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Lexalytics and Infonic Merge (and Overvalue?) Sentiment Analytics
08. 6.2008
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Seth Grimes
The Lexalytics-Infonic merger announced last week creates a company, focused on sentiment analysis, that is poised to compete with larger, established text-technologies vendors. The companies' market presence hasn't been huge, but the combined company should be worth more than the sum of the parts. Whether it will be worth enough to justify a $40 million valuation of the deal, which exceeds Infonic's $23 million market capitalization, remains to be seen.

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Doug Henschen
BIScorecard Rates Eight Leading Products
08. 6.2008
Gartner's "Magic Quadrants" and Forrester's "Wave" reports carry a lot of weight, but these reports lean more toward assessing vendors rather than products... Most would-be buyers are equally hungry for hands-on analysis of the software they might end up using every day. In the BI market, that gap is filled by Cindi Howson's BIScorecard. Here's a peek at the top-level scores, plus a link to five helpful recommendations.

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Confusion Dogs Microsoft Search
08. 4.2008
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Shawn Shell
The SharePoint IT Pro Documentation Team recently published a blog post on the various Microsoft "enterprise" search technologies. The post did a nice job of clarifying the role of each of Microsoft's various search tools, save FAST (but more on that in a bit). Even the post's author, Kathy Narvaez, admits she has trouble distinguishing the various " ...flavors of Microsoft enterprise search."

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Seth Grimes
Sybase, DBMS Clusters, MPP, and DATAllegro
07.31.2008
Sybase is a DBMS stalwart that gets far less attention than deserved. The company recently beat financial-performance estimates and has raised its 2008 sales estimate to $1.11 billion. Sybase's on-going success — the company's DBMS is much more than the parent of Microsoft SQL Server — earns the company a closer look, in its own right and as an excuse for one last comment on Microsoft's planned acquisition of DATAllegro.

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Kimball University: Eight Recommendations for International Data Quality
August 1, 2008
by Ralph Kimball
Language, culture, and country-by-country compliance and privacy requirements are just a few of the tough data quality problems global organizations must solve. Start by addressing data accuracy at the source and adopting an MDM strategy, then follow these six other best-practice approaches.

Enterprise in the Cloud: Q&A with Google's Rishi Chandra
July 21, 2008
by Doug Henschen
As product manager at Google Enterprise, Rishi Chandra is responsible for spreading search appliances, Google Apps and a growing portfolio of services into the business world. Continuing a series of interviews on cloud computing, Intelligent Enterprise asks Chandra about Google's plans for applications, underlying infrastructure and meeting the demands of the enterprise.

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How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground
Overly ambitious data-quality professionals get shot down because trusted data will not directly increase revenue, reduce costs or improve operational efficiencies, key criteria for getting funding approved, Forrester Research says.

SQL Server 2008 Available For Free Public Trial
Users looking to try out Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 can download a fully functional copy free of charge and run it for up to 180 days.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008
The upgraded database includes improved data compression, better scalability, and easier management of concurrent workloads.

BI Executive Bill Baker Leaves Microsoft
Long-serving executive helped grow the business intelligence product line from its roots in Microsoft SQL Server.

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How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground
by Antone Gonsalves - August 7, 2008
SQL Server 2008 Available For Free Public Trial
by Paul McDougall - August 7, 2008
BI Executive Bill Baker Leaves Microsoft
by Doug Henschen - August 5, 2008
Kimball University: Eight Recommendations for International Data Quality
by Ralph Kimball - August 1, 2008


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