So it's BitBlt for large scale apps ;)?Remember BitBlt? Kinda did the same thing, except for sprites on a PC.Ah, how all of old stuff becomes new again.
When both data and applications reside in the same system, they are independent of one another, but both execute as "first-class citizens" with their respective data and application management services. by Dana Gardner
Facebook has revised its Share button on Web sites, incorporating in a counter, and is also enhancing its offering of analytics data, giving Web site operators more information about how Facebook users interact with their sites. In a post on its developer's blog, the company notes that...
Nie said his goal is to make R the "dominant analytics platform." Accomplishing that will mean doing a delicate dance between the needs of the market and the needs of academics devoted to open source. He has the right experience to do that job. by Dana Blankenhorn
Staying Focused on the CloudCloud computing is a very important and relevant topic here in 2009. Servers, platforms and even software are being offered as services which makes sense to IT. This is such an important trend that media organizations such as ZDNet should not try to blur or confuse...
Gartner unveiled its top 10 strategic technology list for 2010. Unified communications, servers and specialized systems are out. Client computing, data center do-overs, flash memory and mobile applications are in. The list, presented Tuesday at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, by analysts David Cearley and Carl Claunch...
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than can its biggest...
This just in: Information Builders has predicted the World Series winner and the Los Angeles Dodgers will defeat the Anaheim Angels. But before pitching someone the PR teams should at least check a locale or two. I'm a tweener between New York and Philly. Do you honestly...
Greetings from San Diego, where I landed last night for a couple of days at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment conference. Before turning in last night, I took some time to sift through some of the pre-show pitches that were sitting in my inbox. If all goes well, I'll...
As organizations seek to gain greater value from their data warehousing investments, they invariably look to push the envelope of their front-end environment and supplement reporting with more powerful analytics. Providing adequate support for the analysts and analytic applications is challenging. This white paper provides a comparison of basic reporting...
A lack of expressive techniques to transform and analyze massive data volumes in organizations has led to costly workarounds in data warehousing. One of the first to face the challenge of analyzing petabyte scale data, Google pioneered a software framework called MapReduce for high speed processing of large amounts of...
What about Business Catalyst?Am I the only seeing a tie between Adobe's recent purchase of Business Catalyst and Omniture?They are building a tool to keep web developers in the Adobe frame of mind. I think at least partially that is due to the increasing strength of Microsoft's competitive online...
Adobe & Omniture makes senseOmniture currently have components for Adobe's Dreamweaver and Flash, to integrate analytics into web content and last time I used them, they really weren't that great. I imagine in Adobe's CS5 this integration will be very seamless, which will encourage Adobe's users to use Omniture over...
Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...
EMC Corporation wanted to consolidate disparate data sources to reduce total cost of ownership, improve efficiency, and sharpen decision making and provide diverse users with insight into data on various topics, from sales metrics and customer information to Human Resources HR and financial figures. The challenge was to grow market...
This white paper examines how business managers at e-commerce, media and content sites are using behavioral analytics to increase revenue and lifetime value of their online audience. The paper explores how behavioral analytics focuses on visitor behavior patterns to uncover value-creating insights from website data. Delving deeper into the application...
Written by digital marketing expert Jim Sterne, this white paper explains why current web analytics are not enough to generate desired business results and how behavioral analytics can help you make data-driven decisions that quickly impact revenue, traffic, and site stickiness. Using case studies and examples from leading media,...
ZipLogs makes IIS log file management simple and easy. Each night, ZipLogs collects and zips all of the log files for all Web sites, FTP sites and SMTP services and deletes the original file after verification, which saves precious space. This results in a 5 to 1 compression ratio. It...
With Analytics get graphs and statistics from your Google Analytics account. Status update when Google updates. You will need a Google Analytics account to use this application. Your email and password are kept on your iPhone and not on any server or web site. It gives dashboard, visitors Overview, traffic...
With Analytics Pro get graphs and statistics from your Google Analytics account. Stats update when Google updates. You will need a Google Analytics account to use this application. Your email and password are kept on your iPhone and not on any server or web site. It gives different pages where...
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