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#OI2Dublin - McClaren’s Peter van Manen: 'The future of Formula 1 is data driven' (video) News
21.05.2013 We talk to Peter van Manen of McClaren Electronics about how technology innovation developed by the McClaren Formula 1 team has been translated into powerful solutions in... -
#OI2Dublin – Interview with Alexander Osterwalder of Business Model Canvas fame (video) News
20.05.2013 Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas is today employed by companies worldwide, from Ericsson to General Electric, but it all began as a PhD dissertation back in the...Categories: Leadership & Management, Business IntelligenceTags: Open Innovation 2.0 -
Big data could mean big health cost savings and better outcomes News
14.05.2013 Picture a scenario where, by collecting the right data and using today’s sophisticated analytics, our health system could predict when a patient with chronic conditions might... -
Twitter buys data analysis start-up Lucky Sort News
14.05.2013 Twitter has snapped up Lucky Sort, a data analysis company that may help the microblogging site monetise tweets. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.Categories: Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Deals Done, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
Opensky plans further expansion with 30 jobs to come over next 18 months News
26.04.2013 Having seen revenues grow 100pc in the past two years and with 60pc growth forecast for 2013, IT company Opensky is preparing to meet the demands of new business by adding 30... -
2013 Better Cities competition wants ideas for the future News
25.04.2013 Creators, motivators and innovators now have a chance to show off, via video, their ideas to make cities of the future better in the 2013 Better Cities competition and be in... -
Seasoned start-up co-founders put the detail back into retail News
16.04.2013 Sometimes in life it is the journey and not the destination that matters the most. That could be said of Conall Lavery, a seasoned Irish technology executive who sold his IT... -
Tech start-up of the week: Search4less News
14.04.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is Search4less.ie, a new online business information service that’s aiming to disrupt the online company search space by pushing out relevant... -
Accenture acquires ChangeTrack Research News
03.04.2013 Technology consulting firm Accenture has snapped up ChangeTrack Research, a provider of analytics-based tools and services for change management, for an undisclosed sum. -
IBM wraps up acquisition of Star Analytics’ software portfolio News
20.03.2013 Technology giant IBM has completed its acquisition of Star Analytics’ software portfolio to enhance its business analytics initiatives. Financial terms of the deal have not been...Categories: Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise, Deals Done, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
Tech giants and colleges join forces to make execs masters of the big data universe News
15.03.2013 If data is going to be the oil of the 21st century, business leaders will need an edge when it comes to capitalising on opportunities in big data. Tech giants EMC and SAS have...Categories: Leadership & Management, Education, Economy, Digital Business, Data Management, CIO, Business Intelligence, Analysis -
Ireland invests €1m in centre to leverage fast-growing data analytics sector News
15.03.2013 The Irish Government is making an initial €1m investment in a new Dublin technology centre in data analytics called CeADAR, the Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research, to...Categories: Resources, Investments, Government, Economy, Careers and Employment, Business Intelligence -
The five minute CIO: DJ Skillman News
15.03.2013 US company Splunk specialises in making machine data accessible, usable and valuable. The company is growing at high double-digit rates every year and its platform is used by... -
The technology business week: EC fines Microsoft €561m, Icahn vies for 6pc stake in Dell News
11.03.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Sales, Internet, Financial, Consumer Tech, Careers and Employment, Business Intelligence -
BI player Jaspersoft’s Dublin office drives 50pc increase in software sales News
05.03.2013 Business intelligence player Jaspersoft says its European HQ in Dublin, which employs 20 people – 95pc of them multilingual – has been responsible for driving a 50pc increase in... -
Irish app firm listed as one of three finalists in SAP Innovation Challenge News
04.03.2013 SMART Visibility, a new manufacturing mobile software developed by an Irish start-up that aims to enable the factories of the future using augmented reality and GPS, is one of... -
The five minute CIO: Jonathan Boylan News
22.02.2013 Differentiating through big data and changing collaboration in business through social media: this week we talk to Jonathan Boylan, chief technology officer at FINEOS, the... -
Big data meets online ads as Quantcast creates 100 new jobs in Dublin News
21.02.2013 Digital advertising player Quantcast is to create 100 new jobs in Dublin. The company specialises in digital advertising and is a pioneer of real-time audience measurement. -
Ireland is getting with the program – interview with Datahug’s Connor Murphy News
20.02.2013 Connor Murphy left the US to launch his software firm Datahug in Co Kerry, Ireland, and he says the country is ideal for start-ups. -
Ireland’s Dept of Social Protection cited as a change leader in global IT report News
12.02.2013 It may sound incredible to the ears of recession-weary citizens of a country paying a higher price than their neighbours for Europe’s debt mountain, but an Irish Government...