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  Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut

  A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.

  By Marc Ferranti and Joab Jackson | 17 May, 2013 21:17

  Tags: Tableau, business issues, applications, IDC, Marketo, Components, software, processors, business intelligence, Apple

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  SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

  Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 May, 2013 18:35

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, Internet-based applications and services, applications, enterprise resource planning, data mining, cloud computing, internet, data warehousing, VMware, Hasso Plattner, business intelligence, sapphire, databases, SAP, software

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  It's not the size of your data, it's how you use it

  Data -- whether it is defined as "big" or "little" -- exists everywhere, and effective use of it does not have to be confined only to the largest companies with the biggest budgets and most sophisticated IT staff. In essence, it's not the size of the data, but how you use it that really matters.

  By Dave Becerra, VP of strategy and business development, Roambi | 07 May, 2013 20:32

  Tags: data analysis tools, Gartner, applications, data mining, software, big data, data analysis, business intelligence

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  Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies

  Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies.

  By Joab Jackson | 24 April, 2013 18:26

  Tags: business issues, applications, Pivotal, software, data mining, restructuring, Mergers and acquisitions, VMware, emc, business intelligence

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  Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform

  Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as Amazon's Redshift service.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 April, 2013 13:04

  Tags: amazon, ParAccel, applications, Microsoft, Infor, data mining, software, Data management, data warehousing, business intelligence

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  What IBM's x86 exit may mean for rivals

  IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 April, 2013 18:32

  Tags: IT industry, applications, servers, IBM, hardware systems, software, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, business intelligence, HP, Dell, Business Intelligence/Analytics, IDC

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  5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

  Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn’t pay

  By Bob Violino | 01 April, 2013 10:08

  Tags: predictive analytics, applications, Technology Business, hadoop, data explosion, data mining, software, big data, Data Discovery, IT management, Data management, business intelligence, it strategy

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  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

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  Opinion: The Internet of Things, huge data, and Starbucks

  Gibbs ponders how a Starbucks coffee cup could become the greatest business edge

  By Mark Gibbs | 18 January, 2013 15:16

  Tags: Wi-Fi, applications, Networking, wireless, data mining, software, big data, WLANs / Wi-Fi, business intelligence, starbucks, coffee, Internet of Things

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  SAP in 2013: Five things to watch

  It was a typically busy year for SAP, with the company making headlines for strong sales of its HANA in-memory database, high-profile acquisitions and aggressive moves into cloud computing.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 21 December, 2012 21:11

  Tags: Internet-based applications and services, applications, Eloqua, enterprise resource planning, business issues", YEAR END, data mining, cloud computing, internet, Oracle, Mergers and acquisitions, business intelligence, databases, NetBase, SAP, software

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