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Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress
Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the...
10 Hot Big Data Startups to Watch
Big Data startups are building viable products that target real-world pain points, and most of these Big Data new ventures are well-funded with solid...
HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems
On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for...
HP aims to shrink big data
Hewlett-Packard wants to help organizations get rid of their useless data, all the information that is no longer needed yet still takes up expensive...
Tibco Software acquires event processing specialist StreamBase Systems
Tibco Software has added streaming capabilities to its event-processing portfolio with the acquisition of StreamBase Systems.
SAP at work on Sentinel, an 'Amazon for Stocks'
SAP is at work on a new product called Sentinel that is supposed to be "nothing less than the Amazon for Stocks and the Facebook for Investors,"...
New York Turns to Big Data to Solve Big Tree Problem
Trees probably aren't the first thing you think of when someone mentions New York City, but the city has a lot of them. Pruning and maintaining...
Software AG buys alfabet AG for IT portfolio management software
Software AG has signed a deal to acquire IT portfolio management software vendor alfabet AG, and plans to combine the company's tools with its own...
IT to the rescue: Unraveling bureaucracy at the VA, one project at a time
An organizational discipline, now being applied at the Department of Veterans Affairs, aims to create enterprises that can respond dynamically to...
6 Practical Predictive Analytics Tools
Most analytics tools put data in an historical context. That's all well and good, but if what if you want to use past data to gauge future...
Should the CIO or the CMO Take the Lead on Big Data?
Someone must harness the power of real-time data flows. Instead of focusing on their differences and fighting for the same budgets, the CIO and CMO...
The Industrial Internet: The Next Great Economic Revolution
IDG Enterprise's CEO spells out the future of big data, mobility and the impact of 50 billion connected devices by 2020.
How Top CIOs Tackle Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Security
In an increasingly complex IT landscape, leading CIOs seek novel ways to use big data and cloud services to improve business processes. Keeping data...
Smacking SharePoint into shape
More than half of all SharePoint shops have had to add functionality to the core software, which came as a surprise to a number of them. Here's...
Tech hotshots: The rise of the dataviz expert
As analytics become more ingrained in corporations, data visualizers are the new go-to experts in demand -- but do they work for IT or give IT its...
SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use
Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted...
5 Reasons to Move to Big Data (and 1 Reason Why It Won't Be Easy)
Companies of all sizes are beginning to reap the benefits of data analytics technology. If you're not up to speed yet, here are five ways that...
Planview overhauls the look of its portfolio management software
Planview has updated the interface of its flagship project portfolio management (PPM) software to make it easier to navigate and appealing to a wider...
IT on the fly: The art of quickly building, then dismantling
The CIOs for the London Olympics, President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign and other short-lived but intense operations know how to run...
How to prevent IT department overload
Managing the flow of an infinite supply of worthwhile projects through a finite IT operation takes finesse. Here's how to avoid the backlog and...