July 17, 2012
Truly successful BI projects will look like IT project failures to many people. For anyone used to delivering traditional IT systems (desktop productivity, back office and front office automation, data entry systems, etc.), BI has always seemed frustrating. The model of defining requirements, delivering requirements, and then maintaining the system over a three to five year life span just doesn’t seem to work in BI. Many BI practitioners, particularly first-time implementers, will report with a large degree of frustration, “Every time we give them what they asked for, they come back with changes in their requirements; we never seem to get it right, they can’t tell us exactly what they need, and we can’t keep up.”
Blogs, Featured Blogs
July 16, 2012
I keep hearing the words “In Memory Database,” and that’s not surprising, because there are now more in-memory database products than there used to be, and it’s beginning to look like some of these products will become mainstream.
July 16, 2012
What’s the first step in building a successful business intelligence (BI) dashboard?
July 16, 2012
There may be no end in sight to the ongoing Secure Boot Saga in the Windows 8 world, but the same, alas, cannot be said for Mozilla’s Thunderbird.
No, as was apparently prematurely revealed by a leaked email earlier this month, the “end” for the desktop email client may be all too near now that it’s no longer “a priority for Mozilla’s product efforts.” Rather, while security maintenance updates for the software will continue, any further feature development is being turned over to the community.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
July 12, 2012
While IT pros have always needed to present a persuasive argument for new technology purchases when seeking approval from the company bean counters, today’s challenging/stagnant/doo-doo-like economy has made that requirement more demanding than ever. It’s not enough to just lay out the numbers and let the anticipated ROI and improved efficiency/productivity figures validate the wisdom of a new IT investment.
July 10, 2012
It’s not exactly any secret that Linux dominates the world of high-performance computing, so perhaps it should go without saying that last week’s exciting Higgs Boson announcement would involve Linux in some not-insignificant way.
The reality, however, turns out to be far greater than marginal significance.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
July 9, 2012
Wolf Toss is now pushing 1.8 million installs, and I’ve previously described how we brought it out simultaneously on iOS, Android, and the Chrome Web Store, the differences we saw between these platforms, and the challenges and opportunities unique to each.
Featured Blogs
July 9, 2012
Some 47 years ago, the US federal government was considering a secretive plan to consolidate its data centers into a single mega-center, thereby eliminating all the agency silos that were springing up.
Featured Blogs
July 8, 2012
Enterprise social networks that provide privacy, security and collaboration in a private health community built around both people and subject matters will be the thing that accelerates social media adoption faster than any technology trend that has ever touched healthcare.
July 2, 2012
Informatica 9.5 is scheduled to be available by month-end, with additional capabilities coming by year-end. It’s a major release for the integration vendor, driven by what Informatica sees as the three major Big Data problems enterprises face: using social data, data in the cloud and Hadoop datasets. Informatica’s chief marketing officer, Chris Boorman, explains in this interview with IT Business Edge’s Loraine Lawson.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
July 2, 2012
Datameer is offering a free license of their software for qualifying academic research. The world of biology is experiencing the availability of larger and larger data sets, especially gene sequences. With software like Datameer, biologists are able to make full use of all this information, without being computer savy.
June 28, 2012
There are many topics that tend to come up in a recurring manner around water coolers throughout the Linux blogosphere, and not just the great “Year of” debate, either. No indeed, another shining example more than a little familiar to most of us who spend any time here is the much-abused command line — specifically, whether it’s outlived its usefulness in this era of the GUI.
Well guess what? The debate is back!
Blogs, Featured Blogs, SOCIAL BUSINESS
June 26, 2012
In insurance risk management there’s a lot of data and users need to analyze it quickly and effectively. With Origami, we were trying to achieve a seamless user experience for the analytics where it was very easy for any risk manager to drive into the data. We wanted to be able to embed a reporting tool into our application so it still looks like Origami and is very easy for the risk manager to use, but also has powerful dashboard and reporting capabilities.
Blogs, Featured Blogs, SOCIAL BUSINESS
June 25, 2012
Enterprise applications deployed on mobile devices extend the user interface of existing business applications, unlike the consumer applications that we download from the mobile app markets, which are designed to operate within the domain of the mobile device and seldom access information or business processes external to the device.
Featured Blogs
June 22, 2012
Digital marketers know they must measure and optimize all of their efforts, with the goal of increasing sales. They must also be able to prove a positive return on their investments. That said, digital marketers are constantly on the hunt for the latest technologies to help with both.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
June 21, 2012
For decades we have been focusing on the architecture of data; now the time has come to turn our attention to the economics of data. . .
