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Ad serving technology on mobile devices continues to be disrupted, and companies like Facebook and Google are no doubt hard at work on this very problem. Meanwhile, SAS has teamed up with a company called Pinger to use the SAS Intelligent Advertising for Publishers platform to improve the Pinger call and text app.

The first real look at Big Data analytics of the year comes in the shape of a new Forrester Wave report. The space may still be dominated by IBM and SAS but it appears that 2013 is going to be a year with some serious competition with a substantial number of strong performers jostling for a place in the Leaders category.

The Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (EGRC) market has been evolving steadily since it emerged eight years ago. It has now matured to such a point that, according to Gartner’s recent Enterprise GRC Magic Quadrant, the key differentiators are the delivery of advanced risk management functionality. Running straightforward GRC components is no longer enough to make the cut.

Quite a bit of movement this week in GRC, including the release of the upgrade to SAS’s GRC solution, the acquisition of BWise by NASDAQ OMX, Microsoft patches up another bunch of vulnerabilities, Clearwater expands its reseller program and Daegis offers free tools for calculating e-Discovery costs.

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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.

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.

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This week in the GRC space, Symantec upgrades its offerings for mobile security, EMC announced that it is moving into the security space, Agiliance adds new connectors, SAS offers Big Data access using Hadoop and Centrix upgrades workspace.

After hitting on Business Intelligence, IaaS and Web Content Management, Gartner next takes on Marketing Resource Management with its Magic Quadrant series. Spotlighting vendors who are Leaders, Niche Players, and Visionaries, the latest edition underscores companies with the best ability take advantage of their resources, solidify a vision and show off their assets. Here’s some insight on the current market along with a breakdown of those running the show.

Earlier this week we saw that increasing enterprise demands for different kinds of business intelligence is stretching vendors to come up with software that will keep business users happy. The result is a software space that is currently characterized by innovation and change, according to Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence 2012.

In recent months, the Facebook team has been on a quest to pack more information into the homepage. The latest composition removes the Most Recent tab from the news feed and replaces it with a real-time activity feed inside the Chat sidebar, slamming users with more information whether they like it or not. 

There have been a number of new releases recently in the GRC space, with SAS upgrading its GRC suite, QUMAS offering document and records compliance in SharePoint, GRC monitoring for social media from SocialLogix, while Symantec adds to its SaaS offering. New research for Bloomberg also shows that enterprises are moving to hosted email for compliance reasons.

This week, Big Blue released its semiannual risk assessment report identifying where the greatest external risks are coming from, as well as offering upgraded help for the problem; we took a look at SharePoint records management again; SAS offered help in the health sector while HP offered compliance through information management.