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Justin Kern is senior editor at Information Management and can be reached at justin.kern@sourcemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @IMJustinKern.

IBM’s Watson to Face Biggest Human Challenge Yet: the Customer
May 21, 2013 Big Blue unveils IBM Watson Engagement Advisor as a customer-facing search and answer tool with a marketing wrinkle and mobile...

New DATA Act, Same Standards and Transparency Push
May 21, 2013 Federal spending and grant data back in spotlight in bipartisan bill that may get first look this week; DTC lauds...

Why the Chief Data Officer is More Vital than Ever
May 21, 2013 10 Minutes with Peter Aiken on the differences between the CDO, CIO and IT, and how businesses should reframe their data...

The Last Flip Phone Professional on Earth
May 17, 2013 Is there a quiet minority opting out of the smartphone tether?

Tableau Closes High in Stock Market Debut
May 17, 2013 Trading under “DATA” symbol, analytics and viz vendor rings opening bell on IPO day and finishes at $50.75 per...

Feds Share Early Status Update on Open Data Collaboration
May 16, 2013 U.S. CTO Todd Park outlines Project Open Data and invites contributions on open source code and federal data quality, efficiency

For Enterprise Mainstay Software AG, PaaS Suite Critical to Emerging Cloud Uses
May 15, 2013 German-based vendor rests as-a-service plans on trio of offerings propelled by LongJump, ARIS deals; releases spread out over...

How is Big Data Shaping Enterprise IT Hiring?
May 14, 2013 Hiring assessment by IT career resources site icrunchdata puts nearly half of available big data jobs in analytics, dwarfing...

8 Risks Inherent to All Organizations
May 14, 2013 EADS Chief Risk Officer Schwager leads checklist for risk managers as part of second-annual World Risk Day

The Makeover of BI in the New, Expanding Enterprise
May 9, 2013 In new report, Saugatuck’s Bruce Guptill highlights the fruition of business intelligence use in cloud and SaaS...

Second World Risk Day Takes a Project-Minded Path
May 9, 2013 Risk management virtual summit emphasizes the business returns from solid process and tech, and reaches out for its own future

SAP Assigns HANA as Star Behind New Business Cloud
May 7, 2013 SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud puts in-memory platform at the center of mission critical data, applications for large businesses

Dell to Buy Enstratius
May 6, 2013 Minneapolis-based cloud management vendor feeds Dell’s growing cloud plans; most notable acquisition since Dell internal...

Services and System Design Lead April’s Tech Hiring Growth
May 6, 2013 BLS figures find 9,700 new IT jobs last month; Foote Partners points to refocused tech strategies

USPS Delivers Poor Data Governance
May 2, 2013 Postal Service inspector audit cites 148 issues related to inaccurate data and poor data stewardship; recommends full overhaul...

Returning Home, U.S. Military Positioned as Substantial IT Career Resource
May 1, 2013 White House partners with HP, Oracle, Microsoft, NetApp for certification program on emerging data and information technology...

Are Software Deals, IPOs the Foundation of a Rebound?
April 30, 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers quarterly tech industry M&A activity report notes another big dive in M&A value, volume; 2013 growth...

The Enterprise Data Warehouse at a Crossroads
April 29, 2013 10 Minutes with Joe Caserta, president of consultancy Caserta Concepts, on the changing but challenging role of enterprise...

Long-Standing Service Challenges Underscore IT and Business User Bad Blood
April 26, 2013 Forrester Research survey puts 19 percent of business users as “severely impacted” by IT problems; majority in U.S....

GE Investment Puts PaaS Startup Pivotal Over $1B Mark
April 25, 2013 EMC and VMware analytic framework will be the basis of General Electric software HQ development, with commercial versions to...

With the Potential of Innovation and Jobs, Big Data Goes to Washington
April 24, 2013 Federal subcommittee hearing on big data and advanced analytics give a framework for potential, with insight from IBM,...

Analytic Outsourcing Faces Healthy Growth, War for Talent
April 24, 2013 IDC market report: analytic services and BPO to reach $46.9 billion this year, hitting $70.8 billion by 2016

Up to Bat for Business, Sports Big Data Strikes Out
April 23, 2013 Confusion, sweeping promises do little to advance the analytics discussion

Pentaho to Buy Webdetails
April 22, 2013 EMA analyst Rogers says Pentaho deal for Portugal-based partner spreads customer reach and services engineering

Intel to Buy Mashery
April 18, 2013 Purported deal for application programming interface technology and services vendor follows a series of cloud announcements by...

Teradata Opens EDW for Hadoop
April 15, 2013 With role of enterprise data warehouse changing, Sixth Sense analyst sees new Teradata big data releases as more than just...

Data and Digital Executives, Get Your Resumes Ready
April 12, 2013 Gartner Research finds data and digital chiefs gaining traction; CEOs believe they have a digital strategy, though may miss a...

How to Build a Business-Minded Data Visualization Strategy
April 11, 2013 10 Minutes with Andy Rusnak, BI and visualization expert at Ernst & Young, on enterprise reluctance with agile development,...

Trek Sprints to Bike Data Consistency with Holistic, Team Approach on MDM
April 10, 2013 In decade leap from Wisconsin niche cycle shop to world-class biking source, Trek opts for Stibo Systems platform and data...

Despite Promise in Health Care and Finance, Software and Service M&A Drops Again
April 9, 2013 Berkery Noyes Q1 2013 forecast puts deal volume down and value reduced by more than half to $7.4 billion; cloud and SaaS make...

LANDesk to Buy VMware IT Management Portfolio
April 9, 2013 VMware Protect products will be renamed, repackaged immediately in second deal for Shavlik line since 2011

Rackspace to Buy Exceptional Cloud Services
March 28, 2013 Error testing provider meant to expand developer capabilities; part of Rackspace push to deal with cloud complexity, says IDC...

Platfora Shoots for a Big Data BI Layer
March 26, 2013 Years in the making, in-memory platform for Hadoop attempts to make wider and quicker business use of big data; ESG and Taneja...

Enterprise Social Networks: Thinking Outside of the Wrong Box?
March 25, 2013 Business may have a problem with the dearth of people on their highly touted social platforms

TIBCO to Buy Maporama Solutions
March 25, 2013 Cloud-based geospatial analytics vendor meant to compliment Spotfire platform; Maporama focused on location visualization and...

