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Four UK universities launch £3.5m supercomputing hub

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Hub aimed at driving economic growth in the Midlands and London
30 May 2012

HP: 27,000 job cuts by 2014, Mike Lynch to leave (NEW UPDATE)

HP's Meg Whitman
• 1,600 UK jobs in the firing line, says Unite. Autonomy founder Lynch to leave – bad decision, say analysts
23 May 2012

Customers expect us to use their data to target them, says Boots

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Retailer has adapted to customers’ higher expectations
23 May 2012

Big data analytics ‘needs segmentation’ says Hitachi CTO

More focused practice will increase data analysis value and keep costs down, claims vendor
22 May 2012

Endsleigh selects IBM Coremetrics to improve online sales

Insurer says fierce competition is driving need for web analytics solution
11 May 2012

Computing research: how and why big data has hit the mainstream

Exclusive Computing research explores how and why big data is here, and what UK organisations are doing to manage it effectively
10 May 2012

Opinion: Why Europeans are better at BI than Americans

IT leaders on this side of the Pond have nurtured a culture of user self-sufficiency, and are now reaping the benefits
19 Apr 2012

Analysis: SAP gears up for a database push

The software giant plans to use its HANA in-memory database technology as the spearhead of an ambitious assault on the wider database market
18 Apr 2012

Essential guide to carbon and energy management

Green IT was all about reducing the carbon footprint of the datacentre, but now companies are using software to help reduce emissions and energy consumption across the whole company
17 Apr 2012

Big data – big misunderstandings, big mistakes?


04 Apr 2012

Opinion: Why social analytics is a must for business

Firms that do not glean insights from social media data will be overtaken by those that do
21 Mar 2012

Knight Frank makes a home for Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Microsoft's brand-new database moves into estate agent chain
09 Mar 2012

Case study: Avon calls on business intelligence to tailor sales offers

Avon is reaping the rewards of integrating its data into functional warehouses, and implementing a suite of business analytics tools
13 Feb 2012

National Grid plans £3.5m data analytics project

Data will be visualised within a geospatial context
16 Jan 2012

Alerts, exploration and collaboration – the future of mobile BI


29 Nov 2011

Addleshaw Goddard ditches Google Analytics for BI from Trovus

The law firm is using the tool to formulate new marketing strategies
14 Nov 2011

Oracle boosts its big data credentials with NoSQL database release

Move complements Oracle's recent Endeca purchase
26 Oct 2011

IBM launches ‘Big Data’ analytics into the cloud

Big Blue offers BigInsights on its SmartCloud
24 Oct 2011

HP finally seals £6bn Autonomy buy

Data analytics deal confirmed despite market misgivings
04 Oct 2011

Enterprises need to enlist 'data scientists', says Teradata CTO

Stephen Brobst argues that skills are more important than the technology
04 Oct 2011

BI failing to help most business leaders to act decisively

Research revealed at Progress Revolution 2011 points to a lack of confidence when responding to critical information
21 Sep 2011

Big data part 2: technology

As the requirement for extracting information from huge databases of structured and unstructured data has grown, so technology has evolved to meet the demand
07 Sep 2011

Essential guide to big data: part1

Is ‘big data’ just another marketing bandwagon, or does it hold the promise of practical solutions to real business intelligence challenges?
07 Sep 2011

Big data part 4: analyst's view

IT must avoid the temptation to view big data as a point solution in its own silo
07 Sep 2011