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- Going Mobile: As federal agencies embrace devices and apps to meet employee demand, the White House seeks one comprehensive mobile strategy.
- Smartphone Security: The National Security Agency is developing technologies to make commercial devices suitable for intelligence work.
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- Creating the Enterprise-Class Tablet Environment - by Yankee Group
- How To Regain IT Control In An Increasingly Mobile World - by BlackBerry
- The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet's Good Bones - by BlackBerry
- Red Alert: Why Tablet Security Matters - by BlackBerry
- New Visual and Wizard-Driven Paradigms for Exploring Data and Developing Analytic Workflows
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- Maximize ROI with Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds
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- The ABC's of Cloud Computing in the Midmarket
- Five Jobs You Can Do Better with Intelligent Decision Automation
Oracle MySQL Gets NoSQL-Savvy Upgrade
February 16, 2012
Oracle promises faster performance, improved scaling, and Memcached API access to NoSQL databases.
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Gartner BI And Data Warehouse Quadrants: More Science, Less 'Magic'
February 15, 2012
Gartner's 2012 business intelligence and data warehousing vendor analyses reveal more customer survey work, fewer dark arts.
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SAS Prepares Hadoop-Powered In-Memory BI Platform
February 14, 2012
SAS says high-performance product for business intelligence will bring big-data scale, in-memory speed, and advanced analytic power to ordinary business users.
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Oracle Counters SAP Cloud Plan With Taleo Bid
February 09, 2012
Responding to SAP's (delayed) SuccessFactors deal and Salesforce.com's rapid growth, Oracle makes a $1.9 billion deal in the cloud-computing arena.
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Oracle Rejects $272 Million SAP Award, Demands Retrial
February 08, 2012
Five-year-old copyright infringement lawsuit will continue, as Oracle seeks to put SAP execs back on the witness stand.
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Oracle Analytics Package Expands In-Database Processing Options
February 08, 2012
New Oracle Advanced Analytics package speeds and scales R-language-based analyses inside the 11g database.
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Microsoft CRM Embraces iPhone, iPad, Android
February 06, 2012
Microsoft Dynamics CRM update will include native mobile apps for Windows Phone 7, iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices.
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Hadoop Players Question Forrester's Take On Leaders
February 06, 2012
Forrester's first-ever Hadoop market assessment draws mixed reactions, both for its leader rankings and for the players who were left out.
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2 Ways To Ease Hadoop Growing Pains
February 02, 2012
EMC Isilon and RainStor address enterprise gaps in the open source Apache Hadoop framework.
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Microsoft ERP Release Streamlines Retailing
February 02, 2012
Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail integrates processes from supply chain to point of sale, spanning in-store, Web, and mobile retailing.
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Oracle Loses One To HP In Itanium Saga
January 31, 2012
HP wins on one ruling, but a judge denies both companies' requests to seal documents tied to the ongoing HP-Oracle Itanium case.
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Salesforce.com Delivers Big Service Smarts For SMBs
January 31, 2012
New Desk.com help desk and customer service application offers social and mobile capabilities, in a simple, low-cost alternative to Salesforce.com's Service Cloud application.
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Coke Super Bowl Campaign Blends TV, Tablets And Smart Phones
January 30, 2012
Coca-Cola's animated polar bears seen on TV will 'respond' to Facebook and Twitter comments and post fan photos and videos as part of a social-media-integrated campaign.
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SAP Takes On Oracle Database, Salesforce Cloud
January 26, 2012
SAP plans to build on last year's momentum in the applications, analytics, and mobility markets. Can it also challenge big rivals in the database and cloud markets?
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IBM Netezza Appliance: Speed Lane To Retail Insights
January 25, 2012
Combining data warehousing essentials with prepackaged analytics for retailers, IBM optimizes cross-channel analysis from point-of-sale to social networks.
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Infor Plays Catch Up On Mobile
January 24, 2012
Mobile CRM and approval apps run on iPhone and iPad; supporting Infor Motion 10 platform delivered first via the cloud.
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12 Hadoop Vendors To Watch In 2012
January 24, 2012
Promising low cost and unheard of scalability, Hadoop has been called the next-generation platform for data processing. Check out the vendors taking Hadoop to the next level.
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10 Big Tech Ideas For Retailers
January 21, 2012
Mobile and social lead the list of hot tech trends for retailers, but they had company at the National Retail Federation's Big Show 2012. Here's a basket full of ideas to check out.
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Amazon DynamoDB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment
January 19, 2012
Amazon's DynamoDB promises a database service fit even for Internet-scale companies with huge data sets. Whether big data players will give up servers comes down to economics and flexibility.
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Social, Mobile Meet Shopping: Retailers Must Scramble
January 18, 2012
If this week's National Retail Federation Big Show is any indication, social and mobile commerce are remaking the way we shop. IBM, Epicor, Microsoft and Microstrategy help retailers adjust for the trend--and profit from it.
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SAP Leads, Oracle Lags In Enterprise Apps
January 17, 2012
Strong results at SAP, Epicor and Infor present a sharp contrast to Oracle's lagging quarterly sales.
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Salesforce.com Hires Former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra
January 16, 2012
Tech visionary joins cloud apps and platform vendor as executive vice president of emerging markets.
