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Why Mainframe Data Management is Crucial for BI and Analytics

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January 16, 2021
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While the entire purpose of business intelligence (BI) is to find behavioral patterns in the data and infer future trends or actions that can benefit the business, many enterprises have been missing a key component: mainframe data. Without this precious core data, much of which is hidden in mainframe environments, BI and modern analytics won’t live up to their potential.

It has often been stated that data is “the new oil” that can power economic growth. If that’s true, then it is also true that mainframe data has been largely untapped, confined to use in traditional systems of record and given only the most limited exposure to modern analytics.

Enterprises must clearly find better ways of accessing, analyzing, and using the data they already possess. The mainframe must yield its secrets.

 

How Mainframe Data Got Buried

The mainframe environment has evolved with consistency for more than half a century. It’s been the rock on which many businesses built their IT infrastructure. Mainframes reliably sustained business processes, research, and even helped businesses adapt to the World Wide Web.

However, while the rest of IT has galloped toward shared industry standards and even open architectures in on-premises systems and in the cloud, mainframe has stood aloof and unmoved. It operates largely within a framework of proprietary hardware and software that did not readily share data – and perhaps didn’t need to.  But with the revolutionary pace of change, especially in the cloud, old notions of scale and cost have been cast aside. As big and as powerful as mainframe systems are, there are things the cloud can now do better.

Analytics is one of those things. For example, in the cloud no problem is too big. Effectively unlimited scale is available if needed. Just as significant, a whole host of analytic tools like Kibana, Splunk and Snowflake, have emerged to better examine not only structured data but also unstructured data which abounds in mainframes.

These tools have largely been deployed on “new”…

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Ribbon’s Call Trust™ Wins “User Behavior Analytics Platform of the Year” in the 2020 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards

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WESTFORD, Mass., Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN), a global provider of real time communications software and network solutions to service providers, enterprises, and critical infrastructure sectors, today announced that its comprehensive Call Trust solution has been recognized as User Behavior Analytics Platform of the Year in the 2020 Cybersecurity Awards.

Ribbon Call Trust
Ribbon Call Trust

“While our phones have never had as compelling a presence in our lives as they do today, we no longer trust phone calls due to the proliferation of nuisance and fraud calls. Unfortunately, this also means that we miss valuable calls in an attempt to avoid the bad ones,” said Tony Scarfo, Ribbon’s EVP and General Manager, Cloud and Edge Business Unit. “We developed Call Trust to mitigate this situation and empower service providers with a solution that is intended to restore trust for their end users. We’re thrilled to have won this award and want to congratulate all of the winners.”

Ribbon’s breakthrough Call Trust identity assurance portfolio is a comprehensive solution designed to validate a caller’s identity, intent, and reputation. Call Trust examines each call in real-time to ensure it is neither fraudulent, spoofed or originating from robocallers. The end-to-end solution raises identity assurance to new levels by leveraging existing STIR/SHAKEN and robocall mitigation procedures, coupled with the latest in behavioral modeling and machine learning techniques to produce advanced reputation scoring and call validation treatment for every call.

The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in information security and cybersecurity technology companies, products and people. It provides a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough information security companies and products in categories including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Web and Email Security, UTM, Firewall and more.

All nominations were evaluated by an independent panel of experts within the information security industry, with the winning products and companies selected based…

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