Governance Programs Short on Training, Hardly Deal with Social Data
March 21, 2013 AIIM report indicates low levels of retention and governance with social media data, and an unexpected bump in paper records

Logi Analytics: Former LogiXML is the New Old Kid on the BI Block
March 19, 2013 Rebranding designed to reflect changing analytics market

Mobile BI: Real-Time Demands Trump Compatibility Struggles
March 15, 2013 TechNavio report pegs mobile business intelligence market spending to grow 25 percent this year to $878 million

Analytics Planning: How to Hit a Moving Target
March 14, 2013 IIA faculty member and Archipelago Information Strategies consultant Mike Lampa says modern analytics programs must have...

Oracle to Buy Nimbula
March 13, 2013 Cloud infrastructure startup carries background in origins of Amazon EC2; signals first Oracle cloud deal since Eloqua buy

Red Hat Content with Acquisition’s Middleware Path
March 12, 2013 New solutions for integration and messaging based on FuseSource follow through on Red Hat’s intentions; questions remain...

Dell Boomi Sizes up Midmarket Cloud MDM
March 11, 2013 In launching cloud-based master data management offering, Boomi division aims to unify and govern data for potentially...

How to Determine Cloud TCO
March 7, 2013 Saugatuck Technology report finds savings for various workload and business sizes, though cautions on assumptions that cloud...

IBM to Base Cloud, Services on OpenStack
March 5, 2013 SmartCloud Orchestrator is the first release in plan for total open source foundation by IBM

Room for Improvement in Managing Mobility, Social and Infrastructure
February 28, 2013 Protiviti IT survey ranks mobile integration and policies “in need” compared with business expectations, finds more...

A Hunch on Predictive Analytics
February 28, 2013 Business-minded data forecasts have a bright immediate future, as per Eric Siegel’s new book and university indicators

Refining the Deal Hype Around Social, Mobile, Cloud and Big Data
February 26, 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers forecast: 2013 M&A activity to narrow along hot areas like software-defined networks and mobile apps;...

The Realities of Cybersecurity
February 26, 2013 10 Minutes with Jamie Barnett, partner at Venable LLP and former U.S. Navy and FCC leader, on federal cybersecurity...

Social Monitoring Minus Interaction Misses Out on Potential
February 25, 2013 Customer support holds a tangible return for marketing department social efforts, says Hypatia Research’s Leslie Ament

The State of Business Intelligence in Academics
February 22, 2013 BI Congress III survey reflects stronger student interest and university collaboration; experience with vendors still...

BI Spending in 2013: Slow but Steady
February 21, 2013 7 percent boost this year driven in part by big data and SaaS, though growth still slower than in 2011: Gartner forecast

Breaking Through the Analytics Glass Ceiling
February 15, 2013 Gartner analyst expects mobile and collaboration to provide massive adoption impact with CIO analytic tools

BYOD: Reaching the Peak? Or Just Getting Started?
February 11, 2013 Forrester mobile workforce analysis gives near-term view of device adoption and employee pressures

What’s Driving the Focus on Big Data?
February 8, 2013 Information systems professors/consultants delve into the cultural changes required to deal with disparate data volumes

HR Taking Ownership of the Cloud
February 6, 2013 Survey finds cloud-based human resources management systems on the rise and driven outside of IT

IBM Spreads Out Data Systems Approach
February 5, 2013 Power Systems and PureData top slew of releases meant for SMBs dealing with data volumes

Dell Founder, Investment Firm Make Private Buyout Official
February 5, 2013 After weeks of speculation, $24.4 billion proposal aims at refocusing Round Rock vendor’s approach to software market and...

Oracle to Buy Acme Packet
February 4, 2013 $2.1 billion proposal for IP network solution provider part of what Ovum analyst calls increasingly connected realm of IT and...

The Difference and Deficit with Enterprise Social Networks
February 1, 2013 Gartner expects only 20 percent of social business to succeed through 2015; ESN becoming as commonplace as the business phone,...

IBM to Buy Star Analytics Portfolio
February 1, 2013 Proposed buyout of California analytics provider’s software portfolio is IBM’s first of 2013, after release of...

What is Big Data’s Role in Enterprise Security?
February 1, 2013 EMA security analyst Scott Crawford breaks down releases from IBM and RSA and what is still out of reach for advanced analytic...

Jason’s Deli Takes a Special Order on Customer Data
February 1, 2013 Data quality, order up! Jason's Deli enterprise architects take a modern leap into cleaning the data that defines its customers

Realities of the Enterprise Data Scientist
January 31, 2013 10 Minutes with ... Anand Rao, innovation lead for the analytics group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, on real approaches that are...

IBM Grants First Entire Watson System to Rensselaer
January 30, 2013 RPI plans for the bigger version of the game show winning supercomputer include analytic research and big data career...

Pervasive to Accept Actian Merger, Months After First Bid
January 29, 2013 $161.9 million proposal comes as vendors look to further revitalize their images as cloud, big data providers

Oracle’s 2013 Cloud Plans, Customers Come into View
January 28, 2013 Oracle President Hurd, EVP Kurian detail parts of cloud computing strategy, hit on Sun acquisition and hardware market

Four Lessons from Successful Big Data Programs
January 28, 2013 Aberdeen report outlines emerging and reliable methods for enterprise adoption of advanced analytics

Molecular Layers of Data: the Next Frontier of Storage?
January 24, 2013 MIT researchers apply physics and a molecular-memory scheme that could boost storage density by 1,000-times

Cloud Security Moves from Enterprise Apprehension to Allegiance
January 23, 2013 Growing cloud computing maturity and data management operating cost cuts are expected to lead to more on-demand security...

Expectations and Roadblocks as BYOD Matures
January 22, 2013 BYOD survey finds big differences between focus on user compared with device; abuse of polices and device theft top list of...

The Best and Worst Methods for Enterprise Architecture
January 18, 2013 There’s more footing for a business-driven approach to EA; Gartner’s Betsy Burton offers best practices for...

The Year Ahead in Enterprise Software, Services M&A
January 17, 2013 10 Minutes with Jim Berkery and Mary Jo Zandy of transaction firm Berkery Noyes ... on the big picture view of vendor...

