The enterprise opportunity of Big Data: Closing the "clue gap"
As accumulated information has become a top-line asset in large companies, the ability to tap into it and release value from it is not growing to match in most traditional firms. Yet this information is currently growing exponentially and becoming a c…
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-01-31
Enterprise news and headlines, second half of January 2011 Salesforce.com takes it to a new level with Super Bowl ads, SAP and Microsoft reposition themselves for the cloud – while juggling execs and responsibilities, Microsoft sues former employees and their new employers, Oracle raises the ire of the open source community, Microsoft and SAP deliver [...]
Mobile Data Analytics
Over the past couple of years I have met with several startups that offer analytic solutions for mobile data. I have not invested in any of them. I had felt that the data captured from feature phones and early generations of smartphones was not rich enough to lead to interesting and distinct analytics. For example, while data captured from a mobile web browser such as sites visited, pageviews, time spent browsing could be analyzed, we didn’t need a new company to do that. Omniture could do that just fine. However, the new smartphones capture more interesting data. These data sets…
Scary Technology #2 – A Suggested Code of Ethics
Here’s a starter set of ethical standards for companies that spread your personal data around the world, the web, etc.
Naomi’s Questions For Oracle OpenWorld 2010
With Oracle OpenWorld 2010 coming up next week, I hate having to miss one of the major enterprise IT three, four, five-ring circuses of the year. I would have loved to attend, but HR Tech 2010 is thefollowing week. And unlike my much valued and much younger Oracle AR handler, Kris Barondess, I’m no longer able to [...]
6 Bullet Points of Shame for BI Endeavors
Fellow Enterprise Irregular Vinnie Merchandani’s “You Can’t Handle the Truth” post on BI is excellent. He identifies what I call 6 bullet points of shame for BI endeavors that are brilliantly on the money: 1. Most companies don’t seek out primary, real-time data. Rinse that same old data through 8 or 10 times, surface it [...]
Who will Oracle acquire next? (The Answers)
Who will Oracle acquire next? Our respondents say Oracle will acquire Informatica, Salesforce.com, VMware, TIBCO, Red Hat, Teradata, NetSuite, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Computer Associates, Cloudera, Vertica, Jive Software, and Mark Hurd.
The Future Of HRM Software: Embedded Intelligence
Hi, I’m Naomi, your friendly HRM consultant There’s an easy way to describe what I mean by embedded intelligence. Conjure up a memory of the best, most knowledgeable, most effectively consultative and strategic thinking HR leader you’ve ever known. Now conjure up a memory of that master of regulatory options and obligations, that HR administrator who [...]
Acquiring, everyone’s doing it – SAP Buying Sybase – Quick Analysis
SAP’s acquisition target was said to be a head-scratcher. Sybase certainly makes you cock your head a tad.
VMware’s SpringSource Redis and Rabbit acquisitions: A Database Play is Emerging
The VMware Q1 financials call had some interesting futures stuff, worth quoting CEO Paul Maritz in full
This is Paul. I would be happy if you had to come around and have a cup of coffee with me and we could discuss that for several hours. The very, very short answer to your question is that [...]
