Adapta: Enterprise solutions press review (ERP, SCM, CRM, BI, Web2.0)

Analytics and business intelligence will be the top technology priorities for CIOs this year, according to Gartner Inc.'s annual survey of IT executives.

CIOs have the opportunity to drive the discussions about external- and internal-facing social business strategies, and a close look reveals that, in fact, the two are really inextricably entwined. The real question to ask now is: Do “sanctioned” social media and mobility solutions handed down from within an organizational hierarchy stand any hope of being embraced productively and enthusiastically by an enterprise workforce? - Anyone whos been paying attention knows that social media, big data, cloud computing and mobility are colliding in the enterprise, transforming the way we live and work. Along the way, these factors are raising a host of challenges for the IT organization, as well as the governance and complianc...

A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?

Oracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP's HANA platform.

Open-source BI (business intelligence) vendor Jaspersoft wants its software to become another arrow in the quiver for developers using commercial PaaS (platform-as-a-service) offerings.

Oracle made a splash on Tuesday when it announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance, but the company also quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, another new member in its family of specialized hardware-software appliances and a likely competitor to SAP's HANA product, suggesting that a general-availability announcement for that product is imminent.

Oracle's Big Data Appliance product, which shipped Tuesday, gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache Hadoop open source technology.

LexisNexis has worked for more than a decade to develop a large scale system for Big Data manipulation, and it believes that it has produced something that's better and more mature than the better known Hadoop technology.

Orlando Macic coaching staff will use SAS software tools for automated reporting and analysis of game statistics.

Hadoop creator Doug Cutting says he expects the surge in interest in the big-data storage and analytics framework to continue.