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• Data science in the forest

  Nigel Brabyn drills in on a key asset of Nelson Forests – its data repository, which is set to grow exponentially as digital tools are used in logging production.

• Air New Zealand deploys Boxever predictive marketing tool

  System will provide real-time recommendations, one to one offers and messages across channels and call centres.

• Workday plots wave of predictive analytic apps

  Workday is expanding its move into analytics with a series of specialized, predictive applications designed to help staff in HR and financial management roles retain top workers and make more accurate forecasts.

• Startup offers a big-data storyteller

  Amassing a pile of big data is not sufficient to spur insight, even if you have clever ways of analyzing that data. The savvy data scientist must also find a way to make all this information tell a story so it can be understandable to others.

• Salesforce unveils Wave, its play in Cloud analytics

  The knock against Salesforce.com has long been for its lack of robust analytics, but the company is hoping to change that perception and challenge the competition with Wave, its sixth discrete Cloud service.

• Qlik courts the business manager with easier analytics

  Continuing its efforts to bring business intelligence to the masses, software provider Qlik has released Qlik Sense, which is designed to provide business managers with an easy way to examine large data sets for insights and trends.

• SAP spices up its predictive analytics and visualization apps

  SAP has made a series of updates to its InfiniteInsight predictive modeling software and Lumira data-visualization tool in a bid to shore up its foothold in the analytics market.

• Tibco going up against Oracle, IBM and Adobe with new customer engagement platform

  Add Tibco to the list of vendors pushing a full stack of so-called "customer engagement" software, which companies use to track and analyze consumer behavior in hopes of building deeper relationships with them and ultimately, selling more products and services.

• Teradata acquires assets of Hadapt, Revelytix for big data

  Teradata has bought the assets of Revelytix and Hadapt in a bid to grow out its capabilities for the Hadoop big-data processing framework.

• Doing business with Nick Hearn of LAB360

  The GM of LAB360 talks about a career built on ‘on all things data’, and the data scientist who should join Apple’s Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the pantheon of 'tech visionaries', Dr Jim Goodnight.

• Actuate software offers free data analysis to enterprise business units

  Software provider Actuate is offering a free way for business units to analyze enterprise data and present the results in a format that is easy to understand.

• Salesforce.com continues focus on mobility with new reports, dashboards

  Salesforce.com is rollling out enhancements to its Salesforce1 mobile application, with new reporting and dashboard capabilities that give users a way to dig deeper and more broadly into CRM data.

• Microsoft launches a service to help predict the future

  Microsoft will soon offer a service aimed at making machine-learning technology more widely usable.

• Attensity Q makes it easier for businesses to drink from the Twitter firehose

  In the NLP (natural language processing) business for a while, Attensity sees an opportunity to get new customers with Q, a visualization tool it says can help non-technical users like marketers find insights in oceans of social media data.

• Oracle CEO Larry Ellison wades into the in-memory database wars

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is taking the fight to IBM, Microsoft and SAP in the burgeoning in-memory database market with a new option the company says can deliver dramatic performance boosts without requiring changes to applications.