Optimizing “Zero Dark Thirty”
January 16, 2013 Effects firm Image Engine turns to Avere Systems NAS filer for data loads behind blockbuster movie

NuoDB Puts Its Spin on Cloud Database
January 15, 2013 Elastically scalable SQL/ACID Cloud Data Management System Starlings 1.0 built “of the cloud,” says 451 Group analyst

After Flat Year, BI Goes on the Move
January 14, 2013 Annual BI Scorecard presents 2012 business intelligence impact at about the same as previous year; mobile investment to get a...

Sapient to Buy Marketing Analytics Provider (m)Phasize
January 11, 2013 Proposed acquisition would bring on fourth practice area for cross-channel marketing analytics and predictive models

The Soft Skill that Drives Your Analytics Team
January 10, 2013 Analytics pro assessment finds commonality among different data positions; CEO offers four tips to nail down interested talent

IT Spending to Pass $2T
January 9, 2013 Even with growth revisions, Gartner forecasts promising investment in data center, storage and cloud computing

A Marketing Department Data Uproar Like Never Before
January 8, 2013 Changes in technical backgrounds of marketers and automation of their work keeps wild evolution going through 2013: IDC forecast

Enterprise IT: No Special Treatment at 2013 CES
January 7, 2013 Forrester, Saugatuck, Aberdeen analysts weigh in on what may make the biggest splash for enterprise leaders at this...

2012 Software M&A Values Plummet
January 4, 2013 Number of transactions shows 1 percent increase in 2012, with infrastructure software as the biggest gainer in deal value;...

Imation Buys Storage Vendor Nexsan
January 3, 2013 As part of expansion plans, Minnesota-based audio and video storage and security provider pays $120 million in cash and stock...

Substantial IT Hiring Offset by Stagnation
January 3, 2013 Growth steady as IT positions take longer to fill in the first half of the new year: Dice survey

Developer Error to Blame for Amazon Cloud Christmas Disruption
January 2, 2013 AWS postmortem centers on improper maintenance process with load balancing; knocked off Netflix and others in another public...

Feds OK First Vendor on Cloud Security
December 31, 2012 Autonomic Resources approved along guidelines for FedRAMP, an integral piece to Washington’s cloud efforts

AWS Suffers Christmas Cloud Disruption
December 26, 2012 Fixes in place to a trio of Amazon cloud services hampered during holiday, stemming from same Virginia data center with...

Developing Data Management Needs Carry Application Market
December 24, 2012 Software market to grow 7.5 percent to 86.7 billion in 2013, according to IDC; RDBMS and data integration are bright spots

Red Hat Makes Bid for ManageIQ
December 21, 2012 New Jersey-based cloud management vendor comes with $104 million proposed price tag; Red Hat aims for expansion of its open...

How to Bring Business Change to Data Modeling
December 20, 2012 10 Minutes with MWD Advisors Principal Analyst Mark McGregor, on the shortcomings of data modeling and mapping, and his advice...

Cloud Computing Value Apparent, Compliance More Obscure
December 19, 2012 On-demand applications get positive marks on modernization and vendor support: Dimensional Research survey

IBM to Buy StoredIQ
December 19, 2012 Big data and e-discovery plans bring in another vendor; follows on Vivisimo deal and PureSystems build-out

Dell to Acquire Credant
December 18, 2012 Data protection, encryption vendor part of Round Rock plans to strengthen security of enterprise mobile and cloud

Utility Big Data Moving to Greener Pastures?
December 17, 2012 Smart-grid enterprise IT spending to surpass $20 billion between 2012 and 2020, led by predictive analytics, big data...

Oracle to Buy DataRaker
December 17, 2012 Proposal for cloud-based utility analytics vendor hits on hot smart-grid market; Oracle’s third on-demand deal in four...

Expect More IT Hiring in Q1 2013 with Certain Jobs Harder to Fill
December 14, 2012 Robert Half Technology CIO survey suggests growth in IT staffing in new year, with hot spot roles for security, app...

Three Bedrocks of Application Performance Management
December 12, 2012 Aberdeen Group outlines the main challenges and requirements for quality enterprise application development and deployment

Iron Mountain to Buy Trio of Data Protection Assets
December 11, 2012 One week after announcing new CEO and president, Iron Mountain plans to acquire offerings from small vendors based in Arizona,...

Analytics in 2013: Smarter Business Uses and Some Big Data Deaths
December 11, 2012 Analyst Tom Davenport and IIA lead analytics expectations with refined business analytics and big data use cases, changing...

MLC Advisors Rally Behind Automated, Simplified Data
December 11, 2012 Innovative Solution Award 2012 Winner: MLC and NAB, nominated by Teradata Category: General Achievement

Enterprise IT Earthquake: SDN, Virtualization and More Appliances
December 11, 2012 Disruptive trends ahead marked by the systems to handle huge and changing data workloads, says Gartner’s Cappuccio

Heathrow Lands BPM for On-Time Flights
December 11, 2012 Innovative Solution Award 2012 Winner: Heathrow Limited, nominated by Pegasystems Category: Business Process Management

2020 Starts Next Year: Cloud, Enterprise Mobile Lead Pivotal IT Shift
December 7, 2012 IDC IT forecast puts 2013 as watershed in adoption of cloud, social, mobile and big data; emerging markets and LOB take larger...

Citrix to Buy Zenprise
December 6, 2012 BYOD controls and integration are central to proposed buyout of mobile device management vendor

What to Keep in Mind with Big Data Plans
December 5, 2012 Navesink Consulting President Thomas C. Redman points to six imperatives when planning for next-generation business analytics

Infor to Buy Orbis Global
December 4, 2012 Infor moves into bustling marketing space with proposal for marketing SaaS, software vendor

2013 and Years Ahead Bring Less Control for Enterprise IT
November 26, 2012 Gartner forecasts changing roles and data expectations as businesses approach the “nexus” of social, mobile, cloud...

SaaS: The Increasing Risk of Vendor Lock-In
November 20, 2012 In its cloud application buyer “bill of rights,” Constellation Research outlines three prime reasons that cloud...