Featured Blogs
June 20, 2012
Introducing APM Insight (for Java) – which gives you unmatched visibility into J2EE web transactions, user satisfaction measurements with Apdex scores, transaction traces and performance metrics of all Java/ J2EE components starting from EJB to URLs to SQL queries. And all this is combined with better troubleshooting capabilities.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
June 18, 2012
With all the recurring debates and “year of” discussions that tend to take place on a regular basis here in the Linux blogosphere, it’s hard not to suffer frequent pangs of deja vu even on the best of days.
Last week, however, was not the best of weeks, at least not for one Linux user by the name of Norma, who had an experience eerily reminiscent of one Linux Girl remembers writing about back in 2010.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
June 15, 2012
Sears is using big data to help set prices – nearly in real time — and move inventory by giving loyalty shoppers customized coupons.
Featured Blogs
June 14, 2012
Just in the last post, we were discussing how even some of the world’s mightiest enterprises were falling prey to hackers. Now comes the bad news about the security breach in LinkedIn!
Reports claim that over 6.46 million hashed passwords stolen from LinkedIn have been published on a Russian forum. In a blog post, LinkedIn has confirmed the security breach, but remains silent on the magnitude: “We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts. We are continuing to investigate this situation”, says the post.
June 13, 2012
Online genealogy service Ancestry.com is trying to become like the Amazon or Netflix of family trees. Much like those companies use customer data to recommend products or movies customers might like, Ancestry.com wants to feed its users relevant historical records and other information on ancestors without making them search through its database.
Featured Blogs
June 12, 2012
The CIO of NASA, Linda Cureton, says the U.S. space agency has saved almost a million dollars by moving IT infrastructure to the cloud. It has closed 20 datacenters so far.
June 11, 2012
These days, everyone is griping talking about business intelligence. Business users are all clamoring for better insight into their data, and their demand is growing. And oh, by the way, it’s IT’s job to deliver it. We feel your pain. So help us know more about what IT professionals like you are REALLY thinking when it comes to BI….
Blogs, Featured Blogs
June 11, 2012
Oracle added to its growing portfolio of social-media software Tuesday by agreeing to buy Collective Intellect, a maker of analytics tools that monitor consumers’ activity across social media.
The purchase comes less than two weeks after the technology giant bought Vitrue, which helps marketers publish and monitor social-media content. The company didn’t disclose financial terms for either deal.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
June 11, 2012
Well it’s been a jubilant few weeks here in the Linux blogosphere, thanks largely to some of the spectacularly sane decisions coming out of the tempestuous case of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) v. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG).
Blogs, Featured Blogs
June 4, 2012
Launched more than nine years ago, our flagship product, Logi Info, has been adopted by more than 1,000 organizations worldwide to address reporting and analytics challenges across all industries.
Most customers choose LogiXML for the ability to quickly assemble and embed custom web-based analytical applications. However, more and more customers are finding our out-of-the-box “Super Elements” instrumental in quickly addressing “last mile” needs where some users want a more flexible sandbox to perform ad-hoc analysis and reporting in a self-service manner.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
June 1, 2012
There are two prominent cloud technology strategies these days. First: Let’s copy everything Amazon Web Services (AWS) is doing. (You know who you are!) Second: Let’s rebrand our old technology as a private cloud.
Featured Blogs, News
June 1, 2012
BonitaSoft, the leader in open source business process management (BPM), today announced that Miguel Valdés-Faura, Chief Executive Officer, has been selected to speak at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) on July 17th in Portland, Oregon. Miguel will share his observations on how to build a successful open source software business based on his experience with his company BonitaSoft, which he founded in 2010 and has since expanded internationally with a customer base of over 350 organizations.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
June 1, 2012
I recently copied my music library from a server sitting in my garage to Google Play in the cloud. Well, most of it anyway. After a week of round the clock uploading, I still had a few thousand tracks left on my hard drive when I hit Google’s quota limit.
Featured Blogs
May 29, 2012
Numbers consistently drive the business of selling. Sales managers love numbers, and have different ways to use them to demonstrate the success of their team through conversion rates, sales growth and just about anything that can be converted into a digit. However, the metrics are only as valuable as the methodology behind the measurements. If the underlying method is misaligned, none of this matters.
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