• 

  Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort

  Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how to best place advertisements on its site.

  By Zach Miners | 13 May, 2013 22:31

  Tags: analytics, Internet-based applications and services, social networking, twitter, social media, internet, Lucky Sort

• 

  Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster

  A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves.

  By Zach Miners | 08 May, 2013 01:44

  Tags: Internet-based applications and services, Spotify, social networking, twitter, social media, internet, Internet service providers, Facebook, analytics, Downdetector

• 

  Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

  Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is expected to continue to pose numerous challenges over the coming year, an engineer said.

  By Zach Miners | 01 May, 2013 01:06

  Tags: analytics, Internet-based applications and services, social networking, social media, internet, Facebook

• 

  IDC: SAP and Oracle winners as software growth slows

  A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from IDC. SAP and Oracle fared the best among the large software vendors.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 April, 2013 17:03

  Tags: Customer Relationship Management, applications, IBM, software, collaboration, cloud computing, internet, Oracle, analytics, Security suites, symantec, Microsoft, SAP

• 

  Mobile phone apps view private data more than necessary, says French study

  Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French government agencies.

  By Peter Sayer | 09 April, 2013 22:54

  Tags: telecommunication, ios, iPhone, Android, mobile, internet, privacy, analytics, mobile applications, Apple, Android OS, consumer electronics, French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), security, smartphones, Mobile OSes, French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL), advertising, applications

• 

  Health-IT early adopters well-poised for big-data advances in clinical medicine

  Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S. medical providers remain sluggish, with the industry slow to embrace the big-data movement.

  By Fred O'Connor | 02 April, 2013 15:21

  Tags: analytics, health care, cloud computing, industry verticals, internet, Kaiser Permanente

• 

  Analytics boost social marketing efforts

  Big-name companies including General Electric and Best Western are maturing their social marketing programs and integrating social metrics with back-end systems.

  By Sandra Gittlen | 28 February, 2013 11:54

  Tags: applications, LinkedIn, software, twitter, Facebook, youtube, business intelligence, analytics, Pinterest, Business Intelligence/Analytics, social business, Google, general electric

• 

  Why Oracle bought Eloqua, and what it means for the market

  Oracle surprised many tech industry observers by announcing Thursday it would pay US$871 million for marketing automation software vendor Eloqua. The move seemed a bit unlikely given the amount of sales and marketing software Oracle already had.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 20 December, 2012 20:59

  Tags: Customer Relationship Management, applications, IBM, Salesforce.com, Eloqua, Marketo, cloud computing, internet, Oracle, Responsys, Mergers and acquisitions, analytics, Silverpop, adobe, software, business issues, advertising, Internet-based applications and services

• 

  Presidential election a victory for quants

  If there was one lesson for political pundits from last week's presidential election, it was that basic statistical modeling techniques can be used to predict election outcomes with stunning accuracy.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 14 November, 2012 12:33

  Tags: analytics, Business Intelligence/Analytics, applications, software, intel, business intelligence

• 

  Analytics vendors show there's still innovation in BI

  Managing data isn't as glamorous as many of the glitzy Web 2.0 apps on display at the Demo Fall 2008 conference in San Diego, but it's what keeps businesses running. Enterprise applications to speed databases, manage unstructured data, and handle BI queries on a massive scale made their debut this week, and at first blush they look positive. Of course, all will have to stand the rigor of real-world use and testing.

  By Bill Snyder | 11 September, 2008 10:12

  Tags: analytics, business intelligence

Whitepapers about analytics

• 

  Buy Vs. Build - Embedding Business Analytics Into SaaS or Cloud Applications

  In this paper, we explore the benefits of BI and analytics and provide key reasons why organisations should buy, not build, these capabilities into Saas applications: lower total cost of ownership (TCO), quick time to value (weeks, not months), and analytics capabilities that you pilot and price to quickly gauge user experience and potential. Read now.

• 

  Worst Practices in Predictive Analytics

• 

  Enhancing Decision-Making, Cost-Efficiency, and Profitability With Predictive Analytics