The ‘three-seconds’ challenge for CIOs
SAP’s decision to put its Business Suite on in-memory database HANA recalls an interesting debate on real-time vs. right-time information Continue reading
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Big data best practices begin with business rules
Open Text’s Tom Jenkins demonstrates the complexities around information management that CIOs need to overcome. Continue reading
YOLO: Read Many, Write Many More
Don Sheppard’s post about community is a subtle invitation for technologists and IT Professionals, and technophiles to comment and to even post on Blog Idol. Actively signing up (it’s free!) to either post or comment requires relatively more effort now, … Continue reading
Social Media Marketing is about influencers, not buyers
Well, the marketing department has requested, and you got the job. “Build us something that taps into all that social data out there and lets us sell more. By next Tuesday, eh?” What are you going to design into such … Continue reading
Headline Technology Topics in Review For the Week
The blog topics discussed on Blogging Idol during the last few weeks continue to generate high interest elsewhere on the web. Big Data In the world of finance, “big data” is recognized as giving investment firms an information advantage. Derwent … Continue reading
Wine Recommendation Engine
An interesting reference to big data…… and wine It looks like this is a combination of big data with cloud deployment to allow smaller companies to exploit results that can be produced by analyzing massive data. This makes me believe we … Continue reading
Big Data Analytics in the News Today
Causation implies correlation: mainstream media finally caught up to Blog Idol’s discussion on Big Data on the web this week. Two big names that released news on company developments in Big Data did not come from Oracle, SAP, IBM, or … Continue reading
Big Data – Bigger Conclusions – Biggest Opportunity
So, what conclusions can we draw from a week of blogging about big data? There is no question that there is enough data available that traditional database management systems will be overwhelmed (especially if sensor-based data collection expands). New systems … Continue reading
Week 2 wrap: Big Data goes through the cycle
More great insights from our bloggers this week. In a way, we went through a whole technology adoption process: Don Sheppard stressed our need to define it; Bruce Stewart questioned whether we actually need it; Chris Lau made a case … Continue reading
Big Data in the Enterprise
In the corporate sector, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) were buzz words in the late 1990’s to early 2000. Data Warehousing was a concept that gained ground in that time. By the time social media gained ground … Continue reading
What is big data?
How many of you know what big data is ? I know it is a term that has “snuck up” on me, and maybe that’s true of you as well. Possibly the problem is that not many users call me … Continue reading
Big Data is This $97 Billion Elephant in the Room
It’s Facebook. When Social networking giant Facebook becomes a public company this Friday, May 18, IT departments should ignore the awe of its market capitalization. Departments should look at how the social networking company implemented Big Data. As defined on Wikipedia, … Continue reading
Week 1 wrap-up: Insights on BYOD
I knew when we chose the topics for this year’s Blogging Idol competition that the burgeoning BYOD movement would be a hot-button issue. What I didn’t expect was the philosophical approach our bloggers took, and that viewed through the right … Continue reading
To Do List for May 2012
Let’s see, better make time for Blogging Idol 2012. That will be a challenge, as I’m travelling the first week of the competition – this that shameless self-promotion? Oh well, the contest hasn’t started yet, so it’s fair game for … Continue reading