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Elgan: Online publishing for the cheap and lazy
I'm a lazy cheapskate. And I'm often on the move. What to do? I've found out how to publish just about everywhere online -- social media, a blog and a newsletter -- at very low cost and with almost no effort.

Peter Drucker as Life Coach: Book Shares His Wisdom
The "father of modern management" had as much to say about self-management and personal development as he did about innovation and organizational effectiveness, says Bruce Rosenstein, the author of a new book on Peter Drucker. In this revealing Q&A, Rosenstein shares what you can learn from Drucker's life, legacy and lack of e-mail.

More Jobs Vanish: IT's Gains Are Real People's Losses
Improved IT means many jobs cut in this recession have been cut forever, some job hunters are now learning. While long-sought efficiency improvements have arrived, not everyone is celebrating.

Acquire Me! Oracle's and SAP's Next Likely Targets
A new 451 Group report serves up some tasty offerings to feed a possible acquisition binge by the enterprise software supervendors. Oracle's Larry Ellison is preparing to throw a pie at IBM: The only question is who will be the whipped cream.

BI on a Budget
Consolidating your BI tools, and making better use of existing data, can help you make smart business decisions without new expenditures.

The Twitter Sentimeter, Part Drei
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ERP & BI: Match Made in Heaven, If You're in Data Hell
Most businesses today have more data than they know how to use. And getting at that data and then presenting it in a useful manner for cogent analysis are two tasks that typically haunt organizations.

Hive: Large-scale, distributed data processing
Suppose you want to run regular statistical analyses on your Web site's traffic log data -- several hundred terabytes, updated weekly. (Don't laugh. This is not unheard of for popular Web sites.) You're already familiar with Hadoop (see InfoWorld's review), the open source distributed processing system that would be ideal for this task. But you don't have time to code Hadoop map/reduce functions? Perhaps you're not the elite programmer that everyone in the office thinks you are.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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Analytics in the Cloud: 5 Lessons Learned
Every company-from the smallest start-up to the largest firm-needs to be agile in today's market to respond to changing dynamics and new competition. But these days it's often the smaller companies who are better positioned to adapt: as the barriers to entry have decreased, emerging companies now have access to data streams-and techniques for analyzing them-that used to be the exclusive province of the largest companies. At the same time, the CIOs of larger organizations now find themselves as much bound by their legacy systems and data as they are empowered by them. The costs of managing these legacy systems are getting in the way: too much of the budget goes to maintenance, and not enough is left over for new development and technologies.

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