Name: HCL Actian Data Platform
Rating: 8 (16 reviews)
Author: HCLSoftware

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Augmented Reality Development

Development

Alumni Management

School Management

Education

Association Management

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Facility Management

Meeting Management

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)

Enterprise

Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Onboarding

HR Management

On-Demand Payment

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Vendor Management Systems (VMS)

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Asset Tokenization

Cloud Storage

Continuous Delivery

Data Center Backup

Data Governance

Fraud Detection

Graph Database

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed Print

Master Data Management (MDM)

Message Oriented Middleware

Metadata Management

Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

SQL Server Performance Monitoring

Security Validation

Software-Defined WAN

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Web Scraping

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Blogging

Content Management

Contest Management

Customer Loyalty Program

Email Marketing

Location Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Marketing Resource Management

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Streaming

Web Analytics

Marketing

Job Site Management

Project Management

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Professional Services

Customer Communication Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales

Automotive

Car Rental

Clinical Data Management

Equation Editors

Healthcare Learning Management

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Actian Analytics Platform 2019-02-27 14:06:45

VectorWise 2015-12-05 07:37:30

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Etl processes

Greater visibility

Easy to publish

Youtube videos

Well informed

Internal training

Different data sources

Training program

Online training

Million rows

Additional training

Low cost

Different data

Not as robust

Data sources

Home

Cloud Data Warehouse Software

Actian was brought into our company via an acquisition, and turned out to be a nice little surprise. It was a smaller business with a lot of homegrown tools and various different database platforms, and they were using Actian to connect everything and export it to the cloud for analytics. It came in handy as we were going through the due diligence of the acquisition, and further helped us out afterwards as we extracted key data to blend into our own data repositories and BI tools. It is compartmentalized to just within the acquisition team and those of us leveraging the exported data.

The support community was not as robust as you would find in a Mulesoft or Informatica environment. Given time and growth, it’s possible it will blossom, but for now it is minimal.
Training is always a big thing for us, and the tool was not expansive enough for us to implement our own internal training program. There was some online training, and we acquired an expert when we brought on the new company, but some additional training tools would have helped the tool grown its user base internally.
Not a lot to set it apart from the competition. Most of the features are available with other more established tools, but for a small company that maybe grew too quickly and needs to get its arms around many different data sources, I can see the appeal. Not really geared for larger firms.

As I said before, more training or greater visibility to training tools/options would be a plus. It’s easy to publish YouTube videos these days, I think they should make more of them.
Differentiation would help, there’s not a lot out there to drive you to buy the product if you are well informed in the market. If you know the market, you steer towards the large or trendy products. It’s a good product, but lost in the noise of the field I think.
Hitching the wagon to a major software brand (like Mule did to Salesforce) would help grow the user base, and thus increase the activity in the support community. More users also translates into product champions.

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VectorWise was tested and the quick response for SQL involving massive data was one of the attractive features. The cost was also low as compared to the commercial databases. But after implementing multiple projects in VectorWise we learned it handles parallel ETL loads and high concurrent user poorly. Most of the time with users logged in to BI tools on top of VectorWise the database became dormant and we had to restart the server. ETL loads when run for a single project would run fine, but with multiple project ETL starting in parallel, the databse would respond very poorly. After close to two years we decided to move away from VectorWise and decommissioned VectorWise. VectorWise was a bad candidate to be the enterprise data warehouse database. For a data mart or ODS it may be a suitable candidate.

Quick response for queries involving multi-million rows
Low cost

Concurrent user handling
Handling parallel ETL processes

We had to move out of VectorWise after using the database for 2 years. Hence no positive impacts.

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HCL Actian Data Platform
Formerly Actian Avalanche

Overview

What is HCL Actian Data Platform?