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5 Classes of Cloud Computing
11.18.2008
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David Linthicum
The best way to look at cloud computing is to learn how to classify the clouds. Right now I see at least five classifications: storage-as-a-service, database-as-a-service, applications-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, integration-as-a-service, and security-as-a-service. Each category has its own path to maturation, with applications-as-a-service (or SaaS), leading the way. The next push will be...

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Seth Grimes
Open Source BI: Eclipse BIRT and Talend
11.17.2008
Information Week has published my article on open source business intelligence (OSBI), Open Source BI Still Fighting For Its Share, a title that applies both to the BI software market and to IW column inches. I'll share with readers material I wrote, cut by IW's editors, on open-source data-integration vendor Talend and on Eclipse BIRT, Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools.

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Hot Topics in High-Performance Analytics
11.17.2008
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Curt Monash
For the past few months, I've collected a lot of data points to the effect that high-performance analytics — i.e., beyond straightforward query — is becoming increasingly important. And I've written about some of these topics, including MapReduce, geospatial analytic capabilities and memory-centric analytics among a few others...

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Seth Grimes
Clarabridge Focuses on Customer Experience
11.14.2008
I spent a worthwhile day last week at Clarabridge's inaugural user conference. The company is a leading text analytics vendor, and the opportunity to catch up with staff and users and (it turned out) prospects and partners was too good to pass up. Clarabridge is different from many other text analytics vendors in its singular focus on customer-experience management (CEM). The approach seems to work.

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Open Source BI Fights For Its Share
November 16, 2008
by Seth Grimes
With growing capabilities in a strong segment, vendors are looking past developer markets to business end users.

Cool BI: Rating the Latest Innovations
November 10, 2008
by Cindi Howson
Rich, interactive reporting interfaces, in-memory analytics and social networking may be cool, but how much value do they add to business intelligence. This article examines the maturity, value and mainstream appeal of leading innovations.

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JReport Upgrade Offers Dozens Of Improvements
JReport 9 offers enhancement in three areas, performance, usability and standards support.

IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure
Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% percent of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out.

Actuate Intensifies Focus On Open Source
The next release of Actuate's business intelligence software includes more support for its Eclipse Foundation project started four years ago.

Sybase Offers Real-Time Loading Of Transaction Data
The Real-Time Loading Solution provides continuous loading of transaction changes into the company's IQ analytics-optimized server to enable real-time reporting.

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Cool BI: Rating the Latest Innovations
by Cindi Howson - November 10, 2008
Sybase Offers Real-Time Loading Of Transaction Data
by Antone Gonsalves - November 10, 2008
SaaS-Based BI Vendor Offers State-by-State Election Dashboard
by Doug Henschen - November 3, 2008
IBM's On Demand Push: Greater than Sum of Parts
by Doug Henschen - October 27, 2008


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