According to a joint announcement by Informatica and Cloudera, Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera's Hadoop distribution. As reported in this PC World article, users of Informatica's business intelligence (BI) platform can now analyze data housed by the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH), an open-source data storage framework.
"Users of the Informatica's business intelligence (BI) platform can now analyze data housed by the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH), an open-source data storage framework.
"The two companies are pitching this combination of technologies as a way for enterprises to pair transactional data, often kept in a data warehouse, with massive amounts of social media-related information."