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  • Oracle mobilizes inventory management

    Oracle has introduced a Windows-based mobile client that will allow workers to access its supply chain management software directly from the retail floor or warehouse.

    Written by Joab Jackson08 March 11 05:49
  • Wall Street Beat: Tablets, big data shape IT economics

    News from Apple and Teradata along with various economic forecasts this week show that at seemingly opposite ends of the technology-product spectrum, non-PC mobile devices and IT capable of handling extremely high volumes of data are major forces shaping the economics of the computer industry.

    Written by Marc Ferranti05 March 11 07:38
  • NetSuite, Informatica team up on two-tier ERP

    NetSuite and Informatica announced a partnership on Tuesday that seeks to exploit the concept of "two-tier ERP" (enterprise resource planning) deployments.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus01 March 11 19:09
  • Big opportunities brewing in marketplace for Big Data

    The data marketplace, where users can hunt for specialized data, is becoming a lucrative market with growing opportunities, technologists stressed at a Silicon Valley technical conference Wednesday.

    Written by Paul Krill04 Feb. 11 03:12
  • Yahoo drops its own Hadoop distribution

    Yahoo is discontinuing its distribution of the Hadoop platform and will instead focus on Apache Hadoop, the Hadoop Team at Yahoo said this week.

    Written by Paul Krill02 Feb. 11 07:24
  • 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.

    Written by John Ribeiro26 Jan. 11 18:52
  • Fosters streamlines data management

    At the last count, brewing giant Foster’s boasted 238 products in its ever expanding portfolio — although, interestingly, it no longer owns the eponymous ‘amber nectar’, made famous by those 1980s TV ads featuring Paul Hogan, in any market other than Australia.

    Written by Stuart Finlayson31 Dec. 10 09:00
  • Getting a master data management master plan

    Scenario A large financial services company is having fundamental problems with its data management and governance. Business leaders want to better leverage data for both operational and analytical needs, so there is widespread support for finally treating it as a true corporate asset. Consolidating data sets is now high on everyone's priority list. Both the CIO and CTO believe they need to adopt master data management (MDM) in some key areas but recognize that it's more critical to establish an overall data strategy. What's the most effective way for these IT leaders to move this forward?

    Written by Paul Bergamo and Jesus Arriaga18 Dec. 10 05:57
  • Ford a fresh catch for Sydney Water

    Sydney Water’s Chris Ford has only been in the role of CIO since September, but he already has a number of challenges before him.

    Written by Lisa Banks06 Dec. 10 11:39
  • Ticketmaster unfazed by odd band names

    If you can't quite spell Hannah Montana or Boyz II Men you're not alone. But Ticketmaster found it doesn't pay to be too strict about spelling and modified its search engine to accommodate creative alternatives. Managers of enterprise and website search services could do well to follow Ticketmaster's lead.

    Written by Joab Jackson30 Nov. 10 11:06
  • Google releases data cleanser

    Google has updated and re-released open-source software for cleaning, analyzing and transforming data sets, now called Google Refine.

    Written by Joab Jackson12 Nov. 10 04:25
  • Sybase IQ updated for parallel processing

    Database vendor Sybase is upgrading its column-oriented database, Sybase IQ, to run on a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture.

    Written by Joab Jackson11 Nov. 10 04:25
  • Talend acquires SOA vendor Sopera

    Open-source data integration vendor Talend is expanding its footprint into SOA (service-oriented architecture), announcing Wednesday that it has purchased Sopera, developer of an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) and other technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus11 Nov. 10 06:59
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