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Gallup Extends BI to the World of Research
Famous polling firm taps Oracle BI Enterprise Edition for internal reporting and customer self-service access to research results.
by
Doug Henschen
SAP, Business Objects Offer Joint Data Migration Services
The latest offering consists of a framework, templates, methodology, tools and expertise in moving data from multiple computing environments to an SAP ERP system.
Panorama Taps Google Apps For Collaboration In Reporting
Panaorma is using Google Apps' spreadsheets within NovaView SharedViews to make it possible for customers and partners to share reports by simply clicking on a button.
Amazon Opens SimpleDB To Unlimited Public Beta
To help entice businesses to at least try out its cloud computing-integrated database service, Amazon is offering a free tier of usage for the next six months.
by
Michael Singer
Master Data Management Adoption Going Strong
Worldwide revenue from master data management software is expected to reach $1.3 billion this year and more than double by 2012.
Oracle Site Hub Brings Order to Location Intelligence
Master Data Management product consolidates and cleanses site-specific information for retailers, government agencies, utilities and more.
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Doug Henschen
Teradata Offers Hardware/Software Packages For Data Warehousing
The Teradata Accelerate bundles are meant to give mid-size companies a quick way to get started in data warehousing in four months or less.
Making the Business Case for Mashups
Once a boutique pursuit for geeks, mashups are entering the enterprise application development mainstream.
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Doug Henschen
Adobe To Unify Developer Apps With Flash Platform
Adobe is rolling out several new and updated products to fend off Microsoft's Silverlight, not to mention the growing use of open source technologies like HTML, CSS, and Ajax.
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Thomas Claburn
Microsoft Offers 0% Financing On Business Software Purchases
Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy.
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Mary Hayes Weier
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.
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K.C. Jones
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.
Boomi Offers Online Integration Service To ISVs
Called AtomSphere, the "platform-as-a-service" offering allows ISVs to productize and embed integration services within their applications.
Salesforce Ascends Beyond SaaS Into Cloud Computing
Salesforce will let customers build and run applications on its platform, customize their applications, and tap into other Web-based services.
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Charles Babcock
Web 2.0 Summit: Cloud Computing Smackdown
Microsoft competitors Marc Benioff of Salesforce and Dave Girouard of Google sound off on Microsoft's Azure venture into the cloud.
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Thomas Claburn
IBM Unveils Mac Support, Roadmap For Lotus Symphony
The 2009 version calls for 60 new features that included developing the software entirely on version 1.2 of the OpenDocument format and OpenOffice 3.0 code base.
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Antone Gonsalves
Dreamforce: Salesforce Tools Emerge From Its Own Cloud
CEO Marc Benioff asserts his customers in effect are tapping into a cloud when they run their Salesforce applications from two U.S. data centers over the Internet.
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Charles Babcock
SaaS-Based BI Vendor Offers State-by-State Election Dashboard
Comparing past election results to Census data, Birst business intelligence environment looks inside state voting patterns.
by
Doug Henschen
Salesforce.com Plans Hosted Web Site Service
Force.com Sites, to be announced at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference Monday, is an aggressive effort to move beyond its roots in on-demand sales force automation software.
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Mary Hayes Weier
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