MWD Advisors - Blog Archive for September (2012)

There were 5 blog postings during September (2012):

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Distributed Analytics: Birst aims to reinvigorate the data warehouse
Birst recently announced a new offering called Distributed Business Analytics aimed at allowing business users to upload and link local data—such as spreadsheets, desktop database files, and campaign lists—with the data found within a...
Helena Schwenk, MWD Advisors | 4th September '12

Freemium tools for business: don't overlook the risks
You may have seen yesterday the news about outages on DNS and web hosting company GoDaddy’s sites, which reportedly took down millions of sites. While everything seems to be back to normal now, there has been some interesting fallout from the...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 11th September '12

The Apple Maps hullabaloo, megatrends and your business-tech strategy
Source: Apple / HuffPo UK The ongoing outpouring of derision, frustration and fun-poking at Apple’s new Maps app—touted as a key feature of the quite-possibly-described-as-magical iOS 6—warranted another story on the BBC website...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 21st September '12

Salesforce.com targets Dropbox with "Chatterbox"
At Dreamforce 2012 last week, Salesforce.com announced yet another new product in the Chatter portfolio—this time designed to tap the content sharing opportunity opened up by the likes of Dropbox. Salesforce.com Chatterbox—OK, so the...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 25th September '12

Joining the dots with TIBCO at TUCON 2012
Last week I spent a few more days in Vegas, taking in TIBCO’s annual TUCON customer event. The theme for this year’s event was “Everything Is Different”. Some things certainly were: for example, there was a lot more humour on...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 30th September '12