By Evangelos Simoudis on November 3, 2011
Last week, I spoke at IBM’s Information on Demand conference about big data and Watson. I also moderated a panel discussion on the initial applications being developed using the technology developed for Watson. Below is the annotated and properly hyperlinked text of my presentation. Data is emerging as an extremely valuable asset; some even characterize […]
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By Jason Busch on October 20, 2011
Earlier this week, Oracle announced it had entered into an agreement to buy Endeca. For those in the procurement, supply chain and manufacturing worlds who don’t know Endeca, you should. They represent what Spend Matters believes is a …
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 28, 2010
BI Solutions Must Address The Information Management Matrix A confluence of changing business requirements and on-going vendor consolidation leads many organizations to rethink their business intelligence (BI) strategies. Many buyers face decisions to move beyond departmental solutions or to stay with an integrated apps based BI solution. Meanwhile, some buyers must decide whether or not […]
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By Zoli Erdos on April 26, 2010
Recently I wrote about the evergreen Best-of-breed vs. Integrated All-in-One Suite debate again, arguing: Call me “old school”, but I also believe in the value of having one tightly integrated system for most business needs, and I believe it’s true not only for large corporations but much smaller businesses. I don’t have CIO’s to back […]
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By Zoli Erdos on April 14, 2010
The evergreen Best-of-breed vs. Integrated All-in-One Suite debate is back again. This will be a somewhat long post, so let’s sit back and start with some entertainment first. Episode 2, “Suites Are Sour” is from the mini-series SuiteMates, which I admit I find hilariously entertaining, albeit rather pointless. Why? It’s run by supply chain solution […]
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