Mark Smith

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Are You Dreaming Social? Salesforce Is!

The annual Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference (Twitter: #DF12), just underway, may be the largest software…

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IBM’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Kenexa for Social Business and Talent Management

IBM has announced its intention to acquire Kenexa as part of IBM Smarter Workforce…

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The Pathetic State of Dashboards

Over the last several months, my colleague VP and Research Director Tony…

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CIOs Need to Make Information Management a Real Priority

Our recent benchmark research on information management uncovered some startling facts about the level…

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Product Information Management Is Hot for Business

Ventana Research has just released our 2012 Value Index for Product Information Management (PIM),…

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WorkForce Software Focuses on Effective and Efficient Workforces

Our research agenda for 2012 in human capital management outlined the importance of workforce…

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Kognitio Brings Big Data Experience to Business Analytics

Kognitio has been serving the analytics and data needs of organizations for…

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Globoforce Engages Employees with Social Recognition

The use of social collaboration and employee recognition software to support human…

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Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop

Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and…

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IBM Advances Predictive Analytics for Decision Management

At its Business Analytics Analyst Summit (Twitter: #IBMBAS12) this week, IBM unveiled…

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