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Welltok Takes IBM Watson to Dinner

Welltok, an IBM Watson partner, and Healthy Dining, a provider of restaurant industry nutrition information, have announced a partnership dedicated to contributing to a...

IBM’s Watson Services Power the Cognitive Computing Era

IBM's Watson Services Power the Cognitive Computing Era Darryl K. Taft IBM Speech-to-Text Service The Speech to Text service vastly improves the accuracy of speech-recognition technology, providing...

IBM Takes Watson to the Middle East, North Africa

IBM has taken its Watson cognitive computing technology to various industry segments and now is taking it to the Middle East and North Africa...

Big Data Market Expected to Grow Rapidly Through 2019

The big data software market will grow nearly six-fold by 2019, according to IT research firm Ovum’s latest market size and forecast report on...

Eight Factors to Consider for Database Capacity Planning

Eight Factors to Consider for Database Capacity Planning By Darryl K. Taft Working Set Size This is the set of data a system needs to address during...

One-Third of BI Pros Spend Up to 90% of Time Cleaning Data

A recent survey commissioned by data integration platform provider Xplenty indicates that nearly one-third of business intelligence (BI) professionals are little more than “data...

Oracle Adds Commerce Cloud to Its Online Services Lineup

Oracle has added yet another component to its growing enterprise cloud-services business.The general-purpose IT giant launched Oracle Commerce Cloud in a not-too-subtle swipe at...

Dell Updates Toad DB Tool Lineup for Collaboration

Database developers don't get updates for their tool sets all that often, so when Dell Software on June 23 upgraded its popular Toad tool...

Oracle Revenue, Profits Flat, Miss Wall Street Projections

Could Oracle, though still very profitable, be reaching a tipping point in its near-40-year history, due to declining earnings? Some analysts and investors may...

Datameer Offers Its Take on 5 Pillars of Data Governance

Datameer Offers Its Take on 5 Pillars of Data Governance by Darryl K. Taft Democratized Data Access According to Datameer, there are five pillars of democratized data...