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Social networks to augment analytics

News Relational links between people are being applied to refine business analytic findings and reduce rate of false positives, says SAS executive.

Wednesday, August 05 2009 06:43 PM

Tags: Data mining & analysis, Strategic analysis, Data warehousing/business intelligence, SAS Institute, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, business analytics, public sector, business intelligence, social networking

The fraud connection in social networking

Insight A fraud ring is no different than a social network, as it's the relationships and associations that are important, says SAS co-founder and CEO Jim Goodnight.

Monday, November 17 2008 05:32 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Business applications, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, M&A, Cloud Computing, M&A Money, phone, social networking, analytics

Salesforce.com has cloud in its Sites

News Customers can build and run their external Web sites using vendor's Force.com Sites cloud platform as well as use other functionality such as analytics, programmable logic and workflow.

Tuesday, June 16 2009 11:09 AM

Tags: Cloud computing, Starbucks Corp., EMEA, CRM, Web Application, Cloud computing, Customer, analytics, Silicon.com, Web Site

IBM launches business analytics system

News Bundle of preconfigured and optimized hardware and software, is aimed at helping companies cut deployment time, according to Big Blue.

Thursday, July 30 2009 08:41 AM

Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Servers, IBM Corp., data mining, business analytics, business intelligence, Hardware, analytics, cost reduction

Asean CIOs list biz intelligence top priority

News Some 87 percent of CIOs in region see business intelligence and analytics as top priority, finds IBM study.

Friday, October 23 2009 02:58 PM

Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Business, Business development/management, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Survey, Asean, Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions

Can Android Market catch up with Apple App Store?

News commentary Increased developer hustle and bustle around Android and slew of devices based on Google's mobile operating system, signal that apps written for this platform will skyrocket.

Wednesday, October 28 2009 11:29 AM

Tags: Mobile applications, Google Android, Apple Inc., Phone, Operating System, cell-phone operating system, App, mobile, Mobile applications, Google Android

Gartner: Brace yourself for cloud computing

News Cloud computing led Gartner's list of ten big technologies to plan for in 2010. Also: mobile apps, desktop virtualization, social networks, green IT.

Wednesday, October 21 2009 09:02 AM

Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cloud computing, Computer, Virtualization, Information Technology, mobile, Business Strategies & Functions, Social Computing, Gartner Inc., Cloud computing

Facebook woos developers with a roadmap

News The social-networking company unveils what it's up to in the next three to six months so that developers can plan to add new things to their apps.

Thursday, October 29 2009 12:40 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Twitter Inc., Palo Alto, California, Web 2.0, Developer, API, analytics, Microsoft Windows

Checkmate, Twitter: Facebook 'status tagging' live

News Much like Twitter's @-replies, this will let Facebook members link to one another in their profiles, with big implications for Facebook-Twitter turf wars--and marketers.

Friday, September 11 2009 10:45 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, tagging, Dashboard, San Francisco, analytics, Facebook, marketing, blog, brand, acquisition

Microsoft ditches Web analytics effort

News Software maker is discontinuing the beta of a tool that would have competed with Google Analytics, Omniture, and others.

Tuesday, March 24 2009 10:46 AM

Tags: Web services, Microsoft Corp., Web Analytics, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Tool, Google Analytics, Microsoft adCenter, business intelligence, analytics, blog

IBM roars into business consulting

News Its new 4,000-strong Business Analytics & Optimization Services will mine IBM's research and software divisions for innovations.

Thursday, April 16 2009 12:49 PM

Tags: Consulting, IBM Corp., SAS Institute, data mining, Frank Kern, Data-mining Software, business analytics, Sales, software, analytics

Microsoft closing the book on Encarta

News The software maker decides to shelve its online encyclopedia, no doubt due to the growth of alternatives such as Wikipedia.

Tuesday, March 31 2009 11:16 AM

Tags: Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Web Analytics, Microsoft Windows Live, Encyclopedia, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Encarta.com, layoff, Wikipedia, Digital media

IBM earmarks US$100M for mobile research

News It will invest US$100 million over the next five years in a drive to develop new mobile services for the enterprise and emerging markets.

Friday, June 19 2009 10:12 AM

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Insurance Company, IBM Corp., Mobile, GPS, analytics, Emerging Market, Mobility, scientist, Mobile/Wireless

Business intelligence has downturn upturn

News Worldwide revenue for technology related to business intelligence, analytics applications and performance management grew 22 percent in 2008 to over US$8.8 billion, says Gartner.

Monday, June 15 2009 09:46 AM

Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, IT budgeting, SAP AG, Business Objects, Gartner Inc., research analyst, business intelligence, analytics, revenue, analyst