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Information management
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April 22, 2013
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Apr'13
CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways
After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data
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April 19, 2013
19
Apr'13
Open data leaders slam government over postcode privatisation
The Open Data Institute has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold for profit
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April 09, 2013
09
Apr'13
CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK
Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever
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April 03, 2013
03
Apr'13
SAS: Data quality, data governance concerns impede big data programmes
Only 12% of information management professionals are doing big data, according to a survey from SAS and SourceMedia
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March 28, 2013
28
Mar'13
Business intelligence program needs long-term tending to fully blossom
The evolution of Quicken Loans' business intelligence strategy from static reporting to self-service BI holds useful lessons for other organizations.
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March 28, 2013
28
Mar'13
Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending
The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast
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March 22, 2013
22
Mar'13
42% of businesses use existing IT department for big data projects
Businesses are creating in--house big data functions with 42% of big data pioneers use existing IT resources and 37% creating separate functions
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March 21, 2013
21
Mar'13
Oracle Q3 revenues down, operating profitability up, net income flat
Oracle’s Q3 sales dip 1% to $9bn, compared with Q3 the year before, but operating profitability is up and free cash flow in good shape
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March 20, 2013
20
Mar'13
CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer
As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability
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March 15, 2013
15
Mar'13
Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations
In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports
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March 06, 2013
06
Mar'13
Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data
Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things.
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February 26, 2013
26
Feb'13
DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises
HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components
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February 15, 2013
15
Feb'13
IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along
UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed
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February 11, 2013
11
Feb'13
Gartner: analytics will be more transparent, real-time and automated
Analyst firm Gartner has identified three trends for analytics and BI: transparency, real-time and automation
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February 06, 2013
06
Feb'13
Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 spans to NoSQL to offer more agility
Oracle has released version 5.6 of MySQL, which will hit the “sweet spot of the web market” according to Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering
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February 05, 2013
05
Feb'13
Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia
Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data
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February 01, 2013
01
Feb'13
Don’t make big data stand alone, warns Gartner
Gartner cautions organisations against treating big data as unique and criticises business intelligence suppliers for failing to exploit mobility
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January 31, 2013
31
Jan'13
Digital app developer skills take centre stage in corporate IT
Digital information design skills, including building business apps, have assumed new importance in corporate IT over the past year
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January 28, 2013
28
Jan'13
Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study
European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud
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January 25, 2013
25
Jan'13
Ferrari swerves SAP, adopts Infor LN to meet Chinese demand
Italian sports car maker Ferrari has turned to Infor ERP technology to respond to Chinese and Middle Eastern customer demand
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January 21, 2013
21
Jan'13
UK citizens unwilling to embrace big data
The public sector could improve services by imitating the private sector’s use of big data, but citizens are overwhelmingly against the idea
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January 17, 2013
17
Jan'13
Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database
Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time
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January 11, 2013
11
Jan'13
SAP puts Business Suite on HANA, joins transactional to analytical
SAP has announced that its Business Suite software now runs on the HANA in-memory database
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January 09, 2013
09
Jan'13
King.com gaming site unlocks big data with Hadoop
Online gaming company King.com replaced its MySQL database with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to cope with big data
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December 14, 2012
14
Dec'12
CIO interview: Kevin O’Connor, Carlson Wagonlit Travel
As the new CIO at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Kevin O’Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company’s IT strategy
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December 12, 2012
12
Dec'12
Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study
IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it.
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December 10, 2012
10
Dec'12
Big data analytics set to confound conventional adoption curve in UK
Big data and analytics companies predict increased adoption in the UK. MapR, Cloudera, ParAccel and Pentaho sketch out the adoption curve
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November 12, 2012
12
Nov'12
Royal Free Hospital uses SAP BusinessObjects dashboards to fathom data
The Royal Free Hospital has implemented SAP’s Business Objects dashboard technology to fathom complex data more efficiently
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November 09, 2012
09
Nov'12
DataDirect Networks takes aim at clustered NAS with SFA7700
DataDirect Networks (DDN) makes a play for clustered NAS customers with big data needs on its journey from HPC to scale-out supplier
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November 09, 2012
09
Nov'12
German retailer Otto invests in neural software to net future sales
German retail giant Otto improves demand forecasting with neural network technology from Blue Yonder, a predictive analytics start-up
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November 01, 2012
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Nov'12
West Midlands Police develops golden view of criminals, suspects
West Midlands Police, the second largest force in the UK, seeks to reduce risk to its officers and the public by using DataFlux software that gives a master record for criminals and suspects.
