The latest IT Tech Trends Survey is now open. We’re looking to hear what you feel are the major drivers and motivators in the tech industry right now. This year we’ve devoted a considerable chunk of the survey to investigating business analytics – its role…

At a recent business analytics event, Lennart Frantzell demonstrated how (at least at a practical level) there has been a shift in business computing from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Business Analytics: Using a healthcare example, Lennart explained how…

When I was growing up, election coverage was characterized by an exuberant political pundit leaping around large cardboard charts of the UK with the kind of coloring normally reserved for the weather report. The ‘exit polls’ we were familiar with only updated…

I’ve covered this before , but there is palpable excitement in the air as there are literally minutes before an IBM computer competes against Jeopardy all-time champion…

Techcrunch recently reported that Google (as the owner of YouTube) is looking at the purchase of Twitter-based movie recommendation site Fflick. Judging by the Fflick site today, this is more than just idle rumor: What are the implications for YouTube? On…

Over on the IBM Software Blog, Cognos Product Marketing Manager Brendan Farnand explains just

Let’s start with the obvious: this is the opinion of one mere human. Someone who would fail miserably at the US quiz show Jeopardy: it’s that ‘start-with-the-answer’ approach that just screws me up every time. Not being a native of this soil, I claim it’s just…

Crisis management is generally a costly business. Switching gears away from your forward-thinking strategy and pulling in resource to deal with issues not on the radar can really stymie growth and efficiency. Especially in the IT management space. In the…