As we hurtle towards another year end, and in anticipation of sharing our outlook perspectives for 2013, we present the ten most popular blog posts from our Analytics research program published over the last 12 months.

1. How MicroStrategy intends to surf the Mobile Wave
2. Microsoft Excel 2013 – the pivot point for all things BI…
3. Vivisimo brings federated discovery and analysis to IBM’s burgeoning Big Data stack
4. High-performance analytics: has SAS got what it takes?
5. IBM and Teradata acquisitions have mobile digital marketing flavour
6. SAP 360 Customer – evolving the use case of HANA and CRM
7. Operational and Analytical Decision Management – can you tell the difference?
8. Understanding the options for Big Data in the cloud
9. QlikTech looks to Expressor Software to plug gap in Business Discovery platform
10. Adobe Social: taking a more integrated approach to digital marketing

To everyone who reads and supports our Analytics blog – thank you! If we’re a new discovery for you, we hope this gives you some flavour of the types of blogs we publish (and if you click here you’ll also see our most recent research and online events).

As always we welcome your comments and feedback. We look forward to bringing you further insights throughout 2013 and beyond.

PS If you’re also interested in our Collaboration and/or Process research, look out for our “top ten blogs” for these research programs coming soon!