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• Health Ministry calls on partners for BI and data warehouse panel

  The Ministry of Health is preparing to select a panel of suppliers to boost its business intelligence and data warehouse skills.

• How IBM analyzes Twitter for the enterprise developer

  Capturing public conversations around the world in real time, Twitter could be a valuable source of intelligence for the business world, so IBM is creating new ways to derive potentially valuable information from this massive, sprawling data set.

• Startup SQLdep aims to help DBAs stay sane

  Czech startup SQLdep is hoping to simplify database changes and troubleshooting with its code analytics tool.

• BitYota cloud data warehouse gets a boost from Microsoft Azure

  Hoping to enlarge its pool of corporate customers to include the enterprise market, startup BitYota will soon offer its data warehouse service on the Microsoft Azure cloud, thanks to a partnership between the two companies.

• 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.

• TPC takes the measure of big data systems

  Comparing commercial Hadoop big data-styled analysis systems might get a little easier, thanks to a new benchmark from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC).

• SAP makes it cheaper, easier for customers to use Hana in certain scenarios

  SAP has relaxed hardware requirements for using its Hana in-memory database platform for development and testing, in a move that could make existing Hana customers' operations easier and less expensive while also generating more Hana sales.

• Google's latest big-data tool, Mesa, aims for speed

  Google has found a way to stretch a data warehouse across multiple data centers, using an architecture its engineers developed that could pave the way for much larger, more reliable and more responsive cloud-based analysis systems.

• Oracle hits back at ex-employee's claims over in-memory database option

  Oracle has responded to a former employee's claim that a new in-memory processing option is turned on by default with the latest release of Database 12c, insisting that the process of enabling it requires a series of deliberate steps.

• Kiwi firm Wherescape targets expansion and growth

  Home-grown data warehousing specialists, Wherescape, is targeting global expansion, even as it continues work on the product side and changes the way it gains business.

• 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.

• Platfora update puts Hadoop's power in business users' hands

  Platfora is continuing to evolve its Hadoop-focused analytics platform with a series of features catering to various user roles, such as data scientists and business analysts.

• Public Trust to upgrade core IT systems in two-year project

  Public Trust, NZ’s largest provider of wills and estate administration services, is to upgrade all core IT systems in a two-year project as part of a business transformation programme to improve customer experience and enable future growth.

• It's the little things that matter in Amazon Redshift upgrade

  Amazon Web Services has increased the number of simultaneous queries its hosted data warehouse Redshift can handle, improving performance in cases where many small queries are now forced to wait.