Drew Robb

Alteryx and IBM Cognos are two well respected business intelligence (BI) and data analytics platforms. Both were scored well by Gartner in its latest “Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.” BI and analytics applications are a critically important tool for organizations seeking to harness the vast troves of data at their disposal. Instead […]

Sisense and Microsoft Power BI are two of the top business intelligence and data analytics platforms available. Both of these data analytics applications are in heavy demand as organizations seek to harness the vast troves of data at their disposal. And that data is growing. Whether from relational databases, enterprise applications, unstructured data, and social media, […]

Citrix and VMware have been among the leading VDI pioneers and are now competing head-to-head in a related market, DaaS. Both vendors are well respected in this growing area. First, some background. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology was developed many years back as a way to virtualize the desktop. It enables access to enterprise systems […]

Tableau and Sisense are two well respected business intelligence and data analytics platforms. Both were scored well by Gartner in its latest “Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.” Gartner graded Tableau as a leader and Sisense as a Visionary. BI and analytics applications continue to be a hot item in the world […]

Micro Focus ArcsSight and Splunk operate in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) space. Both offer broad monitoring and analytics of security incidents, potential threats, and analysis of logs. Buyers looking for a general SIEM platform are likely to find both solutions on their list of strong candidates. Overall, though, there are plenty of […]

Data analytics and data management have become crucially important as digital transformation makes business ever more competitive. But with the volume of data to be analyzed rapidly rising, organizations need a way to corral all that data in one place, ripe for analysis. Enter modern cloud-based data warehouses such as Snowflake and AWS Redshift. Both […]

Datadog and Cisco AppDynamics both offer advanced application performance monitoring (APM) features. Both are well established APM platforms, and both are graded as Leaders in the latest Gartner APM Magic Quadrant. There are plenty of similarities in terms of features and functionalities for these two APM tools, and yet also quite a few differences. So […]

Clearly, both of these solutions, IBM QRadar and Splunk, address a growing market demand for cybersecurity. There is no shortage of challenges facing cybersecurity teams: an increase in the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks, an explosion of data, an expanding attack surface, disjointed security tools and a shortage of skilled security staff. Both QRadar and […]

Tableau and AWS QuickSight are two well respected business intelligence (BI) and data analytics platforms. These applications are crucially important tools as organizations seek to harness growing levels of data. It’s no longer the case that data analysis is performed only by data scientists slicing and dicing data. Now staff from management, marketing, and IT […]

Datadog and Amazon CloudWatch both perform advanced application performance monitoring (APM). Both offer broad monitoring and data analytics. Yet there are as many differences between them as similarities. Application performance management (APM) refers to the management of software performance as a means of ensuring that the expected level of service is being provided. APM takes […]