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Topic: Business Intelligence
Splunk adds risk scoring to latest Enterprise Security app
Machine data player Splunk has released version 3.1 of its Splunk App for Enterprise Security. The company said the latest app iteration enables faster threat detection with a new risk score feature, as well as simplified access to security analytics.
How Data and Analytics Can Help the Developing World
Data and Data Analytics, when use accordingly, may offer many opportunities to transform the developing world. read this article to learn about less know projects that make the world a better place.
Data Collection 101: Where Is Your Data Coming From?
Data verbiage is confusing at best, "Big data" is often misused and misleading. Learn what types of data your business should be aware of and what it really means.
Cybersecurity companies are treating you like an idiot. Here’s an alternative
Surfwatch Labs aims to provide small and medium businesses with tools to understand cyber threats and protect against them. His Saas provide big data security solutions.
CloudPhysics raises $15M to grow bigger
CloudPhysics is going into data Analytics. The company has developed software for data center servers monitoring and is now focusing on predictive analytics for vitual data centers...
Dropbox acquires data analytics startup Parastructure
Dropbox broadens expertise to data analytics and business intelligence with the purchase of Parastructure...
Intacct builds additional reporting capabilities into applications
The new dashboard, Called Performance Cards, helps visualize complex financial information... Read more
Sales Analytics
”Opportunity creation is way up. In fact, it's off the charts.” Better analytics. More accurate forecasts. It's every sales organization's dream app.
Big Data: What Is It Good For?
William Rand, assistant professor and director of the Center for Complexity in Business at the University of Maryland, has these tips to offer on how marketers can get the most out of Big Data.
LiveRamp: Acxiom's $310M Silver Bullet
LiveRamp deals in what's called customer relationship management, or CRM, data. While much data used in targeted advertising comes from Internet.
Is Your Data Quality Boring?
Data Quality is a human thing – that’s why its hard. As practitioners, we need to be communicators. Lead the thinking, identify the impact and deliver the value. Read more
You make it, we break it: CERN's particle smashers list their toughest tech challenges
CERN openlab is a partnership between CERN and IT companies including Intel and Oracle to develop new technology for scientific researchers. Read more
Big data can help you get more creative, too
More and more companies are finding themselves boosting their revenues or cutting costs by analyzing data. But that’s not all, folks. Big data tools can also help you think more creatively and spot genuine innovation.
DataPad emerges to let everyone at your company create and play with charts
DataPad demonstrated its cloud-based software for visualizing data at the Innovation Showdown competition at VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference in San Francisco.
Does Data Mining Require a PhD? Probably Not, But The New York Times Hired One
The New York Times is entering the race and their new data scientist has decades of experience unraveling the most difficult data sequence humanity has ever faced — that of our own DNA.
Microsoft, SAP Strengthen Ties With Mobile, Data, Cloud Partnership
The partnership involves 3 parts: The Cloud, Mobile and Data. Learn more
These 3 startups are using IBM’s Watson supercomputer (as a service)
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On Friday, IBM named three new partners in its burgeoning Watson initiative, following its decision to make Watson available as a managed service. Read more
ClientLogix CRM Inside of Microsoft Outlook – the new Xbar from SalesLogix | UNAPEN.com
A wide range of information and activities can be accessed, including interaction history, follow-up action items, leads generated from e-marketing campaigns, opportunity management, and more. Users can freely work with and modify the Saleslogix/ClientLogix information, taking actions and updating the information as necessary, all from within Outlook and without ever losing sight of their inbox.
Big Data, Analytics and Criminals
To a criminal, life must have seemed so much simpler before the advent of big data. Back then, if you weren’t caught red-handed at the crime scene, or your license plate wasn’t taken down as you made a speedy escape, you could probably feel safe....
Social media marketing analytics startup Shareablee raises $6M
The company’s software compares performance against competitors and makes its data easy to understand through charts and graphs.