Gartner: SaaS market to grow 17.9 percent to $14.5 billion
Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 | Comments Off
Global spending on SaaS (software as a service) will rise 17.9 percent this year to $14.5 billion, according to figures released Tuesday by analyst firm Gartner.
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U.S. regulators push for online "do not track" system
Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 | Comments Off
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators are pressuring Internet companies to put in place by the end of the year a “Do Not Track” system that would give consumers more control over their personal data online, in a report released on Monday that privacy advocates dismissed as too soft.
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Microsoft seizes servers in Zeus cyberfraud
Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 | Comments Off
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp claimed a victory in efforts to combat online banking fraud, saying it had confiscated several servers used to steal login names and passwords, disrupting some of the world’s most sophisticated cybercrime rings.
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Office Live Small Business users fret over Office 365 transition
Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 | Comments Off
Many companies that rely on OLSB (Office Live Small Business) for their email and website hosting are complaining that a required transition to Office 365 or to a third-party hosting provider is too complicated for them to carry out and that Microsoft could be doing more to help them out as OLSB’s closure date fast approaches.
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SAS promises pervasive BI with new tool
Posted by on Mar 24, 2012 | Comments Off
SAS Institute this week unveiled new technology designed to allow a broad swath of enterprise users to do advanced analytics on massive volumes of data. The new Visual Analytics technology, part of the SAS High-Performance Analytics suite, allows business users to explore data gathered from corporate databases and the Web, and to generate easy to understand charts, graphs, dashboards and the like.
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Oracle prepares to update its analytics strategy and go after SAP customers
Posted by on Mar 24, 2012 | Comments Off
Oracle co-President Mark Hurd is scheduled to reveal new details about the vendor’s BI (business intelligence) and analytics strategy, including new applications aimed at SAP customers, during an event on April 4. Hurd will be joined by Balaji Yelamanchili, senior vice president of analytics and performance management, according to an announcement on Oracle’s website.
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Microsoft adds Git support to CodePlex repository
Posted by on Mar 24, 2012 | Comments Off
Responding to user demand, Microsoft now allows projects using its CodePlex open source code repository to use the increasingly popular Git version control system built by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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