Integrated Data Among Top Challenges P&G, Kraft and Others Face in Tapping Gartner’s “The Power of Me”
At first glance, the title of a Gartner research paper released a few days ago can be misleading.
Microsoft Focuses Big Data Efforts on Hadoop
Microsoft has shown once again that it can act decisively and smartly improve its offerings in doing so. It has…
Habits of Innovation
Despite BI's advances, companies continue to struggle with responding quickly to a continuously evolving information landscape and the need for…
Master Data Management: Does an Effective Solution Exist?
by Brenda SomichDespite being a term that has only reached popularity in the last decade, Master Data Management (MDM) is…
Informatica Parses the World of Hadoop
Informatica recently introduced HParser, an expansion of its capabilities for working with Hadoop data sources.
‘Google-like IT Automation For the Rest of Us:’ Puppet and Chef
Wired’s Cade Metz just published an interesting piece on the Puppet and Chef projects, open source-based online services for automating…
Service-Oriented Architecture’s Role in the Emerging Hadoop World
To address Big Data challenges in a cost-effective way, many organizations are turning to Hadoop, an open-source framework. Hadoop enables…
Social Software, Feature or Product?
We have this debate running about social software and whether it's, for the most part anyway, a set of features…