By Priya Singh, Information Builders Recently, I read an interesting article about how the search effort for the lost Malaysian Airlines MH370 airliner would be better served by a chief data officer (CDO) to pull together the dizzying amount of…
Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing, introduced its Revolution R Enterprise 6.0 analytics software, which is designed to enable statistical analysis of Big Data. According to the…
If you’ve had your doubts about the benefits of business analytics (business intelligence, product management and predictive analytics), a recent study from Nucleus Research might go a long way toward dispelling them. The research, titled “The Stages of an Analytic…
If you thought Big Data and the countless efforts to analyze it were strictly the concerns of large enterprises, think again. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have their own Big Data concerns. Yet too often, those concerns have been ignored…
Business process management (BPM) used to be strictly a back-office affair. That’s no longer true. As with many technologies and IT practices, BPM has become part of the integration or attempted integration of various IT functions. One of the most…
Big data and the challenges of analyzing it have never been more important to enterprises. However, if you believe the findings of a recent EMC survey, data analysis is frequently the Achilles heel of enterprises. Why? Because there are not…
Want to leverage the energy and innovation of a hot analytics startup but not quite sure where to begin? Or perhaps you simply want to keep abreast of compelling trends and young companies? Whatever your interest, a new International Data…
The CRM (customer relationship management) market got a bit busier this month with the entry of Oracle’s long-awaited Oracle Fusion CRM, which is also the foundation of Oracle’s new Public Cloud. As the latest entry in a very competitive market,…
The substance of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) next version of Dynamics CRM is still somewhat vague, but this much is clear: the new release will have a Facebook-style activity feeds interface, and it will be integrated with Office 365, the vendor’s…
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) soon-to-be released Dynamics AX 2012 is a major redesign of the vendor’s flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) product – and yet another addition to its five-member Dynamics ERP family. The other members of the Microsoft ERP product…