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Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut
A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all...
SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem
Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its No. 1 focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's...
Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies
Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready...
Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform
Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well...
What IBM's x86 exit may mean for rivals
IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.
Oracle rolls out new in-memory applications, scaled-down Big Data Appliance
Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between...
IT Spending on (Slight) Rise, Mobile Tops the List
Forty-eight percent of the CIOs surveyed expect to increase spending this year, up slightly from this time last year. Mobile, business intelligence,...
5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust
Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn't pay
Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?
Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the...
Data-Driven Companies Outperform Competitors Financially
Working with and making business decisions based on data is good for your company's bottom line. Companies that have embraced a data-driven...
Microsoft boosts Dynamics CRM with marketing, social media analysis
Microsoft is hoping to shove aside rivals such as Salesforce.com and Oracle in the CRM (customer relationship management) software market by linking...
IDC: Big data hype still here, but maturity beckons
Few tech industry buzzwords have gotten as vigorous a workout as "big data," but while the hype remains plentiful, it is starting to give way to...
Six useful JavaScript libraries for maps, charts and other data visualizations
These JavaScript libraries can help format your data for analysis or a compelling online presentation.
Feds take (baby) steps to fight fraud with analytics
ID'ing fraud is a good first step, but the power of analytics won't be tapped until agencies can share data more freely. Insider...
Oracle adds virtualization, faster performance to Database Appliance for SMBs
Oracle has rolled out version X3-2 of its Database Appliance for small and medium-sized businesses that it says delivers up to twice the speed and...
Software AG goes all-out for in-memory data processing
Software AG is adding in-memory capabilities to the Enterprise Service Bus with Version 9.0 of its sprawling webMethods software suite, while the new...
Analytics boost social marketing efforts
Big-name companies including General Electric and Best Western are maturing their social marketing programs and integrating social metrics with...
Social Media Marries Big Data at Wedding Retailer
David's Bridal uses data from its social shopping community, where the bride-to-be shares plans with the wedding party, to tie the knot with...
Hadoop Is Not Just for Linux Anymore
The expanded partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has borne fruit with the release of a beta of...
Etsy gets crafty with big data
Handmade marketplace Etsy has grown to 800,000 sellers and 40+ million monthly visitors. All that activity generates enormous quantities of data,...
IT Spending on (Slight) Rise, Mobile Tops the List
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