Where BI Plans Match Reality
November 19, 2012 BI Survey 12 reveals mobile business intelligence leads the pack of hot implementations; cloud and SaaS views differ

How to Organize a Data Science Team
November 16, 2012 Experts in finding business answers in big data explain how to pick talent and the right approach for advanced analytics groups

Cisco Proposes Cloupia Acquisition
November 16, 2012 Data center infrastructure automation provider proposal shows Cisco’s continued activity in the back end of data center...

Business Intelligence Adoption to Double by 2013
November 15, 2012 Nucleus forecast puts rising business value and ease of use as prompting BI swell; report warns of data integration obstacles

Data Scientists Driving Business Advantage
November 14, 2012 Dispatches for Chief Data Scientist Summit in Chicago featuring real-world insight and strategy from experts in developing...

Sumo Logic Presents Emerging Role of Log Data with New Dashboard
November 14, 2012 Cloud-based log management analytics line up with next phase of big data growth, says Gartner analyst

Jaspersoft Gives Data Digging a New Look
November 13, 2012 BI Scorecard founder Howson “impressed” with new exploration and visualization capabilities, keeps Jaspersoft near...

What’s Next for Data Centers and Their Operators in 2013?
November 12, 2012 Ovum Research outlines trends in virtualization, sustainability and data management that it expects to take shape in the year...

Facebook Looks to Make Big Data and Open Source Friends with Corona
November 9, 2012 Social media giant outlines its new data cluster scheduling alternative to MapReduce; engineers say data loads hit a wall with...

Cloud, Software Deals Rise in Value as Q3 M&A Lags Overall
November 9, 2012 PricewaterhouseCoopers tech industry insight synopsis sees big-scale vendor deals waiting until 2013

Oracle to Buy Instantis, a Portfolio Management Provider
November 8, 2012 Cloud and on-premise vendor would be folded into Oracle’s Primavera product line

Business Process Excellence Starts by Avoiding “BPM”
November 7, 2012 MWD analyst roadmap centers on the people behind the process

The Choose Your Own Adventure Business Data Dashboard
November 7, 2012 JackBe’s real-time operational information release Presto 3.5 has toolset to expand self-sufficiency as long as...

Enterprises Connect to Mobile Workforce and 1 Billion Smart Devices
November 6, 2012 Gartner forecasts smart devices to represent 70 percent of all mobile units sold next year; tablets to triple by 2016

Oracle Calls Out Higher Ed Role
November 6, 2012 Minnesota, Akron, East-West universities take on Oracle applications; vendor announcements coincide with HCM rival’s...

Brocade to Buy Vyatta
November 5, 2012 SDN operating system vendor is part of Brocade’s plans to advance in virtualization, cloud and managed services

IT Jobs Regain Ground with New Fiscal Quarter, End of Election
November 5, 2012 Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 12,500 new information positions in October; Foote Partners CEO expects strong hiring in...

Finding a Difference in Big Data
November 1, 2012 Aberdeen presentation notes importance of strong base of transactional data and business-minded analysts for ROI; Diebold...

EMC to Acquire Silver Tail Systems
October 31, 2012 Real-time identity protection and verification vendor would join RSA security division, offerings

Can Enterprise IT Services Run Like an App?
October 30, 2012 BMC MyIT software brings a mobile social app aspect to IT services; analyst Enderle calls it an idea that should have come...

Business Processes are Still a Manual Affair
October 30, 2012 Report finds IT decision-makers with the interest but without the capabilities to bring on automation; 17 percent spend half...

Another Amazon Cloud Outage Triggers Changes This Week
October 29, 2012 AWS went down last week for some due to disconnect with server replacement at Virginia data center

The Pulse of Enterprise Collaboration
October 29, 2012 IDC analyst Vanessa Thompson gives a marketplace update on business social and collaborative maturity, and peers into the...

Maturity in Mobile and Cloud Keep IT Spending Up Through 2016
October 23, 2012 Gartner foresees transportation, insurance and banking sectors beating the average in IT investment; global spending still on...

MapR Presses for Big Data Business Ease with New Platform Automation, Recovery
October 23, 2012 M7 upgrades will resonate with IT administrators, but uses cases surrounding Hadoop remain a hard sell: Elevator Group analyst

Actuate to Buy Quiterian
October 22, 2012 Traditional BI vendor strengthens its analytic and visualization potential, faces challenge in distribution beyond Spain

New Dell Infrastructure Portfolio Targets Enterprise Trends
October 18, 2012 Active Infrastructure and Active Systems central to vendor’s plans for storage, network and cloud; IDC analyst finds...

Big Data Explorers Discover Integration, Business Support Pain Points
October 17, 2012 IBM and Oxford survey finds 71 percent of enterprises still gathering info or developing strategy; many peg in-house...

Putting Global Cloud Standards on the Map
October 17, 2012 Best practice groups from U.S., Europe and Asia talk of small strides toward worldwide standards on deployments; fastest work...

Microsoft to Buy StorSimple
October 16, 2012 Increased automation and connection to hybrid deployments behind proposed deal for cloud integration storage vendor

CA Resets Foundation of Data Modeling Tool
October 16, 2012 New repository is the culmination of years of upgrade efforts; Bloor analyst sees promise with enhanced Web portal but general...

Shifting Gears, HP Revs Up Analytics Services
October 15, 2012 New Business Analytics Services has connections with Autonomy buy, Whitman’s changes; IDC analyst sees...

Data Mining, Collection Back in Federal Crosshairs
October 12, 2012 Sen. Rockefeller inquires on practices of 9 companies in relation to privacy and accountability; reiterates need for...

Big Data, Meet the Huge Data That Will Shape Your Future
October 12, 2012 10 Minutes with … Bill Kramer, deputy director of the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters supercomputer. The...

Consumer Devices are Here. Is Your Enterprise Security Ready?
October 11, 2012 Security of Business Innovation Council offers five-point plan to handle mobile risks to enterprise data

Bloomington District Adds Collaborative Cloud Tool to Back-to-School Checklist
October 11, 2012 Personalized process automation solution was a welcome response to teacher assessment mandate

Data Centers Find Strength in Size, Not Numbers
October 10, 2012 Sever virtualization, data consolidation and the cloud will continue to lead U.S. trend through 2016: IDC forecast

Indiana University Plans for Petaflop Supercomputer
October 9, 2012 Big Red II would replace seven-year-old predecessor; part of new Bloomington research data center set for spring 2013

Enterprise Social Networks Gaining Maturity – and Hundreds of Millions in Value
October 9, 2012 The pulse of Enterprise Social Networks: Ovum research puts market worth at $500 million though adoption at around 10 percent

A New Degree of Analytic Learning
October 5, 2012 10 Minutes with … Barbara Wixom: on the annual BI Congress, which addresses analytics, BI and data scientist roles in...

