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    1. AT&T Watson Vs. Apple Siri: Talkin' About a Smackdown?

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 20 2012)

      AT&T Watson Vs. Apple Siri: Talkin' About a Smackdown? AT&T Labs says its Watson speech recognition technologies have been around for more than 20 years, and come this June, it will put APIs and SDKs in the hands of developers who want to give users a way to interact with smartphones, TVs and other devices using their voices. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   IBM   ERP

    2. Google Extends Cloud Print Service

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 19 2012)

      Google Extends Cloud Print Service Users will now be able to print out documents remotely at FedEx Office locations (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York   Google   ERP

    3. Aberdeen Group: Agile BI: Complementing Traditional BI to Address the ...

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 18 2012) Agile BI news

      This Aberdeen Group report examines the pros and cons of different BI approaches. In these survey results, Aberdeen split respondents into three groups. One used a traditional BI approach. The second group used a combination of traditional BI complemented by more visual and interactive tools, and the third group exclusively used visual/interactive. See how organizational performance compared based on the type of BI approach deployed. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   aberdeen group   Aberdeen

    4. Big Data Analytics: Profiling the Use of Analytical Platforms in User ...

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 18 2012)

      This report examines the rise of "big data" and the use of analytics to mine that data. Most business intelligence (BI) tools are struggling to keep up with the demands of big data. A new unified architecture leverages new analytical technology to stage, store and process large volumes of structured and unstructured data, turbo-charge sluggish data warehouses, and offload complex analytical queries. (Read Full Article)

    5. Tuesday's Gmail Outage Broader Than Originally Reported

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 18 2012)

      Tuesday's Gmail Outage Broader Than Originally Reported The number of affected users likely topped 30 million (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Microsoft   SAP

    6. 7 Top Tools for Taming Big Data

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 18 2012)

      7 Top Tools for Taming Big Data Top-flight reporting, analysis, visualization, integration, and development tools that help you harness Hadoop (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   China   Kimberly-Clark   Thailand

    7. Bing Translator App Gets Cool Augmented Reality Tool

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 18 2012)

      Bing Translator App Gets Cool Augmented Reality Tool This is the most practical use of AR to date: a translator app that lets you point at printed language and translate it. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Forrester   Microsoft   SAP

    8. IBM Acquires Varicent Software

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 13 2012) Data Analysis , Agile BI news

      IBM Acquires Varicent Software IDG News Service (New York Bureau) — Adding to its already considerable line of analysis software and expertise, IBM announced Friday that it has acquired business intelligence software provider Varicent Software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based on Toronto, Varicent was a privately held company founded in 2003. It has over 180 corporate customers, including banks, insurance companies, retailers, information technology and telecommunications providers. Starwood Hotels, Hertz and Offic (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Oracle   IDG News Service

    9. Google Now Providing Business Analytics for Maps

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 5 2012)

      Google Now Providing Business Analytics for Maps If you've ever wondered if the Google Map of your business location you've posted on your website is actually effective, now you'll get to find out. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   SAP   Oracle

    10. SAP Goes After Sas, Ibm with Predictive Analytics Software

      Explore CIO.com (Apr 3 2012) Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News

      SAP Goes After Sas, Ibm with Predictive Analytics Software IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) — 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. The application is now in "ramp-up," SAP's term for a controlled initial release period. It comes with a set of predictive algorithms and also allows the use of algorithms from the open-source R language for statistical analysis. Predictive analytics differs from traditional BI (busin (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   SAP   Oracle

    11. CIOs Overcome Shortage of Business Analytics Talent

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 27 2012)

      CIOs Overcome Shortage of Business Analytics Talent CIO — Just as historical reports alone aren't sufficient for making corporate decisions—executives want business intelligence to identify current and future trends—IT staffers need to know more about BI than how to run a data warehouse or build a dashboard. That puts CIOs in a bind, according to industry experts, who have raised alarms about a data analytics skills deficit. For example, a report released last spring by the McKinsey Global Institute predicts that by 2018, the United States could (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Boris Evelson   Oracle

