The hotel and hospitality sector caters to millions of travellers every day, and each one of them checks in with their own set of expectations. Meeting those expectations is the key to getting people to return, and increasingly hotel and leisure operators are turning to advanced analytics solutions for clues about how to keep their customers happy.

Additionally, although their marketing departments would be loathe admit it, not all guests are equal in the eyes of hotel and leisure operators. Some will simply check in and check out with a minimum of fuss. Others will spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on fine dining, entertainments, sports activities and spa treatments.

Inventus, LLC, a top-tier international legal process outsourcing (“LPO”) services provider to Fortune 1000 corporations, global law firms, and government agencies, today announced that the company is launching Spotlight. Inventus Spotlight is a sophisticated business data analytics platform which provides clients with unparalleled insights into their litigation portfolio, enabling comprehensive outsourcing visibility, predictability and cost management. Inventus will showcase Spotlight in booth #507 at LegalTech New York, Feb. 2-4 at The Hilton New York.

Informatica's new CEO spoke with InformationWeek about what's next for big data in the enterprise and how he plans to deliver that for customers. Here are the details.

Recent studies have shown that enterprises are embracing advanced analytics and big data projects. But are they getting real value out of these efforts? Or are we headed for a period of disillusionment? Newly private Informatica has refocused on a mission to help enterprises turn their data investments into projects that drive real business value and avoid the disillusionment pitfall.

Inovvo, LLC is a new company that emerged from a management buyout within comScore, Inc., an analytics company. comScore is still a key partner with Inovvo, according to Joseph Khalil, CEO at Inovvo. Khalil describes his company as the platform that “sits on top of whatever data management software” a company is using. Inovvo can help businesses analyze their Big Data, choose rate plans, and prioritize their available speed by looking at what their users are doing.

Ataira Analytics is excited to announce their launch as the new go-to business analytics site for small and medium sized business executives who don't want to rely on the IT department for data analysis. In 2016, small and medium sized business owners know that they need to understand what their data is telling them — but they don't necessarily have the right tools to interpret that data. While some companies are stuck relying on their IT departments (who are busy with other tasks) for data analysis, others aren't even big enough yet to have IT departments. As a result, they're stuck spending thousands of dollars on data analysis.

Finding customers in the changing landscape of the IT world can be a realhttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png challenge for businesses. Understanding the needs of these potential clients has become just as important as the technology a company offers.

To find some insight into the nature of the customer market, John Furrier and Dave Vellante of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media production team, joined Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, at the HP Big Data Conference.

The current data management industry is being disrupted as a result of governance and compliance, according to Rob Karel, VP of Product Strategy at Informatica Corp. “Both bureaucracy and agility play a significant role when it comes to targeting contextual value within the customer’s data,” Karel told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, during Informatica World 2015.

It’s a heterogeneous, hybrid Cloud world, according to Tim Yeaton, SVP, Infrastructure Business Group at Red Hat, Inc.“It’s more than just the stateless workloads, it’s how you bring it all together,” Yeaton told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, at OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015.

Yeaton sees Red Hat’s OpenShift as “the culmination of all the things we’re doing to help people modernize current applications and have them live in a Cloud-native environment.”