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• Tableau adds story lines to visual reports

  The upcoming update of Tableau Software's flagship business-intelligence application includes the ability to add a narrative to a report, allowing authors to tell a story about the data being displayed.

• Traversing the Labyrinth of Social Marketing Metrics

  Businesses still struggle to hone in on the most appropriate social metrics. Far too many firms emphasize vanity metrics when there remains little agreement over the true value of a follower, friend, retweet, reblog, pin or like.

• SAP buying SeeWhy for targeted marketing technology

  SAP is scooping up SeeWhy, maker of real-time targeted marketing software, in a bid to flesh out the omni-channel commerce platform it gained through last year's acquisition of Hybris.

• IBM buys Cognea, will add its virtual assistant technology to Watson

  IBM has acquired virtual assistant software startup Cognea, with plans to roll its capabilities into the Watson cognitive computing platform.

• Baidu hires 'Google Brain' founder to run its AI labs

  Baidu has scored a win over Google by hiring Andrew Ng, founder of the "Google Brain," to run the Chinese Internet giant's artificial intelligence labs.

• CCA to move core systems to cloud, enhance BI

  Running core systems on-premise was not a feasible long-term plan for Coca-Cola Amatil, an organisation that manages huge warehouses and hundreds of thousands of transactions every day.

• Platfora update puts Hadoop's power in business users' hands

  Platfora is continuing to evolve its Hadoop-focused analytics platform with a series of features catering to various user roles, such as data scientists and business analysts.

• Cornell Tech-funded startup launching bootcamp for data scientists

  Advanced academic backgrounds in statistics, mathematics, and other science and technology fields usually provide the raw analytical skills required for a data scientist's job. But even with such skills, some additional prep work is generally needed to handle such a job in private industry.

• Big Data hype didn't speed growth in the BI market, Gartner says

  All the hype around big data last year didn't drive big growth in the worldwide BI (business-intelligence) and analytics market, according to research firm Gartner.

• SAP giving Ariba an in-memory energy boost with Hana

  SAP is making good on a promise to migrate its Ariba e-commerce software to the Hana in-memory computing platform, and says an initial step has already produced staggering performance improvements.

• Tibco scoops up analytics vendor Jaspersoft for $185 million

  Tibco has acquired Jaspersoft for US$185 million in a deal that will give it a widely used embedded BI (business-intelligence) suite to sell alongside its existing Spotfire analytics product.

• Big data key to bringing hyperlocal weather forecasts to Georgia farmers

  Farmers in southwest Georgia's Flint River Valley could one day get accurate, hyperlocal weather forecasts just for their individual farms up to three days in advance.

• SAP reports strong growth in cloud amid slow overall revenue growth

  SAP reported a strong growth in cloud revenue and fast adoption of its HANA platform in the first quarter, while its software revenue dipped from the same quarter in the previous year.

• Oracle in-memory app for J.D. Edwards aims to help juggle supply and demand

  Oracle is rolling out a new in-memory application for its J.D. Edwards ERP (enterprise resource planning) software that's aimed at giving customers real-time insights into their supply chain in order to avoid calamities and optimize day-to-day business.

• Teradata's QueryGrid to power multi-database analytics

  Teradata is hoping to gain ground in the hotly competitive data-warehousing and analytics market with QueryGrid, a new product that allows users to run a single SQL-based query across multiple data stores, from Teradata's own system to Hadoop and rival databases.