436-SAP is tapping into two hot trends in business intelligence and analytics with the release of SAP Visual Intelligence, a desktop tool for advanced data visualization fed by the vendor's Hana in-memory analysis capabilities. Set to be introduced on Wednesday during a keynote by SAP CTO Vishal Sikka, Visual Intelligence adds a rich, desktop-client data-analysis tool to the heretofore server-based BusinessObjects Explorer product line.

408-Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6rnm4h/professional_share) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Professional SharePoint 2010 Cloud-Based Solutions" to their offering. An Authoritative Guide To Extending Sharepoint's Power With Cloud-Based Services If you want to be part of the next major shift in the IT industry, you'll want this book.

392-In Podium De Meester wordt eind deze maand de laatste editie gehouden van Woop!Woop! voor dit seizoen plaats. In de grote zaal voert Electro de boventoon en wordt de line-up aangevoerd door het Haarlemse duo Baskerville. De grote zaal wordt gecomplementeerd door het Almeerse talent Vuurdokter en de Henriques Ventura broeders. In de Warehouse-zaal staat de internationale techno artiest SQL.

431-Supports Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012, enabling self-service BI using production ERP data Tokyo and El Segundo, CA, May 16, 2012 - Fujitsu and its subsidiary Glovia International Inc. (GII) today announced the immediate release of a new version of glovia G2 that supports Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012(1). Glovia G2 is a production management ERP solution for manufacturers and is designed to support global production operations.

171-This Computer History Timeline is meant to provide a general overview of the famous people, inventions, discoveries and events involved in the development of the computer.

244-RESTON, Va., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Discover Technologies and Attivio have entered into a strategic partnership agreement to expand the use of Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine ® (AIE ®) within the US Government and Public Sectors.

267-Accellos, a leading provider of supply chain execution software solutions, today announced that they have certified their newest version of AccellosOne Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. "Our customers look to Accellos for guidance on their technology choices.

440-The addition of Extend Health's health insurance exchange technology infrastructure, call centers, and existing base of 75 carriers represented in its online marketplace will help Towers Watson--best known for workplace benefits and talent management consulting services--to expand its offering into helping clients provide their retirees with assistance in purchasing private health insurance, including supplemental Medicare health plans.

384-Steve Ballmer has probably faced more long-time criticism than any CEO in America. And now there's this: A Forbes writer rates him as the CEO who most deserves to be fired. Adam Hartung, a Forbes contributor, pulls no punches in why he believes Ballmer should be fired, writing in part: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today.

499-Compuware Simplifies Network and Application Performance for Multi-Tier Enterprise Applications");//]]-- Compuware APM Spring Release Converges Application and Network Performance to Tackle Data Center Complexity DETROIT, May 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation , the technology performance company, today announced new innovations in its Data Center Real User Monitoring solution that converges application performance management (APM) and network performance management (NPM) to tac

425-MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/15/12 -- Xeround, the Cloud Database Company, today announced the availability of their database-as-a-service for MySQL applications as an add-on for the AppHarbor .Net platform and for AppFog's PHP Fog PHP platform. Xeround's add-on provides .NET and PHP developers using these platforms with a zero-management, highly available and scalable cloud database solution in just one click.

494-Top five reasons why customers deploy Microsoft SQL Server on EMC VNX Unified Storage: Turbo-charge your database performance - EMC VNX FAST Cache solves the problem Save valuable time and money with automated tiering - DBAs look for database hot spots and configure storage tiers to eliminate them Built-in Data protection - EMC's application-aware replication technologies provide nearly instantaneous copies of your data Faster application deployment - EMC VNX unified storage enables you to

449-Mark Settle is chief information officer at BMC Software. IT organizations have conventionally operated under an 'own and operate' model in which they buy or build the hardware and software needed to construct essential business systems. The inevitable consequences of the 'own and operate' model are large data centers, 24×7 operations teams and small armies of developers maintaining systems built on a bewildering array of outdated technologies.

404-Bitcoin exchange site Bitcoinica suspended its operations on Friday after hackers managed to steal 18,547 bitcoins -- valued at about US$90,000 -- from its online wallet. The user database probably was compromised as well, Bitcoinica's administrators said in an announcement posted on the site's home page. The information stored in the database included usernames, email addresses and account histories.

199-The new Java release is designed to support enterprise-level deployments of real-time visual data analytics dashboards in capital markets, telecoms, energy, retail, logistics, and other applications.

363-VirtualSharp Software, the leading provider of next generation automated Disaster Recovery solutions for private and public clouds, today announced that its ReliableDR has been selected by Van Lanschot Bank Belgium to enhance the recovery time of its IT services supporting all business applications and seven terabytes of confidential customer and business data.

327-Evolution1â"¢, the nation"s largest electronic payment, on-premise, and cloud computing healthcare solution that administers reimbursement accounts " including HSAs, HRAs, FSAs, VEBAs, PRAs, and Wellness and Transit Plans " has been chosen by Plexis Healthcare Systems, Inc. as its preferred consumer-directed health Partner.

396-Panopticon Software the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that it has released a Java Server version of its popular EX data visualization system. 99 views 0 comments The new release adds compatibility with Java servers to the existing EX product suite, which up until now supported only .NET server environments.

391-These days "big data" is a hot topic, but in fact there are many issues around analysing high volume data, depending on the use case. Relational databases are very good at dealing with analysis of data that is well-structured and relatively stable, and column-oriented databases bring some advantages to many analytic use cases, partly due to their ability to allow greater data compression.