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• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  UKtech50: Meet Mike Lynch, the most influential person in UK IT

  Mike Lynch, voted as the most influential person in UK IT, doesn’t like to think about challenges, but about opportunities.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets

  ‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  SAP buys SaaS firm SuccessFactors in $3.4bn deal

  Enterprise software company SAP announces a $3.4bn deal to acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider SuccessFactors.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Shell enterprise MDM foundation proof of concept disturbs rulebook

  Shell has laid a foundation for enterprise master data management, choosing SAP MDM over Microsoft. The major lesson was that IT can build an enterprise MDM system to which the business will come.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  CIO Interview: IT should drive company innovation, says SAP's Oliver Bussmann

  Driving innovation has become one of the key roles of the chief information officer, says Oliver Bussmann, CIO at business software maker SAP.

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  How Unilever took control of its software

  Unilever has automated the processes it uses to manage its software globally through a service which has saved millions of pounds, reduced the complexity of its software portfolio and improved security.

• August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11

  Is your BI safe in the hands of ERP vendors?

  ERP vendors are pitching integration as supreme for BI. But can these ERP vendors hit the ball out of the park?

• July 13, 2011 13 Jul'11

  Vendor evaluation criteria: Is your ERP vendor good with BI?

  If your business is big on ERP, you may want to consider these vendor evaluation criteria when adopting a business intelligence solution.

• July 06, 2011 06 Jul'11

  Business intelligence tool to be deployed at Tata AIG Life

  One of India’s largest private sector insurers, Tata AIG Life plan to deploy a business intelligence tool. Learn what it wants from the new BI tool.

• July 06, 2011 06 Jul'11

  5 cloud BI considerations for a successful rollout

  Migrating an end-to-end business intelligence (BI) solution to the cloud can be complicated. Consider these five points for successful cloud BI migration.

• May 26, 2011 26 May'11

  Data warehouse and business intelligence projects fail to meet companies' requirements

  Over half of businesses gave their business intelligence and data warehouse projects a rating of "average" when asked how well they met business objectives.

• May 23, 2011 23 May'11

  SharePoint BI tool deployment underway at Lowe Lintas

  For Lowe Lintas, BI module of Microsoft SharePoint has been a pleasant discovery. With SharePoint BI, Lowe hopes to maximize profits and save costs. Find out more.

• May 19, 2011 19 May'11

  Open source business intelligence: The next big thing?

  Open source business intelligence gains credence as more companies adopt BI and large vendors partner with open source players in an evolving BI ecosystem.

• April 11, 2011 11 Apr'11

  Manageability issues impede adoption of virtualisation

  Virtual infrastructure management challenges are hindering the adoption of virtualisation within businesses, according to research.

• April 06, 2011 06 Apr'11

  Indian BI technology market to grow by 16% in 2011: Gartner

  The Indian BI technology market in 2011 will see a 16% growth over 2010. Read more about the latest BI technology market trends in this Gartner forecast.

• March 31, 2011 31 Mar'11

  SMB IT spending seeing significant growth

  Small and medium businesses (SMBs) are increasing IT budgets and recruiting more IT skills

• March 23, 2011 23 Mar'11

  SAP combines GRC and BI in new platform

  SAP has launched a new governance, risk and compliance platform that combines and integrates existing GRC and business intelligence technologies.

• February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  SAP BW aids enterprise-wide data management, reporting at Essar Steel

  SAP BW helps Essar Steel form a common platform to stage and integrate data from all systems and present users with a one-stop solution to their data needs.

• January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  What can businesses learn about real-time monitoring from the BP oil spill?

  The full report on the BP oil-well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico has been released, revealing that its real-time data monitoring systems need to be improved.

• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  Poor communication to blame for business intelligence failure, says Gartner

  Between 70% to 80% of corporate business intelligence projects fail, according to research by analyst firm Gartner.

• January 07, 2011 07 Jan'11

  Maia 1Key provides HDFC Life with option for BI upgrade

  HDFC Standard Life went for add-on deployment of Maia 1Key instead of revamping Cognos BI it had. Maia 1Key saved costs and offered web-enablement.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• July 25, 2007 25 Jul'07

  Serious flaw affects BIND Internet server software

  BIND DNS software, used in translating domain names into IP addresses for Internet traffic, has a flaw that could trick users into visiting a malicious Web site.