Information Careers in 2013: The Hottest Jobs and Highest Salaries
October 5, 2012 Tech hiring and salaries show drastic growth expectations for 2013; network mobility, application developers and database...

A Wave of Valuable Business Data Starts with a Trickle
October 4, 2012 Mueller’s Mark Lack took on an ERP upgrade and reports evaluation that limited data at first and then pinpointed what...

Federal Government Big Data Potential and Realities
October 3, 2012 TechAmerica commission shows scant implementations for flood of federal data; outlines use cases and roadmap

What is Next for Business Analytics?
October 2, 2012 Data warehouse isn’t going anywhere, but competitive evolution involves agile discovery and industry analytic services;...

Informatica Proposes Buyout of Heiler Software
October 1, 2012 $104.2 million deal would bring together Informatica’s MDM offering with Heiler’s product information management...

Green Data Center Spending to Reach $45B by 2016
September 28, 2012 Cloud computing and efficiency trend efforts to $17 billion this year; regulatory and virtualization challenges ahead: Pike...

Infrastructure Primed for Consolidation and the Cloud
September 28, 2012 After billions spent on spotty results, systems monitoring is set for a disruptive change toward applications and IaaS, says...

TIBCO Renews Spotlight on Spotfire
September 27, 2012 Gartner analyst: upgrades came with “significant change” in attention at TUCON event; Teradata signs on with...

IBM’s Rometty Adds Chairman Role
September 26, 2012 CEO and President elected to start Oct. 1; Samuel Palmisano transitioning to advisory position until retirement later this year

IBM to Buy British Storage Planning Software Vendor Butterfly
September 25, 2012 U.K. storage and migration tools vendor would move into IBM’s Software Group; deal proposed for undisclosed amount

Mainframe Finds Stronger Business Backing
September 25, 2012 BMC annual survey hears hardware as a continued source of application development, storage specialty engines

Hold the Phones: BYOD Deserves More Caution
September 24, 2012 Telecommunications consultancy outlines seven questions any enterprise should ask before dialing up employee phone, tablet use

City Hall in the Cloud?
September 21, 2012 State and local governments expected to spend $4.8 billion on data systems innovations and upgrades by 2017, according to Pike...

Utilities Surge Ahead with BI, Analytics Despite Immaturity and Integration Problems
September 20, 2012 91 percent of energy officers planning data system upgrades by 2014; industry hampered by lack of expertise, expectations with...

IaaS Resonates in Public Cloud Boom
September 19, 2012 Public cloud spending to hit $109 billion in 2012 and nearly double by 2016; cloud advertising drives BPaaS market to largest...

Oracle to Buy SelectMinds
September 18, 2012 Proposed deal for cloud-based talent management vendor comes days after plans detailed from Taleo acquisition

Emailvision Proposes Buy in Customer Predictive Analytics Market
September 13, 2012 London-based automation and customer data provider proposed deal for PredictiveIntent; behavior analytics market hot but still...

Cloud, Enterprise Software Stabilize Worldwide IT Spending
September 11, 2012 $2 trillion expected by end of 2012, up 6 percent from last year; SaaS and cloud to have more impact through 2016: IDC report

For Latest Performance Management Release, SAP Goes Mobile
September 10, 2012 SAP EPM OnDemand includes 3 apps for project tracking and expenses; EAC analyst says release broadens user base potential

Infosys to Buy Consultancy Lodestone
September 10, 2012 India-based tech, management provider plans to sharpen its approach as an SAP expert with new staff

Modest IT Hiring Expected Through 2012
September 7, 2012 Growth softened by temporary hires and lack of workforce experience, according to SilverPoint; BLS report points to IT job...

Outsourcing Weathers IT Skills Gap with the Cloud
August 31, 2012 Bluewolf survey: Managed services and consultants taking over traditional offshoring to handle enterprise application...

Big Data Security Under the Microscope by Fujitsu, CSA
August 30, 2012 Privacy and data protection are the aim of the latest group to dig into big data best practices, techniques

Cloud, Consumerization Realities Mean More IT Security Concern
August 29, 2012 2012 and years to come marked by tough internal decisions on BYOD trust and access, and what data is right and safe in the...

With Dell Deal Pending, Quest Searches for BI Role
August 29, 2012 Toad BI Suite is the first analytics software from database regular; ESG analyst sees a direct pool of users, even among BI...

Deltek Takes $1.1B to Go Private
August 28, 2012 Equity firm Thoma Bravo proposes buys out ERP vendor; Deltek hints at issue with confidentiality and stock value

Analytics: Coming Soon to a Zoo, Museum and Park Near You?
August 28, 2012 Cincinnati Zoo exec-turned-consultant John Lucas says cultural attractions are “completely blind” to BI and the...

IBM to Buy Kenexa for $1.3B
August 27, 2012 Ventana CEO questions enterprise social network, collaboration IBM touts in deal; third billion-dollar bid for talent...

Aerospike Seeks a Step Up in NoSQL
August 27, 2012 Database vendor announces AlchemyDB acquisition and noted big data hires; Gartner, Monash analysts see opportunity in...

Liaison to Buy Hubspan
August 22, 2012 Cloud management vendor takes on Seattle ERP and business process integrator to extend B2B capabilities, vertical customer base

Amazon Breaks Off Glacier for SMB Clouds
August 21, 2012 Archiving and backup aims at “low-cost” storage adoption; Saugatuck analyst sees eager on-demand market, though...

Cloud Agency Details First Vendor Transparency, Standards Check
August 20, 2012 Cloud Security Alliance teams with U.K.’s BSI for three-stage certification; assessments for cloud performance and...

RDBMS Steamrolls into 2016 on BI, Big Data Expectations
August 20, 2012 $41.6 billion market for relational database management in five years; in-memory space shaking up vendor plans and enterprise...

