IDG News Service-Users of Amazon Web Services will soon be able to orchestrate workflows across different AWS services and their own internal resources,using a new orchestration engine called the AWS Data Pipeline. Amazon Chief Technology ...
HM Revenue & Customs' Phil Pavitt will step down from his role as CIO in January to take up a new role at insurance group Aviva. Deputy CIO Mark Hall has taken on the CIO role at HMRC, but Pavitt will remain with the department until ...
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Big data a catalyst for change Corporate IT, BI and enterprise search Finding the gems Social, collaborative common to BI and search Business intelligence (BI) and enterprise search have been converging slowly in corporate IT ...
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IDG News Service-SharePoint's new application development model has piqued the interest of ISVs and enterprise developers who create applications for Microsoft's enterprise collaboration server. The new platform,consistent with Web ...
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plans to consolidate its data warehousing estate in a bid to cut costs and improve its effectiveness. It will create a consolidated data warehouse to support its burgeoning range of business intelligence ...
SAP is urging businesses to rethink core business values to become more consumer-centric using mobile, social, cloud and business intelligence (BI). Addressing delegates via a video link at the opening of SAP TechEd Madrid, Bill ...
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Mobile business intelligence (BI) has started to cascade down in organisations over the past year, Adrian Simpson, chief innovation officer, SAP UK, will tell delegates to IRM UK's Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence conference in London ...
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Teradata has fired the starting pistol in the race to make unstructured,semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing manageable and accessible in a single integrated architecture. With the arrival of its"Unified Data ...
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European regulations for the gambling sector,launching new products and driving revenue growth as a recently floated public company put enormous pressure on the IT team at Betfair. But chief technology officer(CTO)Tony McAlister,in post ...
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Supermarket chain Morrisons is an Oracle shop,using a variety of the firm's products including Enterprise Linux,BIEE(Business Intelligence,Enterprise Edition)for reporting,Oracle Data Integrator(ODI)and real-time data integration tool ...
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Jo Stanford joined the hotel and leisure chain De Vere Group six years ago as IT director. She says the backup challenges she faces in IT at De Vere Group are not specific just to her business. ''The challenge is what data you retain and ...
Broadband,phone and mobile company TalkTalk has selected business intelligence software provider QlikView's Business Discovery platform ahead of Tableau's rival offering because QlikView was"cheaper and easier to deploy". Further reading ...
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In a bid to improve its store performance and customer marketing, mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse has used business intelligence (BI) software by MicroStrategy as opposed to rival Information Builders because the dashboards created by ...
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Dell has laid out a plan to dramatically grow its software business by targeting mid-sized companies that it says are under-served by rivals such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. Its plan is to target four key areas: security, ...
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Water company United Utilities has implemented data governance software to manage its 8bn pound estate. Christopher Evans,enterprise information manager at United Utilities,said the company sought a tool to process multiple and complex ...
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