Information Age: News, analysis & insight for IT & business leaders

Company Analysis in Information Management

Oracle throws big iron at big data

 24 October 2011

The new Big Data Appliance is Oracle's foray into the Hadoop distro wars, one of the key battlefronts in enterprise IT

NetApp casts itself as EMC’s storage rival

 26 September 2011

Vendor portrays storage market as two horse race, although its larger competitor begs to differ

Huddle throws down the gauntlet to SharePoint

 14 June 2011

UK online collaboration start up sets itself in direct competition with Microsoft's market leading software

Satalia aims to become the iTunes of algorithms

 26 April 2011

UK start-up's ambition is to connect academia with industry through online marketplace for cutting-edge algorithms

Microstrategy predicts the autocracy of BI

 18 April 2011

Michael Saylor on why the iPad finally puts business intelligence into the hands of the decision makers

QlikTech uses IPO cash to expand globally

 14 October 2010

Swedish BI software vendor aims to follow up its initial public offering with expansions into Asia and mobile working

Teradata enjoys healthy appetite for analytics

 13 September 2010

Business intelligence software vendor Teradata's recent success is evidence of organisations' willingness to invest heavily in analytics

OpenGamma aims open source model at financial markets

 19 August 2010

The UK-based start up has built a analytics and risk management platform for financial trading

Dancing with elephants

 18 August 2010

Database technology veteran Michael Stonebraker on why his latest venture is an open source, in-memory, transactional database

Talis sees semantic web penetrate the enterprise

 17 August 2010

Library software provider's decision to branch out into 'linked data' is beginning to pay off, says chief technology officer Ian Davis

Jaspersoft and Pentaho show commercial software’s open source future

 18 June 2010

The business intelligence space is unusual in that it has two established open source suppliers. The terms on which they compete may be the blue print for the future of the software industry

Pega acquisition unites process management with CRM

 16 April 2010

A business process management vendor seeks to capitalise on the concept of managing the customer relationship as a process

MDM key to IT recovery, acquisitions suggest

 12 February 2010

Master 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

UK data quality provider Datanomic celebrates fourth year of triple digit growth as businesses wrestle to make sense of their oceanic supplies of data

oneDrum’s bold bid to sew the fabric of collaboration

 19 January 2010

Even as IBM showcases its online collaboration suite, one UK start-up hopes to bring cloud-like collaboration to traditional applications with peer-to-peer technology

Information Age Poll

Have your vote on current issues
Do you support 'bring your own device'?



Financial Results in Information Management
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
M&A 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
     
More M&A in Information Management

White Papers

Read article

'Think Lean' When Developing Management System Documentation

Learn how to efficiently and effectively implement a document management system for your organization.

Read article

11 Hiring Trends for 2011

In this document, you'll get the insider info you need to give potential employers what they want and beat your competition in 2011. You'll learn about the most valuable certifications and the game-changing skills that can lead to more job security and stability.

Read article

12 Hiring Manager Secrets to Getting the IT Job You Want

Learn how you can make yourself a more attractive candidate now with PrepLogic's free 12 Hiring Manager Secrets to Getting the Job You Want.

More

Also in this channel

Is open data under threat?

Perspectives & Trends

Many advocates of open data were dismayed by developments in 2011

Open data consultation finds widespread privacy fears

News

Privacy was a 'recurring theme' in the responses to the UK government's "Making Open Data Real" consultation, Cabinet Office reveals

ICO serves Scottish council with record £140k fine

News

Midlothian Council posted details of children in care to wrong recipients on five occasions in as many months, prompting ICO's largest ever penalty

US Smart Grid projects failing on security

News

Report reveals that around a third of US Smart Grid projects that have received Department of Energy funding did not meet security requirements

EC reveals data protection reform proposals

News

Reforms seek to unify data protection laws across member states and introduce new obligations for businesses

Advertisement
Video ORSYP Survey Surveys