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• Click Me Maybe: Inside eHarmony's matchmaking machine

  ​When a user signs up to eHarmony they fill out a lengthy questionnaire about the type of person they are, their likes and dislikes, beliefs, values and preferences in potential partners.

• Smiles all round as dental group appoints inaugural CIO

  ASX-listed dental practice group Pacific Smiles has appointed its first chief information officer.

• All ANZ staff encouraged to become 'their own little data scientist'

  ANZ bank's 48,000 global staff are each being encouraged to become "their own data scientist" and being provided with tools to draw value from the company's fast-growing data lake.

• New CIO for Vic emergency services agency

  The Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (ESTA) has appointed Glenn Page as its new IT chief following the promotion of its former CIO Deborah Weiss to COO in July.

• Teradata Lets You Orchestrate Queries Across Processing Engines

  With Teradata QueryGrid, your data warehouse can now intelligently use the functionality of multiple, heterogeneous processing engines, including Hadoop.

• 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.

• 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.

• BT Financial embraces BI to better understand customers

  BT Financial Group has tapped business intelligence (BI) software from QlikView to provide insights on how to grow and retain customers for its financial advice business.

• RedBalloon eyes cloud-based data warehouse

  Online gift voucher retailer RedBalloon plans to employ cloud-based data warehousing to store and analyse data generated by its customers.

• Is the Cloud the right place for your data warehouse?

  The single biggest news coming from Amazon Web Service's first user conference recently was the launch of the company's newest service, Redshift, a Cloud-based data warehouse tool. And it prompts the question: Is the Cloud the right place for data warehousing?

• Hurdles for Hadoop

  "Big data" is the buzzword of the day, and learning to manage it and extract value from it is top of mind for executives across industries. A contributing factor to the surge in big data is a shift in prevailing corporate data management philosophies.

• Amazon unveils data-warehouse-as-a-service

  Andy Jassy, head of Amazon.com’s cloud arm, Amazon Web Services, used his keynote at the inaugural AWS re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas to unveil the latest addition to AWS’ cloud ecosystem: data-warehouse-as-a-service.

• Enterprise data warehouse key to national health reform

  The federal government’s Department of Health and Ageing is seeking information from suppliers in preparation for the upcoming national health reform enterprise data warehouse (NHR EDW) program.

• HP to retain ATO centralised computing contract

  HP Enterprise Services, formerly EDS, has picked up the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO) centralised computing contract.