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• 20 on 2020 - IT leaders dish out predictions

  Twenty IT leaders look into their crystal balls to predict the technologies and trends that will drive the sector in 2020.

• Analysts react to Salesforce Tableau grab

  In what will be the largest acquisition in Salesforce history, “the move is not a big surprise,” according to Forrester VP and principal analyst Liz Herbert, speaking about the US $15.7 billion acquisition of analytics platform vendor Tableau.

• In pictures: Turning insight into action - and your competitive edge - CIO Roundtable

  Australian CIOs continue to embrace digital transformation strategies at accelerated rates and increasingly recognise they need to transform data into actionable intelligence to succeed. Now more than ever, CIOs need to enable smarter decision-making, strengthen customer relationships and drive growth - and are turning to the power of business intelligence, advanced analytics - and even artificial intelligence - to achieve real-world tangible results. A group of IT leaders gathered in Sydney to discuss their challenges and opportunities in the business intelligence and data analytics journey.

• Rambo and the machine learning models helping Sportsbet up its games

  ​A Netflix-style recommendation engine on steroids, a Google AdWords beater and a souped-up game simulator are among a number of machine learning models at work behind the scenes at online bookmaker Sportsbet, the company has revealed.

• BI power shifting from IT to the business

  Traditional business intelligence and analytic models are being disturbed as the balance of power shifts from IT to the business, according to Gartner.

• Top 3 wrong assumptions of business analytics

  Executing an effective business intelligence (BI) strategy is at the front of many CIO's minds as their organisations rely more and more on data to make decisions. But many of these IT leaders are making the wrong assumptions about BI, says Gartner research director Svetlana Sicular.
  

• Facebook Releases Query Engine to Open Source Community

  Facebook has released Presto -- a distributed SQL query engine optimized for running ad-hoc interactive queries on data sources up to petabytes in size -- to the open source community under the Apache license. It says Presto is 10x better than Hive.

• Teradata turns to the Cloud, offers Data Warehouse as a Service

  Aiming to give customers the flexibility to store, process and leverage their data on-premises, in the Cloud or in a hybrid environment, Teradata is making its portfolio of platforms and services available via the Cloud, including Data Warehouse as a Service, Discovery as a Service and Data Management as a Service.

• Pentaho Addresses Data Blending with Updated Business Analytics Platform

  Once you've addressed storing and visualizing your data assets, the next step in harnessing the power of big data is blending operational data with data from other sources. Pentaho is seeking to smooth the path for organizations looking to do so with its new Business Analytics 5.0 platform.

• BI gives Melbourne Health patient care insights

  Melbourne Health has built a new data warehouse and adopted a business intelligence (BI) platform to get better insights into how well it is serving patients and managing its budget.

• Splunk and Pentaho Bring Business Intelligence to Machine Data

  Splunk, a specialist in operational intelligence, and business intelligence platform provider Pentaho have formed an alliance designed to bring Splunk's machine-generated data out from the IT department and make it available to business users.

• Microsoft Makes Data Mining Self-Service With BI for Office 365

  Microsoft is attempting to break down the barriers to business intelligence with Power BI for Office 365, which is designed to let companies gain new insights by tapping both structured and unstructured and internal and external data.

• Hadoop Is Not Just for Linux Anymore

  The expanded partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has borne fruit with the release of a beta of Hortonworks' Hadoop Data Platform for Windows.

• Five tips to find and hire data scientists

  Data scientists are in demand in this era of big data. IT hiring managers, however, are struggling in their search for qualified candidates (as even the candidates themselves may not realise they are a fit for the role). Here are five ways you can recruit data scientists.

• Beyond the Hype of Big Data

  Forrester estimates that, in general, firms use less than 5 percent of the data available to them. We also estimate that data is growing about 40-50 percent annually, but the average enterprise only captures around 25-30 percent of that. This means there is a bunch of data not being captured and used by your firm, and the divide is going to grow over time. So what?