IT Innovation Pressures Grow for CIOs

More than half of business executives recently surveyed said the organization rates as “poor” or it is “just making progress” with innovation in IT. These days, virtually no corner of the enterprise remains untouched by IT. From customer-facing Websites and…

Microsoft Azure Embraces Outside Technologies

Microsoft has open-sourced its new C# compiler and Azure now incorporates the open source Chef and Puppet configuration managers. Joab Jackson, IDG News Service (New York Bureau) April 03, 2014 As it rolled out tools and features for coders at…

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…

SAP Speeds Deployment Time for Big Data Analytics

SAP’s Big Data Transition Strategy will be studied in MBA programs a few years from now. The company is disrupting its industry with revolutionary solutions without disrupting its customers. Needless to say, that’s a hard thing to do.

Apache Spark: 3 Promising Use-Cases

Spark 2015 Vision

Spark is the shiny new thing in big data, but how will it stand out? Here’s a look at “fog computing,” cloud computing, and streaming data-analysis scenarios. by James Kobielus To survive the competitive struggles, every fresh technological innovation must…

SAP apps heading to Microsoft Azure cloud

The companies are also integrating SAP’s Business Objects with Microsoft’s BI software By Chris Kanaracus | IDG News Service Microsoft and SAP’s long-standing partnership is being strengthened with the pending certification of SAP’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other software…

Open source Hoodie is tailored for quick app dev

The platform for building Web and iOS apps can accommodate users with few development skills By Paul Krill | InfoWorld A quick option for building Web and iOS apps is on the horizon from a group of developers in Europe.…

Cassandra lowers the barriers to big data

Cassandra

An InfoWorld Test Center overview of the nuts and bolts of Cassandra: A free, open source NoSQL datastore that supports rapid and massive growth By Rick Grehan Apache Cassandra is a free, open source NoSQL database designed to manage very…

LinkedIn Mobile Stack

Recently released LinkedIn feature on the iPhone, Android, and mobile web platforms contains a step-by-step guided flow to the LinkedIn ecosystem for our new members. This onboarding experience removes the uncertainty of how to get started and effectively use our…