Today’s almost immeasurable and vast amount of web data makes customer analytics essential to cracking crucial business decisions. An interesting research study, conducted by Unica, depicts various trends on web data usage, its effect to campaigns and marketing offers and top barriers to web data. Four key takeaways from their annual marketing survey are: marketers ...

When we talk about of Big Data, we often look at the companies with high level demands for storage to keep their mounds of information. But what we do not immediately realize is that Big Data in mobile platforms are also exploding, and could be bigger. Imagine how many people around the world have mobile ...

Facebook’s valuation is skyrocketing and is worth $100 billion in the private marketplace, as suggested by experts. But while Mark Zuckerberg has made it crystal clear that Facebook will enter IPO in 2012, many still believe that the biggest social networking space in digital universe could possibly go public this year. Speculations of enlisting at ...

Just when the German-based enterprise software applications giant was about to escape the dark cloud of its recent debacle courtesy of Oracle and departure of its CEO Leo Apotheker (who now heads HP), SAP is now obliged again to pay Versata Software Inc. a whopping $345 million for a software patent infringement. The lawsuit stated ...

With its unique cross-platform in-database solution that is considered among the most accurate, complete, more secure and fast in the industry, it is not surprising that Alpine Data Labs receives its Series A round of funding, worth $7.5 million. An emerging market of product development and the pioneer in first solution for Big Data Predictive ...

SAPphire goes to EMEA and China. Dubbed as one of the tech community’s premier business events, SAP’s SAPphire 2011 will travel from coast to coast and invade Florida, Madrid and Beijing to provide unparalleled insights from executives, partners and customers. The notable event will be covered by SiliconANGLE from front to back (see SiliconAngle.tv for ...

Information optimization and text analytics are growing leaps and bounds as an industry sector. Tag this along with the demand for smarter search, and you get business-process-integrated applications with the aid of enhanced information access.  These developments have paved the way for the conception of Attivio in 2007.  This Massachusetts-based company produces and sells unified ...

Following the immense success at the recently concluded EMC World 2011, VMware is once again facing the limelight with recognition from all over the tech community. VMware has solidified its stance as the world’s finest virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider as it bagged the Grand Prize of the 2011 Best Interop Award for Cloud Computing ...

Millennial Media is seriously considering an IPO. Experts believed that the recent appointment of Jim Tholen as the new board member is the green light that the company is waiting for before they head towards a public offering. Tholen is the second member of the company’s board outside of the VC community and is currently ...

It’s still Juniper vs. Cisco after all.  Many were surprised when the upset Juniper executive, David Yen, resigned, effective immediately only to jump to a competitor’s camp and lead Cisco’s server access and virtualization technology faction, despite the recent top level and processes revamp within the enterprise.  Reports said that the recent promotion of Stefan ...