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Data Democracy: Ready to Transform Business

Data Democracy: Ready to Transform Business

By Robert Duffner on January 30, 2015

The barriers that have stood between business data – and the true value it holds – are finally coming down. Access to data is finally being democratized within organizations. The access costs and operational and IT silos are coming down, and for the first time any collaborative team, virtually anyone in an organization can get […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics, big data, cloud, data democracy, data science, Data warehouse, Featured, Predictive analytics

Dreamforce '14 Developer Keynote: The Big Reasons to Reserve Your Seat Now

Dreamforce ’14 Developer Keynote: The Big Reasons to Reserve Your Seat Now

By Quinton Wall on September 24, 2014

On the fence about whether the DF ’14 developer keynote is for you? The developer keynote is for anyone who wants to create new apps, or extend and customize their existing salesforce implementation. Reserve your seat now before they sell out!

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged #df14, developer, dreamforce, Featured, platform, salesforce

How to Really Solve a Problem with a Mobile App

How to Really Solve a Problem with a Mobile App

By Quinton Wall on May 5, 2014

While the sheer number of mobile devices in the marketplace is growing in a staggering way, what’s truly important to understand isn’t how many people have phones. It’s what the devices can do that’s really game changing. With computational power greater than NASA used to put a human on the moon, developers and app builders […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged Featured, IT, mobile app

FREE E-BOOK: 10 Essential Elements of Great Enterprise Mobile Apps

FREE E-BOOK: 10 Essential Elements of Great Enterprise Mobile Apps

By Quinton Wall on April 17, 2014

Mobile devices, whether you’re talking about smart phones, tablets, or other form factors, present unique development and design challenges. The kind of information, the actions you can take, the way the interface looks and works, needs to be fundamentally different in a mobile environment. Which is why, at salesforce.com, we’ve identified what we believe are […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged Featured, IT, platform

Cloud Strategy for Financial Markets and Exchanges

Cloud Strategy for Financial Markets and Exchanges

By Joel York on August 23, 2011

The three largest US exchanges, NASDAQ, NYSE and CME Group have all recently announced significant cloud initiatives, but financial markets as a group have been slow to get on the cloud bandwagon. Too slow given the potential benefits to their customers and their own needs to increase revenue, market transparency and competitive advantage.

Posted in Featured Posts, General | Tagged cloud computing, CloudBulls, CME Group, exchanges, Featured, Market Data, NASDAQ OMX, NYSE

Want to Meet One of the Most Social People in Social Business?

Want to Meet One of the Most Social People in Social Business?

By Mark Fidelman on August 10, 2011

There are others with more followers, others with more Klout, others that tweet more, others that have written a book.  Others that are more popular, others with more buzz, others that run bigger communities and others with larger networks. But none that have a multi-channel, multi-category social dominance like Tristan Bishop.  If you only followed […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, enrique salem, enterprise 2.0, Featured, Klout, Social Business, symantec, Tristan Bishop

NASDAQ OMX Serves Big Historical Stock Data from the Cloud

NASDAQ OMX Serves Big Historical Stock Data from the Cloud

By Joel York on April 26, 2011

Every day automated trading creates mountains of historical stock data that traders must store and manage for trade execution, compliance, and modeling trading strategies. You’d think it would all be on the cloud already, but it isn’t.

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Algorithmic trading, big data, cloud computing, CloudBulls, Featured, financial services, Market Data, NASDAQ, NASDAQ OMX | 1 Response

The Top 30 Most Respected Venture Capitalists (infographic)

The Top 30 Most Respected Venture Capitalists (infographic)

By Mark Fidelman on February 2, 2011

A guide for Entrepreneurs There is a lot of content created by the Venture Capital community that has helped countless entrepreneurs.  In fact, one of my favorites is How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs. I recently stumbled upon the article again and it reminded me of an article I’ve been meaning to write for my entrepreneurial […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Andreessen Horowitz, ben horowitz, brad feld, dan rua, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Featured, first round capital, Foundry Group, grp partners, Infographics, marc andreesseen, mark suster, roelof botha, startups, vc funding, venture capital | 36 Responses

The Top 25 Hottest Mobile Game Developers (Infographic)

