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Singapore to develop social analytics for biz
A call-for-collaboration (CFC) has been launched inviting companies to develop and deploy social analytics for business enterprises for targeted sectors such as tourism, retail, and food and beverage.
SAP debuts Lumira; self-service business intelligence
The new cloud offering will replace today's Visual Intelligence product.
McAfee intros new network security platform built on Intel hardware
McAfee's NS-series is actually the antivirus solutions provider’s first IPS hardware platform based on Intel technology.
Case study: How one firm used BI analytics to track staff performance
Onerous Excel spreadsheets just weren't revealing the true value of individual brokers, so Compagnie Financière Tradition turned to business intelligence for some hard-nosed decisions.
Indian public sector to grow on back of modern IT
Modern forms of IT such as cloud, big data and mobility will play a large role in increasing the turnover of Indian public-sector units, from US$383 billion today to US$1 trillion by 2020.
Splunk dives into business analytics
Business analytics, particularly customer-facing applications, is a growing segment for Splunk and it is looking to capitalize on the momentum by targeting specific verticals such as healthcare and e-commerce.
Teradata adds Hadoop integration, launches data warehouse platform
Teradata's latest additions to its unified data architecture aim to deeply integrate its data warehouse systems, Aster's discovery platform, Hadoop and best-of-breed hardware.
4 forces changing the face of business intelligence
Are we still viewing 21st century organizations through a 1990s window?
SAP: Is HANA growth overstated?
"We believe the trend in compute is massively distributed commodity boxes, and while there is a market for products like HANA and Exadata, it is significantly smaller than optimistic descriptions by SAP and Oracle," says Cowen & Co. analyst.
Platfora goes GA, asking BI and Big Data to say "I do."
Platfora releases its BI for Big Data product to general availability, eschewing Hive and hand-coded MapReduce, while embracing in-memory queries.
Microsoft working to bring natural language, speech input to Excel
Microsoft researchers are working on a new, future Excel feature that combines natural language and automatic programming technologies to make queries and data analysis easier.
Aren’t we reading too much into social media?
From sociologists to psychologists, governments, researchers, police, marketers, HR managers, marriage brokers, and psephologists--everyone seems to be turning to the social media for answers.
Triumphal march of big data? More like a plod
Despite all the talk of big data and the benefits of analytics, a significant number of businesses are still at a loss as to how to apply the technology.
Data analytics grows but firms still put their trust in gut instinct
The increase in the use of data analytics tools is failing to snuff out the role of the traditional management hunch when it comes to business decisions.
CIOs may be usurped by CDOs and CTOs: Gartner
As the management of information assets become more important, chief data officers (CDOs) are beginning to emerge. Together with chief technology officers (CTOs), the CDOs may render the role of the CIO redundant, according to Gartner analyst Douglas Laney.