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Free advice to CIOs: speed your BI: your CEO and your users will thank you

Business intelligence is going through a major transformation, and it’s all for the best… except maybe for CIOs who must rapidly adapt to new technologies and new user requirements, with stagnant or declining budgets. The Big Data buzzword has thrown into the light a number of crucial BI needs for today’s business, including: – Greater Volume, as data growth is [...]

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Les utilisateurs de SAP prêts pour l’innovation

Malgré le contexte économique difficile, les utilisateurs de SAP en France entendent montrer leur dynamisme et leur volonté de mettre en oeuvre les conditions du redressement. Et cela passe par l’innovation, maître mot de la journée organisée aujourd’hui par le club des utilisateurs SAP francophones (USF). Alors que l’USF avait adopté le thème du Big Data l’an passé, le thème [...]

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Le numérique à l’Education nationale: passons de la consommation à la production

“Faire du numérique une chance pour la jeunesse.” Voici un objectif louable, souhaitable, même, annoncé dans la “Feuille de route du Gouvernement sur le numérique“. Des buts et des dates butoirs sont définis, pour obtenir des diplômes nationaux via des formations en ligne, former 3000 jeunes par an aux métiers du numérique, former 150 000 enseignants aux usages pédagogiques du [...]

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Sopra et HR Access: un joli coup, mais de nombreux challenges en perspective

Sopra qui rachète HR Access, cela mérite les félicitations d’usage. Mais aussi un certain nombre de réflexions sur la nature de ce rapprochement et sur les perspectives d’avenir. Pour un analyste, habitué à réfléchir en termes d’opportunités et de menaces, cette transaction soulève en effet de nombreuses questions. La cession en elle-même de HR Access par le fonds Fidelity n’est [...]

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Big Data is not a sinecure for big vendors

Every vendor in the data management space does Big Data. Or, at least, everybody talks about it, even when they don’t do much. Analysts firms, like PAC, comment on each vendor’s strategy, and produce rankings and market shares especially of the large vendors. Yet, these rankings may not be aligned with the considerable mindshare among open source and startup vendors [...]

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La transition numérique du secteur public mènera forcément au Cloud

Cloud et secteur public ne sont pas antinomiques. Dès aujourd’hui, de nombreuses organisations publiques françaises – collectivités locales et territoriales, établissements éducatifs, établissements de santé – ont déjà mis en œuvre des solutions de type SaaS, pour des raisons très pragmatiques. De la même façon que les entreprises ont externalisé les fonctions non « cœur de métier », les établissements publics, auxquels [...]

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Companies don’t want Big Data. (They want business outcomes)

2013 will be the year of Big Data. You may have heard this, too. And up to a certain point, it’s true: with the number of PoCs we’ve seen this year, 2013 will indeed be the year of many Big Data deployments. But certainly not at the rate vendors and systems integrators would have hoped for. The reason is simple: [...]

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IT services providers: think different, think Enterprise App Stores

It has today become commonplace to say that Cloud computing has a disruptive effect on all the players of the IT landscape. Telcos are increasingly pushing their IT offerings, software vendors wonder if they should go on the SaaS path and how they should do it, and IT services providers often see the SaaS momentum as a very bad news, [...]

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IBM is making social business a reality

« Social business » has been around for a while in IBM events and presentations. Big Blue has even nominated Sandy Carter, who previously led the marketing around SOA, as a “socbiz” evangelist. And if you follow her on Twitter, you can see how serious she is about being social! But when it comes to the products, social business did [...]

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SAPPHIRE wrap-up: SAP places big bets on cloud, mobility and in-memory

SAP just faced a stiff challenge, with its last week SAPPHIRE in Madrid: how to galvanize a huge user conference when you have basically nothing new to announce. It went pretty well, though. By communicating heavily around the four strategic areas it is focusing on and (importantly) actually delivering, SAP provided a nice picture. The four areas are: the core [...]

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