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Tableau, Marketo Cash In With Timely IPOs

May 20, 2013 10:02 AM

Tableau Software and Marketo ride hot trends to bank millions with IPOs that post big gains in their first day of trading.

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SAP Vows Hana Is Ready To Run ERP

May 16, 2013 12:02 PM

SAP adapts its Business Suite to Hana in record time, but customers may want more proof of success before migrating mission-critical apps.

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SAP Gives ERP A Facelift

May 15, 2013 09:11 AM

SAP CEO says beautiful, consumer-grade look and feel is top priority for Fiori, SAP's new collection of 25 HTML5 applications.

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MetLife Uses NoSQL For Customer Service Breakthrough

May 13, 2013 10:03 AM

MetLife uses 10Gen's MongoDB database to quickly integrate disparate data and deliver a consolidated view of the customer.

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NetSuite Aims To Help Retailers Battle Amazon

May 10, 2013 02:32 PM

NetSuite buys cloud-based Order Motion management application to help retailers turn stores into mini warehouses and distribution centers.

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SAP Customers May Overspend By 25%

May 09, 2013 10:20 AM

SAP costs average $1,518 per user, per year, but new research reveals that two routes to consolidation can bring big savings.

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Teradata to SAP: Our Memory Is Smarter

May 09, 2013 09:06 AM

Teradata says its hybrid 'Intelligent Memory' for data warehousing makes more sense than SAP Hana's all-in-memory approach.

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SAP Cloud Push Starts With Hana

May 07, 2013 01:18 PM

SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud service promises fast track to in-memory application and data warehouse performance.

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Cray Builds A Budget-Minded Supercomputer

May 07, 2013 09:06 AM

Cray introduces entry-level supercomputer starting at $500,000 for high-end engineering, computational modeling and simulation work.

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Tivo Research Analytics Mines Big TV Data

May 06, 2013 11:35 AM

Tivo unit combines viewership data with product sales information to show advertisers which TV shows reach the right consumers.

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Salesforce Communities: Portal Killers?

May 02, 2013 09:15 AM

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.

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MapR Brings Search To Hadoop

May 01, 2013 02:07 PM

MapR brings new power to HBase, taps LucidWorks to integrate Apache Lucene/Solr search into M7 Hadoop distribution.

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SAS Makes Triple Play

May 01, 2013 09:06 AM

SAS broadens High-Performance Analytics portfolio, unites formerly siloed marketing applications and adds cloud deployment flexibility.

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Cloudera Impala Brings SQL Querying To Hadoop

April 30, 2013 09:15 AM

Cloudera's SQL-on-Hadoop tool hits general release, but will it satisfy demands for faster, easier exploration of big data?

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IBM Crunches Internet Of Things Data

April 29, 2013 01:26 PM

IBM MessageSight appliance connects sensors, mobile devices for machine-to-machine data capture and real-time analysis.

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Actian Acquires ParAccel, Fuel Behind Amazon RedShift

April 25, 2013 12:32 PM

Actian adds a high-scale distributed database to a portfolio that already includes Vectorwise, Ingres, Pervasive and Versant.

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EMC's Pivotal Plan: Brilliant Or Crazy?

April 25, 2013 09:35 AM

Pivotal's ambitious plan promises next-generation cloud computing, big data, application-development and analytics capabilities. Can it succeed?

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Infor Bets $500 Million On Enterprise App Refresh

April 23, 2013 09:35 AM

Infor cranks out new user interfaces and social and cloud options for its enterprise apps to take on SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.

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5 Big Wishes For Big Data Deployments

April 22, 2013 09:06 AM

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.

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Amazon's Vogels: Big Data Belongs In The Cloud

April 22, 2013 09:06 AM

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels predicts real-time analysis and "invisible" Hadoop capacity on demand are the future of big data computing.

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Bio

Doug Henschen is Executive Editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence, big data and analytics. He previously served as editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise, editor in chief of Transform Magazine, and Executive Editor at DM News. He has covered IT and data-driven marketing for more than 15 years.

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By The Numbers

Base: 417 respondents at organizations using or planning to deploy data analytics, BI or statistical analysis software
Data: InformationWeek 2013 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey of 541 business technology professionals, October 2012

What Do You Think?

What's your attitude about SQL analysis on top of Hadoop?

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Research: The Big Data Management Challenge

The challenge of big data is real, but most organizations don't differentiate 'big data' from traditional data, and nearly 90% of respondents to our survey use conventional databases as the primary means of handling data. We'll help you understand what constitutes big data (it's not just size) and the numerous management challenges it poses.

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Doug Henschen

Articles

Tableau, Marketo Cash In With Timely IPOs

SAP Vows Hana Is Ready To Run ERP

SAP Gives ERP A Facelift

MetLife Uses NoSQL For Customer Service Breakthrough

NetSuite Aims To Help Retailers Battle Amazon

SAP Customers May Overspend By 25%

Teradata to SAP: Our Memory Is Smarter

SAP Cloud Push Starts With Hana

Cray Builds A Budget-Minded Supercomputer

Tivo Research Analytics Mines Big TV Data

Salesforce Communities: Portal Killers?

MapR Brings Search To Hadoop

SAS Makes Triple Play

Cloudera Impala Brings SQL Querying To Hadoop

IBM Crunches Internet Of Things Data

Actian Acquires ParAccel, Fuel Behind Amazon RedShift

EMC's Pivotal Plan: Brilliant Or Crazy?

Infor Bets $500 Million On Enterprise App Refresh

5 Big Wishes For Big Data Deployments

Amazon's Vogels: Big Data Belongs In The Cloud

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