SAP’s Social Layer: Making Collaboration Real

You’ll recall a few weeks back I wrote a post about attending SAP’s SAPPHIRENOW user conference this past May discussing…

Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop

Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and process large volumes of data for analysis. Numerous…

Mark Smith
6 Min Read

Microsoft Buys Enterprise Social Network Vendor Yammer for $1.2B

The much anticipated and highly rumored announcement finally hit the wires today. One of the biggest questions was where would…

mfauscette
3 Min Read

‘Crack the cloud management nut and a cascade of benefits awaits’

“Crack nut and a cascade of benefits awaits…”That’s the call from Jason Liu, CEO of UC4 Software, saying that the…

JoeMcKendrick
3 Min Read

IBM Advances Predictive Analytics for Decision Management

At its Business Analytics Analyst Summit (Twitter: #IBMBAS12) this week, IBM unveiled its new release of analytics software for decision management.…

Mark Smith
6 Min Read

Analytics Meets the Job Board with Bright.com

There’s a new job board in town and it’s using data science to better connect people looking for jobs with…

Brett Stupakevich
4 Min Read

Food Data : The next target of Massive Analytics

It has been a very busy period since my last post but also a very interesting one.  At the Social…

ThemosKalafatis
4 Min Read

How Individual Learning Styles Improve the User Experience

Every website has a certain purpose, be it to inform people, create a community, or sell stuff. At the same…

pveugen
10 Min Read

Teleportd: Big Data Meets Social to Detect Photo-Worthy Events

This week’s LeWeb London conference gave me the opportunity to catch up with Gabriel Hubert, co-founder of French startup Teleportd.…

Timo Elliott
5 Min Read

3 Tips for a Successful BI Implementation

Rolling out a new business intelligence implementation involves a lot of planning and hard work. Here’s some tips to keep…

David Cason
3 Min Read