But in order for the user-oriented paradigm to take deep root, the industry needs to change the way… Uncategorized Microsoft Access self-service data management The trend toward self-service in business analytics has been good for the big data industry. MORE >>

Microsoft is relaunching its Bing Pulse audience engagement and market research service to make it clear that it reaches farther than the search engine. The service will now be called Microsoft Pulse — no relation to the LinkedIn Pulse news app — in honor of its connections to Skype, Yammer, and other tools. That early success led Microsoft to expand the platform to other broadcasters, teachers, and conference runners, all of whom use Pulse to poll their audiences. MORE >>

But unlike Apple''s immense successes, Microsoft is… Uncategorized HoloLens Ross Rubin NASDAQ:AAPL NASDAQ:MSFT NSDQ:AAPL NSDQ:MSFT Like the iPod and iPhone, the HoloLens represents an inspiring connection of hardware and software that will take its company in a new direction. MORE >>

Microsoft''s cloud data stack was short and slow-growing. But this summer, something changed, raising its stature considerably. Uncategorized NASDAQ:GOOG NASDAQ:MSFT NASDAQ:ORCL NSDQ:GOOG NSDQ:MSFT NYSE:IBM MORE >>

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Revolution Analytics, a company built around commercial software and support for the popular R statistical computing project. The open source R project is hugely popular among data… Uncategorized data science machine-learning open source predictive modeling R Revolution Analytics NASDAQ:MSFT NSDQ:MSFT MORE >>