IBM to Buy Texas Memory Systems
August 17, 2012 Flash memory and SSD provider would back PureSystems offerings; analyst says the deal shows strength of storage market and...

Customer Analytics: Social and Predictive Gains a Few Years Off
August 15, 2012 Forrester analyst, report point to mature adoption of customer data and BI; data integration and lack of talent remain top...

FlashSoft VM Software First Release Since SanDisk Buyout
August 15, 2012 Taneja Group analyst: latest version of virtual machine release innovative in connection with hypervisor IO path

Pervasive Receives Unsolicited $154M Bid from Actian
August 14, 2012 Actian CEO Shine “surprised” with previous negotiation denials; Pervasive weighs stockholder interest in non-binding...

A Prescription for Health Care Information Certainty
August 14, 2012 Kaiser Permanente’s CIO Philip Fasano says the big picture is more important than any data management initiative, and...

Cloud, SaaS Making a Mark in Tech M&A
August 13, 2012 2012 technology sector transaction are down as a whole, but IT services, software and Internet markets hold their own:...

Illinois Energy Provider Sparks Data Center Efficiencies
August 9, 2012 ComEd to offer financial, technical incentives for new and expanding data centers; part of small but growing group of rewards...

VMware to Acquire Log Insight
August 8, 2012 VMware buy of Log Insight: 3 proposed acquisitions and a new CEO named for virtualization vendor in just over a month

BMC to Buy Varalogix
August 8, 2012 2nd Austin-based DevOps software provider to be snatched in 11 months; Gartner analyst sees big system management vendors...

Communicating Cloud and Big Data Standards
August 7, 2012 TM Forum members work with tech experts to get an industry-specific edge, says COO Smith

Storage Spending Slows on Cloud Plans, Big Data Questions
August 6, 2012 451 Research reports 6 percent dip in data storage growth plans; 56 percent of enterprises have “no plan” for big...

To Settle TomorrowNow Suit, SAP Pays Oracle $306M
August 3, 2012 District court agreement avoids new trial in infringement case; SAP already paid $120 million in court costs, still well below...

As BI Sprints, Competency Centers Don’t Keep Up
August 1, 2012 Gartner’s Hagerty says enterprises sell business intelligence short; advanced analytics and more in budgets with a BICC...

SMB Storage Burden Brings Together EMC, Lenovo
August 1, 2012 Aberdeen analyst says partnership brings NAS to “underserved” market; adds more global reach for two HP rivals

Birst Bends Data Warehouse Rules for Business with New Solution
July 31, 2012 Distributed Business Analytics features flexible sandboxing and connections to cloud for power business users, says Forrester...

Innovation and China Integral to NYU’s New Business Analytics Lesson Plan
July 31, 2012 Stern School of Business M.S. degree opens data management innovation incubator of sorts, with added diversity, networking and...

Oracle to Buy Xsigo
July 30, 2012 Software-defined networking vendor acquisition proposal planned to benefit cloud performance; follows VMware pitch for Nicira

Federal IT Leaders Find Room for Improvement in Reform Plan
July 27, 2012 U.S. CIOs, CTOs gave 25-point roadmap above average marks, but call for revisions to priorities, ratings, budgeting

Data Centers Reach Their Limit
July 25, 2012 Information and energy demands pushing data center operators to a mixed approach of consolidation, cloud and construction

Cloud Hanging Over IT Staffing?
July 24, 2012 Enterprise on-demand growth means differing roles, staffing changes, according to CompTIA

HP Upgrades Configuration System in Face of Surging Competition, Demand
July 23, 2012 EMA analyst says update reflects federated CMS changes, still needs ease of use improvements

VMware to Buy Nicira
July 23, 2012 Virtualization provider's proposed acquisition comes less than one week after VMware leadership shakeup

Social Determining Next Generation of Business Applications
July 19, 2012 Corum Group sees 2012 as banner year for ESN, also boosted by “staggering” SaaS and cloud markets

Mobile Device Costs, IT Constraints No Longer on Hold
July 18, 2012 Wave of adoption bring along demand for sophisticated systems and governance risks: Osterman Research report

Cloud, Social and Mobile Back New Microsoft Office
July 16, 2012 2013 version “designed as a service,” says CEO Ballmer; enterprise and personal use rolled out primarily via tablet...

Enterprise Mobility Requires More Security, Threat Models
July 12, 2012 NIST first draft of mobile device guidelines states “nature” of use opens up organizations to risk

Days After Outage, Salesforce.com Solves Performance Issues
July 12, 2012 Days after power outage, CRM vendor still looking into North American data center problems; Forrester analyst says it’s...

Big Data, Meet Massive Analytics Market Growth
July 11, 2012 With a mix of hype, executive interest and innovation, business analytics to hit $35.1 billion in 2012 after expansions in...

Oracle to Acquire Involver
July 11, 2012 Social media development platform would be part of Oracle development, cloud offerings; one of many recent enterprise social...

Transparency Advocates Show How Federal Standards Could Work
July 10, 2012 Teradata, MarkLogic, Microsoft push efficiency, ROI in wavering DATA Act

Salesforce.com to Buy GoInstant
July 9, 2012 Real-time customer experience and Web sharing service addition follows active month for CRM SaaS provider

SAP Details HANA Adoption, Opens Partner Program
July 9, 2012 In-memory analytics platform ahead of revenue schedule; AWS development may lead to further cloud growth

Cloud Lifts IT Spending Above $3.6T in 2012
July 9, 2012 As-a-service offerings, mobile device adoption lead upward spending revision that will continue through 2013, according to...

SaaS, Customer Analytics Set Software M&A Pace
July 6, 2012 Cisco and Oracle are big movers in first half of 2012; Facebook deal for Instagram balloons consumer software space

Mobile Business Intelligence is on the Move
July 5, 2012 Gartner market review finds high executive interest, persistent infrastructure needs for new wave of business data devices

VMware to Purchase DynamicOps
July 3, 2012 Cloud automation and management provider is a spin-off of Credit Suisse virtualized software division

A Renaissance for Business Intelligence?
July 2, 2012 More users, tools and complexity on the rise with BI implementations, according to annual Dresner market survey

Dell to Buy Quest for $2.4B
July 2, 2012 IT management provider would be biggest move yet for Dell’s revised software division

Amazon Virginia Cloud Center Online After Storm Outage
July 1, 2012 Power outage impacts EC2 and other offerings; disrupts Netflix, Instagram and others

Google Reaches for the Enterprise Clouds
June 29, 2012 Infrastructure as a Service offering in beta, but planned to rival Amazon; Aberdeen analyst sees connections to Google’s...

