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Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

Posted May 25, 2012 - 11:03 am

A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.
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For Univ. of Kentucky, SAP's HANA is 'disruptive'

Posted May 17, 2012 - 8:55 pm

The University of Kentucky says it has reshaped its business intelligence capability by adopting SAP's in-memory system, HANA.
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Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation

Posted May 17, 2012 - 5:45 pm

About two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyze vast amounts of data from multiple repositories scattered throughout the company.
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SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

Posted May 16, 2012 - 10:23 am

SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.
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How to avoid big data spending pitfalls

Posted May 9, 2012 - 7:25 am

The Big Data hype machine is in full swing. While the promise is great, Big Data projects also can be an expensive trap if you fail to prove the business case or give your vendors leverage over you.
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IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

Posted May 7, 2012 - 3:33 pm

The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from US$77 million in 2011 to $812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 percent, according to a new report released Monday by analyst firm IDC.
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Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

Posted May 7, 2012 - 12:06 am

Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Monday.
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IBM melds crime-fighting, big data analytics in one security package

Posted May 2, 2012 - 7:22 am

IBM today came out with its first iteration of the analytics software package that it expects will help law enforcement, government agencies and private businesses wade through the massive amounts of data they collect to help them predict, disrupt and prevent criminal, terrorist and fraudulent activities.
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SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA

Posted May 1, 2012 - 12:31 pm

SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of "falsehoods."
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SAS Institute Eyes the Big Data Market

Posted April 30, 2012 - 4:53 pm

COMPANY: SAS Institute
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IBM aquires Vivisimo to advance its big data analytics

Posted April 26, 2012 - 9:46 am

IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based Vivisimo. The privately held company is a provider of federated discovery and navigation software that helps organizations access and analyze big data across the enterprise. Financial terms for the deal were not disclosed.
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Canonical gears Linux upgrade to the cloud

Posted April 26, 2012 - 8:45 am

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS will feature the Essex release of the OpenStack cloud fabric layer
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Amazon Web Services offers one-click purchase of cloud apps from IBM, SAP, others

Posted April 19, 2012 - 9:06 am

Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a new online marketplace that allows customers to buy software and services from a variety of vendors at hourly rates through its cloud infrastructure platform.
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IBM acquires Varicent Software

Posted April 13, 2012 - 10:54 am

Adding to its already considerable line of analysis software and expertise, IBM announced Friday that it has acquired business intelligence software provider Varicent Software.
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SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile

Posted April 10, 2012 - 3:47 pm

SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle and IBM.
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Oracle's Mark Hurd spells out analytics vision

Posted April 4, 2012 - 2:44 pm

Oracle rolled out a series of announcements aimed at portraying itself as the industry's dominant player in business analytics on Wednesday, as well as one relevant to customers of rival SAP.
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Shell Oil targets hybrid cloud as fix for energy-saving, agile IT

Posted April 4, 2012 - 9:34 am

To address soaring data storage and major power consumption issues, Shell Oil has turned to the public cloud to become more agile in deploying application and development services.
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Google: Businesses could benefit from location-based intelligence

Posted April 3, 2012 - 12:16 pm

Nearly three quarters of IT decision makers are failing to make effective use of mapping technology in their businesses, according to Sanjay Patel, head of enterprise GEO at Google.
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SAP goes after SAS, IBM with predictive analytics software

Posted April 3, 2012 - 11:52 am

SAP is hoping to stake out some turf in the predictive analytics software market with a new application, BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis software, which was announced Tuesday.
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Information Builders gives its BI platform more cloud-like capabilities

Posted April 2, 2012 - 9:02 am

Information Builders has added a range of improvements to its WebFocus BI (business intelligence) platform that will make it more appealing to ISVs that want to offer it as a cloud service, the company announced Tuesday.
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SAS promises pervasive BI with new tool

Posted March 26, 2012 - 1:57 pm

SAS Institute this week unveiled new technology designed to allow a broad swath of enterprise users to do advanced analytics on massive volumes of data.
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Oracle set to update analytics strategy, go after SAP customers

Posted March 23, 2012 - 3:12 pm

Oracle co-President Mark Hurd is scheduled to reveal new details about the vendor's BI (business intelligence) and analytics strategy, including new applications aimed at SAP customers, during an event on April 4.
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IBM: Puzzles provide clues to better analysis

Posted March 22, 2012 - 5:14 pm

Today's large-scale data analysis may be a high-tech undertaking, but smart data scientists can improve their craft by observing how simple low-tech picture puzzles are solved, said an IBM scientist at the GigaOm conference.
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Google's BigQuery brings big data to the cloud

Posted March 21, 2012 - 3:20 pm

While most of the talk around big data assumes such systems will be deployed in-house, Google is building a service that will allow for analyzing large amounts of data in the cloud.
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IBM unveils new analysis packages

Posted March 20, 2012 - 12:10 am

IBM has unveiled three packages of services and software to help organizations analyze their data for profit and improved efficiency.
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