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  • SAP tools available on iPhone, Windows Mobile

    However, the system doesn't use the phone's email client, and it can be made available to employees who don't have a corporate email account, he said.Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP CRM gives salespeople mobile access to all types of information about…
  • Google introduces new Chrome beta

    For example, you can set up cookie rules to allow cookies specifically only for sites that you trust, and block cookies from untrusted sites" he wrote.In addition, the new beta will also provide a link to the Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager…
  • Twitter generates 50 million messages a day

    New numbers from the folks at Twitter show that people are tweeting furiously.Three years ago, the microblogging company was handling 5,000 tweets a day, according to Kevin Weil, the analytics lead at Twitter.
  • Amazon cloud boosts memory, expands Windows support

    Specifications are 17.1GB of memory, 420GB of storage, 6.5 EC2 Compute Units and a 64-bit platform.Amazon's move is meant "to help out with analytics and data-crunching applications," said Redmonk analyst Michael Coté.
  • Aster jazzes up nCluster data warehousing database

    Those MapReduce applications run inside nCluster, giving Aster a key patent-pending advantage over competitors who "treat MapReduce as a UDF [user-defined function] or stored procedure," says Bock.Aster is also offering a suite of prebuilt…
  • Facebook beats Yahoo into third place

    Facebook is now the second most popular website in the United States, passing Yahoo with 133 million unique visitors in January, according to new research.Yahoo lost the No.spot to Google in February 2008, and now sits in third place, according to…

Latest Features

  • How virtual servers make the cloud more elastic

    Combining or aggregating multiple x86 servers and their CPUs and memory to create a large virtual machine enabling IT to run compute-intensive applications such as those found in financial analytics, data warehousing, genomics, visualisation…
  • Flash storage fixes data centre bottlenecks, for a price

    The Planet, which runs eight data centres and hosts 18 million websites worldwide, sees customers using SSDs on their host servers to speed web analytics applications, says Rob Walters, director of product management.
  • Flash memory battleground is all about speed

    But in the data warehousing world, it does not make sense architecturally," argued Scott Gnau, vice president of research and development at Teradata.For one, Gnau questions the ability of the Exadata's flash cache to store the huge data sets…
  • The 10 hottest IT jobs

    There will continue to be opportunities in analytics, for people who understand lean IT, Six Sigma, business processes and improvements, it's going to be about information, connectivity and collaboration.Here we examine 10 IT job titles that could…
  • IBM Project Vulcan aims to take down Microsoft, Google

    IBM is juicing its collaboration tools with a dose of analytics and cloud-based integration with the belief it can redefine the technology, meet the needs of a sophisticated new user generation, and put the screws to an expanding field of…
  • The life and death of a virtual machine

    Management needed to fold into the behavior of users requiring this level of access.A beta version of Hyper9's Virtual Infrastructure Search and Analytics tool, a Google-like search engine that locates and takes reads on the state of virtual…
 

How-Tos

  • How to protect your banking online

    One of Guardian Analytics' customers recently intercepted an attempted ACH transfer of $800,000 for a business banking customer in a scheme involving more than 80 smaller transactions arranged to be sent to unwitting mules.
  • How to use open APIs to boost your business

    However, the application is also driving new revenue, which can be tracked through the API analytics that Sonoa ServiceNet offers.The opening of enterprise applications and services through APIs is heading in only one direction.
  • How to use Facebook and Twitter to market your business

    You can follow retweets in your Twitter stream, or you can use sites such as Retweetist, Retweetradar, or Tweetmeme to track retweets on a larger scale.Tools for Tracking Your Social Media EffortsWithout a blockbuster, affordable tool (à la Google…
  • How to get the most from Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

    InPrivate Filtering is a new IE8 feature that selectively blocks content such as ads, statistics apps like Google Analytics, and other (mostly ad-related) content that does not originate from the site you're visiting.
  • How to solve the data challenge, with environmental efficiency

    The result can be a data management and analytics minefield.The ChallengesRegulatory complianceSarbanes Oxley (SOX) and MiFID, along with other compliance initiatives, bear great pressure on companies.
  • Case Study: Global namespace Attune FAN solves mundane problem

    We have logs, statistics, better analytics and an opportunity to create virtual storage pools with virtual layers of data manipulation.Vicenty thinks that Maestro's rich feature set will also save the YMCA on future capital investments as well…

Reviews

  • Mr Site Takeaway Website Version Two review

    And the number of features available to the user is quite noteworthy.Mr Site Takeaway Website allows you to add widgets, Google Ad Sense and Analytics and even a Mr Site ad-banner to make your website earn you some cash.
  • Xobni for Outlook 1.2 review

    And Xobni analytics wasn't always bang on, missing some received emails accessible in the main search.A missing feature is a way of customising the interface so that contacts can be prioritised in privileged groups.
  • Xobni for Outlook 1.2

    Faster, better search for Outlook; Adds basic networking, analysis, and conversation threading Slight loading overhead; analytics didn't work perfectly The analytics wasn't bang on in some respects, missing some emails received even though they…
  • Actinic Catalog 9.0 review

    You can set up best seller or new product listings on your home page, as well as make recommendations based on previous items and offer discounts to different customers, such as those paying trade prices.One useful new feature is the ability to…
  • Essbase 7X

    HVE helps sort things out by displaying a data description of the bar or part of the graph you're hovering over, and that makes reader absorption a little easier, too.We hope the company chooses to beef up the business analytics abilities of the…

White Papers

  • Delivering faster and more strategic BI

    Delivering faster and more strategic BI Oracle Analytics Partners whitepaper In addition to the functionality now available to mid-market and emerging companies, the price point from Oracle has become extremely attractive, Davis says, particularly…
  • The 11 secrets of business rules success

    Discover The 11 Secrets of Success with Business Rules, from choosing the right applications to creating frameworks for harvesting rules to operationalizing predictive analytics. Operationalizing predictive analytics.
  • Lowering 3G bills and increasing availability with wi-fi

    While analyst firms IDC and Strategic Analytics both confirm that sales of cellular handsets dropped sharply during the first quarter of 2009 as part of the global economic recession, the smartphone market is still going strong.
  • The Five Keys to Organic Growth

    This whitepaper makes the case for using predictive analytics to drive organic growth, describes five ways to achieve organic growth, and explains two different methods for measuring financial return.
  • Oracle's Siebel CRM on Demand

    Nucleus found Siebel CRM On Demand customers took advantage of embedded best practices, integration, and analytics - among other features - to leverage greater long-term value from their CRM. Nucleus found Siebel CRM On Demand customers took…
  • Transformational Analytics: Consolidating Workloads onto Mainframes

    Transformational Analytics: Consolidating Workloads onto Mainframes CiRBA A Step in the Right Direction whitepaper Explore processes for analyzing existing IT environments to determine optimal workload consolidation onto the Mainframe platform.
 
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