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Navigating eDiscovery
A predicted boom in litigation and regulatory cases, together with heavy bills from legal outsourcers, is fuelling the rise of eDiscovery technology as companies take matters into their own hands
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News
Google '99.9% certain' on China exit
15 March 2010Search engine company draws up plans for closure of Chinese operation, press report claims
- SAP launches on-demand business intelligence suite 25 February 2010
- EC launches antitrust probe into Google
24 February 2010 - EC gives Oracle go ahead to buy Sun 21 January 2010
IT Case Studies
Deutsche Börse reduces risk with open source
12 March 2010Deutsche Börse Systems employed open source software and open standards to accelerate access to trading risk calculations
- Beating the bullies – with statistics 18 February 2010
- Future prospects 17 February 2010
- Business intelligence helps BAT reach global understanding 3 February 2010
Perspectives & Trends
Should businesses put a price on privacy?
19 March 2010
Experts react to the Information Commissioner's proposal that business place a financial value on their customers' privacy
- Confidence in planning and reporting grows
22 January 2010 - Social media's untapped potential 14 January 2010
- Challenge of deriving meaning from data unbowed by recesssion 14 January 2010
Features
The open enterprise
10 December 2009Social and technological change is forcing business to become more transparent
- Intelligent moves 18 November 2009
- From data to insight 18 November 2009
- Reality check 14 September 2009
Company Analysis
MDM key to IT recovery, acquisitions suggest
12 February 2010Master data management (MDM) is poised to become one of 2010’s critical technologies, as reflected in January’s acquisition activity
- Information explosion drives explosive growth for Datanomic 27 January 2010
- oneDrum’s bold bid to sew the fabric of collaboration 19 January 2010
- Information Management Innovation Award 10 December 2009
| Company | Period | Revenue ($m) | Rev Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Isaac Corp | 1Q09 | $163.5 | -14% |
| Nuance Communications Inc | 1Q09 | $216.8 | 11% |
| SPSS Inc | 4Q08 | $74.1 | -7% |
| Teradata Corp | 4Q08 | $493.0 | 6% |
| Beta Systems Software AG* | 4Q08 | $122.0 | 2% |
| Actuate Corp | 4Q08 | $33.2 | -15% |
* Figures converted to US dollars
More Financial Results in Information Management| Acquirer | Target | Price ($m) |
|---|---|---|
| Informatica | AddressDoctor | n/a |
| Affiliated Computer Services | Xploite's Anix sub | 31.5m |
| Open Text | Vignette | $310m |
| Datamonitor | Brown-Wilson Group | n/a |
| Oracle | Sun Microsystems | $7.4bn |
| Oracle | Relsys | n/a |
Research
Business Applications Innovation Award
BravoSolution's e-procurement tool won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Business Applications Category
Security Innovation Award
Websense took the Information Age Innovation Award for the Security category for its integrated approach to web, email and data security
Data Centre Innovation Award
Digital Realty Trust won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Data Centre category for developing a set of standard for building sustainable data centres
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