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Mainstream BI vs. Mainstream Predictive Analytics
03.12.2010
blog author
Cindi Howson
"Mainstream BI" continues to be more vision than reality, but how about mainstream analytics? This week, visualization and analytics vendor TIBCO Spotfire took one step closer to making that a reality with its 3.1 release.

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Curt Monash
Cassandra and the NoSQL Scalable OLTP Argument
03.10.2010
Todd Hoff put up a provocative post on High Scalability called "MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era?"... It seems as if the super-scalable Web site biz has moved beyond MySQL/Memcached...

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Sifting Through Competitive Claims & Conjecture
03.10.2010
blog author
Doug Henschen
I've certainly had to sort through a lot of dubious competitive claims in the last week. As a journalist, I have many years of experience hearing ill-informed assertions, half truths and occasional bald-faced lies. I usually know BS when I hear it. Sometimes I'm still taken off guard.

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Sandy Kemsley
Progress Mixes Savvion BPM With CEP
03. 9.2010
Progress Software CTO John Bates showed survey results stating that companies want real-time business visibility, immediate sense-and-respond capabilities, and continuous business process improvement in a cycle of responsive process management. Yeah, and I want a pony for Christmas...

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BPMN 2.0 Update
03. 5.2010
blog author
Bruce Silver
03. 5.2010
Last month, Robert Shapiro delivered an update on progress toward completing both XPDL 2.2 and BPMN 2.0... I would just add a couple points to the discussion. The first regards an explicit sorting of BPMN 2.0 shapes and symbols into subclasses...

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Cindi Howson
SAS Exudes Confidence at Analyst Summit
03. 3.2010
I'm just back from the SAS 19th annual analyst summit... With IBM having acquired SPSS, SAS's closest (but distant) competitor in advanced analytics, I thought there would be more attention on how this acquisition will affect SAS's strategy and market dynamics. And yet, it sounded almost like a nonevent...

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TAKE THE POLL:
What is your top current content-management priority? (choose one)
Ease access to information across the organization
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Ensure compliance with regulations/requirements
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Use text analytics to gain intelligence from content
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Capture paper documents for better/faster service
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Automate content-centric workflows/processes
    38%
Manage Web sites/corporate intranets/forums
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Support collaboration with social networking tools
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Intelligent Enterprise Awards
2010 Intelligent Enterprise Editor's choice


 


TOP STORY

Q&A: MicroStrategy On BI Performance and Mobility
Q&A: MicroStrategy On BI Performance and Mobility
COO Sanju Bansal talks about smart phone capabilities, analytics, dashboards and the dirty secret in business intelligence: slow query response times. More >

Intelligent Enterprise Tech Center: Enterprise Content Management


DASHBOARD NEWS & INSIGHT

Tibco Brings Analytics to Spotfire Business Users
Spotfire Statistics Services option exposes S+ and R models within a layman's data-analysis and data-visualization environment.

Google Launches Store For Web Apps
The Google Apps Marketplace will let third-party developers sell their Web apps to Google Apps customers.

Cast Iron Launches Cloud Integration Platform
Combining data synchronization with process-support and mashup capabilities, OmniConnect addresses on-premise-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud integration.

Google Debuts Public Data Explorer
The company's latest visualization experiment lets users create their own charts and graphs using public data.

Teradata Boosts Data Warehouse Appliance Speed
Built-in speed enhancers include a subsystem that increases processor interconnect bandwidth by 2.5 times over previous generations of the appliance.

RightNow Challenges SaaS Vendors On Pricing
Software-as-a-service vendor RightNow challenges other on-demand suppliers to get on the cloud pricing model.

MySQL's Urlocker Joins Revolution Board
Zack Urlocker has left Oracle to join the predictive analystics startup, REvolution Computing.

Microsoft Office Heads For The Cloud
Steve Ballmer says his company's popular productivity suite is evolving to take advantage of Web-based computing.


SPOTLIGHT
Expert Analysis: You Can Predict That R Will Succeed
Expert Analysis: You Can Predict That R Will Succeed
Adoption by IBM SPSS, SAS and Information Builders can't hurt. But REvolution Computing may do for R what RedHat did for Linux.
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MUST READS

Kimball University: Three ETL Compromises to Avoid
Why neglecting slowly changing dimensions, failing to capture metadata and overlooking scope creep can be the undoing of a dimensional data warehousing initiative.

Q&A With IBM's New Top Executive at SPSS
Marketing veteran Deepak Advani talks about predictive analytics and Big Blue's coming decision-management offerings.

Upstart Vendors Keep Data Warehousing Competitive
Announcements from Aster Data, Kognitio, ParAccel and Vertica highlight a healthy and growing market for data analysis alternatives.

Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards 2010
Intelligent Enterprise names 'The Dozen' most influential vendors for the intelligent enterprise and 36 'Companies to Watch' in 2010.

Text Analytics Drives Customer Insight
By uniting intelligence from customer surveys and social media with conventional business intelligence, companies are moving beyond transactions to understand customer behavior.

Why You Need A SaaS Strategy
Too many CIOs take an ad hoc approach to software as a service. That won't cut it as SaaS use expands.

What CMIS Will Do for Content Integration
Will unstructured content be the next frontier for BI? There's hope that Content Management Integration Services (CMIS) will do for content what SQL did for databases.




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