Three Implications for the Rise of E-Readers
For the first time ever, Amazon.com sold more electronic than printed books. In other news, Kindle e-readers are flying off…
Survey Shows European Decision Makers in Need of Better BI
Information Builders, the software vendor of the enterprise Business Intelligence product WebFOCUS, partnered with market research company Vanson Bourne for insight…
Trillion Triple Semantic Database
The Semantic Web captures the semantics, or meaning, of data, and machines are enabled to interact with that meta data.…
Social Media Data is Like a Box of Timbits
The Timbit Story Once upon a time, I brought a box of Timbits to work to share with my research…
Collaborate on the Future of QlikView
This week, we launched a new capability on QlikCommunity called Ideas. This new collaborative idea management functionality makes it easier…
Gartner Adds Big Data to Its 2011 Hype Cycle
It’s that time of year again: Gartner is looking at the “hype cycle” for emerging technologies and trying to decide…
From “The Farm” to FarmVille
In an experiment on crowdsourcing intelligence, Applied Research Associates, Inc hopes to see if it can build better intelligence collectors and…
First Take: Oracle Acquires Inquira
This morning Oracle announced it entered into an agreement to acquire Inquira, a Knowledge Management vendor. Terms of the deal…
BI on Tablets Brings Right Info to Right People at Right Time
I got a great comment from reader Dennis D. McDonald on my post from earlier this week titled "Customer Service…
Data Deluge Means No More Leonardo Da Vinci’s
Think of Leonardo da Vinci and such images as “Mona Lisa” or “The Last Supper” probably come to mind. Labeled…
