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The weather finally turned hot this week in Europe, and it looks like it could fray tempers a bit as Oracle, SAP and IBM once again set upon a collision course -- this time over data management around e-commerce.

It took a while to figure it out from the press release, but IBM has upgraded its SmartCloud 2.1, which comes with a number of enhancements that is going to make working with Big Blue‘s cloud a lot easier, and to all appearances, a lot more productive.

This week, there have been a number of interesting releases, including haromon.ie’s app for document collaboration for SharePoint accessible on iPad, Halcyon has updated its document management software for IBM i, Sertifi is offering free e-signing in Salesforce and Accusoft offers cloud capture for Silverlight.

Big data is forcing marketers to evolve, but big vendors in the key interactive marketing space are still leading the way, according to the new Forrester Wave: Interactive Attribution Vendors , Q2 2012 report.

In an effort to expand its Smarter Commerce customer experience initiative, IBM is purchasing Tealeaf Technology Inc., a specialty provider of customer experience analytics software. Tealeaf’s software suite is designed to analyze online and mobile consumer interactions to detect patterns and issues.

IBM may be an old technology firm, but lately the company has been busy making sure it offers products that help organizations support the latest trends in enterprise technology. The company has announced a new set of integration offerings designed to help businesses easily connect their applications to all types of emerging content.

IBM’s computing in motion strategy has become a little more concrete. The company announced a “new” family of products, which it has termed Mobile Foundation, designed to provide businesses a comprehensive set of tools and services to manage and support their increasingly mobile enterprise environment.

IBM is getting ready to release some updates to its Web Experience Management (WEM) platform. While we can't give you details of what's to come, we can give you some perspective on IBM's approach to WEM and the customer experience.

IBM is the acquisition trail again despite disappointing results for Q1 released last week. The results fell around the European economy, not over IBM commercial strategy. The result is that it looks like it is to keep buying what it needs, this week’s Vivisimo acquisition being a case in point.

If you were to look at the business pages of any major newspaper in the past couple of days, you’d swear IT was in meltdown. The reactions to the Q1 figures for both IBM and Intel have pushed stock markets down. However, while the stockholders might not be getting what they want -- no tears shed here -- the IT areas that we know, love and like have all performed despite difficult times in Europe.

This week, there were a couple of acquisitions including the closure of the deal by Symantec to buy Nukona, which provides mobile data security, and IBM’s announcement that it will buy Varicent, which should help with compliance. Kroll released its biannual survey on health data compliance, while LockPath upgrades Keylight.

Web content management company TERMINALFOUR announced a new release of its web content management system (Web CMS), TERMINALFOUR Site Manager. Version 7.2 includes dozens of updates, big improvements to its integration features and better usability.

IBM continues to pursue its Big Data ambitions, this time with an upgrade to its flagship DB2 to v10 along with InfoSphere Warehouse 10 that integrates with Big Data systems and compresses data into tighter spaces.

SAS has upped the game in business analytics again with the release of its in-memory business intelligence product that offers easy visual representations of Big Data analytics quicker and more efficiently than its competitors -- at least, that’s what it’s saying.

Session retrospective from GigaOM’s Structure Conference

If you haven’t yet heard anyone say that “data is the new oil,” then you will pretty soon. Companies as varied as PayPal, Human Genome Sciences, IBM and Match.com are all drilling down into their data stores, refining and analyzing what they find, and then leveraging their insights to create new products or add value to those that already exist. They are literally turning data into dollars.