Category: Technology
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Weekend Tech Bits
IBM strengthens it’s Business Intelligence capabilities by acquiring SRD, a company specialising in identity resoultion. SRD’s products can answer “Who is who?” questions in the area of analytics with accuracy. That’s a big leap for IBM in the BI arena. It’s over. Oracle has purchased more than 97% of PeopleSoft’s stock, and the application vendor…
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Tech Article of the Year 2004
The articles taken to purview are limited to the scope of my reading and hence I am not sure if this is a perfect title to be awarded. Yet for the heck, since I’ve been reading a hell of these tech stuff in the last years, I wanted to give it a shot. There are…
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Finally. Oracle buys PeopleSoft for
Finally. Oracle buys PeopleSoft for $10 billion. Isn’t that a breaking news ? This part of the press release is impressive – “We intend to enhance PeopleSoft 8 and develop a PeopleSoft 9 and enhance a JD Edwards 5 and develop a JD Edwards 6. We intend to immediately extend and improve support for existing…
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LIC’s freaking Insurance Data Warehouse
This note on moneycontrol.com says that Life Insurance Corporation of India is planning to implement the largest insurance datawarehouse in the world by 2007. LIC is looking at a 60 terabyte DWH size in the first phase. USs largest insurance data warehouse is understood to be deployed by Nationwide which is in the region of…
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Anand Wins Indus Technovators Award 2004
Anand Chandrasekharan, who guest blogs here , has won the Global Indus Technovators Award for 2004. Anand will recieve this award today at a special ceremony to be held from 6-9:30 pm. at Wong Auditorium, MIT . I did know this news a couple of weeks back but was waiting to post it here only…