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Informatica Corporation, the provider of data integration software, announced the immediate availability of Informatica HParser, a data parsing transformation solution for Hadoop environments. Informatica HParser runs on distributions of Apache Hadoop, exploiting the parallelism of the MapReduce framework to efficiently turn unstructured complex data, such as web logs, social media data, call detail records and other data formats, into a structured or semi-structured format in Hadoop. Once transformed into a more structured format, the data can be used and validated to drive business insights and improve operations. Available in a free community edition and commercial editions, Informatica HParser provides organizations with the solution they require to extract the value of complex, unstructured data. http://www.informatica.com

MarkLogic Corporation announced the availability of MarkLogic 5, the latest version of its product designed for Big Data applications across the enterprise. MarkLogic 5 defines Big Data by empowering organizations to build Big Data applications that make information actionable. With MarkLogic 5, organizations analyze structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data in the same application. A key feature is the MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop. www.marklogic.com

IBM unveiled new software for managing and analyzing big data to the workplace. The new offerings span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices to the data center to IBM's SmartCloud. Now employees from any department inside an organization can explore unstructured data such as Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, weather data, log files, genomic data and video, and make sense of it as part of their everyday work experience. IBM is also placing the power of mobile analytics into the hands of iPad users with a free download in Apple's iTunes Store. The new software is designed to help employees in industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, communications, retail, and travel and transportation use and benefit from business analytics on the go. IBM is delivering new analytics and information management offerings: New Hadoop-based analytics software on the cloud, which helps employees tap into massive amounts of unstructured data from a variety of sources including social networks, mobile devices and sensors; New mobile analytics software for iPad users; and new predictive analytics software with a mapping feature that can be used across industries for marketing campaigns, retail store allocation, crime prevention, and academic assessment. http://www.ibm.com/

Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca Technologies, Inc., a provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions. A privately-held company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Endeca provides products that help companies analyze unstructured data, gain better business intelligence, and deliver a better customer experience. Endeca's core technology, the MDEX Engine, is designed to enable enterprises to correlate and analyze unstructured data. Endeca InFront is a leading customer experience management platform that enables businesses to deliver targeted and relevant customer experiences online with merchandising and content targeting tools for web commerce. Endeca Latitude is a technology platform that enables businesses to rapidly develop analytic applications bringing information from many unstructured and structured information sources together. The combination of Oracle and Endeca is expected to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information together. The combination of Oracle ATG Commerce and Endeca InFront is expected to enhance cross-channel commerce, merchandising, and online customer experiences. The combination of Oracle Business Intelligence and Endeca Latitude is expected to provide a comprehensive business intelligence foundation and analytic applications, bringing together information from structured and unstructured data sources. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of 2011. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently. http://www.oracle.com/ http://www.endeca.com

IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire i2 to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms were not disclosed. With more than 4,500 customers in 150 countries, i2 is a provider of intelligence analytics for crime and fraud prevention based in Cambridge, UK with U.S. headquarters in McLean, Va. i2's clients span multiple sectors globally such as banking, defense, health care, insurance, law enforcement, national security and retail. i2 solutions are currently used by 12 of the top 20 retail banks globally and eight of the top 10 largest companies in the world. http://www.i2group.com/ http://www.ibm.com/

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability and free trial of its new Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform and first set of solutions for Customer Experience Management (CRM). The Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform, first unveiled in June, is an open, modular, standards-based offering for delivering engaging digital solutions across social, Web, mobile, and print channels. The platform includes integration with the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to optimize digital marketing campaigns and personalize digital experiences across all marketing, sales and service delivery channels. In addition, integration with Adobe Flash Builder(R) 4.5 and Flex 4.5 helps enterprise IT organizations build highly expressive mobile applications for Android devices, BlackBerry PlayBook, iPhone and iPad. Built on the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform, an initial set of the company's Customer Experience Solutions are available now: Integrated Content Review; Web Experience Management; and Customer Communications. http://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/customer-experience/enterprise-platform.html

OpenText announced it has acquired Global 360 Holding Corporation, a provider of process and case management solutions. The acquisition continues OpenText's expansion into business process management (BPM) market. The transaction purchase price is approximately $260 million, subject to customary purchase price and holdback adjustments. The transaction has closed in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 and is not part of the fiscal 2011 fourth quarter and year-end results of OpenText. In February 2011, OpenText also acquired Metastorm, which offers other solutions that complement Global 360, such as business process analysis and enterprise architecture software. http://www.opentext.com http://www.global360.com

Attensity, the provider of text analytics solutions for Customer Experience Management (CEM), announced a new Telecom Industry Solution that offers the ability to analyze and act on customer conversations. The new offering is the first in a series of industry-specific solutions designedfor Attensity customers to implement the company’s customer analytics and engagement applications. The new module enhances Attensity’s multi-channel analysis and listening products, Attensity Analyze & Respond, by using thousands of telecom-specific customer data points to create category sets, topics, reports and dashboards tailored for telecom business users. Available immediately, the Attensity Telecom Industry Solution extracts specific terminology and issues that aid with analysis and categorization on numerous topics: Buzz Analysis; Sentiment Analysis; Product Quality, Customer Service and Safety Issues; Churn Analytics; New Product Launch Monitoring; Marketing Campaign Tracking; Competitive Analytics; Survey Analytics; Product Innovation, Suggestions Tracking; Customer Behavior and Preference Profiles; Customer Demographics; and Customer Engagement Response Queues. The industry-rich category sets enable users to augment and modify packaged categorization to meet their specific business needs. The solution also enables users to run analysis in many third-party business intelligence applications as well. http://www.attensity.com/

Box launched ECM Cloud Connect to help enterprises leverage their investment in on-premise ECM systems by linking them to Box's cloud content management platform, facilitating broader employee adoption, easy external collaboration, and content access from any mobile device. ECM Cloud Connect enables organizations to move content seamlessly and automatically between on-premise solutions and Box's cloud platform. ECM Cloud Connect links Box to more than 40 other systems, including Microsoft SharePoint and EMC Documentum. Additionally, Box announced integration and consulting support from Armedia, BPA Technologies, ConvergePoint, and ZSL. Designed by EntropySoft and available as an addition for Box Enterprise customers, ECM Cloud Connect also enables organizations to use an on-premise system to ensure compliance to corporate records management and archiving policies for content stored in Box. With ECM Cloud Connect, existing and future Box customers can synchronize content between Box and a selection of 40 on-premise ECM systems, trigger automatic content archiving from Box to on-premise ECM systems, and transfer content from on-premise ECM systems to Box, or vice versa. http://www.box.net, http://www.entropysoft.net

e-Spirit AG has added the open source Liferay Portal to their range of possibilities for integration of the FirstSpirit content management system into enterprise portals. The module was developed in cooperation with e-Spirit’s technology partner USU. Integrating FirstSpirit in Liferay will allow organizations to create employee portals that combine Enterprise 2.0 functionality, IT applications, content and collaboration. Organizations will also be able to provide their employees with access to Web 2.0 functions such as forums, blogs and wikis and offering them a platform to efficiently organize collaboration and share information beyond individual departments. The new module will be available in May. http://www.e-spirit.com http://www.liferay.com/