Jim Ericson is editorial director of  Information Management, a SourceMedia publication. You can reach him at Jim.Ericson@sourcemedia.com.

Who Let the Dollars Out?
February 8, 2010 2010 has already delivered a list of top acquisitions; drivers include maturity, customer acquisition and cross-selling, but...

Big Brother For Hire
February 2, 2010 With CIA profilers reportedly moonlighting to monitor earnings calls for "deception detection," speech analytics vendors are...

Oracle - Looking Back to the Future
January 27, 2010 Integrated stack for push into high-end data centers; chairman Larry Ellison says vision "same as IBM's in 1960"

Data as Commerce
January 26, 2010 Just like iTunes, granular Web data services are just beginning to sprout into a new transactional data economy

Open Source MDM From Talend
January 25, 2010 New platform solution promises domain agnostic data integration, data quality, workflow and stewardship at "disruptive"...

Hedge Like the Vendors Do
January 19, 2010 Deconstruct your daily tech briefing, find your self-interest and use last week’s HP/Microsoft news as a learning...

Overheard: AVATAR's Data Center
January 2, 2010 Processing visual effects for the blockbuster movie shows how data center designs can differ by purpose

Net Expectations
January 2, 2010 What a Web data service economy implies for business

HP, Microsoft in $250 Million Partnership
January 13, 2010 Steve Ballmer, Mark Hurd detail plans for "next generation of business computing" with "infrastructure to application" model...

Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition
January 12, 2010 New open source paid-model BI platform includes data integration, OLAP, in-memory analysis, ad hoc reporting and management...