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SAP to Buy Ariba

Cloud collaboration provider bought for $4.3 billion; part of “accelerated” on-demand solutions strategy

Dispatches from MIT CIO Symposium

Cambridge, MA -- Updates from the annual CIO Symposium at MIT. 8:30 -- event convenes, sold out on a misty day on the MIT campus. 9:00 -- CEO panel from Zipcar, ValTech, Markley Group, OMG says economy is bottomed out, consumer spending is throttled, but companies investing in technology. Customer facing IT a priority. All are investing in cloud platforms. Mobile technology is a priority, among the panel some are using cloud, some not. …

Insurance CIOs Balancing Legacy Reliance, Consumer Expectations

ACORD LOMA analyst discussion confronts pace of change, social media, consumerization

EMC Kicks Up Content Management with Update, Acquisition

Syncplicity connected to cloud, sharing enhancements to Documentum unveiled at EMC World

MetaScale Brings Hadoop, Kognitio

Company says it's incorporating the Kognitio Analytical Platform as a complement to Hadoop as part of its new SaaS-based offering.

Health 2.0: IT Dreams and Uncertainty on Display

Boston event brings out health care innovation and big names like Aetna and AT&T

Analytics Guru Thomas Davenport to Keynote Health Data Management Expo

Chicago event July 24-25 features Davenport talk on coming data “revolution” in health industry

CIOs Not Always Engaged on Cloud, Analytics, Social

McKinsey survey finds that active CIO and IT leaders register nearly double the return on enterprise data initiatives

Enterprise Collaboration Coming Together

CompTIA report: 1 in 10 organizations at exact desired level with communications and sharing platforms; spending and implementations expected to jump by 2013

Rochester University Students Take Watson to School on Weather, Travel and Mining

IBM contest builds on analytics and data parsing capabilities of TV quiz show supercomputer

3M Opens Up Health Data Dictionary

Open source exchange part of contract with Department of Defense, VA

Kundra: Bring People the Customer Experience They Expect

Cloud, social media and data security top former Obama CIO address to ACORD LOMA forum

SAP Visualizes Next Steps with Analytics, HANA

Visualization software features more access and data manipulation, though Forrester analyst sees one “caveat” for widespread adoption

ACORD, XBRL Seek Business Data Standards

Collaboration will progress with a proof of concept describing areas where ACORD data standards may map to XBRL insurance solvency and other business information taxonomies

Cloud To Be Part Of Continuity Strategy At Most Organizations

More than half of the U.S. organizations responding to a recent survey say they expect to increase use of the cloud in their business continuity strategies over the next year.