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• Data analytics startup SimpleQL suggests questions

  SimpleQL thinks the best way to bring business intelligence to people who've never drilled into big data is to help them decide what they want to know.

• Business groups see IT shops as roadblocks to data analytics projects

  Business groups in a growing number of companies appear to be plowing ahead on data analytics projects with little input or help from their own IT organizations.

• SAP rolls out 'smart' new way to do data warehousing

  SAP is continuing to merge its HANA in-memory database platform with its Business Warehouse data warehousing software, with the latest update adding support for HANA's real-time data loading services.

• Tip of the Hat: Data doomsday is coming

  As corporate stockpiles of data continue to grow, mostly unmanaged, to massive levels, it's increasingly likely that many major organizations will face a crisis very soon.

• Splunk and Tableau Join Forces to Give Machine Data to Business Users

  Splunk and Tableau have formed a strategic alliance through which Tableau's visual analytics business intelligence platform can connect to machine data from Splunk as a native data source. The partners say the alliance will drive new kinds of real-time business analytics.

• 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.
  

• Informatica promises speedier report development

  Informatica hopes to save business analysts time by allowing them to build their own queries and reports, without requiring the IT department to do all the assembly work.

• Microsoft marshals marketing, service, social for Dynamics CRM, aims anew at Salesforce.com

  Microsoft is about to make a fresh run at its CRM (customer relationship management) rival Salesforce.com with new capabilities for marketing automation, customer support and social media monitoring.

• Intel wants to be the 'operating system' for big data

  Intel is continuing to build out its array of software tools for the Hadoop open-source big data processing framework, with an emphasis on the security and reliability features demanded by large enterprises.

• Microsoft PowerBI puts Web and internal data on the map

  Microsoft's new service, Power BI, provides a way to analyze data and present the results in a visually appealing way, without the bother of consulting an enterprise business intelligence software package.

• ThoughtSpot promises Google-like BI experience

  Two items on BI (business intelligence) customers' wish lists have long been ease of use and a lower burden on IT. A startup called ThoughtSpot, which came out of stealth mode on Wednesday, says its new BI appliance can tackle both.

• Dell lets managers go 'off road' with self-serve analytics

  Once upon a time within Dell, managers who needed a business analysis report had to put in an IT request, a drawn out process that drove business units to set up their own shadow IT systems to run these numbers instead.

• How to Make Your Enterprise as Agile as a Startup

  The accepted wisdom is that startups are agile and innovative and large enterprises are followers. But these six IT trends may be changing all that, giving large enterprises the capability to compete as innovators.

• SAP expects revenue of $30 billion by 2017, driven by cloud

  SAP plans to increase its total revenue to at least €22 billion (US$30 billion), with revenue from its cloud business expected to grow up to €3.5 billion by 2017.

• 20 SEO Tips, Trends and Predictions for 2014

  Google made big changes to its search engine algorithm in 2013. What will those updates mean for search engine optimization in 2014? SEO experts offer their advice for the new year.