    12. Innovation Management Vendor Spigit Plans to Boost Development, Staff with New Funding

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 23 2012)

      Innovation Management Vendor Spigit Plans to Boost Development, Staff with New Funding The company raised about $15 million in its latest funding round (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Oracle   IDG News Service

    13. 5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 23 2012)

      5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them CIO — Advances in analytic technologies and business intelligence are allowing CIOs to go big, go fast, go deep, go cheap and go mobile with business data. Current trends center as much on tackling analytics challenges as they do on taking advantage of opportunities for new business insights. For example, technologies for managing and analyzing large, diverse data sets are arriving just as many organizations are drowning in data and struggling to make sense of it. Still, many of the cost and per (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IDC   Big Data   ESG

    14. Google Boosts Security of Hosted Developer Services

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 22 2012)

      Google Boosts Security of Hosted Developer Services Google services like Cloud Storage will now be able to authenticate interaction with applications using certificate-based technology (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   SQL   Google   IBM

    15. CA Wins Database Trade Secret Lawsuit in Australia

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 22 2012)

      CA Wins Database Trade Secret Lawsuit in Australia Australia Federal Court will later release orders to implement the ruling (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Oracle   Board of Directors

    16. Google Displays Explanations for Marking Spam in Gmail

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 21 2012)

      Google Displays Explanations for Marking Spam in Gmail The idea is to make users better informed about the reasons why some email ends up in the spam folder (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   IDG News Service   IDC

    17. Google'S BigQuery Brings Big Data to the Cloud

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 21 2012) Data Analysis

      Google'S BigQuery Brings Big Data to the Cloud Google revealed more about its data analysis service at the New York GigaOm data conference (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York   Google   France

    18. Moxie Software Integrates Enterprise Social Collaboration and Customer Service Software

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 21 2012)

      Moxie Software Integrates Enterprise Social Collaboration and Customer Service Software An upgrade to its Spaces by Moxie suite is designed to let customer service reps tap internal company experts for issue resolution (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IDG News Service   Dell   IDC

    19. NEC to Add Mini Earthquake Sensors to Its Cloud-Based Device Platform

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 21 2012)

      NEC to Add Mini Earthquake Sensors to Its Cloud-Based Device Platform The Japanese firm said the sensors can analyze structures when small quakes hit to estimate if they will survive the big one (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IDG News Service   Japan   Tokyo

    20. ClearStory to Launch Big Data Service for Business Users

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 20 2012)

      ClearStory to Launch Big Data Service for Business Users Startup ClearStory Data came out of stealth mode Monday and said it will soon launch a sophisticated data analytics service for business users. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Computerworld   Microsoft   Oracle

    21. Music Service Deezer Adds Offline Mode to Browser Client

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 20 2012)

      Music Service Deezer Adds Offline Mode to Browser Client IDG News Service (London Bureau) — Using HTML5, music service Deezer has added an "offline mode" that can be accessed directly via a browser, the company said on Tuesday. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IDG News Service   Japan   IDC

    22. Amazon to Acquire Warehouse Automation Company Kiva Systems

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 20 2012)

      Amazon to Acquire Warehouse Automation Company Kiva Systems Amazon will buy all Kiva's outstanding shares for $775 million in cash (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   IDG News Service   IDC

    23. IBM Unveils New Analysis Packages

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 20 2012) Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News

      IBM Unveils New Analysis Packages IBM introduces new analysis packages for financial fraud, consumer behavior and risk management (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York   London   IBM

    24. Don't Be Just a PaaS-Erby

      Explore CIO.com (Mar 19 2012)

      Don't Be Just a PaaS-Erby The PaaS-abilities are endless. Industry analysts are saying that now is the right time for developers to look to Platform-as-a-service as a viable option. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Business Intelligence   CIO