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Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch
Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an...
Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing
Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer...
Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be included in core fees
Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software...
Microsoft reveals launch date for next-generation SQL Server 2012
Microsoft has announced a March 7 online event for the launch of SQL Server 2012, the next generation of its database product.
NetApp's Tom Georgens: How we got big, stayed nimble, and view storage today
In an exclusive interview, NetApp CEO Tom Georgens talks about virtualization, the private cloud, and how his company defines big data
Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier
Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, and MapR mix simpler setup of Hadoop clusters with proprietary twists and trade-offs
Tableau revamps its BI visualization tools with user-centric focus
BI (business intelligence) vendor Tableau Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Tableau 7.0, a release that boosts speed and scale as...
SAP acquires software from German company Datango
SAP has acquired software from Datango that will allow it to add multilingual online help and training materials to enterprise software applications.
Jaspersoft aims its open-source analytics suite at PaaS vendors
Open-source BI (business intelligence) vendor Jaspersoft wants its software to become another arrow in the quiver for developers using commercial...
Oracle reveals pricing for its SAP HANA rival Exalytics, signaling imminent release
Oracle made a splash on Tuesday when it announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance, but the company also quietly released pricing...
Splunk 4.3 gets a boost for business analysis
With the newest update of its machine-data search engine, Splunk has expanded the user interface in a number of ways so it can be more easily used by...
Oracle partners with Cloudera for Hadoop appliance
Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday.
Why enterprise software will never be the same
It's a stretch to call 2011 a truly transformative year for enterprise software, given all the old warts that remain, from large-scale IT project...
CIOs Disconnected From Business Execs
CIOs and their fellow executives have conflicting priorities on cost and competitors, says our 2012 State of the CIO survey
Big Data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012
Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, but the notion rings fairly true with respect to BI...
Big Data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012
Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, but the notion rings fairly true with respect to BI...
SAP spells out vision for HANA-driven software architecture
SAP executives provided new details about the company's plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its...
Big data has potential but requires care
The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in...
IBM buys e-commerce analytics vendor Demandtec for $440 million
IBM is buying analytics vendor DemandTec for US$440 million in a bid to build out its line of e-commerce software, the companies announced Thursday....
EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics
The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad...
NetApp's Tom Georgens: How we got big, stayed nimble, and view storage today
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