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Anaplan CEO: What makes us smarter than Microsoft's Excel?

How may a business data modelling/ planning SaaS be useful to Finance, Sales and Operation with varying operation cycles? What is "hyperblock architecture?" What makes Anaplan's CEO think his software surpasses Microsoft's Excel and Access?
Carol Ko 06-May-2013

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NEC launches online-to-offline cloud-based marketing service

Aiming to convert online customer information into offline purchase decisions, the new cloud-based marketing tool helps retailers to target consumers with coupons, loyalty points and store information.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 06-Mar-2013

Revlon capitalizes on 3.6PB big data in private cloud

Revlon's private cloud infrastructure now runs more than 500 applications in a virtualized environment, and supports more than 15,000 automated application moves a month.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 06-Mar-2013

Rackspace: Big data and cloud were made for each other

Following the acquisition of ObjectRocket last week, Rackspace's senior executive in APAC explains the company initiatives in big data, how relevant is the use of cloud in big data analytics, and the value of using open source cloud to support big data analytics.
by: Carol Ko 06-Mar-2013

Intel distro for Hadoop to widen data analytics usage

Semiconductor giant Intel plans to enhance the Apache Hadoop platform for the widest range of uses, build the next-generation analytics solutions and eventually, ‘democratize big data analysis’.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 05-Mar-2013

OpenText builds enterprise cloud apps around EIM core

Many business leaders and CEOs are recognizing the urgency to leverage information assets, both inside and outside the enterprise, to achieve better business decisions and performance and increase the strategic value of IT, according to research firm Gartner.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 01-Mar-2013
Savvis helps businesses tap SAP HANA via cloud
Savvis’ global, subscription-based hosting services for the SAP Hana platform will enable global enterprises to gain real-time entry into the transactional and analytical database platform without having to own and maintain the infrastructure that supports it.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 01-Mar-2013
Rackspace acquires ObjectRocket for database-as-a-service
The inclusion of ObjectRocket's open source-based MongoDB solution will broaden Rackspace's OpenStack-based open cloud platform to offer NoSQL DBaaS, and expand Rackspace's big data capability in the cloud.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 27-Feb-2013
Salesforce.com launches cloud-based mobile customer service
Salesforce Service Cloud Mobile, which allows developers to write and deploy custom mobile apps, enables mobile co-browsing, mobile communities, mobile chat and touch-based agent interface.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 27-Feb-2013

Strategic application of storage I: Trends and implications

Business leaders continue to expect increased agility to use their data to do more things, more quickly and more affordably despite exponential growth in information volumes and a drastic shift in the volume of data to be managed and where those assets are to be stored.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 26-Feb-2013

Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies embarks cloud-based communications

For the first time in IFRC's history, all of its National Societies will have the ability to free up IT spending and time to focus more of their resources on the activities that are ultimately saving lives, said IFRC's Global CIO Edward Happ.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 26-Feb-2013