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	Buried in software licensing IT leaders are fed up with the perpetual-license-plus-maintenance approach to enterprise software purchases, and they're tired of running on the upgrade treadmill simply for the sake of keeping their software maintenance status current. Here's a look at how they're breaking free. Read More WHITE PAPER: Crittercism What is the True 'Cost of Failure' in Mobile? The mobile enterprise has arrived. In a world where there will be more devices than people on earth by 2017 according to Cisco's Visual Networking index (VNI), mobility will continue to transform enterprises in a profound way that cannot be ignored. Read more! In this Issue Salesforce.com to impose massive fee hike for app store security review INSIDER Inside the Greek yogurt wars: Dannon taps predictive analytics Marketers See Value in Big Data Analytics, But Face Hurdles Microsoft adds Java to its Windows Azure cloud service Rob Walker: Analytics add color to the customer conversation NOAA flips switch on two new supercomputers for weather forecasting WHITE PAPER: HP Designing a Defense for Mobile Applications This paper highlights the various considerations for defending mobile applications - from the mobile application architecture itself to the myriad testing technologies needed to properly assess mobile applications risk. Learn More Salesforce.com to impose massive fee hike for app store security review Salesforce.com is raising the cost of an initial security review for paid applications in its AppExchange store from US$300 to $2,700, saying the hike will allow it to deliver the reviews much faster. Read More INSIDER Inside the Greek yogurt wars: Dannon taps predictive analytics To forecast sales and manage inventory of its yogurt products, Dannon switched from a manual, spreadsheet-driven process to a more scientific, computer-based approach using a suite of predictive analytics tools. Among other things, the new systems has improved the accuracy of forecasts from about 70% to 98%. Insider (registration required) Read More Marketers See Value in Big Data Analytics, But Face Hurdles Feeling the pressure to become more data-driven, marketers agree that big data analytics will be an integral part of their organizations going forward. But a lack of data analytics skills and antiquated business processes are hampering their efforts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology OPNET, Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2012 We are very pleased that OPNET has been recognized by Gartner as a leader in the rapidly growing APM market. A core part of our business strategy has been to be a market leader in application performance monitoring. Read Report Now Microsoft adds Java to its Windows Azure cloud service Expanding a growing portfolio of enterprise software it sells as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service. Read More Rob Walker: Analytics add color to the customer conversation The world is not black and white.  Therefore, businesses can’t think in black and white, and business processes need to be multi-dimensional to accomodate – especially when dealing with customers. Read More NOAA flips switch on two new supercomputers for weather forecasting The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has switched on two new supercomputers that expected to improve weather forecasts. Read More
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