ParAccel Fills Data Warehouse Gaps
June 28, 2012 Analytic Offload platforms for Teradata, Oracle hold promise to increase EDW performance, 451 Group analyst says

Salesforce.com Service Disrupted for 6 Hours
June 28, 2012 SaaS CRM provider replaces hardware at North American hub to resolve issue; untold number of customers impacted starting early...

Red Hat to Buy FuseSource
June 28, 2012 Progress Software sells open source integration provider for undisclosed sum as part of divestment strategy

Dispatches from Predictive Analytics World, Chicago
June 26, 2012 Live coverage of panels and tracks from day two of Predictive Analytics World in Chicago

Gregory Lewandowski, Manager of Analytics, Business Intelligence Services Division, Cisco
June 25, 2012 25 Top Information Managers 2012: Gregory Lewandowski, Cisco

Bruce Livesay, CIO, First Horizon National Corporation
June 25, 2012 25 Top Information Managers 2012: Bruce Livesay, First Horizon National Corporation

John Lucas, BrightStar Partners, Former Director of Operations, Cincinnati Zoo
June 25, 2012 25 Top Information Managers 2012: John Lucas, BrightStar Partners, Cincinnati Zoo

Microsoft to Buy Yammer
June 25, 2012 $1.2 billion in cash for enterprise social network provider with biggest jump in revenue in 2011

Thomson Reuters to Buy Financial BI Provider
June 25, 2012 Zawya Limited covers Middle East, Africa; second deal in the region this month

Frank Fiorille, Director of Risk Management, Paychex
June 25, 2012 25 Top Information Managers 2012: Frank Fiorille, Paychex

Larry Gregg, Director of People Services, WorkSafeBC
June 25, 2012 25 Top Information Managers 2012: Larry Gregg, WorkSafeBC

Anthony Perez, Director of Business Strategies, Orlando Magic
June 25, 2012 25 Top Information Managers 2012: Anthony Perez, Orlando Magic

Mark Lack, Manager, Strategy Analytics and BI, Mueller, Inc.
June 25, 2012 25 Top Information Managers 2012: Mark Lack, Mueller Inc.

Bruce Hoffmeister, Global CIO, Marriott International
June 25, 2012 25 Top Information Managers 2012: Bruce Hoffmeister, Marriott International

Gartner Curtails 2012 Enterprise Application Spending Gains
June 22, 2012 $5 billion increase from 2011, but global economic conditions raise uncertainty; BI, ERP and CRM still get billions more

Cloud Confidence Signals More SaaS, Hybrid Deployments
June 21, 2012 North Bridge Venture survey: big data and analytics rank as top offerings by vendors; business agility becoming as important...

AppNeta to Buy Tracelytics
June 21, 2012 Acquisition by performance management vendor would open up tracking solutions as SaaS

Enterprise Social Software Cashes In
June 20, 2012 IBM, Jive, Communispace top $767.4 million market that has nearly doubled since 2009

Verisk Makes Acquisition to Strengthen Retail, Crime Analytics
June 19, 2012 Aspect Loss Prevention, a Minneapolis software provider, bought for $8 million

Compliance Could Jolt Financial Data Agility
June 19, 2012 Tabb Group report finds that too few financial services firms are linking regulatory demands to revenue opportunities

Amazon Cloud Up After Power Outage
June 18, 2012 Virginia data center energy impacted backup, connectivity for users such as Pinterest

QlikTech to Buy Expressor
June 12, 2012 Metadata and governance for QlikView Business Discovery platform at heart of acquisition

Analyst Firms See Billions in Disk Storage Market Growth in Q1 2012
June 11, 2012 Gartner, IDC reports show spending above levels prior to Thai floods in late 2011; EMC and NetApp remain top disk drive...

Ellison: 100 Applications, Database Mark Culmination of Oracle Cloud
June 6, 2012 Database PaaS backs range of new enterprise management and sales services central to vendor’s future

Oracle to Acquire Collective Intellect
June 5, 2012 Social analytics and mining provider to be part of Oracle’s Social Platform; follows Vitrue deal and other recent vendor...

Salesforce.com to Buy Buddy Media
June 4, 2012 $689 million cash and stock deal brings in new social marketing SaaS; part of recent flurry of deals in social cloud space

Content Management: A New Beginning?
June 1, 2012 Cloud, tablets, collaboration tools all carry disruptive prospects for physical documents in the enterprise

EMC Announces Buy of Watch4net
May 31, 2012 APG performance management suite meant as expansion of EMC’s availability, monitoring offerings

HP Data Center Blueprint Goes Green
May 30, 2012 Net-zero architecture relies on predictive analytics and real-time workloads; could work with existing energy efficiency to...

Big Data Reality Check
May 29, 2012 AIIM survey: 10 percent consider big data “essential”; lingering BI and cost concerns relegate it to more of a...

Oracle to Buy Social SaaS Provider Vitrue
May 24, 2012 Social Relationship Management Platform would tie in with Oracle’s sales and commerce offerings; Vitrue touts connections...

Business Models Transform Along with Information Management Tech
May 23, 2012 Capco's newly minted consultant discussed his thoughts on business-first IT projects and big data’s rippling role across...

EMC Kicks Up Content Management with Update, Acquisition
May 22, 2012 Syncplicity connected to cloud, sharing enhancements to Documentum unveiled at EMC World

SAP to Buy Ariba
May 22, 2012 Cloud collaboration provider bought for $4.3 billion; part of “accelerated” on-demand solutions strategy

CIOs Not Always Engaged on Cloud, Analytics, Social
May 21, 2012 McKinsey survey finds that active CIO and IT leaders register nearly double the return on enterprise data initiatives

Enterprise Collaboration Coming Together
May 18, 2012 CompTIA report: 1 in 10 organizations at exact desired level with communications and sharing platforms; spending and...

