LAS VEGAS — For many enterprises, SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) software is mission-critical. But according to Mariano Nunez Di Croce, a security researcher from Argentinean research vendor Onapsis, SAP software is at risk even when users properly follow all of the…
The FTC is considering giving consumers the option of opting out of online behavioral tracking, which would have a huge impact on online advertising and marketing. eCommerce Guide has the scoop. As it prepares a major report with guidelines for…
In an increasingly mobile world, mobile databases can give you powerful data management tools that can be accessed from anywhere, creating a more responsive and competitive business. Database Journal has the scoop. Today’s workforce and consumers have become increasing mobile.…
Revolution Analytics has announced the launch of the Inside-R.org community website, designed to be a comprehensive online resource aggregating R statistics-related content from across the Web in a single location. As mentioned in the company’s news release, the launch of…
Catalina Marketing says it has reduced its model-scoring times from 4.5 hours to around 60 seconds thanks to SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza. The company also said that as a result, it is able to use more complex, varied models…
EMC (NYSE: EMC) has long been dominant in the data storage market; now the company wants a hand in what companies do with all that data. EMC this week announced that it will acquire Greenplum, which develops data warehousing and…
With today’s economy, CIOs who have taken on the enormous task of enterprise master data management (MDM) are choosing to focus their initial efforts on business intelligence (BI) projects. Also reported in this Search CIO article is that implementing an…
When enterprises use semantic intelligence, this Information Management reports says the result enables finding and extracting knowledge and information from all data sources, including structured and unstructured, and internal and external sources—ultimately allowing for more informed decision making. “A company’s…
Data warehouses and the business intelligence applications built atop them are typically highly customized, making software as a service (SaaS) a less common form of deployment for data warehousing systems. Still, as pointed out in this Internet Evolution article, it…
Even with limited resources, you can still build a a business intelligence (BI) platform that is fully functional. This Redmond Mag article by Andrew Peterson offers a guide to starting a skunk works BI project using the SQL Server Business…