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• Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

  By Fred O'Connor | 25 May, 2012 15:03

  A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

• Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 18 May, 2012 07:45

  About two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyze vast amounts of data from multiple repositories scattered throughout the company.

• SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  By Chris Kanaracus | 17 May, 2012 00:23

  SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.

• How to avoid Big Data spending pitfalls

  By Thor Olavsrud | 09 May, 2012 01:36

  Big Data is a powerful lure, promising to turn the massive and ever-increasing volumes of data inside an organization into a pool of intelligence that promises deep, actionable insight into every aspect of a business. However, that lure can lead you into an expensive trap if you don't plan carefully.

• IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 May, 2012 05:33

  The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011 to $US812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 per cent, according to a new report released by analyst firm IDC.

• Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2012 14:06

  Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.

• 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.

• SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA

  By Chris Kanaracus | 02 May, 2012 02:31

  SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of "falsehoods."

• SAS Institute Eyes the Big Data Market

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 May, 2012 06:53

  COMPANY: SAS Institute

• Amazon Web Services offers one-click purchase of cloud apps from IBM, SAP, others

  By Chris Kanaracus | 19 April, 2012 23:06

  Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a new online marketplace that allows customers to buy software and services from a variety of vendors at hourly rates through its cloud infrastructure platform.

• How to use Hadoop to overcome storage limitations

  By Frank J. Ohlhorst | 19 April, 2012 05:29

  Storage technology has evolved and matured to the point where it has started to approach commodity status in many data centers. Nevertheless, today's enterprises are faced with evolving needs that can strain storage technologies -- a case in point is the push for big data analytics, an initiative that brings business intelligence (BI) capabilities to large data sets.

• 7 top tools for taming big data

  By Peter Wayner | 18 April, 2012 20:11

  The floods that devastated the hard disk industry in Thailand are now half a year old, and the prices per terabyte are finally dropping once again. That means data will start piling up and people around the office will wonder what can be done with it. Perhaps there are some insights in those log files? Perhaps a bit of statistical analysis will find some nuggets of gold buried in all of that noise? Maybe we can find enough change buried in the couch cushions of these files to give us all a raise?

• 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.

• IBM acquires Varicent Software

  By Joab Jackson | 14 April, 2012 00:54

  Adding to its already considerable line of analysis software and expertise, IBM announced Friday that it has acquired business intelligence software provider Varicent Software.