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Ask the average IT professional to name SAP’s claims to fame, and chances are they’ll tell you about its enterprise business applications such as enterprise resource planning (SAP ERP), enterprise data warehouse SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Objects and so on.

Last week, we saw that the worldwide growth in analytics revenues would be pushed by developments in big data, social business and mobile spaces. Running parallel to this, Gartner says growth will be in sales of business intelligence software.

The latest Gartner's Business Intelligence and Analytics Magic Quadrant portrays a mature market that has a wide variety of vendors mostly working on getting companies to move up from descriptive analytics to the next step of diagnostics.

As a precursor to its upcoming conferences in the US and Australia on actionable analytics, Gartner has just published a new research report that identifies three trends that will push users towards analytics adoption in the medium term.

This ain't Larry Ellison's locked down world. Unlike some other industry vendors, SAP isn't aiming to be the alpha and omega of Corporate IT. Instead the Enterprise application turned database platform provider chooses to focus on what it does best and builds deep partnerships with others in the stack.

IBM has announced the acquisition of Star Analytics, which in turn will give IBM more specialized and more efficient big data collection and analytics tools. 

Facebook is the model of customer acquisition, Alex Yoder, CEO of Webtrends said in his Webtrends Engage Conference keynote. Forty three percent of B2B businesses use it everyday. Social media is helping marketers find customers, but more importantly, close deals.

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.

In 2013, more companies will begin developing Hadoop-based applications for their most critical Business Intelligence (BI) tasks. That’s one of the predictions in Forrester Research’s crystal ball for BI in the new year.

SAP is endorsing the Sales and AdWatch cross-platform advertising sales and production solutions from cloud-based advertising,content management and publishing platform provider Mediaspectrum. This means the Mediaspectrum applications are complementary to SAP software and follow SAP development guidelines.

Business analytics provider Pentaho has released faster big data analytics and BI tools for the iPad with its Pentaho 4.8 suite.

SAP delivers efficient processing of massive data sets with real-time insights.

IBM has several announcements from its Information on Demand 2012 conference in Las Vegas this week, and as the name of the event implies, many are big data and BI oriented.