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24 May, 2013

IBM’s Watson Gets A Job In Customer Service

IBM’s Watson supercomputer has been riding high for the past couple of years. It won a game of Jeopardy, went to university and did a stint at a cancer lab. But now it’s taking what might seem like a step down with a job in customer service.

The…

Publication: Gizmag

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24 May, 2013

IBM Helps Xiu.com Analyze Big Data To Grow Daily Sales 10 Times

IBM today announced that Xiu.com, one of China’s leading online retailers of overseas luxury brands, grew its daily sales by 10 times using IBM software for Smarter Commerce to analyze Big Data, offering customers a personalized shopping experience and increased product selection…

Publication: IBM Newsroom

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24 May, 2013

SAP Cloud Chief Lars Dalgaard Steps Down

Dalgaard is off to become an investor, although he will remain a cloud advisor to SAP. Meanwhile, the company is consolidating its cloud development processes, with a view to eventually streamlining its portfolio…

Publication: GigaOM

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23 May, 2013

SaaS, Cloud And Mobile To Reshape Software Market

SaaS now accounts for at least 40% of the software revenue for 10 major companies listed Global 100.

Software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud, IT consumerisation and mobile are expected to impact the software industry in the coming days, according to a report by PwC…

Publication: CBR

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23 May, 2013

Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers

Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers’ locations, travels and Web-browsing habits. The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but raises new privacy concerns…

Publication: WSJ.com

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23 May, 2013

Big Data Gets A Boost From Splunk And Hortonworks Strategic Alliance

Splunk Inc., the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop, today announced a strategic alliance to enable organizations to gain operational intelligence using open source Apache Hadoop…

Publication: Splunk

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23 May, 2013

Enterprise Data App Management Startup WibiData Raises $15M

WibiData, the enterprise data management startup co-founded by Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball, has raised $15 million in a Series B funding led by Canaan Partners with participation from existing investors, including NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt…

Publication: TechCrunch

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22 May, 2013

Google Analytics Lets Analytics Premium Users Join Big Data In Google Cloud

Last week, Google Analytics introduced a new feature that’s quite a big deal to Premium Analytics users. Google is now giving Analytics Premium users the ability to use Google BigQuery to crunch their analytics data and other offline data sets…

Publication: Search Engine Watch

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22 May, 2013

SAS Data Visualization Implemented At Australian Institute Of Health And Welfare

CARY, NC  (May 22, 2013)  – The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has implemented SAS Visual analytics to inform policy decisions on health, welfare and community services.
AIHW recently became accredited as a data integrating authority by the Australian government, along with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, another SAS…

Publication: SAS

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