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Analyst firm Gartner predicts enterprises adopting Big Data technologies will "outperform competitors by 20 percent in every available financial metric." Read Original Content
The U.S. Air Force has recruited a team of engineering and software companies to develop a new energy management system for Eglin Air Force Base in Florida that brings the benefits of big data to enhancing the military’s operating environment. Read Original Content
Adobe is now offering the Adobe Creative Cloud, which is a service that allows users to “subscribe” to popular programs like Photoshop for a monthly fee. The Creative Cloud allows you to download applications directly to your system, but you won’t need to be constantly connected to the Web for your programs to work. Read Original Content
While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect. To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.
This week Oracle will lay out plans to move deeper into the cloud-computing market. The expected announcements are set to include partnerships with Microsoft and Salesforce.com, two of Oracle’s biggest rivals, in a sign of how extensively the upheaval caused by the move to cloud computing is changing the tech landscape. Read Original Content
International Business Machines Corp. has agreed to buy SoftLayer Technologies Inc., in a deal aimed at beefing up the technology giant's efforts in cloud computing and taking on Amazon.com Inc. more directly in that fast-growing arena. Read Original Content
With Google announcing their social media reporting extension in Google Analytics, social media marketing experts can now see the financial value of their efforts. This is already pushing new trends into existence in 2013 and the face of social media SEO may soon change forever. Read Original Content
A survey of 150 federal IT executives conducted by Meritalk suggests big data has the potential right now to produce a smarter, more efficient government that could cut the $3.54 trillion federal budget by 14 percent, freeing up an extra $500 billion per year. Read Original Content
Gartner predicts the global cloud computing market will grow 18.5 percent this year to $131 billion, with business process-as-a-service accounting for the biggest chunk of that at 28 percent. According to Gartner's numbers, management, security and automation accounts for just 2.8 percent. Read Original Content
Mobile Data as a Competitive Advantage
Mobile Apps for Short-term Projects
Mobile Marketing, Business Analytics and Code Halos
Digital Transformation, Code Halos, Analytics and Mobility
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SMAC Expert Series: Paul Roehrig and Ben Pring
Whitepapers of Note
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Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
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