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Top Trends Most Evident at the 2010 Small Business Technology Summit
Back in the beautiful Live Free or Die state after attending the 2010 Small Business Summit earlier this week. This is a fantastic event coordinated by Ramon Ray and Marian Banker, and held at the Digital Sandbox in the financial district...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 19th March '10

Some Thoughts on the Cloud Connect Conference
I ventured out to the Cloud Connect conference and expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center this morning. Unlike most trips to industry events where I take part in the transportation cloud, usually of the rail nature, today I was firmly...
Sageza Says | By: Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. | 18th March '10

Mixing water and electricity - Cool!
When presenting on how to build a modern data centre, I generally point to the fact that a data centre should be built for the machines, not for the humans, and an air temperature of around 26–27 degrees C is fine for most...
Quocirca | By: Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 18th March '10

The Importance of multi-language support in advanced search and text analytics
I had an interesting briefing with the Basis Technology team the other week. They updated me on the latest release of their technology called Rosette 7. In case you're not familiar with Basis Technology it is the multilingual engine that is...
Fern Halper | By: Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 17th March '10

SAP Aims for SME
I dialed into SAP's SME (small and medium enterprises) Global Business Update Call a couple of weeks ago. Jeff Stiles, SVP, SME, Volume & Ecosystem Marketing, provided analysts a recap of recent SAP SME highlights, and shared strategic...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 16th March '10

If 'semantic web' annoys you, read on...
Say semantic web to a lot of people and the shutters on their brains come down. They may have lived through the disappointments of the AI or expert systems eras. Or they may simply know how impossibly tedious it would be to retrofit their...
Teblog | By: David Tebbutt | 15th March '10

Keynoting at CloudSlam '10
Just a quick note to say that I'm honoured to have been asked to provide a keynote presentation at the upcoming CloudSlam 10 virtual conference being held from March 23-25. My presentation is scheduled for 11am ET / 8am PT on March 23rd...
MWD Advisors | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 9th March '10

What is Social Media Management, and Why Should You Care?
What is Social Media Management? As described in the column What is Social Networking, and Why Should You Care?, Internet-based social media make it easier for people to listen, interact, engage and collaborate with each other. But, as...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 9th March '10

Can Novell thrive by being a jack of all trades?
Any business likes to claim to be number one at something; the biggest pet-shop in town, the largest office productivity application provider globally, the only telco that provides both mobile and broadband in your area. To this end...
Quocirca | By: Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 8th March '10

Are multi-touch surfaces heading your way?
In the days of black screens and green type, the arrival of colour was somewhat puzzling. If computers had got us so far without colour, who'd want it? Everyone, it seems. Then came windows, icons, mice and pointers. Again, we were all...
Teblog | By: David Tebbutt | 6th March '10

My Take on the SAS Analyst Conference
I just got back from the SAS analyst event that was held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It was a great meeting. Here are some of the themes I heard over the few days I was there: SAS is a unique place to work. Consider the following:...
Fern Halper | By: Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 5th March '10

NetSuite's SP 100 Program: An Offer VARs Can't Refuse?
In a bold move to get traditional value-added resellers (VARs) off the SaaS fence, NetSuite announced its new Solution Provider (SP) 100 Program, which gives business application VARs 100% margin on the first year of license...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 3rd March '10

Enterprise performance management - the story continues...
Quocirca has completed the second cycle of research and analysis for Oracle around enterprise performance management (EPM), and the headline results show a massive improvement across the six sub-indices and the overall EPM index. Surely,...
Quocirca | By: Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 2nd March '10

KM that works
As if IT directors don't have enough on their plates, they're being sucked in to all sorts of new areas. Every enterprise is, or soon will be, an online publisher. Many will transition from a hierarchical mentality to a more collaborative...
Teblog | By: David Tebbutt | 1st March '10

DataFlux Data Management Platform
Along with new releases from lots of data warehousing vendors, TDWI has also seen in the formal announcement of the DataFlux Data Management Platform which was previously known as the Unity project. As the codename suggests this sees the...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 26th February '10

Five Steps to Effective SOA Governance
I will be presenting a session titled Five Steps to Effective SOA Governance in BrightTALK's online SOA Governance Summit on Thursday, February 25. The summit includes five webcasts on different aspects of industry best practices for SOA...
Marcia Kaufman | By: Marcia Kaufman, Hurwitz & Associates | 25th February '10

Netezza Advanced Analytics
As usual at TDWI there are a series of announcements from major vendors. Not least of this year's releases has been the introduction of the Netezza TwinFin iClass, which follows on from last month's announcement of the Netezza Skimmer (a...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 25th February '10

Aster Data 4.5
Releases come thick and fast during TDWI. One of the more interesting announcements this week is Aster Data nCluster version 4.5. Aster Data's mission is to support what it calls big data analytics. It initially addressed this need...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 24th February '10

Vertica at TDWI
Vertica, along with various other companies, has made a major announcement at this week's TDWI, namely with respect to Vertica 4.0. This is a major release by any measure with the product being in beta today and general availability...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 24th February '10

Lotus Symphony 3 beta 2 available for testing
IBM Lotus recently announced the availability of the latest beta for Lotus Symphony and I have been trying it out for the last week. I have been very impressed by the new functions available. For those of you who are not aware, Lotus...
Abrahams Accessibility | By: Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 24th February '10

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