Power BI is a Data Visualization and Business Intelligence tool that converts data from different data sources to interactive dashboards and BI reports. Power BI suite provides multiple software, connector, and services - Power BI desktop, Power BI service based on Saas, and mobile Power BI apps available for different platforms. These set of...

Apache Kafka is a software platform which is based on a distributed streaming process. It is a publish-subscribe messaging system which lets exchanging of data between applications, servers, and processors as well. Apache Kafka was originally developed by LinkedIn, and later it was donated to the Apache Software Foundation. Currently, it is...

Microsoft created SQL Server, a feature-rich relational database management system (RDBMS). It provides a robust platform for storing and managing data, offering features such as data storage, retrieval, and manipulation through structured query language (SQL). SQL Server supports transaction processing, business intelligence, and analytics...

MS Project, the project management software program by Microsoft, is a very handy tool for project managers that helps them develop a schedule, assign resources to tasks, track the progress, manage the budget, and analyze workloads for an ongoing project. This tutorial discusses the various features of the software program with examples for easy...

Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable, high-performance distributed database designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. It is a type of NoSQL database. Let us first understand what a NoSQL database does. NoSQLDatabase A NoSQL database (sometimes called...

Oracle Endeca Guided Search allows organizations to help information and influence customers in every step of their search experience.The Endeca Content Acquisition System offers a set of extensible mechanisms to bring both structured information and unstructured content into the MDEX Engine from a variety of source systems. Endeca Assembler...

The pace of new business projects continues to grow—from increasing customer self-service to seamlessly connecting all your back office and in-the-field applications. At the same time, there is an urgency to mobile-enable existing applications, integrate with the cloud, and begin development on the latest trend of connecting Internet of Things...

Teradata is massively parallel open processing system for developing large-scale data warehousing applications. Teradata is an open system. It can run on Unix/Linux/Windows server platform. This tool provides support to multiple data warehouse operations at the same time to different clients. Teradata Corporation is an American IT firm. It is...

MEAN is an acronym made up of commonly used technologies for an all JavaScript web stack. You don’t have to use this combination and there are many alternative choices, especially on the client-side such as Backbone, Ember, etc. MEAN is a user-friendly stack which is the ideal solution for building dynamic websites and applications. This...

What is the ELK Stack? The ELK Stack is a collection of three open-source products — Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. They are all developed, managed ,and maintained by the company Elastic. E stands for ElasticSearch: used for storing logsL stands for LogStash: used for both shipping as well as the processing and storing logsK stands...