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Organizations will have to push beyond storage requirements and basic business intelligence tools to exploit big data, according to a Gartner analyst.
According to a recent Gartner survey, mobile technology is the second most important priority for CIOs in 2012, but building the business case is easier said than done.
Businesses looking to build effective business intelligence and analytics programs have to toe the line between focusing on the basics and using new technology to build more complex BI systems.
Data management projects often suffer from historic amnesia. Projects that co-locate business and IT staff and keep to a manageable scale can achieve remarkable results, says consultant Andy Hayler.
NEC Europe has signed up to use Host Analytics' cloud-based financial planning service to better integrate an acquisition and support its growth plans.
In this podcast interview, Andy Hayler gives advice on how to create and implement an MDM strategy that is ruthlessly focused on business value.
Information is growing exponentially and the lack of firm record retention schedules is costing organizations big money and will increase liability as time passes, says consultant Randolph Kahn.
Cimarex Energy replaced its SharePoint system with Accellion’s enterprise collaboration platform for secure mobile file sharing and uses it to recruit graduate geology students.
Get expert advice on whether it’s necessary to keep paper or other forms of original materials once a company implements an electronic document management system.
Oracle’s various investments and acquisitions over the past decade have some customers struggling to integrate it all, although Oracle’s own middleware might be able to help.
An Oracle Hyperion system implementation in three weeks? Yes, it can be done. Communications firm Neustar implemented Hyperion in less than a month and gained efficiencies in the process.
The city of Las Vegas underwent a three-year Oracle business intelligence project to bring more data to its employees and the public. The city's IT manager explains how it happened.
In this SAP Press book chapter excerpt, learn how to build a strong data foundation using the functionality in the SAP Data Services package.
Ventana Research CEO Mark Smith offered up his take on SAP's announcements around HANA, the cloud and predictive analytics at the annual Sapphire conference.
Sapphire 2012 is in the books and, unsurprisingly cloud was a major topic. SAP mentor Jon Reed shares his thoughts on what SAP had to say about modular applications, PaaS and SuccesFactors in this video.
Service virtualization allows teams to simulate services before they are truly available. That’s a plus for Agile development and integration testing.
Middleware experts advise that an ESB can help a SOA, but it can be harmful if used in the wrong cases.
Heard at IBM Impact: Mainframes mean high-integrity transactions. How does this jibe with mobile apps using ''eventually consistent'' transactions?
In this second article of a two-part series on new T-SQL statements, expert Serdar Yegulalp reviews command changes to sequencing, date values and more.
Each release of SQL Server brings changes to Transact SQL. In this tip, expert Serdar Yegulalp gives a walkthrough of tweaks like WITH RESULT SETS for renaming columns and THROW for catching errors.
SQL Server Insider e-zine is a quarterly online publication focusing on Microsoft’s enterprise database, SQL Server. Join the editors of SearchSQLServer.com for an in-depth look into the database trends sweeping over Microsoft, including business intelligence, cloud computing and “big data.”