News: August 2011
Salesforce Gets Social and Mobile
August 31, 2011Salesforce unveiled a number of enterprise social media and mobile application products at Dreamforce today.
Shift from Reporting to Analysis Requires Asking the Right Questions
August 25, 2011It used to be so much simpler to hire a data analyst. You looked for someone who knew how to take data that had been loaded into and then extracted from a data warehouse and produced reports based on that data.
Workday 14 Offers Embedded Intelligence for Business Processes
August 22, 2011The latest version of Workday's enterprise solution for HR and financial management includes more than 140 new features.
Salesforce Stays Strong Despite Global Turmoil
August 19, 2011Salesforce.com sees no recession, says CEO Benioff.
Microsoft Has an Office 365 Outage
August 18, 2011Office for the Web has been available for a couple of months but it's not problem-free quite yet.
Microsoft to Release Hadoop Connectors for SQL Server, Parallel Data Warehouse
August 10, 2011New Hadoop connectors will provide interoperability between SQL Server, PDW and Hadoop environments.
SAP Expands Business ByDesign ERP with New Feature Pack
August 9, 2011The second release this year of the SAP Business ByDesign ERP suite follows recommendations from SAP customers and partners.
SAP Under Attack at Black Hat
August 8, 2011Security researcher finds serious issues at the heart of SAP, and provides a tool to help users fix the problem.
Business Intelligence Vendors Put BI in the Hands of Apple iPad Users
August 5, 2011New mobile versions of popular business intelligence apps are now available to Apple iPad users.
Oracle Builds Data Warehousing and Analytics for Financial Services
August 1, 2011Oracle says its Financial Services Data Warehouse was engineered for the needs of financial firms.
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