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SAP’s Big Data Strategy Simplifies Analytics with HANA
In an interview to Forbes, Sanjay Poonen, president and corporate officer of SAP Global Solutions, laid out his company’s vision for big data analytics. That vision is based mostly on HANA, the business software maker’s in-memory data muncher. SAP’s strategy involved the convergence of three well-defined big data concepts: the economics that can be achieved ...
Nimble Raises $1M for Fresh CRM Solution
Nimble announced it has received $1 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, alongside other venture capitalists including Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge and Dharmesh Shah. Today Nimble has a user base of over 25,000 workers employed by about 2,700 different companies, which can be considered as quite an achievement ...
Dell Leaps into Enterprise Storage, A Vision of Love
Back at Dell World 2011, a Forbes correspondent wrote about what he thought might be Michael Dell’s grand plan for his company. He made a comparison between the electronics giant’s CEO and Steve Jobs to emphasis his point, using the latter as an example of a leader who’d managed to craft a successful long-term plan ...
Citrix’s “Non Obvious” Mobile Predictions: iOS Kills Flash
Citrix’s Chris Fleck, VP of development for the virtualization solutions maker, posted a list of his own predictions for 2012 concerning the mobile space in particular. He noted some interesting highlights which might as well be very plausible extensions of the existing trends in this industry. One of the main things Fleck is expecting is ...
Cisco Pulls the Plug on Overpriced umi Line
The sales of Cisco’s umi videoconferencing product evidently missed expectations, now that the company announced it will no longer be shipping new units. It will, however, continue to offer tech support to customers who’ve already purchased the set-top box. The solution is undeniably gimmicky, but the main issue that drove Cisco to abandon umi is ...
The Future of Business Intelligence: Infographic
Domo Technologies, a provider of a new kind of executive management software, has published a brief infographic that summarizes the state of the business intelligence industry today. It also focuses on this market’s direction, which is shifting in an effort to catch up to a major change in its core user base. It’s all about ...
IAB Adds Millennial Media CEO to Board, Recognizes Mobile Influence
Millennial president and CEO Paul Palmieri is now a part of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s board of directors. About 40 online marketing executives are sitting on IAB board, representing major media companies including Amazon, CBS and Disney. Millennial is the latest to have made it to the list, taking credit for a significant milestone for ...
App Development in the Cloud Driven by Users, PaaS Trends
Active Endpoints posted a recording of a keynote entitled “Leveraging the Cloud in the Development Environment” from recent MassTLC’s Software Development Summit. One of the speakers was Active Endpoints CTO Dr. Michael Rowley, who discussed the state of app development in the cloud with three other executives in the industry. Active Endpoints provides a cloud-based ...
How Did 2011 Stack Up to Last Year’s Predictions?
Wikibon head Dave Vellante wrote up a blog post that covers his outlook for 2012, in addition to providing a reflection on his forecast for 2011. Vellante sees some of the 2011 trends expanding in 2012, in both the enterprise and the consumer space. Big data will continue to be big in 2012, according to ...
Open Source Predictions for 2012: HBase, Hadoop and Rails in the Lead
OpenLogic released its outlook for the open source movement in the enterprise throughout 2012, leveraging eight different metrics to determine where adoption is going to be high or flat, and where will it decline. According to the company, HBase, Node.js, nginx, Hadoop and Rails were the five fastest growing open-source projects in 2011. OpenLogic expects ...