• Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress

  By Chris Kanaracus | 13 June, 2013 14:36

  Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the second CEP-related deal this week. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.

• SAP at work on Sentinel, an 'Amazon for Stocks'

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 June, 2013 20:19

  SAP is at work on a new product called Sentinel that is supposed to be "nothing less than the Amazon for Stocks and the Facebook for Investors," according to a job posting associated with the project.

• SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 May, 2013 18:35

  Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

• More data isn't always better, says Nate Silver

  By Sharon Machlis | 08 May, 2013 19:57

  Big data may seem to promise big insights to users, but more isn't always better, cautions statistician Nate Silver, who became one of America's most well-known faces of data analysis after his FiveThirtyEight blog accurately predicted 2012 presidential election results in all 50 states.

• SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2013 16:38

  SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.

• Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

  By David Taber | 18 April, 2013 14:01

  Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.

• Aster rolls out data warehousing appliances

  By Chris Kanaracus | 30 June, 2009 06:52

  Seeking to cater to more customer tastes in the increasingly crowded market for large-scale data warehousing and analysis, startup Aster Data Systems on Monday announced a new series of appliances that combine Aster's nCluster database and hardware in a preconfigured package.

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