Analytics News & Articles

Larry Ellison probably didn’t sleep well last night.

Attivio and QlikTech, a business intelligence company, have announced that they will be working together to improve the analytics field. 

Business Suite, SAP's comprehensive enterprise transaction application, has been made generally available on the HANA in-memory database, a move that brings truly real time business very close to reality.

I think we can all agree that Google and other search engines are putting a very large emphasis on content development in 2013 and beyond. Better stated; want to show up better in search engines? Write more content!  

Ever try to search for an unfolding event on Twitter as it happens? Sometimes the results are not so great. When news breaks, Twitter doesn't always have the context it needs to fulfill those requests. Until now.

At first glance Roblox may seem like it's kid's stuff. But CEO and Founder David Baszucki sees the potential behind the online maker culture and is using analytics and game mechanics to make this company a household name.

Active Intelligence Company, Attivio has announced that it has been granted US$ 8 million in growth funding, its second grant in less than six months.

As the content landscape appears to be shifting toward mobile and social channels, websites are still considered by customers to be the most trustworthy of content sources. 

Infusionsoft, a marketing automation vendor, has announced it raised US $54 million from investment firm Goldman Sachs. The company will use the cash to continue focusing on small businesses with up to 25 employees.

Saying Goodbye to 2012
2012 was a year of great discussions. The views were varied and the ideas were thought-provoking. As you leave 2012 behind, take some time to look at the top Customer Experience, Social Business and Information Management articles of 2012 on CMSWire.

Digital Business in 2013
Much of the focus in 2012 has carried forward to this new year. It's not that things remain the same, it's that digital business has become even more critical than ever. You need to have the right strategies in place to succeed.

Key topics we'll explore this year continue to be social, mobile and the cloud. And you can bet we won't overlook the persistent love of "big data".

For those who focus on the internal aspects of social business, consider how putting HR at the forefront of social initiatives will drive employee engagement.

Thanks for being an ongoing part of our vibrant community in 2013!

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Featured Events (all events | post your event

• Jan 16 --Social Media Conference
• Jan 27 -- IBM Connect in Orlando
• Mar 04 -- Adobe Digital Marketing Summit
• Apr 18 -- Forrester's Forum for Marketing Leadership Professionals Los Angeles
• Apr 29 -- Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit San Diego

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Corporate Director, Digital Marketing at VSP Global
• Interactive Project Manager in New York at Bridgeline Digital
• Senior Managing Editor in Washington at Microsoft
• Senior PR Manager in Palo Alto at Cloudera
• Vice President of Data Center Operations in UK at Sophos

With the release of a new Forrester Research report, it's apparent we will be looking out for growth in the global tech market of as much as 3.3 percent this year -- with the U.S. market growing 7.5 percent.

The concept of SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) has evolved from a proof of concept to a technology platform that every IT department must take into account. Nucleus Research looked at key business pressures and the constant technology changes that every company struggles to manage, and we are betting on the following trends to SMAC companies upside the head in 2013.

It’s been a busy year in the information management space. With the year fast coming to a close we note a time of substantial change across the entire landscape which shows the increasing importance of social business, the lack-luster performance of the enterprise content management space and, like everywhere else, an increasingly speedy move to the cloud.

One of the biggest names in IT, Oracle, has announced it plans to purchase Eloqua, a cloud based Marketing Automation provider that had been positioning itself as a revenue performance management company.

“Big Data” was all the rage in 2012. Everyone from your company’s president, to President Obama to a passerby on Main Street had something to say about it. Whether any of them could actually define the term was another matter; not even the experts seem to agree on what it means.