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Barry Devlin October 2013 In the face of continuing economic turmoil, business, government and, indeed, all of us face increasing challenges in making even the most basic decisions. Old certainties can no longer be relied upon; traditional approaches no longer work. In this situation, new technologies and tools in Business Intelligence (BI) seem ever more

John Favaro August 2013 In the IT profession we spend a lot of time talking about evaluating our “Return on Investment,” often forgetting that we are really talking about an entire hierarchy of activities: Business strategy—Selecting markets in which to participate and formulating strategies for competing in those markets; Valuation—Analyzing the economic value of projects

Rick van der Lans July 2013 AerospikeDB, Akiban, Aster, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase, MongoDB, Ne04j, NuoDB, Paraccel, VoltDB, are all database servers that did not exist ten years ago, and most did not even exist five years ago. AerospikeDB, Akiban, Aster, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase, MongoDB, Ne04j, NuoDB, Paraccel, VoltDB, are all database servers that did not

Barry Devlin June 2013 Developments in big data and other technology over the past few years suggest a growing convergence of business and IT and a fundamental change in the way we manage and use information. Over the past quarter century, businesses of every shape and size have pursued an information policy that could be

by Danette McGilvray May 2013 “I’m a busy manager. I have a business to run. Why should I care about data quality?””Data Quality? I have an important technology project in progress. Why should I care about that?” You have data quality whenever someone in your organization pulls up a customer name and address to take

By Jason Bloomberg April 2013 I had the pleasure of speaking at two quite different Cloud Computing conferences recently: a Business of Cloud Computing conference in the US and the CloudConnect conference in India. As the conference names and locations might suggest, the former was the more business-oriented while the latter was chock full of

By Chris Date March 2013 Would you want to fly in an airplane that hadn’t been constructed in accordance with solid principles of mechanical engineering and aeronautical science? Would you want to live or work in a high rise building that hadn’t been constructed in accordance with solid principles of architecture and material science? Would

by James Hobart February 2013 Several of our clients are deploying enterprise mobile solutions to their global workforce this year. The pace of mobile adoption and change is accelerating much faster than what we witnessed during the adoption of web-based technologies in the late 1990’s. This phenomenon is forcing organizations to quickly adopt a mobile