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During the recent MicroStrategy World (Amsterdam, July 2012), the company’s CEO Michael Saylor wooed us all with a passionate speech about how mobility will change the way we live and learn. And there is no question that mobility will be a major game changer for big data, business intelligence and business analytics. At the same […] Read more »
The Cloudforce Social Enterprise Tour landed in London last week, and was an instant success with more than 14.000 registrants. An impressive number for a company that has only been active in Europe for 10 years. The following details were shared and give a ball park of Salesforce.com’s European activity: Salesforce.com is recruiting for 750 […] Read more »
Most weather forecasts institutions run weather models that deal with a lot of data. But they are not really good at predicting the weather. For all the hardware power, the sophistication of the models and increased use of more and different data, forecasting the weather has not improved a lot. The atmosphere is such a […] Read more »
For decades analysts have discussed the success of the IT industry and the brilliance of IT developments; all from a technology point of view. But the IT industry’s success is fading and, fueled by M&A, it is clear that it is quickly becoming a very mature sector where it is all about share and hardly […] Read more »
With over 140 million tweets a day and more than 300 million people logging into Facebook on a daily basis, we can state that social media is widely used and adopted by both consumers and enterprises. Now that vendors have organized, formalized and set up social media guidelines (e.g. Cisco and Intel) they are going […] Read more »