a ##Magic Quadrant, late 2020, for #DataOrchestration EC #predict

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