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More big data goodness on the IBM SmartCloud. This time, the result is an increase in the speed of reporting and analytics as well as the availability of SAP’s in-memory database the SAP High Performance Analytics Appliance (SAP HANA), and at the core of the announcement, its new BLU Acceleration technology.

Over the last two years, Gartner considers the ecommerce space to still be dominated by the same leaders named in its last Magic Quadrant report, namely IBM, Oracle and hybris.

“Social business” has become a popular buzzword, but what are the processes and best practices that successful social businesses use to boost profits, decrease expenses and increase customer satisfaction? A new report from IBM aimed to find out. 

What roles do social technologies play in facilitating collaboration? A new study by Avanade showed a large, but untapped opportunity to fully adopt and leverage social technologies for collaboration at work. 

It's been a busy week in the social business space with Yahoo!'s acquisition of Astrid, Asana's upgraded task-management capabilities, and IBM extending its business process management software for social business.

IBM has announced a new partnership with customer intelligence vendor BlueKai for tag management. Through the partnership, BlueKai will integrate its Data Management Platform with IBM’s tag management solution, Data Digital Exchange (DDX), which is part of IBM’s Digital Analytics suite. 

IBM’s Smart Planet strategy has been a work in progress for the past five years. This week, it adds another piece to it in the shape of MessageSight, which IBM describes as a cornerstone of the whole Smart strategy.

In a subtle shift from the days in which content was king, the International Data Corporation semiannual Software Tracker published this week reaffirms what we are now seeing on a daily basis -- that data is king. In this scenario though, data access and analytics software is the king-maker and this report makes that clear.

Nobody wants to spend days or even weeks on app development, but for the biggest companies, this is often the reality. IBM is looking to speed up that timeline with the purchase of UrbanCode, a company that automates software development.

If you’re not clear why IBM figures are so important for the IT industry, then the Q1 figures that have just been released should explain. Despite a good start to the year, its revenues plummeted by 5% as its hardware business took a hammering and it failed to close off a number of multi-million dollar sales.

I've covered the Forrester Wave for Web Content Management, looked at the Leaders and the Strong Performers and talked about the WCM market's evolution overall. This last piece looks at the contenders and asks a question that I expect many might be asking.

Enterprise technology provider IBM is unveiling new data acceleration and Hadoop technologies it says will make analyzing volumes of big data faster and easier.

As companies adopt new tools to help turn themselves into social businesses, why not build on the digital tool everyone already uses -- email? That’s the question IBM must have been asking, and this week it announced “the industry’s first fully integrated social mail solution.” 

It seems that the economic problems in both the US and Europe are also hitting the IT services market hard with the lowest number of IT servicing contracts signed last year since 2002.

You can build the future, you can buy the future, or you can do both. Nearly all of the world’s big tech companies choose the latter. And it’s not that they lack the ability to be innovative or hire the best talent, but because as EMC Chairman Joe Tucci says, “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.”