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Is Gartner's Quadrant the Problem, Or Is It How It's Used?
02. 8.2010
blog author
Cindi Howson
Bashing Gartner's Magic Quadrants seems to be a popular industry pastime, but in truth, I kind of like the quadrants. My biggest gripe is in how the quadrants are used, not necessarily the quadrants themselves...

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Seth Grimes
Clarabridge Asks, Are You Customer Experienced?
02. 5.2010
Add "customer" to Jimi Hendrix' song title and you have a question central to last week's Clarabridge Customer Connections (C3) conference, Are You Customer Experienced?

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Quick Thoughts on Sybase/Aleri
02. 4.2010
blog author
Curt Monash
Sybase today announced an asset purchase that amounts to a takeover of CEP (Complex Event Processing) vendor Aleri, which last year acquired Coral8. Quick reactions include...

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Seth Grimes
Visualize Balance, Visualize Change
02. 3.2010
The best BI visualizations bring out essential information that might otherwise remain hidden in data. A Washington Post visualization of President Obama's proposed $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2011 does just that. There's much to be learned from a New York Times example as well, in particular about visualizing change.

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CMIS is Here: What Does it Mean for You?
02. 3.2010
blog author
Ruth Blanco
02. 3.2010
The goal is to make content repositories interoperate by being independent of operating systems and architectures. Here's a rundown on some of the more compelling features.

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Curt Monash
Database Snooping Threatens Liberty - And We're All Making Matters Worse
02. 2.2010
Every year or two, I get back on my soapbox to say: database and analytic technology, as they evolve, will pose tremendous danger to individual liberties... This time I don't plan to be so quick to shut up.

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TAKE THE POLL:
What is your top current content-management priority? (choose one)
Ease access to information across the organization
    11%
Ensure compliance with regulations/requirements
    0%
Use text analytics to gain intelligence from content
    11%
Capture paper documents for better/faster service
    0%
Automate content-centric workflows/processes
    33%
Manage Web sites/corporate intranets/forums
    0%
Support collaboration with social networking tools
    44%

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TOP STORY

SAP: Reorg Will Restore Trust, Speed Innovation
SAP: Reorg Will Restore Trust, Speed Innovation
In the wake of the sudden resignation of CEO Leo Apotheker, company co-founder Hasso Plattner vows that a new management style will drive technical innovation.
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Intelligent Enterprise Tech Center: Enterprise Content Management


DASHBOARD NEWS & INSIGHT

IBM Releases Cognos Analytics Upgrades
TM1 in-memory engine supports dynamic scenario planning. Prebuilt blueprints tackle retail and insurance planning and profit analysis.

SAP: Reorg Will Restore Trust, Speed Innovation
In the wake of the sudden resignation of CEO Leo Apotheker, company co-founder Hasso Plattner vows that a new management style will drive technical innovation.

SAP CEO Apotheker Resigns; Co-CEOs Named
The enterprise software powerhouse has put the company in the hands of co-CEOs Bill McDermott, currently leader of its field organization, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development.

Sybase Acquires Event Processing Vendor Aleri
Deal complements Sybase IQ analytic database with real-time stream analysis technology.

Air Force Seeks Secure Cloud Computing
In a 10-month project, the Air Force has contracted IBM to design a cloud computing environment that can recognize security threats and adapt on the fly.

IBM Acquires MDM Vendor Initiate Systems
Deal echoes Informatica's recent purchase of Siperian.

Gartner Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant Rankles SAP
Vendor calls BusinessObjects "ability to execute" rating into question.

Information Builders Upgrades RStat Analytics Module
Neural network and survival analysis algorithms bolster predictive scoring capabilities.




MUST READS

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.

Review: Google Wave An Experimental Ride
The collaboration system combines e-mail, instant messaging, message boards, Wikis, and document-sharing tools -- to create something completely new.

SaaS-Based BI Tracks Rossignol Ski and Snowboard Sales
Executives and managers bypass ERP, tapping marketing, sales and inventory business intelligence.

Analytics at Work: Q&A with Tom Davenport
In a preview of his follow-up to "Competing on Analytics," co-author and business guru Tom Davenport explores what it takes to move to analytic decision-making.

Intelligent Enterprise 2010 Event Calendar
If it's about information management, business intelligence, enterprise applications, processes or architecture, it's listed in our annual guide to technology events. Make your plans for the can't-miss conferences, expos and summits of 2010.




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