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Oracle expands data sources for business intelligence software

Posted April 8, 2013 - 4:42 pm

Oracle has revised two of its business intelligence products, giving users the ability to wrest intelligence from a wider range of data sources, including spreadsheets, social media sites and Hadoop deployments.
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Oracle updates Primavera project portfolio management software

Posted April 8, 2013 - 3:41 pm

Oracle has rolled out a series of upgrades and new features for the PPM (project portfolio management) software suite it gained through the 2008 acquisition of Primavera.
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Does big data spell the end of business intelligence as we know it?

Posted April 2, 2013 - 1:54 pm

Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding.
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Sprint Enables Intelligent Enterprise

Posted April 1, 2013 - 6:15 pm

A leader in the highly competitive mobile communications market, Sprint, needed to implement an end-to-end IT management solution to automate the handling of incidents and service desk processes.
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Introducing Social Business for the Mid-Market

Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:15 pm

This report provides directional guidance for mid-market companies to appropriately use Social Business and achieve these goals.
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IDC Report: The Future of eMail is Social

Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:15 pm

This paper discusses the changing nature of collaboration and work fueled by the social Web by examining current email trends and the emergence of new social collaboration tools.
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Using IBM Social Business to Take Your Business Relationships to the Next Level: A Game Changer for Small, Medium, and Large Businesses

Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:15 pm

This IBM Redguide publication provides information about IBM Social Business and includes details about the business need and the value of transformation to a social business.
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IBV Study: the Business of Social Business

Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:15 pm
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Analyst Whitepaper: Beyond Business as Usual

Posted April 1, 2013 - 11:00 am

Social Communications Traverses workflows and accelerates business
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Returns of Connections in support of Social Business

Posted April 1, 2013 - 11:00 am

The benefits of becoming a social business today
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VCC is Leading construction company penetrates new markets

Posted April 1, 2013 - 11:00 am

Configurability and Mobility are "must-haves"
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Gaining and Executing a Smarter Understanding of Customers

Posted April 1, 2013 - 11:00 am

This article discusses the urgent need for firms to successfully engage with customers, including handling issues such as social media and mobility, and at accomplishing this goal with smarter IBM collaboration and CRM solutions.
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Cognos Express: A Step-by-Step Approach to Successful Business Intelligence

Posted April 1, 2013 - 11:00 am

Organizations that have the most success with BI typically approach it incrementally. Discover a step-by-step strategy for success in this newsletter featuring research from Gartner.
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5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

Posted April 1, 2013 - 10:47 am

Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn’t pay
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The Great Video Conferencing Debate: Cost Vs. Quality

Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:15 am

With new video conferencing solutions available for small and medium businesses, it is possible to have a higher standard of video conferencing without the quality issues presented by consumer products.
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On-Demand KPIs & Interactive Data Visualizations in 30 Days, Featuring Pareto

Posted March 30, 2013 - 12:15 pm

Join this webinar Thursday, April 11, 2:00PM EDT to learn how Pareto was able to provide on-demand KPIs and enable their mobile workforce in less than 30 days.
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BPO Agility - Instantly Adapt to Changing Market Demands

Posted March 27, 2013 - 2:15 pm

Competition and customer demands force Business Process Outsourcers to continually improve services and offer them at a low price. To stay ahead, many BPOs leverage technology solutions to allow them to remain flexible.
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Dell's Fluid Data Architecture vs NetApp's Scale Out Technology

Posted March 25, 2013 - 12:00 am

In storage, scale-out systems are becoming a popular option to deal with rapid data growth and file data is growing the fastest, making network-attached storage
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How smart crowds are solving big data problems

Posted March 22, 2013 - 3:33 pm

Businesses and government agencies are using data science crowdsourced sites, such as Kaggle, to solve real problems.
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Hosted VoIP - Save from Day One

Posted March 22, 2013 - 3:00 pm

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Surviving the Business Equivalent of the Zombie Apocalypse

Posted March 22, 2013 - 3:00 pm

More than 43% of businesses that close following a natural disaster never reopen, and an additional 29% of businesses close down permanently within two years of the event.
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When Disaster Tests Your Business, Cloud Can Save It

Posted March 22, 2013 - 1:45 pm

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6 Ways Your Small Business Can Save: Internet Phone Service

Posted March 22, 2013 - 1:45 pm

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Hosted VoIP - Save from Day One

Posted March 22, 2013 - 1:45 pm

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Hosted VoIP - Save from Day One

Posted March 22, 2013 - 1:45 pm

Hosted VoIP is one of the fastest growing technologies being adopted by small businesses today. The cost savings and enhanced features are hard to beat.
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