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	MapR extends Hadoop's reach with big data app gallery MapR Technologies, provider of the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop, added a new dimension to the big data market today with the launch of a Hadoop application gallery, which features ready-made big data utilities and applications for developers, administrators and analysts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Strategy Companion Corporation The Benefits of Modern BI This IDC white paper discusses the benefits of using BI tools that better address the needs of business users who perform analysis of data to inform decisions on a regular basis. The document compares modern offerings with traditional BI tools and discusses the benefits of self-service BI. Learn more In this Issue Oracle CEO Larry Ellison wades into the in-memory database wars Why health data is a big data challenge To make the most money as a software engineer, move to Switzerland Even data-driven businesses should cultivate intuition University CIO helps boost graduation rates with analytics Tableau adds story lines to visual reports Unix: Why you should love nmap Open data saves New York City drivers from parking tickets Making the clinical data warehouse relevant again Easy Web scraping with Import.io Gazzang buy gives end-to-end encryption for Cloudera Hadoop WHITE PAPER: Strategy Companion Corporation Why your organization can benefit from self-service BI This IDC white paper discusses the benefits of using BI tools that better address the needs of business users who perform analysis of data to inform decisions on a regular basis. The document compares modern offerings with traditional BI tools and discusses the benefits of self-service BI. Learn more Oracle CEO Larry Ellison wades into the in-memory database wars Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is taking the fight to IBM, Microsoft and SAP in the burgeoning in-memory database market with a new option the company says can deliver dramatic performance boosts without requiring changes to applications. Read More Why health data is a big data challenge There's no shortage of health data, and it's growing at a rapid clip, but experts in the field cite challenges around making that information useful, readable and relevant to the physicians and patients who need it most. Read More To make the most money as a software engineer, move to Switzerland New data reveals in which countries developers make the most money, and where they can most live like royalty Read More Even data-driven businesses should cultivate intuition The relationship between data and intuition -- the old 'gut feeling' -- is a complicated one. Read More University CIO helps boost graduation rates with analytics Brian A. Haugabrook, interim CIO at Valdosta State University in Georgia, deployed analytics tools that enable faculty and staff to identify students who need extra help. The effort paid off with higher graduation rates. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Go from Analysis to Action on your Desktop Learn how IBM Cognos® Insight, a breakthrough personal analytics tool, enables business managers to improve performance within their functional areas. It describes the software's core features and benefits, provides examples of several typical business applications and explains how Cognos Insight provides a growth path to enterprise analytics. Learn more >> Tableau adds story lines to visual reports The upcoming update of Tableau Software's flagship business-intelligence application includes the ability to add a narrative to a report, allowing authors to tell a story about the data being displayed. Read More Unix: Why you should love nmap Discovering hosts and services isn't just something that hackers do. A good sysadmin needs to work with an up-to-date view of the systems they manage or those they want to keep an eye on. Read More Open data saves New York City drivers from parking tickets Here's a great example of how making government data open can directly benefit you Read More Making the clinical data warehouse relevant again The clinical data warehouse used to represent what was wrong with healthcare IT: An incomplete data source that was siloed to boot. But Texas Children's Hospital has turned its data warehouse into a valuable tool for clinical and operational analytics. Read More Easy Web scraping with Import.io Want to quickly see and store federal IT jobs listings from USAJobs? Follow along as we simplify the process of pulling useable data from the website, using both illustrations and videos. Read More Gazzang buy gives end-to-end encryption for Cloudera Hadoop Cloudera will incorporate technology from its acquisition of encryption software provider Gazzang into Apache Hadoop so that industries with stringent security regulations can use the big-data processing platform. Read More
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