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Why Mark Hurd Thinks You Will Fail

Oracle's CEO Mark Hurd is known for being outspoken and riling up debate--but now he has a new bold statement. Big companies are bound to fail because they are rejecting data. Even the largest organizations, he says, are falling victim to... Read more…

Utility Companies Riding Data Current

Utility companies are driving significant innovation in big data technologies—and not just because of the volume of data they handle. While data sizes are still important, especially considering that smart meters collect data at higher volume and frequency.... Read more…

ParAccel Lifts Hood on CARFAX Overhaul

In the wake of their competitors being gobbled up by giants and their announcement today of a new connector to Hadoop, we step back and look at how analytical platforms like ParAccel's are handling large amounts of complex data for companies like CARFAX, which recently put the company in the driver's seat following limitations from their legacy.... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

Our top seven this week will look at how CSC is tapping big government data, will dive into the “Data Oasis” for big data and supercomputing, and look at new enhancements for those leveraging the R statistical language. We also have some news from HP and IBM and Oracle as they firm up their positions on big data.... Read more…

Oracle Expert Shares Implementation Key

Oracle BI Architect and Consulting Manager at KPI Partners, Abhinav Banerjee, says business intelligence implementations are often called failures when they fail to meet the required objectives, lack user acceptance or are only implemented after numerous long delays. He shares the key to making sure these are.... Read more…

Oracle Flags Down R Users with Analytics Option

Today Oracle announced a new piece to its enterprise analytics capabilities via the addition of an option to include the open source R statistics language within bundles of its enterprise R and data mining offerings that the company... Read more…

SAP Dishes on Database Market Ambitions

It’s been a banner year for SAP, which boasted 2011 profits that topped the charts over the course of their 40-year history. The company says that this growth has been spurred in part by their ability to tap into the needs of big data.... Read more…

How BI is Becoming Crime’s Biggest Enemy

If this last decade is any proof, business intelligence is being harnessed for a wide array of purposes that extend beyond indentifying enterprise or customer trends. Some organizations are using BI for everything from tracking internal progress to…well, fighting crime--and in some rather unique, forward-looking ways.... Read more…

BI Giants Zoom in on Location Intelligence

GIS data is finding frequent use in the enterprise as it is increasingly tied to BI and analytics operations. This week the strategic alliance between Oracle and Teradata focused on an update that provides business intelligence.... Read more…

Oracle Taps Cloudera to Bolster Big Data Play

Today Oracle formally announced its Big Data Appliance, which they hinted at during this past year's Open World conference. The system pulls on Cloudera's distribution of Hadoop and its management software and, according to Oracle, will integrate into existing environments that are already running Hadoop. Read more…

TIBCO CEO Outlines Enterprise 3.0 Approach

TIBCO CEO, Vivek Ranadive appeared on Mad Money to discuss the value of real-time business insights, and to use that opportunity to poke holes in competitor approaches. Ranadive provides brief use cases of how real-time decisions separate the standard enterprise from Enterprise 3.0 Read more…

Oracle Extols Exadata Evolution

George Lumpkin, who heads Product Management for Oracle's Data Management division, describes the evolution of the Exadata platform to meet rising demands for big data infrastructure in the enterprise--and to address scalability and performance challenges. Read more…

Oracle Rounds Out Retail Appeal with Endeca Buy

This week Oracle announced its intent to bring Endeca into the fold, thereby bolstering their ability to reach big data-aware e-commerce and retail giants. While Oracle has traction in this area already, bringing the ability to manage unstructured data and retailer demands simultaneously makes this buy big news, especially for rivals HP, IBM and SAP. Read more…

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