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11.18.2009 Companies used to employ armies of people to read through documents such as customer satisfaction surveys, but it took longer, cost a lot more money and yielded far less detailed, reliable and consistent information than you can now quickly uncover using text mining applications. Read more from Doug Henschen >> Is the SharePoint Bubble Going to Burst? 11.18.2009
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11.17.2009 Complex event processing (CEP) is the next big thing in data integration. At least that's the game plan at Microsoft and Informatica. And given that IBM and Oracle also have CEP available on their technology toolbelts, there's little doubt that success will breed more adaptations of CEP for low-latency data integration. Read more from Doug Henschen >> True BI for the Masses 11.16.2009
BI for the Masses is overused marketing-speak meant to suggest that Vendor X's break-out Product Y is going to enable/deliver business intelligence beyond the 15%-20% of knowledge workers who currently do BI. Well, I have my own notion of BI for the Masses, and it is NOT what it's typically claimed to be. What it is is illustrated by a couple of recent New York Times data visualizations... Read more from Seth Grimes >>
11.13.2009 One HR professional at a major healthcare firm told me this week that enterprise content management-skilled applicants are looking for approximately 40% more in base pay than their peers with a background in CRM or ERP... My advice (unchanged over the years) is to... Read more from Alan Pelz-Sharpe >>
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IBM and Informatica Take Next Steps Toward Cloud Delivery As the cloud model matures, new offerings pave the way for shared analytic insight and services-based data integration. Interop: CIOs Eye Cloud With Optimistic Caution The consensus of the Enterprise Cloud Summit panel was that the cloud promises reduced costs and added IT flexibility, but significant legal and technical challenges remain. Microsoft Launches Azure Beta Ray Ozzie and Robert Muglia present Microsoft's Azure cloud services at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Clarabridge Upgrades Text Analytics For Customer-Feedback Apps Clarabridge Enterprise 4 includes the addition of an ad-hoc uploader, upgrades to the natural language processing and sentiment engines, new collaboration tools in the classification suite and built-in alerts. Truviso Upgrades Real-Time Analytics Product Continuous Analytics v3.2, aimed at advertising networks, Web publishers, and other digital service providers, tracks sets of Web visitors for almost any segment or dimension. The sets are continually updated as new Web log, page tag or beacon data is added to the system. Oracle Updates Berkeley Database Oracle has brought out a fourth version of the Berkeley DB Java Edition database system with enhanced performance and replication. Informatica 9: Another Step Toward Next-Era Data Integration Collaboration, data quality and data services functionality moves Informatica beyond its batch-oriented roots. IBM Pushes Business Analytics To Feds Big Blue's newest research center focused on tools to improve decision making in D.C.
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 Law enforcement agencies adopt new tools in an effort to be more proactive in getting resources where they're most needed.
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