At its recent Business Analytics Summit, IBM dedicated a session stream to its social media analytics platform Cognos Consumer Insight, an offering that allows organisations to gain a deeper view on consumer attitudes and brand preferences. Given...

I’ve just returned from another lightning trip to the US—this time to take in PegaWorld, Pegasystems’ annual user conference. The company is currently publishing full-year revenue guidance of around $430m for 2011—up from...

For as long as the discipline of Enterprise Architecture has been around, it’s been a slippery beast. Some organisations have embraced the practice and concepts, and have become ardent evangelists of its power to improve the aggregate return...

TIBCO’s been through some tough times, but over the past year it’s started to really motor along. The acquisitions of Spotfire (analytics), Netrics (data matching), Data Synapse (grid and cloud computing infrastructure) have been...

Are you thinking of moving your email to the cloud? Or perhaps you have already made the switch? Whatever your position on cloud email—positive, negative or just interested—we’d like to invite you to take part in our Email in the...

Yesterday saw the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, and the replacement for its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). The product, which has been in public...