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Oracle is taking flak over the in-memory database option in Oracle Database 12c, released publicly on Wednesday. The trouble began when Kevin Closson, formerly the performance architect in Oracle's Exadata development group, pointed out that the option is turned on by default. Oracle has denied his ...

Mention big data and the first thing that might come to mind is Hadoop. The open source software framework has recently enjoyed a great deal of popularity among vendors and enterprise users. However, if it is to really be useful to the enterprise, Hadoop may need to be taken out of open source, argu...

Aprimo has released its second app for Salesforce.com's AppExchange, called "Aprimo Service to Sales." It is an inbound marketing app with real-time interactive features. The first Aprimo app destined for the AppExchange was released in 2010. The newer app, however, is written on a different code b...

Mention big data and the first thing that might come to mind is Hadoop. The open source software framework has recently enjoyed a great deal of popularity among vendors and enterprise users. However, if it is to really be useful to the enterprise, Hadoop may need to be taken out of open source, argu...

President Obama initiated an Open Government program on his second day in office, pledging to make government information more accessible to the public. Three years later, that program has achieved significant success in many forums. However, the effort of making more federal information even more a...

IBM has made a $1.7 billion offer to acquire Netezza, a data warehouse specialist that allows users to analyze huge amounts of data very quickly by integrating hardware with analytics applications. Since IBM announced its offer, Netezza's stock price has risen past the $27 per share price it reflec...

Many IT analyst events qualify as exercises in ridiculous self-promotion, but IBM's recent Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet event had a more sublime goal in mind: to qualify the hot topic of workload-optimized systems and quantify their value to business partners and enterprise customers. Along ...

The growing reliance on business analytics at the enterprise level to improve strategic operational decision making and increase corporate competitive advantage is driving what IDC estimates to be a $20 billion market for business analytics development tools and packaged intelligence applications. O...

NCR, the world's largest maker of automatic teller machines, said Monday it planned to split itself into two independent public companies by spinning off its fast-growing Teradata Data Warehousing unit. NCR will split by giving shares in the new, stand-alone Teradata to existing NCR shareholders. Th...

If corporate managers have Sarbanes-Oxley compliance to blame for late nights and lost sleep, those in the livestock and poultry industries have plenty of compliance worries of their own, triggered by NAIS, which stands for the National Animal Identification System. NAIS is a multi-year, phased-in p...

The holidays are over, but retailers are still waiting for the holiday shopping season to end. Increasingly, consumers are opting to give gift cards instead of actually buying an article of clothing or an electronic gadget. This is good news for retailers hoping to drive up modest margins. When rede...

Siebel Systems launched what it calls an "end-to-end enterprise business intelligence solution." The product recognizes a need for analytics that can compile many sources of information into a single data warehouse. At its "User Week" in Los Angeles, Siebel announced BI applications for financials, ...

Nanosys yesterday announced that Peter S. Garcia has joined the company as chief financial officer. The action comes less than a week after the company pulled its plans for a $100 million initial public stock offering due to what the company called "the volatility of the public capital markets." Cal...

Just as sophisticated navigation tools help aviators choose the right route through the skies, marketing-automation technology is a crucial component of CRM that enables users to analyze data and map out cost-efficient business strategies. In fact, analysts expect marketing automation to emerge as t...

NCR subsidiary Teradata plans to roll out version 5.0 of its CRM software in August. Now in the beta-testing stage, the new version -- geared toward the communications, financial services, government, insurance, manufacturing, retail, and travel and transportation industries -- is designed to trigge...