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.

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.

BI applications are expected to have the highest impact on organizations such as manufacturing firms over the next two to five years, according to the Aberdeen Group's 2009 State of the Market: Mid-Year Insights Report.

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.
 

Join us for the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Symposium in London on 21 October 2009. Don′t miss this exciting opportunity to enhance your business intelligence proficiency, share ideas, and hear what successful companies have learned from their BI deployments.

Lesson learned, how many projects have you initiated that have failed to deliver in some way? It can be a hard question to ask of yourself, but even the best planning in the world can't mitigate factors outside your control.

Last year was another busy one for business intelligence (BI). After the previous year's slew of acquisitions, 2008 saw the mega-vendors integrate their new BI technologies, while operational and on-demand BI saw gains in adoption. What does 2009 hold in store for BI? Three industry watchers share their 2009 BI forecasts.