US analytics firm unveils location, data aggregation and workload management tools through partnership with Oracle.

The 7th Obis Omni Forum received great feedback from the 100 plus senior business, finance and IT personnel who attended the event last week (24 November). Here is a breakdown of the day's sessions with highlights of the key points made.

Newly launched Socium combines Software-as-a-Service model with 40 years of spatial data validation experience to present new offering.

Centrix Software has announced a range of new features designed to improve its WorkSpace iQ service.

In response to significant demand from our Obis Omni members and the Business and IT community, we have launched The Cloud Circle, the UK’s first independent Business and IT focused Cloud Computing Community.  

Following extensive research over 75% of our members were interested in immediately joining a free, independent, end user led, on and offline member networking Community. In the last three days over 110 members have signed up to The Cloud Circle.
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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.

Next week, Microsoft will be revealing details of a new development tool, codenamed Velocity, that speeds the performance of enterprise and web applications. A session at the Professional Developer’s Conference will be dedicated to the new tool.

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.

The promise of unified communications technology is a single, homogenous platform for all digital communications. But while technologies that bridge the divide between IP-based and mobile networks are widely (if not cheaply) available for most organisations, there is a glaring disunity at the heart of their communications infrastructure.