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Promising new technology can fizzle before it explodes—but it’s all part of the process. The same hype that shines the initial spotlight will eventually separate truth from pretense, making way for the technology to develop and deliver all it pledged to offer.

Big data—a buzzword for enormous…

Companies, telecom operators included, need to expand the role of BI and analytics, moving from a descriptive model, which help companies see what’s happening, to adopting tools that leverage richer insights. The next steps involve implementing diagnostic tools to find out why something happened, predictive models (what is likely…

Fifteen of the top 19 business processes that chief financial officers (CFOs) have identified as requiring improved technology support are largely addressed by business intelligence (BI), analytics and performance management technologies…

Gartner recently declared 2013 the year of Big Data. Really? The truth, it seems, is harder to define but channel experts are unified in a cautionary approach to what so far has been more of a buzzword than an irresistible trend.

In fact, some businesses have described it as the…

Redwood Shores, CA – April 15, 2013

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Oracle has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant for Gartner’s 2013 “Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites.” (1)

Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that…

“Big data” is high-volume, -velocity and -variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making.

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After a few years of experimentation and early adopter successes, 2013 will be the year of larger scale adoption of big data technologies, according to Gartner, Inc. According to a worldwide Gartner survey of IT leaders, 42 percent of respondents stated they had invested in big data technology, or were…

Gartner see the maturation path of data-driven companies as moving from descriptive reports and queries that detail current conditions to diagnostic analyses and visualizations that reveal why performance lagged in some areas and excelled in others. The next step up is to predictive analytics that tell you where things…

Business intelligence spending will get billions of dollars from big data and as-a-service investment, but lag behind the explosive growth rates from a few years ago, according to a new market forecast from Gartner Research…