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.

Articles by Doug Henschen
posted in March 2015

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MongoDB Counters Couchbase Performance Claims

3/31/2015
MongoDB test reports superior durability and throughput compared to Cassandra and Couchbase, but is it another case of biased, vendor-sponsored research?
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IBM Announces IoT Business Unit, Cloud Services

3/31/2015
IBM ups the ante on Internet of Things analysis, launching a $3 billion bet on cloud-based ecosystem. How will Microsoft and Amazon respond?
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ClearStory Data Touts Speedy Big Data Analysis

3/30/2015
ClearStory taps HDFS and Apache Spark in the cloud to let business users blend high-scale, variable data and analyze it with in-memory speed.
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Oracle HCM Cloud Adds Social, Mobile Learning Option

3/30/2015
Oracle has plenty of options for training, but Oracle Learning Cloud follows SAP, IBM into social, mobile learning management for the YouTube generation.
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Microsoft Azure Services Power Ziosk Dining Experience

3/30/2015
Microsoft HDInsight and Azure ML help Ziosk gain dining insights from more than 77,000 table-top tablets deployed at Chili's and other restaurants.
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Internet Explorer Dependent? Time To Move On

3/24/2015
Microsoft's move to Project Spartan should be your cue to retire aging enterprise apps that rely on Internet Explorer plug-ins or Active X controls.
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Couchbase Claims Performance Gains Against NoSQL Rivals

3/23/2015
Couchbase says the coming Multi-Dimensional Scaling feature will bring read/write, indexing, and query advantages over MongoDB and Cassandra.
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Spark Promoter Databricks Should Let Software Shine

3/19/2015
Can Databricks effectively shepherd the most promising open source project for big data analytics while also promoting its commercial cloud service?
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Microsoft Azure Drives Ford Hybrid-Cloud Plan

3/18/2015
Ford brings vehicle software updates to Microsoft's cloud, opening up preventative-maintenance and service-upgrade possibilities on a global scale.
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Microsoft Cloud-First Push Shines In CRM, Lags In ERP

3/17/2015
Microsoft's Dynamics CRM Online business is growing quickly, but Dynamics AX Online is still stuck at the gate. What's the holdup?
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Microsoft Promises Potent Azure IoT Suite

3/17/2015
Microsoft says its data services and hyper-scale cloud will conquer Internet-of-things apps including monitoring, asset-management, and predictive maintenance. Look out IBM, Intel, SAP, and GE.
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Splunk Light Vs. Alternatives: Cost, Functionality Compared

3/16/2015
Splunk Light offers a new option for companies to apply data analytics to IT operations. Here's how it stacks up against Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, and emerging open-source and commercial rivals.
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SAP Cuts Data Visualization Cost, Unites Predictive Suite

3/16/2015
SAP Lumira Edge brings "affordable" data visualization to small- and mid-sized companies. Predictive Analytics 2.0 unites experts and business users.
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Apple Watch Meets Salesforce Enterprise Apps

3/12/2015
Salesforce is among the first enterprise application vendors to offer Apple Watch apps. Here's how watch apps differ from phone apps.
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IBM Watson: 10 New Jobs For Cognitive Computing

3/12/2015
IBM Watson is adding language-processing, image-recognition, and reasoning services to power these 10 breakthrough applications that scale up human-like analysis.
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Salesforce Service Cloud Intelligence: Leader Or Laggard?

3/9/2015
Salesforce Intelligence Engine promises to route service calls to the right agents, balance case workloads, and ease service across channels. On some counts, Oracle has it beat.
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2 Microsoft Azure Services Hit General Release

3/5/2015
Microsoft Azure Search service is out now, and the Azure DocumentDB NoSQL database service will debut in April.
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Airbnb Boosts Presto SQL Query Engine For Hadoop

3/5/2015
Airbnb is open sourcing a home-grown data-exploration and SQL query tool for Hadoop. Will it give Facebook Presto a leg up on Cloudera Impala?
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Gets Predictive

3/5/2015
Salesforce announces Predictive Decisions features to personalize marketing. Data science drives clicky content and offers.
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IBM Buys AlchemyAPI: What Watson Gains

3/4/2015
IBM acquires AlchemyAPI to improve Watson's capacity for natural-language processing, image analysis, and understanding human behavior.
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Cisco Bets Big On Selling Hadoop

3/4/2015
Cisco will resell Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR Hadoop distributions along with its Unified Computing Systems for big data.
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IBM Slumps, Cisco Gains In 2014 Server Sales

3/3/2015
Gartner annual report on server shipments and revenue sees Cisco, Lenovo gaining share, IBM, HP losing ground.
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Splunk Leads Tiny Big Data Market

3/3/2015
Splunk marks another big year, taking in more revenue than the top three Hadoop distributors combined. That's why startups want to follow in its footsteps.
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