Mark Smith

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The Big Data in Teradata

At the recent Teradata’s annual Partners user conference, the company outlined its…

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IBM Makes Big Deal of Big Data

At its annual IBM Information on Demand 2012  (IOD) and Business Analytics…

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Value Index Reveals Red Hot Business Intelligence Vendors for 2012

Ventana Research has just released the 2012 Value Index for Business Intelligence, in…

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SAP Provides Facts over Fiction on SAP HANA and Launches NetWeaver in the Cloud

At the SAP TechEd conference in Las Vegas this week, the global software giant…

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In HR Technology, Social and Mobile Are Hot and Becoming Business Necessity

This week I’m at the 2012 HR Technology Conference (Twitter: #HRTechConf) where the scene…

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Industry Analyst Art or Fiction: Questionable Technology Predictions

I recently wrote about how technology vendors attempt to skew analysts’ and influencers’…

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Industry Exposé: Technology Vendors Skew Analysts and Influencers

In my more than a decade of writing on the trends and…

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Informatica Gets Heiler for PIM and Product Information Management

Informatica is a Hot vendor when it comes to our Value Index for…

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Plumbing the Salesforce Clouds is Your Business

Salesforce is a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) company to be reckoned with. The…

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Salesforce Struggles to Deliver on the Dream of Analytics

I was at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference this week to hear about the latest advancements…

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