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SAP Loses 'Cloud DNA' As Lars Dalgaard Steps Down
May 24, 2013
SuccessFactors founder and CEO resigns from SAP Executive Board and will leave the company June 1.
Salesforce.com Shares Slide Despite Revenue Growth
May 24, 2013
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff takes the long view while Wall Street reacts to a lower-than-expected outlook.
HP CEO Whitman Keeps Calm, Carries On
May 23, 2013
Hewlett-Packard's second quarter sees big sales declines, but profits exceed forecast and CEO Whitman says problems are under control.
Hadoop 2.0: New Big Data Possibilities
May 22, 2013
Hadoop 2.0 will move beyond batch processing to support interactive, online and streaming applications. But don't let warnings about YARN tie you up in knots.
IBM Watson Gets Call Center Job
May 22, 2013
IBM Watson Engagement Advisor advises service reps or "talks" directly to customers to improve the service experience.
Tableau, Marketo Cash In With Timely IPOs
May 20, 2013
Tableau Software and Marketo ride hot trends to bank millions with IPOs that post big gains in their first day of trading.
SAP Vows Hana Is Ready To Run ERP
May 16, 2013
SAP adapts its Business Suite to Hana in record time, but customers may want more proof of success before migrating mission-critical apps.
SAP Gives ERP A Facelift
May 15, 2013
SAP CEO says beautiful, consumer-grade look and feel is top priority for Fiori, SAP's new collection of 25 HTML5 applications.
MetLife Uses NoSQL For Customer Service Breakthrough
May 13, 2013
MetLife uses 10Gen's MongoDB database to quickly integrate disparate data and deliver a consolidated view of the customer.
NetSuite Aims To Help Retailers Battle Amazon
May 10, 2013
NetSuite buys cloud-based Order Motion management application to help retailers turn stores into mini warehouses and distribution centers.
SAP Customers May Overspend By 25%
May 09, 2013
SAP costs average $1,518 per user, per year, but new research reveals that two routes to consolidation can bring big savings.
Teradata to SAP: Our Memory Is Smarter
May 09, 2013
Teradata says its hybrid 'Intelligent Memory' for data warehousing makes more sense than SAP Hana's all-in-memory approach.
SAP Cloud Push Starts With Hana
May 07, 2013
SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud service promises fast track to in-memory application and data warehouse performance.
Cray Builds A Budget-Minded Supercomputer
May 07, 2013
Cray introduces entry-level supercomputer starting at $500,000 for high-end engineering, computational modeling and simulation work.
Tivo Research Analytics Mines Big TV Data
May 06, 2013
Tivo unit combines viewership data with product sales information to show advertisers which TV shows reach the right consumers.
Salesforce Communities: Portal Killers?
May 02, 2013
Salesforce.com aims to replace legacy portal tools as it uses social and mobile connections to bring sales, service and marketing processes to business partners and consumers.
MapR Brings Search To Hadoop
May 01, 2013
MapR brings new power to HBase, taps LucidWorks to integrate Apache Lucene/Solr search into M7 Hadoop distribution.
SAS Makes Triple Play
May 01, 2013
SAS broadens High-Performance Analytics portfolio, unites formerly siloed marketing applications and adds cloud deployment flexibility.
Cloudera Impala Brings SQL Querying To Hadoop
April 30, 2013
Cloudera's SQL-on-Hadoop tool hits general release, but will it satisfy demands for faster, easier exploration of big data?
IBM Crunches Internet Of Things Data
April 29, 2013
IBM MessageSight appliance connects sensors, mobile devices for machine-to-machine data capture and real-time analysis.
Actian Acquires ParAccel, Fuel Behind Amazon RedShift
April 25, 2013
Actian adds a high-scale distributed database to a portfolio that already includes Vectorwise, Ingres, Pervasive and Versant.
EMC's Pivotal Plan: Brilliant Or Crazy?
April 25, 2013
Pivotal's ambitious plan promises next-generation cloud computing, big data, application-development and analytics capabilities. Can it succeed?
Infor Bets $500 Million On Enterprise App Refresh
April 23, 2013
Infor cranks out new user interfaces and social and cloud options for its enterprise apps to take on SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.
5 Big Wishes For Big Data Deployments
April 22, 2013
Big data project leaders still hunger for some key technology ingredients. Starting with SQL analysis, we examine the top five wants and the people working to solve those problems.
Amazon's Vogels: Big Data Belongs In The Cloud
April 22, 2013
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels predicts real-time analysis and "invisible" Hadoop capacity on demand are the future of big data computing.