Avon and Somerset Constabulary has developed a predictive analytics engine to tackle domestic violence and child abuse. A report last year on improving the police response to domestic abuse from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) identified a number of failings at Avon and Somerset.

ΙΒΜ announced the creation of a new center of specialization in the field o f Big Data & Business Analytics in Creece (Center of Competence), fostering its activity in the provision of technology consulting services in the area, with the assistance of domestic high standard abilities.

Dippak Khurana and his mobile analytic startup Vserv are letting large telecommunication firms in South East Asia do the heavy lifting for them.Khurana’s info derives from a proprietary algorithm that enables Vserv to collect data from carriers while simultaneously connecting clients to information on users from apps, telecos, offline data partners, for example.

Newly discovered vulnerabilities in the widely used Bash shell for Linux operating systems could result in the inadvertent sharing of data from connected devices, according to one expert evaluating the situation. Researchers are piecing together the total impact of the issue following its disclosure earlier today.

The future of data lies in Analytics 3.0 according to Tom Davenport, whose latest book, “Big Data at Work”, is making a significant impact in the field. Davenport is also professor of Information Technology & Management at Babson College, and when he speaks about data, people sit up and pay attention.

When Numerify came forward last year with news of its Series A funding, chief executive Gaurav Rewari spoke convincingly about the importance of doing business analytics in the cloud. But that business is competitive. Numerify has decided to analyze data in the clouds for specific types of people: über-nerds. That’s right, folks. Numerify is targeting its cloud-based business-analytics software at IT admins who need to keep tabs on operations.

Earlier this month, Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff revealed that Salesforce is getting set to launch an “Analytics Cloud” product line at the company’s Dreamforce conference next month. This isn’t a big surprise if you follow the space, because everyone knows that Salesforce dashboards are pretty basic compared to what you can do with tools like Tableau, SAS, or SAP. And given the size of the business-intelligence (BI) market ($14.4 billion spent worldwide in 2013), it makes sense that Salesforce wants to take a slice.

Indicative, an analytics startup based in the Big Apple, is coming out of stealth beta in about an hour. And with their official launch, the founders are promising a cloud-based data system for dummies. To be more specific, the technically disinclined. In both mobile and web. “Web and mobile analytics are broken. Existing platforms either require extensive configuration and training to use or are too simple to actually generate real insight. Analytics should be as simple to use as a spreadsheet,” co-founder Jeremy Levy told VentureBeat.