Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
In my previous posts on, I pointed out some good and some bad on the social media job front. A few asked what I thought social media jobs should look like, so I’ll do my best. But I’m not going to write this like a typical job description, because I think the content is more important than the format.Social media-exclusive (Read More)
New York Times:
SAS, the giant private company that specializes in business intelligence software, is facing new rivals, as well as free alternatives to some of its products..
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CNET News.com:
Silicon Valley start-up launches a hosted business intelligence application for optimizing heating and cooling systems to a given home. (Read More)
Barron's Most Emailed Today:
Teradata's talent for helping companies gain a competitive edge should fuel its growth as costumers ramp up spending on business intelligence. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Market Wrap-UpStocks closed down Friday, with energy prices and a broad slide in equities weighing on many exchange-traded funds, even as top-line growth brightened earnings reports.The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 108 points to 9972. The Nasdaq finished down 11 at 2154, and the S&P 500 ended down 13 at 1080.Microso (Read More)
Google Enterprise Blog:
Google recently sponsored a global, multi-industry research project surveying 1,125 IT decision-makers and their perceptions about cloud computing and the key drivers behind the growth of cloud-based IT solutions.We're sharing the results of the study in a new whitepaper: the Google Communications Intelligence Report. The f (Read More)
Submitted by Andydavies
from Google Reader:
Like all sane web organizations, we gather metrics about our infrastructure and applications. As many metrics as we can, as often as we can. These metrics, given the right context, helps us figure out all sorts of things about our application, infrastructure, processes, and business. Things such as…What:…did we do before (h (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
from Google Reader:
Two weeks ago I gave a presentation at the Sun HPCW workshop in beautiful Regensburg, Germany. It was a great chance to meet many of the folks from the Sun Grid Engine team face to face. It was also a great chance to take a step back and look at the evolution of one of the interesting areas in the industry - analytics. Eve (Read More)
Wired: Threat Level:
A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national department store, declassifi (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The stock market’s been climbing. Housing prices are on the rebound. But the job market? Like a bum on a bender, it still hasn’t hit bottom. Even as the Dow continued its impressive run-up in recent months, Americans were still losing jobs at the rate of 2,500 an hour. Looking for work? At last count, there were 14.5 millio (Read More)
Submitted by Nilsgrabbert:
Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Or do without." That adage from the Great Depression is making a comeback these days among corporations that are digging deep to maintain profitability using business tools they already have in-house.One of those companies is Creativity Inc., which two years ago was facing a serious threa (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
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TNI Technology is an international website and software design company with offices in: London, UK, Los Angeles, California, and Bangalore, India. We emphasize a personal and professional relationship with our clients starting with the initial understanding of client business and requirement. Whether you require e-commerce (Read More)
Submitted by Nilsgrabbert:
Once more I have decided to pen this article based on a question that was raised on LinkedIn.com. The group in question on this occasion was Business Intelligence and the thread was entitled Is it time that the CBIO (Chief Business Intelligence Officer) position and organization become commonplace in today’s corporate struc (Read More)
SmartMoney.com - Consumer Action:
The summer vacation season is coming to a close. Soon enough the kids will be back at school and you'll be back to the daily grind. Our writers have chosen several books to help you smooth that transition back to the "real world." All of the picks involve employment and careers -- both in real life and fiction. We have a lo (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
Chinese demand for industrial commodities has long been the defining variable in establishing global market prices for everything from alumina to zinc. The modern engine of global manufacturing has made great strides toward embracing freer markets, but its deep roots in its command economy have clouded global markets’ abili (Read More)