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Analytics: The key to competitive edge

Companies are failing to tap into valuable insights that could help them to achieve better business results.

The Gap: BI better in enterprise wide deployment

Smaller data marts cost less, but large implementations better in long run

How to improve business intelligence on a tight budget

You don't need new analytic tools to gain insight into your business. Here's how to make the most of what you've got.

Get more from your CRM investment with campaigns

Don't treat your software like a database

New approaches to customer relationship management

How marketing automation can help you

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Make your BI implementation cheap and effective

Advice and tips from those who know

University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer

University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer

College students are working on a tasty way to fight cancer and heart disease.

Making IT comprehensible to the board

Making IT comprehensible to the board

Business intelligence tools could get networks in tune with the rest of the organisation, says NetIQ director Ulrich Weigel.

Innovations that click with the business

IT can be crucial to helping companies innovate – if they go about it the right way. Michael Schrage, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells Gary Anthes how technology can be used to get more value from innovation

Supporting distributed data centres

Replication can be for data protection and also for testing against copied live data.

De-duplication reduces data by 20 times or more

Performance overhead can be a major downside with this technology.

Deduplication: Stop repeating yourself.

The idea is to eliminate large amounts of redundant data that can chew up disk space. Proponents also say it enables you to make more data available online longer in the same amount of disk.

Virtual databases: An alternative solution

PolyServe's cluster file system provides much better storage utilisation.

De-duping - a killer app

Avamar's Axion re-writes the rules on data de-duplication.

Databases at war

A small UK startup claims to have a simple AI-based defence with which to counter the dreaded SQL injection attack. So why does it take a startup to point out the obvious?

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