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October 30, 2012
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Oct'12
Teradata brings big data into the SQL family
Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture.
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October 09, 2012
09
Oct'12
Telefónica launches business to sell mobile data
O2 parent company Telefónica is to offer user data from customer's mobile phones to organisations who want to analyse customer activity
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October 04, 2012
04
Oct'12
Big data advice from big names, Coca-Cola and Lastminute.com
Coca-Cola's chief privacy officer and Lastminute.com's innovation head offer advice on data privacy at Big Data Europe
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August 24, 2012
24
Aug'12
BI users slammed by IT as banshees and telepaths
Survey discovers IT professionals exasperated and world weary when confronted by BI users uncommunicative and exigent.
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July 30, 2012
30
Jul'12
From the Editor: Advanced analytics full of promise, but hard to do
Advanced analytics technology adoption has been slow, but sports analytics has been brought to the fore with the London 2012 Olympics.
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July 06, 2012
06
Jul'12
BI tool transforms planning, sales and service at TVS Motors
For TVS Motor, business intelligence tool deployment has enabled better production planning and improved sales and service. Here’s how the company did it.
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May 25, 2012
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May'12
SAS: High-performance analytics frees data scientists to model faster
High-performance analytics on "big data" could aid European companies as they struggle to make headway in the recession, say senior SAS executives. All sectors are turning to big data, they claim.
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May 25, 2012
25
May'12
Organisational design for analytics function needs governance
Scant are the absolute rules for the organizational design of the analytics function. It can be outsourced or in-house; sit within a business unit or run from the centre. But it needs governance.
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May 01, 2012
01
May'12
From the Editor: Big data arrives, but plagued by governance challenges and skills shortage
Big data offers big opportunities, but governance challenges and skills shortages could pose big problems.
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April 11, 2012
11
Apr'12
Business analytics skills shortage provokes companies to cast net wide
Organisations face lack of business analytics skills. Smart companies cast the net wide for the broadest pools of talent, help analysts learn from each other and work to ensure they realize potential.
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March 28, 2012
28
Mar'12
IBM users reveal five data governance best practices to remember
IBM customers Nationwide Insurance and Cardinal Health reveal five rules of thumb they learned while implementing highly ambitious data governance programs.
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March 26, 2012
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Mar'12
Zornes: Master data governance will fuse MDM to BPM
Master data governance tools are emerging to aid the orchestration of MDM and BPM, according to MDM expert Aaron Zornes. “Big data” is a distraction from the business basics of MDM, he says.
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March 13, 2012
13
Mar'12
Enterprise software procurement done right can save companies millions
Software procurement is frequently poorly conducted, argues consultant Andy Hayler. Intelligent software evaluation processes and savvy contract management can pay huge dividends, he says.
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February 23, 2012
23
Feb'12
Predictive analytics used to cut costs in oil sector
Predictive analytics is being used in the oil and gas industry to better manage asset maintenance on capital equipment. And a more enterprisewide adoption of the technology is predicted.
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January 23, 2012
23
Jan'12
Deloitte spots analytics trends, ethics and open data
Deloitte identifies four analytics trends: an increased focus on ethics, the rise of open data, new business models and a refusal to do analytics for its own sake.
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January 11, 2012
11
Jan'12
European river managers delve into new knowledge management system
The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe.
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January 11, 2012
11
Jan'12
BI reporting tools set to aid decision making at Elder Pharmaceuticals
BI reporting tools are known to buttress quick decision making. In this regard, Elder Pharmaceuticals plans to deploy BI tools for data mobility.
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December 12, 2011
12
Dec'11
Advanced analytics key component for ‘decision management systems’
James Taylor, CEO of an independent consulting firm, discusses the need for advanced analytics to build “decision management systems,” which he believes are critical to staying competitive.
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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.