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Following Up On 'Claims and Conjecture'
03.18.2010
blog author
Doug Henschen
Last week I posted a blog about "Claims, Conjecture and Outright Lies." It generated a lot of comments as well as soul searching on the part of PR professionals, software marketing types and, I'll admit, myself.

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Sandy Kemsley
IBM's (Private-Focused) Cloud Strategy
03.17.2010
Yesterday, IBM announced its cloud strategy and roadmap; I was at the analyst update last week and had a chance to hear about it first-hand from IBM execs... To be clear, there is a predominant focus on private clouds, or what some would not consider cloud at all...

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Evaluating Vendors? Kill the Spreadsheets
03.16.2010
blog author
Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Over the years, I've learned a hard truth: more details and more complexity in a scoring methodology may not deliver you the right vendor. It can occasionally do the exact opposite. Ideally you should dispense with spreadsheet scoring entirely in favor of a more practical, facilitated decision-making process.

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Rajan Chandras
Google App Store is Boon for Businesses
03.16.2010
The newly opened Google App Store isn't going to shake any foundations (yet) -- and Apple's iPhone Store it's not -- but it looks like great news for small and midsize businesses, and a step forward for cloud computing.

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Mainstream BI vs. Mainstream Predictive Analytics
03.12.2010
blog author
Cindi Howson
03.12.2010
"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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TAKE THE POLL:
What is your top current content-management priority? (choose one)
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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
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Intelligent Enterprise Awards
2010 Intelligent Enterprise Editor's choice


 


TOP STORY

Maryland Sets Data, Analysis Trends for Government
Maryland Sets Data, Analysis Trends for Government
Without a central ERP system or sophisticated BI tools, Maryland officials have nevertheless seen positive changes as a result of the StateStat program.
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Intelligent Enterprise Tech Center: Enterprise Content Management


DASHBOARD NEWS & INSIGHT

Pegasystems To Buy Chordiant For $161.5 Million
The business process management firm makes a play for a CRM player with predictive analytics prowess.

PivotLink Bows Analytic Sales, Marketing and HR Apps
Prebuilt metrics, reports and dashboards extend vendor's SaaS-based business intelligence platform.

Cloud Connect: U.S. IT In Forefront
The Cloud Connect conference opens with a warning on how the rest of the world views the U.S.-driven cloud computing phenomenon.

SAP Chiefs: Change Underway
Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe promise a significant advance in on-demand applications this year.

Progress Releases Real Time BPM Suite
The Progress Software product combines Savvion business process management technology with complex event processing and monitoring capabilities.

Data, Analysis Drive Maryland Government
Without a central ERP system or sophisticated BI tools, Maryland officials have nevertheless seen positive changes as a result of the StateStat program.

MIX10: Microsoft, PreEmptive To Launch Silverlight Analytics Tools
Microsoft's Silverlight Analytics Framework lets developers embed Web analytics. PreEmptive's Runtime Intelligence Analytics Provider works within the new framework.

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.


SPOTLIGHT
Progress Releases Real Time BPM Suite
Progress Releases Real Time BPM Suite
The Progress Software product combines Savvion business process management technology with complex event processing and monitoring capabilities.
  More >

Related Stories:
More BPM Acquisitions: Progress Buys Savvion
Progress Mixes Savvion BPM With CEP
The Beginning of the End for BPM?


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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