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Success Factors Updates BizX Again with New Mobile, UI Elements
Cloud HR firm SuccessFactors has been very busy tweaking its Business Execution suite throughout the past few weeks. Late last month it announced that it’s migrating the lineup to HANA and adding iPad support, among other things, and now the SAP subsidiary is rolling out a few equally substantial improvements to the platform. One feature ...
Red Hat Unveils Open, Departmentalized IaaS Service
Open source powerhouse Red Hat debuted CloudForms today, an infrastructure-as-a-service solution for enterprises working with hybrid clouds. The company is touting several advantages. One of the main advantages, not surprisingly, is that it’s completely open. Red Hat says that its offering supports multiple infrastructure types including all the major hypervisors, as well as a very ...
Expect More Acquisitions, Jobs from Big Data #BigDataChat
Big Blue’s James Kobielus moderated a one-hour big data discussion on Twitter today with Terri Griffith from the Leavey School of Business, IBM distinguished engineer Stephen Brodsky and other pundits who provided their take on this trend. Kobielus started off by asking the participants what big data means to them, and merchandising was the response. Marketing ...
Terremark Teams up with EMC for New Cloud Portfolio
Terremark is a service provider that helps enterprises deploy new infrastructure, and keep it running. It would seem, however, that the Verizon subsidiary has plans to expand beyond its core market to the cloud service spaces, and it will leverage EMC hardware to achieve that goal. Today Terremark announced that it has reached Platinum status ...
HP Reveals New Autonomy-Powered “Meaning” Platform
Hewlett-Packard has invested over $10 billion in British analytics firm Autonomy, and soon after that its software was integrated with Vertica infrastructure. The offering is touted as a hybrid platform that covers both unstructured and structured streams, and has faced some criticism along the way. This week HP reaffirmed its plans for its massive investment ...
Millennial Stands Behind WP7 with New SDK
Windows Phone 7, along with the Metro user-interface that it an elemental part of the OS and Microsoft’s broader consumer outlook, are picking up momentum. Telerik recently announced some new development tools for the software, and IDC just released a new report that seems to concur with the uptick in adoption we’ve been seeing lately. The ...
Better Stats, More Data for Revolution R Enterprise
Revolution R unveiled the latest version of its flagship product this week – a commercial distribution of the popular mathematics-oriented programming language optimized use in the enterprise. R Enterprise R 6 introduces a number of new improvements on top of the ones the company has already been touting. One of the things that they’ve added ...
Dell Boomi Summer 12 Adds Crowd-Powered Analytics
Dell Boomi is a cloud-based service that helps enterprises link their applications to data and other applications, for a monthly subscription. That fee is still considerably less than what an organization would have to spend to achieve the same end result via alternative routes. This week the company announced that the Atomsphere 12 Summer edition is ...
Oracle Buys Collective Intellect to Boost Social Enterprise Strategy
Database behemoth Oracle just announced that it’s acquiring Collective Intellect for an undisclosed amount. The firm offers cloud-based social media monitoring software that lets users analyze relevant user interactions on Facebook and Twitter; this insight can eventually be translated into improving marketing campaigns and merchandising overall. This latest acquisition is a pretty good represention of ...
IBM Edge Day 1 Recap: A Broader Commitment
IBM is holding the first ever Edge conference this week, and theCube is in attendance with live coverage and analysis. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and John McArthur recapped on the big highlights of Day 1 in this video, and noted their observations (see full video below). Furrier kicked it off by noting that ...