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• Informatica promises speedier report development

  Informatica hopes to save business analysts time by allowing them to build their own queries and reports, without requiring the IT department to do all the assembly work.

• Microsoft marshals marketing, service, social for Dynamics CRM, aims anew at Salesforce.com

  Microsoft is about to make a fresh run at its CRM (customer relationship management) rival Salesforce.com with new capabilities for marketing automation, customer support and social media monitoring.

• Intel wants to be the 'operating system' for big data

  Intel is continuing to build out its array of software tools for the Hadoop open-source big data processing framework, with an emphasis on the security and reliability features demanded by large enterprises.

• Microsoft PowerBI puts Web and internal data on the map

  Microsoft's new service, Power BI, provides a way to analyze data and present the results in a visually appealing way, without the bother of consulting an enterprise business intelligence software package.

• ThoughtSpot promises Google-like BI experience

  Two items on BI (business intelligence) customers' wish lists have long been ease of use and a lower burden on IT. A startup called ThoughtSpot, which came out of stealth mode on Wednesday, says its new BI appliance can tackle both.

• Dell lets managers go 'off road' with self-serve analytics

  Once upon a time within Dell, managers who needed a business analysis report had to put in an IT request, a drawn out process that drove business units to set up their own shadow IT systems to run these numbers instead.

• How to Make Your Enterprise as Agile as a Startup

  The accepted wisdom is that startups are agile and innovative and large enterprises are followers. But these six IT trends may be changing all that, giving large enterprises the capability to compete as innovators.

• SAP expects revenue of $30 billion by 2017, driven by cloud

  SAP plans to increase its total revenue to at least €22 billion (US$30 billion), with revenue from its cloud business expected to grow up to €3.5 billion by 2017.

• MicroStrategy to focus on customers, not 'PowerPoint slides,' at conference

  While some vendor conferences can end up mired in technical minutiae, MicroStrategy believes it's better to show, not tell customers how its BI (business intelligence) software works, according to its president, Paul Zolfaghari.

• Is 2014 the Year of the 'Big Data Stack'?

  Will 2014 see the emergence of a big data equivalent of the LAMP stack?

• SaaS predictions for 2014

  While the bulk of enterprise software is still deployed on-premises, SaaS (software as a service) continues to undergo rapid growth. Gartner has said the total market will top $22 billion through 2015, up from more than $14 billion in 2012.

• Wall Street Beat: Economic growth, software news and BlackBerry deal boost tech stocks

  Tech stocks rose this week on the back of solid economic news and some upbeat results from software vendors, including Red Hat and Oracle.

• Gartner highlights balancing act for public sector CIOs in 2014

  BAU or transform government with full digitised business models?

• Data discovery to become main focus of BI vendors, Gartner says

  BI (business intelligence) and analytics will remain a top investment priority for CIOs, but by 2015 BI vendors will make ad-hoc data discovery, rather than report generation, the prime focus of their product development efforts, according to a new Gartner report.

• HP hits restart on 'converged systems,' takes aim at vBlock

  Stop me if you've heard this one before: Hewlett-Packard released new "converged systems" on Monday that aim to get customers up and running quickly with virtualized applications and big-data analytics.