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  • Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing

    Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer relationship management) software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 01 Feb. 12 12:26

  • Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be included in core fees

    Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software will have an additional price tag, saying that the functionality it includes should be part of their base subscriptions.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 28 Jan. 12 08:08

  • Net Optics acquires nMetric, targets network intelligence

    In a move to broaden its offerings for the growing network intelligence and diagnostics market, telecom equipment manufacturer Net Optics recently announced the acquisition of network analytics software provider nMetric.

    Written by Colin Neagle • 24 Jan. 12 07:40

  • Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier

    It's been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague and hazy concept for your boss's boss. That puts it in the sweet spot when there's plenty of room for experimentation. The list of companies using Hadoop in production work grows longer each day, and it probably won't be long before "Hadoop cluster" takes over the role that the words "crazy supercomputer" used to play in thriller movies. The next version of the WOPR is bound to run Hadoop.

    Written by Peter Wayner • 18 Jan. 12 22:21

  • Splunk 4.3 gets a boost for business analysis

    With the newest update of its machine-data search engine, Splunk has expanded the user interface in a number of ways so it can be more easily used by business analysts as well as system administrators.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 11 Jan. 12 06:43

  • Oracle partners with Cloudera for Hadoop appliance

    Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 11 Jan. 12 00:09

  • CIOs disconnected from business execs

    At Maple Leaf Foods, a $5 billion consumer packaged-goods company, IT doesn't just respond to business decisions, it participates in the planning that leads to those decisions. For starters, CIO Jeff Hutchinson sits on the executive committee, and some of his IT leaders sit on business unit committees.

    Written by Kim S. Nash • 04 Jan. 12 02:30

  • Big Data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012

    Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, but the notion rings fairly true with respect to BI (business intelligence) and advanced analytics. The products just kept selling throughout the global recession, as companies looked to gain insights into their business and subsequently, more efficiency as well as new ideas.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 24 Dec. 11 03:01

  • Big Data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012

    Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, but the notion rings fairly true with respect to BI (business intelligence) and advanced analytics. The products just kept selling throughout the global recession, as companies looked to gain insights into their business and subsequently, more efficiency as well as new ideas.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 20 Dec. 11 22:28

  • HP pairs Autonomy and Vertica software

    Hewlett-Packard is quickly putting to use its recent acquisitions of Autonomy and Vertica, integrating the software from these companies into a single software package, called the HP Next Generation Information Platform.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 29 Nov. 11 19:05

  • InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

    Everyone is a trend watcher. But at a certain point, to determine which trends will actually weave their way into the fabric of business computing, you need to first take a hard look at the technologies that gave life to the latest buzz phrases.

    Written by InfoWorld staff • 21 Nov. 11 22:10

  • Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group saves $200,000 on data warehousing costs

    The Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group (ALH) has saved $200,000 a year after moving its data warehousing from Oracle to Microsoft.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 16 Nov. 11 10:41

  • AE Smith looks to business analytics for competitive edge

    Australia’s largest privately owned mechanical services contractor has rolled out business analytics software across its business to increase its competitive edge.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 14 Nov. 11 15:12

  • Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

    Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 03 Nov. 11 07:09

  • ABC's of ADCs in the cloud

    Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) are critical to a smoothly functioning data center. They provide key functions including server load balancing, monitoring the health of servers and apps; protecting the data center from distributed denial-of-service attacks, performing SSL encryption and decryption; making servers more efficient by managing connections, running specialized application scripts and accelerating applications.

    Written by Robin Layland • 02 Nov. 11 04:43

  • MarkLogic ties its database to Hadoop for 'Big Data' support

    You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data processing.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 01 Nov. 11 21:04

  • Beyond the Hype of Big Data

    Forrester estimates that, in general, firms use less than 5 percent of the data available to them. We also estimate that data is growing about 40-50 percent annually, but the average enterprise only captures around 25-30 percent of that. This means there is a bunch of data not being captured and used by your firm, and the divide is going to grow over time. So what?

    Written by Brian Hopkins • 01 Nov. 11 08:52

  • Encouraging Users to Embrace Big Business Data

    Scenario: Managing change across a newly information-based company

    Written by CIO Executive Council • 01 Nov. 11 05:59

  • IBM Information on Demand 2011: In pictures

    This year's conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort, will focus on information management, business analytics and enterprise content management.

    Written by Chloe Herrick • 25 Oct. 11 08:20

  • Oracle pushes appliance message to software crowd

    One thing became clear at Oracle's OpenWorld conference on Monday: The vendor is intent on drilling the benefits of its hardware-plus-software systems into a customer base that largely remains invested only in Oracle's applications, databases and middleware.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 04 Oct. 11 06:07
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