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This Week in the DoT, 02/28

Yeap, Thank God is Friday. And before you go home and hopefully have a relaxing weekend, here is a list of some interesting things that happened in the Data of Things during this week: news, events, tweets and a bit of humor. These are some relevant things you might want to check... Snow Boarding in Fernie, Canada by Chris Barton In the news: Oracle signs and agreement to buy Bluekai, an important cloud-based Big Data platform for managing online, offline and mobile marketing campaigns Versium, the company behind LifeData, a predictive analytics scoring service launches its new Predictive Fraud Score solution IBM enters an agreement to buy Boston based Cloudant, a Database as a Service (DaaS) company for mobile and web apps development Softlayer, the IBM’s cloud infrastructure provider will infuse Power Systems into their infrastructure, bolstering Big Data in the Cloud NuoDB, a distributed database provider startup receives $14.2 million in funding

This Week in the DoT (Data of Things)

Every Friday, starting today, I will try to post some of what in my view were the relevant events during the week for the Data of Things, including news, videos, etc. For today, I have a short list of influencers on Twitter — in no particular order — that you might want to follow for all data-related topics. I’m sure you will enjoy their tweets as much as I do: Claudia Imhoff       @Claudia_Imhoff Merv Adrian           @merv Neil Raden             @NeilRaden Marcus Borba         @marcusborba Howard Dresner     @howarddresner Curt Monash            @curtmonash Cindi Howson         @BIScorecard Jim Harris               @ocdqblog Julie Hunt               @juliebhunt Of course, the list will grow in time. For now, enjoy following this group of great data experts. Bon weekend!

BI on the Go . . . So, Who’s Using Mobile BI?

Piggybacking off of the success of the most recent TEC Buyer’s Guide, the 2014 Buyer's Guide on Mobile BI applications , we took the opportunity to survey users of mobile business intelligence (BI) applications and collect their impressions in regard to these tools. Most of the results of this survey with more than 250 respondents were captured in an Infographic . Additional information garnered from the survey, while not conclusive, may provide a glance into the sentiment of the respondents on their use of mobile BI applications. In this post, I’ll describe some of those results, which may be useful for those organizations evaluating a new mobile BI solution for their business needs. Most popular mobile BI apps The top 10 mobile BI apps in use are depicted in figure 1. Microsoft takes a clear lead, followed by the other big software powerhouses SAP , Oracle , and IBM . These results are in line with what we would expect considering that most of these vendors already have lar