Despite the usual industry hype over NFC (near field communication) at MWC this year, SAP's SVP of mobile solution management, Nick Brown, still believes the touch data technology is overhyped. "I think NFC is interesting, but it's just ...
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A new collaboration has been formed between ExactFlat - makers of a software suite developed for sewn product manufacturers -and [TC] ² - a technology development think tank focused on the apparel industry. Both contributors will ...
IDC says Big Data market outstripping IT as a whole by sevenfold. IT systems management firm Kaseya said firms must be mindful of the complexities of handling Big Data projects, and also bear in mind the "worrying skills shortage" in the ...
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Leading industry analyst firm recognizes Software AG as a leader in the enterprise governance, risk and compliance platform market. Software AG today announced it was positioned by Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, in the ...
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Gaining a better understanding of customers is the main motivation for big data programmes. This is one finding from a SearchDataManagementUK survey of 184 UK and continental European IT and business professionals who are primarily ...
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EMC has named former Huawei Technologies executive John Roese as chief technology officer. Roese, also a former Nortel Networks CTO, will play a key role in shaping EMC's cloud and big data technology strategy, the company said. Reese ...
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Software AG announced that Robin Gilthorpe has been appointed as CEO of Terracotta Inc. RESTON, VA, September 07, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Software AG announced that Robin Gilthorpe has been appointed as CEO of Terracotta Inc. its ...
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Our most successful business leaders have often had one thing in common: an innate instinct for the direction of their organisations that has repeatedly enabled them to make the right calls. But we are fast approaching a time when the ...
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2012 was the year of big data.2011 had been a good year for the hyped concept,too,and 2013 is more than likely to see a continued glut of big data discourse in the IT market. But there are other themes in this collection of top 10 ...
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If a business intelligence (BI) vendor tells you that its products are integrated with Hadoop, you should ask a lot of questions. The hype around Hadoop has pushed many BI vendors to declare their support for the big data technology ...
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EMC has named former Huawei Technologies executive John Roese as chief technology officer. Roese, also a former Nortel Networks CTO, will play a key role in shaping EMC’s cloud and big data technology strategy, the company said. ...
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South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) NHS Foundation Trust has a huge fleet of ambulances here in the UK. In an attempt to reduce its large fuel bill by as much as £400,000 it is installing 5mm thick solar panels on the vehicle roofs ...
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Four leading executives from US big data and analytics companies tell a similar story of imminent increased big data analytics adoption in the UK and Europe.Senior executives from MapR,Cloudera,ParAccel,and Pentaho traced out the likely ...
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Enterprises should ask a lot of questions when a vendor touts its business intelligence(BI)products as being fully integrated with Hadoop. The hype around Hadoop has pushed many BI vendors to proclaim their support for big data technology ...
Open source"big data"technologies seem stuck in the sand pit of experimentation in UK corporations. This has been a consistent theme in SearchDataManagement.co.UK interviews with people familiar with early big data implementations. For ...