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How to Evaluate Enterprise Search Options

An enterprise search platform delivers many benefits, including improved employee productivity, but there are dozen of vendors and three different approaches -- specialized, integrated and detached -- to consider. Here's how to find the product that best fits your company's search requirements. Full Story »
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Oracle Stakes Claim in R with Advanced Analytics Launch

A new software release adds support for the open-source statistical modeling language

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Salesforce.Com Yields to Pressure Over Analytics Pricing

Salesforce.com's upcoming Analytics Edition features will now be included in some editions at no additional cost

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Salesforce.Com Customers Say New Analytics Should Be Included in Core Fees

Users are angry at the extra cost tied to the upcoming Analytics Edition, saying the core product's reporting function has long been lacking

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Pricing Done Right

Setting prices is a strategic decision that needs C-level attention. Your profits depend on it.

Editor's Letter

Why Pricing Should Be Done on More Than Just Instinct

CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson discusses her take on pricing and the role the CIO needs to play in this business function

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Microsoft Reveals Launch Date for Next-Generation SQL Server 2012

But it's not clear when the release will be generally available

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Net Optics Acquires NMetric, Targets Network Intelligence

In a move to broaden its offerings for the growing network intelligence and diagnostics market, telecom equipment manufacturer Net Optics recently announced the acquisition of network analytics software provider nMetric.

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NetApp's Tom Georgens: How We Got Big, Stayed Nimble, and View Storage Today

In an exclusive interview, NetApp CEO Tom Georgens talks about virtualization, the private cloud, and how his company defines big data

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Enterprise Hadoop: Big Data Processing Made Easier

Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, and MapR mix simpler setup of Hadoop clusters with proprietary twists and trade-offs

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Tableau Revamps Its BI Visualization Tools with User-Centric Focus

Tableau 7.0 is geared at getting BI into the hands of more users

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SAP Acquires Software From German Company Datango

SAP wants to help cut support costs by providing better training and tools

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Jaspersoft Aims Its Open-Source Analytics Suite At PaaS Vendors

Red Hat's OpenShift is the first in a series of platform-as-a-service offerings to feature Jaspersoft's suite

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Oracle Reveals Pricing for Its SAP HANA Rival Exalytics, Signaling Imminent Release

Both systems incorporate in-memory computing engines

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To Push Nook Past Kindle, Barnes & Noble Bets on BI

Book retailer Barnes & Noble adds a massive database and improved business intelligence in hopes that a smarter sales team will drive its ereader past Amazon's Kindle.

 
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