Top Events in the world of Software-Online, Statistical and Enterprise
1) Mergers and Acquisitions
IBM-SPSS and ADOBE -Omniture were clearly the biggest mergers and acquisitions.
2) Products
Windows 7 didnt bomb, SAS embraced R, REvolution Computing launched Linux Flavored Enterprise R.
Teradata and SAS launched an centre of excellence. Aster Data announced the nPath and Hadoop connector
while Oracle pitched fusion apps. Mictosoft did Azure and also data mining via excel. So did Zemetis with the ADAPA via Excel feature.
3) Financially it seemed like a much better year than had been expected for BI and software.
4) Conferences- There were two Predictive Analytics Conferences, SPSS had Directions while SAS had it’s global forum as well as Data Mining 2009 and Leadership Series.
5) Communities- Smart Data Collective was launched, and Analyticbridge also gained rapid strides. But BEYE Network remained the leader till 2009 end.
6) Social Media was embraced , criticized, discussed and pondered upon every alternate month. Twitter rose, Facebook zoomed, Linkedin soldiered on while MySpace seemed largely irrelevant in this.
7) Cloud came and went away without any R AIN. Not to be dis heartened 2010 is now the year of the cloud. Hope endures
8) Apple launched an Ipod, Blackberry launched storm and Google launched Android. Apple piled up cash like nothing before.
9) There were no hurricanes but everyone shouted global warming so many times, the collective carbon offtake from global warming conferences was worth measuring.
10) The R Project gained massive publicity this year and the number of packages continued full steam. WPS and SAS got entangled in a legal cricket match. Almost none of the developers I know switched alligience from one software to another. Indeed the statistical pie grew bigger and the New York Times even mentioned statisticians as a sexy job. That in itself was a miracle.
And that’s all folks- see you in the New Year 2010.
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