Tony Baer, senior contributing editor (tbaer@tbaer.com)
Articles
It’s a pattern: SAS buys text mining specialist Teragram
Extending its coverage from statistical to text analytics, business intelligence (BI) specialist SAS Institute has acquired Teragram, a 40-person organization based in Cambridge, Mass. The deal, which brings SAS the kinds of natural language analytic tools it has lacked, will allow the company to first focus on analytic applications targeting customer touch points, such as warranty and afterma...
SOA virtuoso IDS Scheer unveils process governance road map
By year's end, IDS Scheer will roll out a new engine that will provide what the business process management (BPM) specialist calls “the missing governance link” in the business process life cycle. IDS made the announcement as part of its annual Process World conference held in Orlando in February.
Oracle ramps up midmarket self-service business programs
Oracle says it wants to make buying software easier for small to midsize businesses (SMB), and its sales & marketing programs are part of a larger effort for the enterprise vendor to play catch-up with players like Microsoft that currently dominate SMB sales. One such effort is a new “one-click ordering” program that offers an alternative to Oracle's paper-based sales contracts.