The leading UK charity is set to make major costing saving by deploying new cloud platform for its BI data analytics.

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As if working in the city isn’t challenge enough, John Stanford , Director of insurance specialist  Moore Stephens Consulting (MSC),  has set himself the challenge of running 12 marathons in one year to raise money for Brain Tumour UK.

Data without any context isn’t all that useful. Unfortunately, most of the data that we do collect in the enterprise has little to no context.
To compensate for this, IT organizations have been investing billions, maybe even trillions, of dollars in data warehouses and business intelligence applications. We are collecting more data than ever, which in turn is in straining not only our ability to make sense of that information, but also our storage budgets. What if we took an entirely different approach to collecting data in the first place that was inherently more efficient in terms of assigning context to information? That’s the strategic goal of a G2 project that Jeff Jonas, IBM distinguished engineer and chief scientist for Entity Analytics, is working on.

Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Or do without." That adage from the Great Depression is making a comeback these days among corporations that are digging deep to maintain profitability using business tools they already have in-house.

Europe's head of competition has criticized Oracle for what she characterised as a lack of cooperation over the investigation of Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a spokesman for the European Commission said.

An Oracle official at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference gave a glimpse Tuesday into the volume of technologies coming out of the company. The company this week also detailed a host of software development related product plans.
 

Business Intelligence (BI), like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), is a dimension of effective IT strategy, but must be considered within the totality of architecture. Acronyms have a way of becoming impotent when pursued as individual panaceas.

Social CRM is just what it sounds like. Rather than relying on software to track customer histories and then put that data in the hands of people who need it, social CRM is about the relationship itself. It's about using the plethora of social media tools to maintain an actual conversation with customers. Twitter is the tool that's most obviously suited for this function.

In this one to one interview with Ajay Ohri of DecisionStats.com, Timo Elliott passes on his thoughts such as covering trends in predictive analytics, cloud computing and social network analysis.