The Top 25 Hottest Mobile Game Developers (Infographic)

By Mark Fidelman on January 17, 2011

A Guide for Consumers and Brands Gartner estimates the Mobile Game market will reach $11.4 billion by 2014.  That’s a big number.  Compare that with 2010 Video Game  and Movie Box office receipts which have revenues of $18.58 million and $10.16 billion respectively. Mobile games are going to be an increasingly important market.  Further, as mobile […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged EA Mobile, Featured, Gameloft, India Games, Infographics, John Riccitiello, Michel Guillemot, Mikael Hed, Miscellany, Rovio Mobile, Vishal Gondal

Does Every Company Need a Robert Scoble? (infographic)

Does Every Company Need a Robert Scoble? (infographic)

By Mark Fidelman on January 5, 2011

What I learned in 2010 can be summed up in one individual Except for reading the occasional year end articles (notables include Kotadia, Maggie Fox, McAfee) I typically skip the tradition of trying to summarize an entire year in 10 bullet points. The Enterprise 2.0/Social Business space is just too dynamic with many starts, stops […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged building 43, corporate evangelist, evangelism, facebook, Featured, flickr, hutch carpenter, Infographics, Klout, Miscellany, Quora, rackspace, ray wang, Robert Scoble, scobleizer, twitter | 6 Responses

Business Analytics on the Samsung Galaxy Tab

Business Analytics on the Samsung Galaxy Tab

By Guest Authors on November 18, 2010

Earlier this week, I had a quick chance to use the new Samsung Galaxy Tab — the first serious tablet rival to the iPad — and check out its analytic / business intelligence capabilities. The device runs Android 2.2, which supports Adobe Flash, so the first thing I tried was a couple of dashboards suitable […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged All, Analytics, android, business analytics, Business Intelligence, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Dashboards, Featured, Galaxy Tab, google, html, ipad, itunes, Mobile BI, Samsung, sap, tablet, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius

BI OnDemand Wins Best of SaaS Award

BI OnDemand Wins Best of SaaS Award

By Guest Authors on November 15, 2010

Founder of the SaaS Showplace web site, THINKstrategies has an award program to recognize SaaS companies who are delivering solutions which produce measurable business benefits for their customers, including increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability. SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand has just been named the latest winner of the award: […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise | Tagged All, award, BI, business analytics, Business Intelligence, BusinessObjects, Featured, OnDemand, saas, salesforce.com, sap | 1 Response

Another Step for Google into Business Analytics? EIM with Google Refine 2.0

Another Step for Google into Business Analytics? EIM with Google Refine 2.0

By Guest Authors on November 11, 2010

A new version of Google Refine has been announced, a tool designed to cleanse and integrate “messy” data. How does it fit into the corporate notion of enterprise information management?

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged 2.0, All, business analytics, BusinessObjects, Data Cleansing, Data quality, EIM, Enteprise Information Management, ETL, Extraction, Featured, google, Information Management, Joins, linking, Real-World, Refine, sap

Why Are Business Analytics Important? Because You Think You’re a Better Than Average Driver

Why Are Business Analytics Important? Because You Think You’re a Better Than Average Driver

By Guest Authors on November 10, 2010

Why are analytics important? Because 93% of us think we’re better than average drivers. This cognitive bias means that we’re overconfident in our decisions — and hence under-invest in the business analytics systems, processes, and culture that can lead to fact-based decision making.

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged All, Analytics, business analytics, Business Intelligence, Cognitive Bias, Featured, illusory superiority

Great Analytic Dashboards on the BlackBerry PlayBook

Great Analytic Dashboards on the BlackBerry PlayBook

By Guest Authors on November 8, 2010

Corporate tablet alternatives to the iPad are now on the horizon.
At the recent Adobe Max 2010 conference, Mike Lazardis demonstrated SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards running on the brand-new Adobe-Flash compatible BlackBerry PlayBook.

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged 2010, adobe, All, Analytic, BI, business analytics, Business Intelligence, BusinessObjects, Dashboards, Featured, innovation, Innovation Center, ipad, iphone, Max, PlayBook, RIM, sap, tablet | 1 Response

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