Commentary
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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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Big Data Alchemy: Turn Info Into Money
May 14, 2013 09:06 AM Data markets could become a new market category. Here, companies buy, sell or trade data for mutual benefit.
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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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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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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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Attend E2, Conquer Your Enterprise Challenges
April 25, 2013 12:57 PM Social, mobile, cloud and big data all can help you move more quickly and reach new customers. For the latest wisdom on how, join us at the E2 Conference in Boston.
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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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As Innovation Competitions Grow, Prize Money Shrinks
April 18, 2013 09:06 AM Latest crowdsourced contests aim to attract data scientists with $100,000 prizes -- not yesterday's millions.
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Big Data Fakers: 5 Warning Signs
April 16, 2013 09:06 AM Data falsification at research institutions to make results look better is nothing new. Here's what it can teach us about misuse of big data in business.
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Oracle Cuts Big Data Appliance Down To Size
April 10, 2013 09:06 AM Few big data deployments start really big, so Oracle's new six-node 'Starter Rack' Big Data Appliance stores 216 terabytes and costs $160,000.
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HP's Rebound: When Will Distractions End?
April 05, 2013 12:19 PM After HP Chairman Ray Lane steps down, fresh Autonomy and Itanium distractions lie ahead. Customers just want strategic clarity.
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Inside IBM's Big Data, Hadoop Moves
April 03, 2013 12:58 PM IBM DB2 adds in-memory analysis and compression tricks, while PureData System for Hadoop arrives as an appliance. But will IBM beat other tortoises in the Hadoop race?
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7 Insights On Hiring Data Gurus
April 02, 2013 09:58 AM Our newest salary survey shows analytics and data-management professionals are in big demand. Whether you are hiring or job hunting, consider these pointers for your search.
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The Rise And Stall Of Social Media Listening
March 18, 2013 12:45 PM These 5 research-oriented steps help you select the right social listening measures and design analyses that link data to desired outcomes.
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What Will Salesforce.com Buy With $1 Billion?
March 13, 2013 09:06 AM Salesforce.com is raising money to fund acquisitions. We're thinking digital marketing and big data companies might be on the target list.
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SAS Upgrades Visual Analytics App
March 12, 2013 09:29 AM SAS strategy for big data, cloud and mobile includes one-click deployment of analytic apps in the cloud.
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New Technologies Require New Organizational Approaches
March 11, 2013 09:06 AM The cloud, mobile and big data movements put a premium on speed and innovation, not just efficiency and security.
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Kaggle Winners Tapped As Data Analytics Consultants
March 07, 2013 09:40 AM Building on its crowdsourcing competitions, Kaggle adds a consulting option. But are brilliant data scientists necessarily gifted advisers?
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What's Excel's Place In Big Data Age?
March 04, 2013 11:45 AM Microsoft has its own opinion. But do CIOs want to make Excel the analytics engine for the masses?
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6 Big Data Advances: Some Might Be Giants
March 01, 2013 09:06 AM In a full week for big data news, EMC, Intel and Revolution Analytics announcements stand out.
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
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