Profile of Doug Henschen

Executive Editor, Enterprise Apps

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Doug Henschen is Executive Editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence, big data and analytics. He previously served as editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise, editor in chief of Transform Magazine, and Executive Editor at DM News. He has covered IT and data-driven marketing for more than 15 years.

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posted in January 2011

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Oracle Exec Says Exadata Can Do It All

1/27/2011
Database executive Andy Mendelsohn tells financial analysts that Oracle has all the bases covered. Here's where the company stands on Exadata progress and disruptive threats to its database business.
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SAP Reports Record Sales, Contests Oracle Fine

1/26/2011
Looking past a 36% drop in earnings tied to the TomorrowNow lawsuit, SAP executives say fourth-quarter results point to strong, innovation-driven growth across industries and regions.
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Inside Watson, IBM's Jeopardy Computer

1/24/2011
IBM has spent four years and untold hundreds of millions of dollars developing Watson, a computer that can play Jeopardy. In fact, Watson answers questions so quickly and accurately that IBM challenged Jeopardy and two of the show's all-time champions to a match. Jeopardy's producers and the human contestants agreed. Taping took place January 14, and the three computer-vs.-human episodes will air February 14-16. Cynics may call it a publicity stunt, but the project has brought real advances in c
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Microsoft Steps Up Competition With Dynamics CRM 2011

1/18/2011
Can aggressive online pricing make a dent in Saleforce.com's fast growth and evolving social and mobile appeal?
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What's At Stake In IBM's Jeopardy Challenge?

1/14/2011
Advances in assisted Q&A could find their way into medicine, legal, tech support and compliance applications.
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NRF Big Show 2011: Breakthrough Technologies For Retailing

1/13/2011
The National Retail Federation's "Big Show" in New York highlighted scores of cutting-edge retail technologies, from mobile devices and digital signage to point-of-sale systems and store-management applications. Tablet computers were everywhere, of course, though more often featured as a raffle prize designed to draw booth visitors and gather business card leads. Several exhibitors demonstrated iPad-native "clienteling" apps designed to help salespeople demonstrate and explain complicated (or ou
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Microsoft Extends Dynamics AX for Retailers

1/12/2011
App-spanning ERP system gains new interfaces, new workflows and a broader geographic footprint.
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Oracle Financial App Targets SAP Shops

1/10/2011
Prebuilt analytic application taps SAP to deliver analyses of general ledger, profitability, payables and receivables.
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Salesforce.com Acquisition Feeds Chatter

1/7/2011
Purchase of Dimdim will advance real-time messaging and content-sharing capabilities.
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AOL Taps Vertica Database

1/5/2011
Column-store platform edges out IBM Netezza, Oracle and others to provide self-service data sets for advertizing optimization and internal traffic analysis.
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Teradata Deal Signals 2011 Analytics Trend

1/3/2011
Aprimo acquisition matches IBM's move into integrated marketing management.
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