Rochester University Students Take Watson to School on Weather, Travel and Mining
May 17, 2012 IBM contest builds on analytics and data parsing capabilities of TV quiz show supercomputer

Gartner Lists 10 Disruptive Technologies for Business Information Management
May 16, 2012 2012 top 10 strategic trends include mobility, consumerization and cloud as part of business tech sea change

New Product News – May 17, 2012
May 16, 2012 New and updated solutions and services from Compuware, Informatica, CA and more

SAP Visualizes Next Steps with Analytics, HANA
May 16, 2012 Visualization software features more access and data manipulation, though Forrester analyst sees one “caveat” for...

Assessing the Full Potential of Connected IT Infrastructure
May 14, 2012 Social, mobile and cloud computing convergence not yet reality for most enterprises, but gaining steam and returns: Aberdeen...

EMC to Buy Flash Storage Provider XtremIO
May 11, 2012 Israel-based vendor specializes in solid state scalability, deduplication and advanced enterprise array features

Tech Boom in NYC
May 10, 2012 The Big Apple is ripe for Web 2.0, driven by startups in social media, advertising, fashion and health care: advocacy group...

New Product News – May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012 New and updated solutions and services from Citrix, Newforma, Panorama and more

Information Management Value Doesn’t Match Initiatives
May 9, 2012 Ventana report finds sluggish maturity, but high returns with governance and MDM in place

AppSense Deal Targets Mobile Governance Provider
May 9, 2012 RAPsphere solutions aimed to bring BYOD application, data controls to AppSense virtualization portfolio

Where Big Data Shows Huge ROI
May 4, 2012 Nucleus case studies give a primer on the importance of data implementation maturity; limited big data capabilities can lead...

Cisco to Buy Real-Time Analytics Provider Truviso
May 4, 2012 Truviso technology will be part of network management platform; third recent deal by Cisco linked to big data

More “Friends” for Facebook Data Center Group
May 3, 2012 Open Compute Project adds HP, Salesforce and more soon after release of open server rack

New Product News – May 3, 2012
May 3, 2012 New and updated solutions and services from Informatica, VMware, Hitachi and more

IBM Makes Bid for Tealeaf
May 2, 2012 Customer experience analytics provider would be sewn into Smarter Commerce retail plans

Teradata to Acquire eCircle
May 2, 2012 Cloud marketing integration provider backs up Aprimo offerings, expands European team

IT Investment, Confidence on the Rise
May 2, 2012 CompTIA survey finds 42 percent of tech firms plan to spend more on innovation, including cloud and automation

IDC Reduces Forecast for Application Management Growth
May 1, 2012 SaaS, integration and economic conditions impact application management market revision

Wipro to Buy Analytics Provider Promax
May 1, 2012 $36.1 million pitch made to expand Wipro’s trade promotions, optimization offerings

Intuit to Buy Demandforce
April 30, 2012 $423.5 million price tag for marketing, CRM SaaS provider

Innovation and Acquisitions for Health Care, Education Information Management Sectors
April 26, 2012 Berkery Noyes anticipates innovation, regulation to spur more industry vertical buys over next 18 months

Cloud Emergence Brings Linux Group Together
April 26, 2012 IBM, Red Hat, Dell and others in Linux Foundation lead inaugural open source cloud event

Business-Side Expectations for Data Scientists
April 26, 2012 10 Minutes With Jacob Spoelstra, global head of R&D, Opera Solutions

New Product News – April 26, 2012
April 26, 2012 New and updated solutions and services from Pentaho, Fujitsu, Infor and more

IBM to Buy Vivisimo
April 25, 2012 Another vendor scooped up for big data plans; IBM also expands platform to include Cloudera

Google Puts Personal Cloud Rumors to Rest
April 24, 2012 Drive connects with Google’s Docs, carries storage tiers up to 1 terabyte

Teradata Furnishes Data Warehouse as Private Cloud
April 23, 2012 Analyst sees need for advanced private cloud deployments for BI workloads in the near future; Teradata also releases in-memory...

Opera Makes Two Analytics Specialty Acquisitions
April 20, 2012 Business use of increasing data volumes partly behind joint proposal for BIQ, Lexington Analytics

New Product News – April 19, 2012
April 19, 2012 News and new and recently released products from Rackspace, Yellowfin, EMC and more

Mobile Device Management Sending Mixed Signals
April 18, 2012 Bring your own device increases enterprise interest, but uncertainty on security and governance ripples through various...

Toshiba to Pay $850M for IBM Retail Division
April 17, 2012 Expanded market, cloud offerings partly behind point-of-sale acquisition; deal includes Smarter Commerce partnership

Standardizing Federal Transparency
April 16, 2012 Microsoft, Teradata, MarkLogic included in new government data disclosure coalition

Software AG to Buy Messaging Provider my-Channels
April 16, 2012 my-Channels meant to extend portfolio support for big data across platforms, particularly for financial sector

SaaS Taking Lead in IT Value
April 13, 2012 Corum Group: Cloud, as-a-service interest will boost deals in 2012; JOBS Act may increase startups and buyouts

IBM to Acquire Varicent
April 13, 2012 Sales performance management provider to sync with Smarter Analytics efforts

Citrix to Buy Collaboration Platform Startup
April 12, 2012 Podio on-demand offerings will become part of Citrix move into “post-PC era”

New Product News – April 12, 2012
April 12, 2012 News and new and recently released products from Tibco, IBM, HP and more

Greater Expectations from Business Intelligence
April 11, 2012 Ovum report: Agility of BI separates top vendors and offerings

IBM Extends Data Center Integration, Expert Backing
April 11, 2012 Analyst sees “intelligent system” as part of fading distinctions between hardware and software

HP Deepens Cloud Strategy, Solutions
April 10, 2012 More hybrid and as-a-service offerings, with an open source basis; Autonomy also passes 50 petabyte milestone

Paradigm Shift for the Predictive Model
April 9, 2012 10 Minutes with Prediction Impact President Eric Siegel

New Product News – April 5, 2012
April 5, 2012 News and new and recently released products from Information Builders, Pitney Bowes and Percona and more

Data Volumes Broadening Role of NAS
April 5, 2012 $7 billion market by 2017 for online storage architecture: Global Industry Analysts report

Dell to Acquire Clerity
April 4, 2012 Application modernization and re-hosting provider would join Dell Services division; second deal this week from Round Rock