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• Google simplifies use of Analytics API

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 May, 2012 04:27

  Google has developed a tool to automate the creation of custom-reporting dashboards for its Analytics website-usage tracking service, the company said on Wednesday.

• IBM melds crime-fighting, big data analytics in one security package

  By Michael Cooney | 02 May, 2012 02:50

  IBM today came out with its first iteration of the analytics software package that it expects will help law enforcement, government agencies and private businesses wade through the massive amounts of data they collect to help them predict, disrupt and prevent criminal, terrorist and fraudulent activities.

• Top six BI trends for 2012

  By Conrad Bates and Cameron Wall | 17 April, 2012 13:19

  Following Gartner’s BIIM Summit in Sydney, Conrad Bates and Cameron Wall, managing partners of C3 Business Solutions, share the top six business intelligence trends they believe will drive the industry in 2012.

• Big Data in the real world isn't so easy

  By Elana Varon | 17 April, 2012 04:10

  General Motors' OnStar service, which provides drivers with remote vehicle diagnostics and responds to emergencies, already manages as much as 3 petabytes of data annually. OnStar CIO Jeffrey Liedel knows there is so much more that can be done to exploit that data-for the benefit of drivers and GM's business.

• White House launches big data R&D push

  By Grant Gross | 30 March, 2012 03:34

  Six U.S. government agencies will spend more than US$200 million to help the government better organize and analyze large volumes of digital data, in a new "big data" research and development effort announced by President Barack Obama's administration Thursday.

• CIOs overcome shortage of business analytics talent

  By Bob Violino | 28 March, 2012 05:13

  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.

• Five business analytics tech trends and how to exploit them

  By David F. Carr | 24 March, 2012 05:21

  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.

• Adobe steps up digital marketing push with new and upgraded products

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 March, 2012 00:02

  Adobe Systems has introduced tools for advertising across social networking sites and different devices, and also analytics to keep track of it all, the company said on Wednesday.

• Big data not just about the analytics, says Amazon CTO

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 March, 2012 05:16

  Enterprises that are thinking about big data need to realize that it isn't just about analytics of vast amounts of data but also how that information is stored, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said during a keynote at the Cebit trade show.

• Using business intelligence to create better health decisions

  By CIO Executive Council | 29 February, 2012 04:01

  Senior VP and CIO Doug Porter and President and CEO Scott Serota discuss Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's business intelligence tools.

• Gartner BI Summit: The future of analytics

  By Hamish Barwick | 21 February, 2012 12:18

  Business analytics need to become easier to use in the future as Australia is faced with an analytics skills shortage that will not go away, according to a Gartner Business Intelligence (BI) and Information Management Summit panel discussion.

• Dassault Systèmes buys personal analytics site Netvibes

  By Peter Sayer | 09 February, 2012 23:29

  3D design software company Dassault Systèmes has acquired Netvibes, a website that allows the creation of personalized dashboards combining social network updates, news alerts and RSS feeds, the companies announced Thursday.

• SAP's HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this year

  By Chris Kanaracus | 26 January, 2012 09:29

  SAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka said in an interview Wednesday.

• Net Optics acquires nMetric, targets network intelligence

  By Colin Neagle | 24 January, 2012 07:40

  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.

• IT leaders continue to juggle multiple priorities in 2012

  By Georgina Swan | 19 January, 2012 12:14

  Analytics and business intelligence has moved back to the top of the technology priority list for CIOs, according to the latest Gartner research into CIO priorities, followed by mobile technologies and Cloud computing — but the pressure is as IT leaders juggle multiple priorities.