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QlikTech's QlikView, which represents the next generation of business intelligence and OLAP architecture, can construct data structures on the fly in nonrelational associative databases. On the ...

Kyvos Insights, a big data analytics company, emerged from stealth mode to introduce a solution called Kyvos that it says provides insights from all corporate data, regardless of size and granularity.