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Innovation Games - A Fun Way to Discover Customer Insight and Improve Product Marketing

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, Bloor Research) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

In my recent article The Game of Process Improvement, I referred to a book called Innovation Games. The book is packed with details on how any of us can leverage Innovation Games to gain greater... [Read More...]

RFID

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

When I first wrote the RFIC market overview, one of the key things I identified was that RFID hardware couldn't exist without RFID middleware and applications, and neither could RFID middleware and... [Read More...]

Commoditise storage to slash costs using AoE, says Coraid

rss@it-analysis.com (Peter Williams, Bloor Research) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Thanks to x86 and other commodity components, users usually get good value for money from their server systems. However, storage subsystems and their connectivity remain stubbornly complex and... [Read More...]

CEP and Big Data 2

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

There have been a couple of things floating around in the ether about CEP (complex event processing) recently. The first is the question, supposedly credited to Curt Monash, of whether it should be... [Read More...]

Alteryx, another disruptive technology of huge importance

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norris, Bloor Research) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. For Dickens, in a Tale of Two Cities, this was how he saw the era of the French Revolution. I think that we live in a time that could be described... [Read More...]

Splunk: are you imaginative enough to realise its potential?

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norris, Bloor Research) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

I was first introduced to Splunk last year and, once I got used to its name, quickly came to realise that this was something that had amazing potential. Splunk is a leader in its market, which is the... [Read More...]

The Data Works, a marketer's best friend

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norris, Bloor Research) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

We all know that the essence of Marketing is all about the 4 Ps, the right Product, in the right Place, at the right Price, with the right Promotion. But in this fast moving, very fragmented, and... [Read More...]

Digital marketing technologies will start to deliver enterprise customer goals in 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Gerry Brown, Bloor Research) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Marketing and IT have never been a match made in heaven. Extrovert creative communicators and geeky analytical techies rarely choose to passionately embrace. However, corporate needs, rather than... [Read More...]

AuraPortal

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

While doing the research for the update of the Bloor Market Update on BRMS, I came across a number of vendors that I must have missed when doing the original survey. One of these was AuraPortal. So... [Read More...]

Intellectual Property Theft: Protecting Data Against Cyber Criminals

rss@it-analysis.com (Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Criminals are criminals. Although there are some novel crimes committed against computer systems, almost all of these crimes fit into the mould of a good old fashioned offences such as theft, fraud... [Read More...]

Themes for 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

It's that time of year. Here are a few thoughts about what's to come, in no particular order. Real-time everything. Hardly a surprise. It's been real-time everything for a few years. What I think is... [Read More...]

FATCA and data governance

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

All the recent compliance headlines in the financial services sector, at least in the UK and Europe, have been around Solvency II, Basel III and MiFid II. A regulation that has been largely... [Read More...]

QPR go full BPM with the latest release of QPR Suite 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

In a webinar on November 21st, QPR unveiled the latest version of QPR Suite. Some of you who have been following me this year may remember the articles that I have written about QPR's ABPD product,... [Read More...]

Simplifying ETL

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

I have just got back from the Netezza user conference and there was an interesting presentation on using IBM's Information Server in conjunction with Netezza. The major bone of contention during the... [Read More...]

Continuous Business Intelligence and Big Data

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

I have written previously about how the major vendors of CEP (complex event processing) solutions are still primarily focused on either capital markets or supporting business process and SOA and are... [Read More...]

TMS RamSan 720 HA flash aims to finish off high-end disk

rss@it-analysis.com (Peter Williams, Bloor Research) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has launched the first flash storage incorporating hardware high availability (HA) features aimed at taking on large disk subsystems - the RamSan 720. The SANflash 1U high... [Read More...]

Have OpenText found a smarter way to integrate technologies?

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, Bloor Research) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Following their recent acquisitions of Metastorm and Global 360, OpenText last week announced the formation of a new Business Process Solutions Group to market the acquired technologies. To many... [Read More...]

Ever-expanding Spiceworks comes to Europe - the story so far

rss@it-analysis.com (Peter Williams, Bloor Research) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Spiceworks, a supplier of network management software primarily for SMBs, is coming to Europe, forming Spiceworks Europe Ltd, based in London - a hint at its sky-rocketing growth path. In a time of... [Read More...]

How IT user conferences are changing

rss@it-analysis.com (Gerry Brown, Bloor Research) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Oracle's 'Master the Next Wave of Productivity and Innovation' conference was at the Millenium Hotel, which felt oddly appropriate. We were greeted with a folder of sales brochures and a detailed... [Read More...]

Connexica and CXAIR

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norris, Bloor Research) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

After almost thirty years of working with BI solutions, I am happy to say that the ability to amaze me still exists and, with CXAIR, I have just seen one of the most impressive tools that I have yet... [Read More...]

Sugar CRM

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norris, Bloor Research) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Gerry Brown (my colleague who specialises in BI and Marketing solutions) wrote in a recent analysis piece of the damage that was done to the CRM market by vendors over-promising and under-delivering,... [Read More...]

The Game of Process Improvement

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, Bloor Research) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

There are many words now being written, especially in marketing circles, about the gamification of BPM and process improvement. However, there appears to be little consensus on what it might be and... [Read More...]

Hadapt

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

The latest entry into the BDDB (big data database) market is Hadapt, which has just announced the public beta (it has been in private beta since June) of its eponymous product. What is interesting,... [Read More...]

Alpine Data: the first real data mining solution for the Big Data generation

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norris, Bloor Research) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

The biggest barriers that I see to the widespread adoption of Big Data is the skills that are required to deliver the benefits that we all agree can be obtained. In the standard MIS layers of the BI... [Read More...]

Governance and Hadoop

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Before I start I should say that this is not just about Hadoop but also about all its extensions, distributions, alternatives or replacements. For brevity's sake we need some terminology here so I... [Read More...]

Nimbus sale to TIBCO

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, Bloor Research) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

It was interesting to see that TIBCO's acquisition of Nimbus generated so many negative comments in the analyst and blog community. Some suggested it was a strange acquisition, while others suggested... [Read More...]

Adding Process to the OpenEdge Platform

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Some of you may have read my recent blog posting on Progress OpenEdge version 11; the company's 4GL application development environment. I was very interested to know more as I am a firm believer in... [Read More...]

CEP and big data

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Red Lambda recently came to market with a new SIEM (security, information and event management) product. Its distinguishing feature is that it has a CEP (complex event processing) engine at the... [Read More...]

Sourcefire Roundtable discussion: Harnessing the power of big data to protect your networks

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norris, Bloor Research) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Last week I was asked to attend a roundtable discussion on Big Data and network security. This is not my usual area of interest but the more I thought about it the more intrigued I was. We are... [Read More...]

Security and location

rss@it-analysis.com (Natalie Newman and Fran Howarth) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Location-based mobile applications such as Facebook, Google and others are used by a large percentage of adults and teenagers. Applications that pinpoint a user's physical location introduce... [Read More...]