Matt Allen

Matt Allen is a VP of Product Marketing Manager responsible for marketing all the features and benefits of MarkLogic across all verticals. In this role, Matt interfaces with the product and engineering team and with sales and marketing to create content and events that educate and inspire adoption of the technology. Matt is based at MarkLogic headquarters in San Carlos, CA and in his free time he is an artist who specializes in large oil paintings.

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Semantics: Solving Today’s Complex Big Data Challenges
What is Semantics and why should you use it? In this infographic, we answer those questions and also provide an example of one of our customers using semantics to model complex relationships in their data. Please take a look, share it, and download the SNL 40 app to see semantics in action! View and Download […]
Looking Back on 12 Years of Constant Innovation
Enterprise-Ready in Version 1 It’s not easy to be both innovative and enterprise-ready from the start, but MarkLogic was. Initially launched as Cerisent XQE Server 1, the first version of MarkLogic carried patents for its innovative way of storing data, and also included ACID transactions, application services, and backup/restore. Very few technologies are enterprise-ready in […]

Matt Allen March 19, 2015
Behind the Scenes with Samplestack
This week, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Kasey Alderete, the Product Manager that helped guide Samplestack from a nascent idea that we started thinking about last spring into a fully functioning app that we just launched a few weeks ago. While we have plenty of technical documentation on Samplestack, and […]

Matt Allen March 10, 2015
Standing Out in the Crowd at Oracle OpenWorld
Last week, an estimated 70,000 people arrived in San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld. In the course of five days there were 2000+ sessions, 3000+ speakers, and about 800 exhibitors and demos. There were a lot of talks focused on the cloud, flash storage, engineered systems, analytics, and of course big data. MarkLogic had a popular […]

Matt Allen October 09, 2014
5 Open Source Myths
“Should we go open source or proprietary?” That oft-repeated question is actually not so black and white—and like most things in life there is a whole lot of grey. Today, open source is usually not purely open source. And, die-hard proprietary software companies are today buying open source companies and running their own open source […]
Mixing Workloads At An Investment Bank
At MarkLogic, we like to solve old problems with new ways of thinking. While many people are trying to find better ways to make operational and analytical databases interoperable, we decided to just combine the two. That’s right—you can use MarkLogic as a database for operations and analytics at the same time. This isn’t just […]

Matt Allen April 30, 2014
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