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Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.

By Marc Ferranti | 25 May, 2012 22:22

Tags: Investments, business issues, Morgan Stanley, Facebook, workday, Eloqua, palo alto networks, sap, Ariba

Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

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.

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

Tags: health care, industry verticals, business intelligence, applications, software, internet

Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

The story "Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches," posted on the wire Thursday, incorrectly stated the location of Onapsis in the second paragraph.

By IDG News Service staff | 25 May, 2012 09:30

Tags: security, sap

Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.

By Loek Essers | 24 May, 2012 16:37

Tags: Hack In The Box, enterprise architecture, Architecture, software, fraud, Exploits / vulnerabilities, data protection, data breach, intrusion, security, sap

SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 23 May, 2012 05:26

Tags: SuccessFactors, software, sap, business issues, Ariba

SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 22:08

Tags: software, business issues, Coupa, Concur, SuccessFactors, Ariba, sap

SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

Due to incorrect information provided by the vendor, the story "SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight," posted to the wire on May 16, contained an improper characterization of the hardware used in a database cluster set up by SAP.

By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 14:54

Tags: databases, applications, software, hardware systems, sap

Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation

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.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 18 May, 2012 07:45

Tags: software, CA Technologies, business intelligence, applications

Options grow for third-party SAP application support

The nascent market for third-party SAP application support gained another player on Thursday, with Spinnaker Support announcing a service that will place it in competition with the likes of Rimini Street.

By Chris Kanaracus | 11 May, 2012 05:40

Tags: Spinnaker Management, software, services, sap, Rimini Street, oracle, legal, enterprise resource planning, Civil lawsuits, Application services, applications

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

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.

By Chris Kanaracus | 08 May, 2012 05:33

Tags: software, open source, middleware, IDC, data warehousing, business intelligence, applications

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

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."

By Chris Kanaracus | 02 May, 2012 02:31

Tags: applications, business intelligence, databases, data warehousing, oracle, sap, software

SAS Institute Eyes the Big Data Market

COMPANY: SAS Institute

By Chris Kanaracus | 01 May, 2012 06:53

Tags: applications, business intelligence, SAS Institute, software

Workday update pushes it deeper into Oracle, SAP's turf

Workday is rolling out version 16 of its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software to customers this week, an update that includes upgrades to the financials component that could help it steal away deals with large enterprises from the likes of Oracle and SAP.

By Chris Kanaracus | 19 April, 2012 23:03

Tags: applications, cloud computing, enterprise resource planning, Financial / tax, internet, Internet-based applications and services, oracle, sap, software, workday

7 top tools for taming big data

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?

By Peter Wayner | 18 April, 2012 20:11

Tags: application development, applications, Big Data, business intelligence, data discovery, Data Visualization, hadoop, OLAP, software

Hungry Jack’s tucks into customer data for improved BI

National fast food chain, Hungry Jack’s, has begun maximising its investment in in-store wi-fi networks through capturing customer data and pushing targeted offers to patrons.

By Hamish Barwick | 11 April, 2012 10:30

Tags: business intelligence, Hungry Jack's, Joey Butler, social media

SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile

SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle and IBM.

By Chris Kanaracus | 11 April, 2012 05:47

Tags: Adobe Systems, applications, business intelligence, databases, data warehousing, enterprise resource planning, IBM, mobile, oracle, sap, software, sybase, Telecommunication

Information Builders gives its BI platform more cloud-like capabilities

Information Builders has added a range of improvements to its WebFocus BI (business intelligence) platform that will make it more appealing to ISVs and other providers that want to offer it as a cloud service, the company announced Tuesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 02 April, 2012 23:02

Tags: applications, business intelligence, cloud computing, Information Builders, internet, Internet-based applications and services, software

How to get a hot job in big data

Big data is reshaping business IT. Thanks to cheap storage, massive processing power, and tools like Hadoop, organizations are now able to mine terabytes of information and derive useful business intelligence from it. But the data revolution is also creating a new breed of hybrid business-IT jobs, ones that blend business knowledge and powerful IT tools to the benefit of tech-savvy line-of-business professionals -- and the possible detriment of IT pros oblivious to the big data trend.

By Dan Tynan | 19 March, 2012 21:24

Tags: applications, Big Data, business intelligence, consumerization of IT, data discovery, Data Explosion, data management, data mining, Data Visualization, hadoop, Information Technology Careers, IT jobs, IT training, predictive analytics, software

No unified stack soon for big data

Despite the growing interest in big data platforms, it may be some time before organizations will be able to deploy a standardized big data software stack, concluded a panel of speakers Wednesday during a virtual panel hosted by GigaOm.

By Joab Jackson | 16 March, 2012 05:04

Tags: applications, business intelligence, canonical, data management, data mining, Linux, non-Windows, open source, operating systems, software

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