The global market for business analytics software grew roughly 14% in 2011, fueled by pervasive hype about "big data" as well as new technological innovations, according to a report unveiled by analyst firm IDC on Wednesday. Between now ...
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An IT system integrating disparate national border controls has reduced visa abuse across the borderless Schengen Area of continental Europe. The Visa Information System (VIS) is used by the European Commission (EC) to enable states in ...
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LAS VEGAS--SAS Institute this week unveiled tools it says makes it easier for its enterprise customers to use the company's business analytics software to analyze data stored in Hadoop environments. At its Premier Business Leadership ...
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IBM is to acquire human resources solutions provider Kenexa for about$1.3bn(£821m)as it looks to compete against the likes of Oracle,SAP and Salesforce.com in the software-as-a-service(SaaS)market. Kenexa uses cloud-based technology ...
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Holiday company Villa Plus is using IBM's business analytics software to support its advertising campaigns as it increases its number of properties by 40%. Villa Plus implemented IBM's Coremetrics analytics software to help it understand ...
A European Union funded project to investigate ways to improve the fight against gun crime has created a prototype using business analytics software from SAS. Sheffield Hallam University is coordinating the Project Odyssey programme.It ...
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