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- IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS
- IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...
- Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Walmart to sell $298 Compaq laptop in time for back-to-school, 'while supplies last'
- The annual back-to-school shopping trip is just around the corner. Load the family in the mini-van, drive over to your local Walmart, and watch as your shopping cart fills with new clothes, shoes, pencils, notebooks, protractors, calculators, and a million other things. The yearly resupply is...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Compaq Computer Corp., Notebooks, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?
- Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?Bull...Talk about stretching the truth... I have never seen so poor a representation of numbers than this...A very poor shot, if can't do an accurate comparisson, just spin things out and lie.I'm an ex SAP and ex Oracle customer and there is a...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise software, SAP AG, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference
- Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...
- Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- IBM's CloudBurst is a credible step forward
- About six months ago, I accused IBM of “cloud-washing†its solutions and services when it launched its Project Blue Cloud marketing campaign. Its aim with this effort was to lure customer conversations about cloud computing in its direction so it could learn what enterprises wanted from this new technology. IBM...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Portals, Storage Management, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Internet, Storage, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Guest Post: Steve Wylie on The Enterprise 2.0 Conference
- I'm heading over to the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston on June 22. If you're interested in the social customer and how businesses should respond to them - and how workplace performance can be improved - this is the one conference you shouldn't miss all year. I mean that. Go. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Microsoft: 'We touch every piece' of auto business
- If you're a first responder, which would you prefer to use to get to the site of a car crash? Google Earth? MapQuest? If you work for OnStar, Microsoft's Virtual Earth is now the preferred choice. Last week, OnStar announced that it now uses...
- Tags: Car, Vehicle, OnStar, Microsoft Corp., Service, Ford Works, Car2Go, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Sony: Too big to be fixed
- Sony: Too big to be fixedblack listed for meI've been screwed by Sony on three different occasions. Once, I got an expensive digital telephone that was full of static, dropped connections, and overall poor quality until it died. "Customer service" blamed my house for being too big too floors. Go...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital media, licensing fee, Sony Corp., DVD, CD
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- Culture, measurement and managed expectations critical for social business success
- * Jennifer Leggio is at RSA Conference Guest editorial by Peter Kim Leading up to SXSW and Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, I thought a lot about the latest thinking in social media to prepare for panels at both events. ...
- Tags: Social Media, IT Pro, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- IBM bid for Sun could be a blocking move
- I agree with Dana Gardner that IBM's reported $6.5 billion bid for Sun makes no sense at all. Owning Java is not a business model, or not enough of one to help Sun meaningfully. So, does IBM need chip architectures from Sun? Nope, has...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Nope, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Pioneer Provider of Vehicle-Pricing Information Uses Technology to Expand Reach
- For many decades, the Kelley Blue Book has served as the leading source of vehicle-pricing information for car buyers, sellers, manufacturers, dealers, and financial institutions. Since the mid-1990s, the company behind that publication has used the Internet to deliver its much-sought-after information. To do this successfully, Kelley Blue Book recently...
- Tags: Car, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Is SAP really done with 'scary upgrades' and 'sleepless night' projects?
- SAP has a lot riding on this Business Suite 7 launch and it's pitching easier implementations, ROI in less than a year under certain conditions and an almost turnkey approach. First, SAP says Business Suite 7--the company's new applications suite--is about analytics as well as enterprise planning....
- Tags: SAP AG, Business Suite 7, Business Suite, Sales Strategy, Roi/Tco, Investment, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Sales, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders abound
- Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders aboundPrevent most net breaches!!!Our system prevents a majority of Network Breaches while keeping the Networks "UP," Provides a Real Time Global Administrator that sits transparently over other OEM's Network Management systems (i.e., IBM Websphere, HP OPenview, SCADA, etc), the system...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Enterprise software, network, SCADA
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
- Apple's future: It's in the Touch
- Apple's future: It's in the TouchIt's scary catchup timeBill Gates remarks on the Next 10 years of Digital Media NVTC speech http://tinyurl.com/97zbns Videohttp://www.nvtc.org/events/031308/TranscriptRemarksByBillGates.pdf Transcript"On that tablet we can touch the screen. We have a pen. We can write. We can have the handwriting be recognized and so...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, VOIP, Cellular phones, Apple iPod Touch, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, whiteboard, software
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
- New year fast approaching, and so is the next-generation enterprise data warehouse
- This has been one of the most pivotal years in the evolution of the enterprise data warehousing EDW market. Every EDW vendor of note has firmly repositioned its go-to-market strategy around the appliance approach, with some also taking tentative steps into what is sure to be a key theme in...
- Tags: Appliance, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., I&KM, MPP, Business Intelligence, Databases, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Pricing, Programming Languages, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- MySQL Vs. Unify Data Server: What might have been
- MySQL Vs. Unify Data Server: What might have beenThat's what happenswhen you go for popular rather than best fit. MySQL was late to the game and has less features than other major databases. Most FOSS experts "in the know" prefer Postgres - they say that most of the open source...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., MySQL
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure
- The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure can help you resolve your toughest IT challenges. The ADN is a fundamental IT layer that answers the demand for greater application mobility and security in a changing global business environment. The Corporate and Solutions overview provides information on Blue...
- Tags: Network Infrastructure, Network, Blue Coat Systems Inc., ADN, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote ââ¬" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
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