ParAccel Partners for In-Database Analytics
High-performance analytics platform provider, ParAccel, Inc., has announced the integration of the ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) and DB…
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Analysts Predict Data Warehousing Will Embrace Analytics
Gartner analysts are predicting that 2011 will be an inflection point for the data warehousing market. As noted…
Microsoft Needs Apps for Cloud Share
Information Week calls Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) business applications strategy a fragmented and incoherent mish-mash of small- and midsized-business…
Enterprise Apps: Transforming the Business
Mobile devices—from smartphones to laptops—have broken down and disposed of the traditional office cubicle. As stated in this…
Data in Memory Important for Deep Data Analytics
In-memory databases are becoming increasingly popular and an ever-more important factor in performance-critical activities such as stream processing…
Jaspersoft Offers Native BI Reporting For Big Data
Jaspersoft hasy released a software set that supports a wide variety of big data sources for business intelligence…
Oracle Updates WebCenter Suite 11g
Oracle announced Tuesday that it is shipping a significant update to its WebCenter Suite 11g user experience portals…
Microsoft Excel Business Intelligence Through Script Task
Despite the technological superiority of the SQL Server product line, Microsoft Office Excel remains a widely popular application…
New Appliances from HP and Microsoft Speed Business Intelligence
HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) have announced four new converged application appliances that fuse applications, infrastructure and…
Spectrum Research: Turn Information into Actionable Data
Spectrum Corporation has released a new white paper entitled, “Technology, Analytics and the Successful Contact Center” in which…
Salesforce Closes Heroku Acquisition
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has closed its acquisition of Ruby cloud platform vendor Heroku for $212 million, the cloud…
Analytics and In-Memory Databases Are Changing Data Centers
Traditional databases, with index files and table spaces on disk and paging tables into memory, are becoming a…
Is PowerPivot the Future of Microsoft Business Intelligence?
Despite its dominance in the OLAP market, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) could be joining the growing ranks of vendors…
Salesforce, Teradata Acquire Cloud Computing Firms
Teradata (NYSE: TDC) and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) are doing a little last-minute Christmas shopping, as the data warehousing…
Hadoop Tool Offers Business Analytics Missing Link
Customers looking for an inexpensive way to work with larger sets of data can take advantage of Karmasphere…
Optimized Systems Provide Business Value
Most major IT vendors are rushing to market with appliance-like systems that have shown great potential in redefining…
Salesforce Acquires Ruby Cloud Vendor Heroku for $212 Million
The open source Ruby language is getting a big enterprise boost today with the proposed acquisition of Ruby…
Salesforce Launches Free Chatter Service, Enters Database Market
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) today made a bold move into the database market and also announced plans for a…
BMC Software Announces New Apps on Force.com
BMC Software has recently announced three new applications on the BMC ServiceDesk on Force.com solution. As reported on…
Companies Try to Avoid Data Privacy Regs with Voluntary Effort
Attempting to stave off mandatory U.S. data privacy regulations, data collection companies have banded together to launch a…
Salesforce.com CloudReplicate Updates Amazon EC2
Salesforce.com CloudReplicate service by Jitterbit enables customers to more easily mirror their data in real time to Amazon’s…
SAP Speeds Up Business Intelligence with In-Memory Analytics
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has begun shipping its High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) software, and the first application is based…
Open Source Data Mining Software Considerations
Jos van Dongen, an associate and principal at business intelligence (BI) consultancy DeltIQ Group recommends that businesses should…
Panorama Supports Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse
Business Intelligence (BI) solution provider, Panorama Software, has announced support of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel…
Four Cloud and SaaS Application Firms Worth Watching
Cloud computing and SaaS applications are rapidly moving into enterprises, and four companies are emerging as leaders, according…
IBM Acquisition of Netezza Completed
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced the closing of its acquisition of Netezza Corporation. According to the company’s news…
Talend Acquires Sopera, Gets $34 Million in Funding
Talend and Sopera have merged to form what the two claim is the fifth-largest open source software company.…
Three Ideas That Could Bring Business Intelligence to the Masses
I was reading a business intelligence (BI) white paper feed when I happened across one whose title was,…
KXEN Announces Analytical Data Management and Modeling Factory
Data mining automation company, KXEN, has announced its next chapter in predictive analytics with Analytical Data Management (ADM)…
Data Accumulation Useless Without Data Analytics
Among enterprises adopting social technologies for business use, there’s a disparity between data accumulation and data analytics. According…
Informatica Announces Hadoop Modification for Its BI Software
According to a joint announcement by Informatica and Cloudera, Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that…
Data Virtualization Links CRM, ERP and SCM
Data virtualization could be the next big thing in the customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise applications space.…
Visible Technologies Announces Visible Intelligence
Visible Technologies has announced its vision for Social Intelligence and also announced Visible Intelligence, a software platform built…
Profiling By Name
Online tracking company, RapLeaf, knows more millions of Americans than others do: their real names and email addresses.…
EU May Propose Criminal Penalties for Data Privacy Breaches
According to a new report on Bloomberg, European Union regulators may propose expanded criminal penalties to enforce data…
Momentum Grows for Internet Privacy Legislation
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Momentum is growing to regulate data and online privacy, according to a new U.S. government…
SAP Plans to Release High-Performance Analytic Appliance in November
According to PC World, SAP plans to release its High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) in November. Also noted in…
OpenERP Makes Open Source Business Software Work
OpenERP seems to be a rarity among open source business software companies. There are no special enterprise editions…
EMC Takes On Oracle with Greenplum Data Computing Appliance
EMC has rolled out a new Data Computing Appliance, claiming it can crunch “big data” faster than other…
Pentaho Brings Business Intelligence to Hadoop
Open source business intelligence company Pentaho unveiled BI and data integration tools for Hadoop this week, but they…
New Malware Wants Your Life, Not Your Passwords
A research paper published this week should serve as a wake-up call to those who are particularly fond…
Talend Accelerates CRM Data Integration
Talend today says that Hagerman & Company, Inc., recently chosen its open source data integration solution to simplify…
How To Integrate Cloud Software Applications
When it comes to enterprise applications, most companies have to make a decision between the purchase of pre-integrated…
Jitterbit Integrates Enterprise Apps with Salesforce.com
Jitterbit today unveiled a tool that the company says makes it easier for users to integrate other enterprise…
Microsoft Brings Cloud Application Services to Minnesota
The state of Minnesota announced Monday it has signed a deal with Microsoft to use the software titan’s…
How Optimized Appliances Changes Real Time Business Analytics
In the IT industry, optimized appliances (software-plus-hardware systems) look to be game changers as they can help companies…
Tips to Transform Data into Operational Business Intelligence
Digitiliti, Inc. (DIGI), a company providing intelligent information management and compliance solutions says that the unfettered growth of…
IBM Snags Netezza in $1.7B Business Intelligence Play
IBM (NYSE: IBM) on Monday said it had reached an agreement to acquire Netezza (NYSE: NZ), a publicly…
Oracle’s Earnings Growth Powered by New Software Licenses
Database giant Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) reported a big first quarter today, including a 38 percent rise in earnings…
Appirio’s CloudWorks Aims to Break SaaS Logjam
Enterprises adopt SaaS applications for cost savings, flexibility and scalability. And while companies can choose from different SaaS…