Year: 2013

  • Gartner MQ For Horizontal Portals: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Lead + 8 Emerging Trends

    Gartner MQ For Horizontal Portals: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Lead + 8 Emerging Trends

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    By David Roe. A quick look back at Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals over the past two years compared with this year’s Magic Quadrant seems to point to a stagnant market. However, while IBM, Liferay ,Microsoft, Oracle and SAP still dominate the Leaders’ Quadrant, there are subtle shifts in emphasis across the entire Magic…

  • Google taps big data for universal translator

    Google taps big data for universal translator

    Statistical analysis beats algorithms for language translation, Google says, but which massive volumes of linguistic data will it use? By Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld Google Translate is currently best known for being a quick and dirty way to render Web pages or short text snippets in another language. But according to Der Spiegel, the next…

  • Big Data: The Mega-Trend That Will Impact All Our Lives

    Big Data: The Mega-Trend That Will Impact All Our Lives

    There are some things that are so big that they have implications for everyone’s life, whether we want it or not. And Big Data is one of those mega trends that will impact everyone in one way or another. The name (which by the way I don’t like) might sound a bit techie or boring…

  • Software AG named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Integration Suites

    Software AG named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Integration Suites

    Leading industry analyst firm Gartner recognises Software AG as a leader in the strategic market of application integration and SOA projects. Software AG’s primary offering in this market is webMethods Suite, which allows organisations to take advantage of major technology trends around cloud, mobile, social and big data by integrating systems, services, devices, processes and…

  • The End of Software; The Fall of IBM

    The computer industry goes through technology cycles. With each cycle, a new crop of companies emerge that dominate the industry. The winners in the previous cycle usually fade into oblivion. Who remembers Burroughs, Digital Equipment, Wang, Prime Computer or Control Data? The leaders in this cycle are cloud companies, Facebook, Google and Amazon. The winners…

  • Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday

    Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday

    Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle’s president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft’s Build developer conference is scheduled to kick off in San Francisco. The press event follows Oracle’s earnings call that featured remarks by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about a…

  • Atlassian gives Jira bug tracker a new UI and a speed boost

    Jira 6 runs faster and provides the user with a cleaner interface and faster navigation. Atlassian has revamped the Jira bug tracking tool with a new user interface, which the company said will offer faster navigation and a simplified workflow. “We really tried hard to create a whole new, more efficient Jira,” said Dan Chuparkoff,…

  • SAP Launches Free Online Training for HANA, Other New Technologies

    SAP Launches Free Online Training for HANA, Other New Technologies

    IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) — SAP is hoping to sow more seeds of interest in its newest technologies, including the HANA in-memory database, through a new online training program available at no charge. Dubbed openSAP, the program’s first course will provide an introduction to developing software on top of HANA, and is scheduled to…

  • Fraud Prevention in a Big Data Environment

    Fraud Prevention in a Big Data Environment

    SAP announced Tuesday a new analytic application to help enterprises detect, investigate, analyze and prevent fraud in Big Data environments. March 19, 2013 by Derek Klobucher Christchurch, New Zealand is rebuilding after a devastating earthquake two years ago and recovering from the global financial crisis — and it could be losing more than US$1.2 billion…

  • Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

    Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

    Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden knows it–and he doesn’t feel fine about it. By Bernard Golden, March 26, 2013 CIO — At last week’s SVForum…