HP launches the first product from $12 billion purchase Autonomy-- IDOL 10, a next-generation data processing platform pulling information from both unstructured (audio, video, social media, email, web content) and structured (customer transaction logs, machine-based sensor data) sources. 

Autonomy says IDOL 10 allows organisations to "automatically process, understand and act on 100 per cent of their data in real-time." It uses resources from another HP purchase-- extreme structured data analysis specialist Vertica. 

HP offers 5 solution sets-- Read more...

The answer to the above question is "integration," according to a global survey from analyst THINKstrategies and cloud integration vendor Mulesoft.

88.8% of survey respondents (consisting of SaaS/cloud service providers) consider integration to be either important or extremely important in winning new customers, while 62.5% of vendors say integration "needs to be a critical part of their solution."

Vendors also identify integration as the most time-consuming element of the customer implementation process. 

“The results clearly show that leading Sa Read more...

Watch out, another heavyweight is about to enter the data aggregation and analysis software field-- General Electric plans to open a Global Software Centre at Biship Ranch, California. 

It will also employ 400 additional staff, from software architects and engineers to business development and user experience professionals. 

The move might come as a surprise from an industrial conglomerate best known for a commercial and industrial product portfolio including aircraft engines, medical scanners and light bulbs. Or does it? GE generates $2.5BN in yearly Read more...

Canalys predicts "enterprise app stores will redefine channel IT business over the next three years," while nearly 80% of EMEA channel partners taking part in a Canalys survey say SaaS is the key cloud opportunity. 

"Cloud is important, but is having a more limited impact than partners realize right now," the analyst continues, insisting the trends behind enterprise app stores are "much more fundamental" within a changing enterprise software landscape. 

A number of IT trends are driving the rise of the enterprise app store-- consumerisation (employees Read more...