Friday, June 18, 2010

Stuff I hereby share with the world via the magic of social media

Analytics 'R' Us
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70187.html

5 Reasons to Love Automated Virtual Agents
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70185.html

Some thoughts on Sybase, following on from its recent Analyst Summit in the New York Stock Exchange

Twitter Acquires Analytics Firm

Google TV Leads New Era of Smart TV, Says Intel Exec

Yet Another Reason to Hate Facebook's Like Button
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1052959/5553367/89546/0/

Why Bill Gates Is Embracing Clean Technology
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177957/Why_Bill_Gates_is_embracing_clean_tech_

One Ring To Rule Them All

Best practices for analytic DBMS POCs

http://www.dbms2.com/2010/06/14/best-practices-analytic-database-poc/#more-2297


Starbucks: Free Wi-Fi at 6,700 US sites

http://yhoo.it/bJwFBy


Microsoft says Azure still not up to par


IBM broadens focus of its Rational conference


Oracle unveils content management upgrade


Oracle, SAP working together on Exadata support


Cached Online Databases Don't Mean 'NoSQL'


MicroStrategy's New High Performance Dashboards Deliver Information to a Broader Range of Business Users

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4303641&access=EH


IBM Advances Analytics With Acquisition of Coremetrics http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4303744&access=EH


Tableau Software Announces General Availability of Tableau 5.2 http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4304609&access=EH


Smart Wins: Web Analytics: Turn Customer Feedback into Sales


Amazon Quickens S3 Data Transfers, Adds Console Support


Microsoft Goes After Google With Early Office Cloud Launch


Twitter adds location to messages


Enterprises slowly adopting social tech


Vitria Announces Operational Intelligence Solution for Customer Care http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4304866&access=EH


IBM Delivers a New Level of Intelligence to the Expanding Mobile Business Market http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4305178&access=EH


Top Tips for Effective DI

IBM's Past May Hold Clue to SAP's Future

Q&A: Agile Data Warehousing

Q&A: BI Architecture in an Agile Environment

Nanowires could lead to foldable tablets, say researchers


Would Software AG be a good fit for SAP?


Seven reasons to care about SQL Server 2008 R2


Who's next on the acquisition block? Bloggers chime in


IBM buys Web analytics software company


Eucalyptus expanded for Windows use
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6503398/7006273/295792/0/


Customer Experience Data and the Line Between Success and Failure
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70209.html


AS MDM PROJECTS GROW MORE COMPLEX, 'DRAMA' COULD FOLLOW
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11794393/2433922


SAP's Sybase acquisition creates product overlap
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11794400/2433922


MDM: Talent In Demand


SAS, SPSS and R


BI Megavendors Continue To Round Out Their BI Portfolios - IBM Acquires Coremetrics


Microsoft hopes Dallas project will become 'iTunes for data'


Your tech vendor's been gobbled up: Now what?


Put your 'crapplications' into the cloud, experts suggest


Twitter Buys Smallthought To Help Analyze Tweets

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=033003QUCFU0&nl=2&full_skip=1


Meet Kinect, Microsoft's New Name for Project Natal
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1055482/5553367/89950/0/


Is Bill Gates Delivering a New Einstein Letter?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1055482/5553367/89958/0/


Facebook Currency Rankles Some


Why Steve Jobs Hates Enterprise IT


Microsoft's Ray Ozzie Says PC Is Razor, Services Are Blades


HP says IT pros need own social network


BI Platforms: A World of Difference Remains


Deep Insight on Soon-to-Be-Public QlikTech


Twitter Gets Trendly


Sybase Updates Advantage Database Server


Verizon to tie cloud storage with computing

BI SEARCH TOOLS EYE MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN BI AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11812303/2433922


Prometheus Research Creates New HTSQL Tools Designed for Easy Charts, Graphs, and Dashboards http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4307139&access=EH


Mitch Wagner: Using LinkedIn could get you sued


AOL Throws Bebo Out With the Bathwater
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70232.html


Basic Data Quality for Advanced Analytics


The Other “BI”


Smart Information Management Strikes a Balance Between Content and Context


Plateau Advances Talent Management in the Cloud


Next wave of social networking tools


SQL SERVER BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND SELF-SERVICE BI IN THE MIDMARKET
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11812613/2433922


MIXING AND MATCHING SCRUM AND WATERFALL FOR AGILE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11826647/2433922


SAP goes Facebook with social network dashboard

Oracle socializes business process management