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• IBM sweetens the pot for partners

  Kicking off its 2011 PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM has announced an expanded set of incentives for business partners offering IBM-based cloud and analytics services.

• Kognitio to offer virtual cube analytics

  Analytical database provider Kognitio has augmented its flagship WX2 database so that it will be able to offer data cubes, eliminating the need to run a separate data warehouse, the company says.

• Samsung, SAP to roll out analytics for Android devices

  Samsung SDS and SAP have created BI (business intelligence) software for Android mobile devices, the companies announced Monday in conjunction with Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

• HP buying Vertica for analytics

  Hewlett-Packard announced Monday it plans to buy data warehousing and analytics vendor Vertica for an undisclosed sum.

• Nine data warehousing trends for the CIO

  Gartner has issued the following missive to CIOs: Familiarise yourself with key data warehousing trends and how they will impact the technology deployed to deliver business analytics during 2011 and 2012.

• SAP preps 'huge' BI upgrade

  SAP is gearing up to launch Business Objects 4.0, its biggest BI (business intelligence) release in roughly three years, later this month at an event in New York.

• Kiwi dataminer looks for Sydney partner

  New Zealand-based business intelligence company, Datamine, is preparing to ramp up its trans-Tasman presence by wooing potential Sydney suitors.

• Hearsay preps social media monitoring tool for enterprises

  Hearsay, a startup founded in 2009, is launching a cloud-hosted social media management application tailored specifically for companies that have a national brand as well as a broad base of local affiliates.

• EMC's Greenplum offers 'big data' tools at no charge

  EMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining tools for working with large data sets, at no charge, the company announced Tuesday.

• CIOs still perfecting business intelligence in 2011: Gartner

  Increasing enterprise growth, reducing costs and attracting new customers are the three main areas CIOs are focusing on in 2011, according to analyst firm Gartner.

• Oracle to release finance data warehouse

  Oracle is offering a data warehouse tailored for the needs of the financial services industry, the company announced Thursday.

• TomorrowNow litigation drags SAP Q4 profits down

  SAP saw revenue rise 27 percent in the fourth quarter but profits dropped by more than a third due to increased provisions linked to litigation with Oracle related to its former TomorrowNow unit, the company said Wednesday.

• MicroStrategy ramps up its BI strategy for iPad, iPhone

  MicroStrategy will announce a series of new BI (business intelligence) products for Apple mobile devices, transactional data systems and on-demand deployments at its annual user conference on Tuesday in Las Vegas.

• Self-service BI catches on

  The Great Recession caught most of the used-car industry by surprise. Many dealers assumed that the downturn would be short and mild, so they continued to add inventory at a steady rate. As a result, many used-car inventory-financing firms didn't make adjustments until it was too late.

• IT employers seeking specific skill sets in 2011

  Australia’s IT jobs market has experienced a number of peaks and troughs in the last few months, however according to recruitment firm, Randstad, there will be strong demand for certain skills in the coming year.