Friday, April 23, 2010

Stuff that distracted me from reading other stuff April 19-23 2010

Oracle To Buy Phase Forward For $685 Million


Greenplum Chorus: Combining Self-service Provisioning with Analytics Collaboration" http://bit.ly/98zPK0

http://www.bigdatanews.com/content/greenplum-chorus-combining-self-service-provisioning-analytics-collaboration


Reasons Why Hardware Is Still Hot at IBM


Key Features Missing from Microsoft Kin Smartphones


IBM Guns for Oracle with Double the Cash Rewards


Google grows revenue 23% in Q1, beats expectations


Promoted Tweets: Ego Trip or Marketing Tool?


Google unveils plan to let Chrome OS users print from cloud


MySQL official emphasizes GPL, improvements


Twitter's New Flight Plan


Data Deposit Box Launches Cloud Storage Service KineticD


From here to tweeternity: Twitter to be preserved for posterity


Information management takes aim at need for improved business insights from complex data sources


Google Wants to Put Printing In the Cloud
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/974252/5553367/72795/0/


Location-Sharing Tool Glympse Moves to Facebook
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/976181/5553367/73001/0/


Public Review: SAML V2.0 Kerberos Web Browser SSO Profile Version 1.0
http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml-kerberos-browser-sso-cd-01.html
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/


More Colleges Move To Cloud Email Like Gmail, Ditch In-House Email
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11357806/2433922


How Twitter's Promoted Tweets Will Work


Ulanoff: Please Twitter, Don't Kill TweetDeck


This is What a Tweet Looks Like

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_what_a_tweet_looks_like.php


Improve BI User Adoption in Five Steps


Consumer Goods Companies Need Analytics to Compete


Verifying identity in customer-not-present situations


Technologies That Could Define the Next Century
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69792.html


Google Dreams Up Cloud Printing Service
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69793.html


Talend 4.0 Integrates Data Management


Jaspersoft Evaluated in Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Report on Business Intelligence Platforms http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4233919&access=EH


Why aren't SSDs getting cheaper?


Seagate, Microsoft launch disk-to-disk to cloud service

Micron to bump up enterprise SSD speed


What's Not So Great About the iPad: The 10 Biggest Complaints


Mike Pascucci: Social Intranets Part II - Personalization


FatWire Launches New Social Computing Products for the Enterprise


Global CIO: Larry Ellison's New Acquisition Underscores Vertical Strategy


Gartner's BI Summit Warning: Buyer Beware


Mobile BI Apps Target iPad

SAS Offers Social Media Analytics Service


Talend 4.0 Integrates Data Management


Facebook will soon let you 'like' anything on the Internet


Information management takes aim at need for improved business insights from complex data sources


Enterprise IT plus social media plus cloud computing equals the future


Why computer science students cheat


Data Foundations and Trillium Software Forge Alliance to Deliver Unified Data Governance & Data Quality Solution for Master Data Management http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4234525&access=EH


NoSQL Needed For Cloud-Sized Data


Comparing Social Media & Traditional Newsletters


EIGHT TIPS FOR DESIGNING, MANAGING AN ENTERPRISE CPM SYSTEM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11378203/2433922


Steven Minsky: ERM vs GRC?

SEC Says No to Myopic Approach: Costly Example from Goldman Sachs

Joe McKendrick: Virtual Appliances and Acceleration: Software Can be Speedy, Too

Nari Kannan: How In-memory Analysis is crucial for Iterative BI Insights!

Mike Pascucci: Social Intranets Part II - Personalization

XML Appliances for Service-Oriented Architectures


IBM's Smarter Systems: Getting the Word Out
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69809.html


External Data in Enterprise Data Warehousing – Trendy and Trying


Should operational reporting should be included in the scope of BI strategy development?


Gartner's BI Summit Warning: Buyer Beware


Secure P2P Scheme Leverages Social Networks


Kognitio Stays True to Row-Based Databases -- TDWI: http://bit.ly/bZ3x9G

Using BI to Assess BI: The Efficacy Conundrum


SAP(R) Solutions for Portfolio and Project Management Help Turn Ideas Into Reality http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4235655&access=EH


Panorama Software Launches One of the First BI Suites on PowerPivot, Microsoft's New In-Memory Platform http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4235901&access=EH


Microsoft Kicks Off Worldwide Launch of SQL Server 2008 R2 http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4235903&access=EH


Facebook Opens Up Social Tools To Broader Web

Microsoft Launches SQL Server R2


Facebook to Spread Its Tentacles Across the Web
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69808.html


BI, Analytics and Statistical Science


Recalling the Bottom-Up Enterprise


Microsoft Fills Up Database with New Technology


Fine Tuning with Business Analytics and Process Engineering


Brand Reputation Management in the Era of the Social Customer


Don’t Put Influencers in the Corner


TDWI: REACH BUSINESS GOALS WITH A UNIFIED DATA MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11389609/2433922


Microsoft GP 2010 features integrations, BI


Social Networking Web and OAuth: Twitter Client for Google App Engine
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-oauth3/
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5849


Avatier Identity Management Cloud Computing Solution
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100421005951/en/Identity-Management-Cloud-Computing-Environment-Provider-Teams
http://www.avatier.com/identity-management.html


GARTNER'S TAKE ON EMERGING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11387711/2433922


TIPS TO BUCKLE DOWN A MIDMARKET BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11388113/2433922


New storage products reduce cost of managing "big data"
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29955.wss


SQL Server 2008 R2 Hits RTM, Release in May

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2010/04/21/sql-server-2008-r2-hits-rtm.aspx


Oracle Reassures Developers about Future of MySQL


Mitch Wagner: Work the social networks ... before you need work


Microsoft's long-awaited SQL Server 2008 update finally ships


Is Google the new Rome?


Microsoft, Oracle differ on cloud visions


Microsoft's long-awaited SQL Server 2008 update finally ships


Holding Social Media Marketing's Feet to the Fire
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69832.html


Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 to Arrive May 1


Microsoft Launches SQL Server 2008 R2


Microsoft Fills Up Database with New Technology


Twitter and the rise of data platforms


Gartner's Take on BI Cost of Ownership


It's Very Early in the Game for SAS Social Media Analytics


My Take on BI Cost of Ownership


BI Integration Fear Factors


Facebook Plots its Future: Will it Be Our Overlord?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/984017/5553367/74568/0/


How Facebook Plans to Dominate the Web
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/984017/5553367/74576/0/


ORACLE USERS LIKE EXADATA IDEA BUT BALK AT PRICE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11397896/2433922


BI Grows Despite Economic Woes