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

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.

Big Data. Faster infrastructure. Falling costs. Mobility. Social media. CIOs at John Hancock, Shopzilla and other organizations say these IT trends are transforming how their companies process data to gain valuable business intelligence.

While most of the talk around big data assumes such systems will be deployed in-house, Google is building a service that will allow for analyzing large amounts of data in the cloud.

IBM has introduced a series of new predictive analytics software and services for reducing fraud, managing financial performance and delivering the next best action. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced new consulting services and software that take the power of predictive analytics to new levels for C-suite decision makers. The new analytic offerings address the emerging opportunities of Big Data to manage financial operations, decrease fraud and nurture next-gener...

Despite the growing interest in big data platforms, it may be some time before organizations will be able to deploy a standardized big data software stack, concluded a panel of speakers Wednesday during a virtual panel hosted by GigaOm.

For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

SAP on Tuesday further expanded the reach of its HANA in-memory database, announcing that HANA now supports the 10.0 version of its BusinessObjects financial planning and consolidation application running on NetWeaver.

Enterprises that are thinking about big data need to realize that it isn't just about analytics of vast amounts of data but also how that information is stored, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said during a keynote at the Cebit trade show.

Twitter plans to make itself more user friendly and will add analytics tools to help companies track what customers and competitors are saying in Tweets, according Mike Brown, director of corporate development at Twitter.

IT professionals are scrambling to get trained and certified in what's expected to be the hottest new high-tech skill for 2012: Hadoop.