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Oracle Strikes At SAP Hana With TimesTen Database
January 12, 2012
Promising real-time performance for transactions and analytics, Oracle's in-memory database is ready for use in the Exalytics appliance.
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Splunk Answers Business Demand For Big Data Analysis
January 11, 2012
Real-time IT tool for tracking log files, clickstreams, and message queues finds a second (more valuable) use answering business questions.
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Oracle Makes Big Data Appliance Move With Cloudera
January 10, 2012
By partnering with Hadoop software and support provider Cloudera, Oracle gets a fast start in the big data market.
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6 Rules To Help CIOs, CMOs Be Smart Partners
January 09, 2012
IT and marketing too often work at cross purposes. Here's how to end bad behavior and drive more revenue.
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Oracle's Bad Quarter: IT Spending Sign, Or Fusion Confusion?
January 05, 2012
Oracle sales shortfall has Wall Street speculating whether it's an isolated problem or indicative of tighter 2012 IT spending.
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12 Enterprise IT Resolutions For 2012
December 27, 2011
From taking mobile to the next level to preparing for a hybrid cloud world, we offer a dozen suggestions for moving toward progressive IT.
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Oracle Accused Of Lies, Extortion By N.J. University
December 16, 2011
Montclair State University lawsuit claims Oracle purposely over-promised off-the-shelf ERP functionality it couldn't deliver.
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SAP: We'll Be No. 2 Database Player By 2015
December 14, 2011
At SAP Influencer Summit in Boston, SAP unveils plans for cloud hiring spree and Hana-led database push. Can it push by IBM, Microsoft, and Teradata in just 3 years?
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SAP Tries To Leapfrog Salesforce.com On Social Analysis
December 12, 2011
SAP says NetBase partnership will help companies tap Facebook and Twitter and drive better enterprise apps decisions.
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HP-Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Eyes Regulated Enterprises
December 09, 2011
HP-Microsoft alliance lets CIOs use a hybrid approach, including private cloud with security and service levels strong enough for highly-regulated industries. Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync services are part of the offering.
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EMC Release Promises All-Purpose Big-Data Platform
December 08, 2011
EMC Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform unites relational database, Hadoop, and a mix of query and processing techniques.
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Should SAP + SuccessFactors Worry Salesforce.com?
December 05, 2011
Co-CEO Bill McDermott tells InformationWeek deal will vault SAP to No. 1 in software-as-a-service subscribers and No. 2 in SaaS revenue.
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Benioff's Dream: Toppling Microsoft, Oracle, And SAP
December 02, 2011
Salesforce.com's CEO expounds on the social revolution, cloud computing and his goal of creating a $10-billion-a-year company.
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Salesforce.com Steps Past CRM, Into Social Marketing
November 30, 2011
Radian6-powered services help companies capture, decipher, and respond to customer interactions across Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.
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5 Resolutions For Better BI in 2012
November 29, 2011
Make business intelligence easy to use, deploy, afford, administer and embed.
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More BI Packages Add Collaboration: Who Needs It?
November 21, 2011
Business intelligence vendors keep adding social features--but how many interfaces does it take to get everybody on the same page?
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2012 BI Survey: Don't Follow The Money
November 21, 2011
Instead, get ahead of it by watching the data. That's the promise of advanced analytics, and our survey respondents are intrigued. Other top trends: mobility, cloud, and multiple BI tools.
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Microsoft Ditches Dryad, Focuses On Hadoop
November 17, 2011
Microsoft drops LINQ to HPC big-data processing project, in favor of Apache's open source Hadoop platform.
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SAS CEO Jim Goodnight: Not The Retiring Type
November 16, 2011
Cloud, shmoud! Hadoop, big whoop! SAS' top executive and co-founder throws cold water on hot trends. Behind the times, or a clear-headed realist?
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Hadoop's Flexibility Wins Over Online Data Provider
November 09, 2011
RapLeaf replaced relational database workflow with Hadoop and now can make quick database changes.
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Hadoop Spurs Big Data Revolution
November 09, 2011
Open source data processing platform has won over Web giants for its low cost, scalability, and flexibility. Now Hadoop will make its way into more enterprises.
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SAP Makes Big Hana Play
November 09, 2011
In-memory technology can replace conventional databases (like Oracle) running SAP Business Warehouses.
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IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru
November 09, 2011
JPMorgan Chase makes a case for the big data platform (and career track) of the future.
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Hadoop Heat: Cloudera, NetApp Strike At EMC
November 07, 2011
Cloudera, NetApp announce partnership that promises new flexibility for big data--and new competition for EMC's Hadoop plans.
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SAP Readies Comprehensive Cloud Strategy
November 03, 2011
Co-CEO Bill McDermott says SAP is ready to "unleash the tiger" in the cloud computing market in 2012.
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Disruptive Tech Changes IT's Database Choices
October 31, 2011
From NoSQL to appliances to the blurring of column- and row-store databases, IT teams are exploring new options to wring faster insights out of their mountains of data.
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SAP Reports Record Revenue, Gains On Oracle
October 26, 2011
ERP and line-of-business apps are outpacing Oracle in all industries and market segments, says SAP co-CEO McDermott.
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IBM Beats Oracle, Microsoft With Big Data Leap
October 25, 2011
Hadoop-based InfoSphere BigInsights platform goes live on SmartCloud infrastructure, beating Oracle and Microsoft to market.
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