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Future of BI: Web 2.0, mashups and guided search
Insight Business intelligence is due for a renaissance, say industry watchers. Here's what it might look like in a few years' time.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications, Web 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Data, Supplier, Gartner Inc., business intelligence, VP, mashup
Microsoft targets Bing search at Asia
News update Company launches Bing, invests in Asian languages and banks on user disloyalty to wrestle market share from current search leaders, Google and Baidu.
Tags: Search, Forrester Research Inc., Asia, India, Google Inc., Search Engine, Internet User, Analysys, Baidu.com Inc., senior vice president
IT security spared from budget cuts
News Companies like Malaysia Airlines, are still dishing out money to strengthen their IT security framework. But, product evaluation process is now more rigorous.
Tags: Security applications/tools, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, Forrester Research Inc., Security, IT Budget, IT Security, Information Security, Information And Communication Technology, CEO
Debating Forrester Research: Service providers and failure
Techguide A blog post by the analyst, which pushes virtually all blame for IT failures onto technology buyers, may have provided a narrow view of the dynamics in project management.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Forrester Research Inc., Project, Consulting, Michael Krigsman, IT Devil, software, CEO, knowledge
Forrester: 2.2B people online globally by 2013
News In four years' time, 43 percent of Internet population will reside in Asia, according to new projections from the research group.
Tags: Web sites, Forrester Research Inc., Asia, Western Europe, Turkey, Russia, Emerging Market, Middle East, Internet, U.S.
Study: Google's search lead not matched by loyalty
News Google is more widely used than rival search engines--but only one in five people use it exclusively, a Forrester study reports.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Corp., Study, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Search Engine, Stock
Flat holiday sales for e-tailers?
News This holiday shopping season could mark the first time that online retailers fail to outperform the previous year's sales, say market watchers.
Tags: E-business, Forrester Research Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales, Computer, Bernardo Huberman, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company, retail company, ComScore Networks Inc.
Report finds fake antivirus on the rise
News New report from PandaLabs says rogue antivirus software could be infecting as many as 35 million computers a month.
Tags: Antivirus software, PC security, Data security, Network security, Forrester Research Inc., Malware, Antivirus Software, Finjan Software Inc., antivirus, computer
Broadband industry debates recession, rollout
News Government spending on next-gen broadband could fight the recession--or harm a vulnerable market.
Tags: Personal broadband, Business broadband, Forrester Research Inc., British Telecommunications, Fiber, Broadband, broadband industry, London, recession, Philips Electronics N.V.
Windows 7 to fulfill 'unsated demand' for next OS
News Lack of Vista deployments will prompt most businesses to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP, says Microsoft executive.
Tags: Windows 7, Forrester Research Inc., Ovum, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Asia-Pacific, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP
Windows 7 business standard by next year
News Analysts believe that Windows 7 will become the standard operating system for business PCs, skipping Vista.
Tags: Windows 7, Business applications, Forrester Research Inc., Operating System, business PC, Business applications, Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, IT Professional, Microsoft Windows 7
PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins
News Open source database management software update is released with a focus on better tools for admin and monitoring.
Tags: Open source, Business Strategies & Functions, Database management, Network administration/implementation, Strategic analysis, Forrester Research Inc., Open-source Database, RFID, Database, PostgreSQL
Forrester: Vendors showing more price flexibility
News Software vendors have been obliged to be more accommodating on pricing with their customers as a result of the economic crisis, finds new study.
Tags: Business applications, Protocols and platforms, Software licensing, Customer support, Forrester Research Inc., SAP AG, software company, KPI, network, strategy
VMware's cloud proposition 'attractive'
News Vendor still has to win cloud providers over to its new "cloud OS", but the virtualization giant's lion's share of market is a big advantage, say analysts.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, Forrester Research Inc., Virtualization, Xen, data center virtualization, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Cloud computing, Environment
Web 2.0 fuels open source database boom
News Forrester has found that databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining momentum through new markets, despite lack of movement away from existing proprietary installations.
Tags: Web 2.0, Open source, Databases, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft SQL Server, Open-source Database, Database, stored procedure, Environment, Web 2.0
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