Detailed insight into crucial data and events is a necessity for organizations that want to navigate a constantly changing, information-rich environment. Organizations that know how to connect the use of data to their strategic objectives are more...
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The personalized, context aware internet
Todays online services are focused on the individual consumer where your personal experience is put first. Knowledge of what you want or need in your current situation and location is gold. In my opinion, this is what Web 2.0 is basically about:...
Read moreThe COBOLization of Java
When I tell people that I had already my share of Cobol and RPG in my life, they look a bit puzzled since they do not expect a cool twenty-something dude, but rather an old long-bearded pony-tailed engineer. Ok, you might question the coolness of the...
Read moreTop 10 of Business Intelligence truths
Ask anyone in this industry for his or hers definition of Business Intelligence and you get a thousand different answers. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily, but it does imply that we still have not agreed upon some of the basics. It is an...
Read moreWhere's the spreadsheet for enterprise mobile?
VisiCalc on the Apple II platform in ’79 is generally regarded as one of the first “killer apps” for the desktop computer. I wasn’t born back then, so I can’t tell you how great it was, but I did experience email as one of the killer apps...
Read moreRange hoods and Business Intelligence
This weekend I was in the gym doing my weekly workout. There is little more boring than standing on s stationary machine, working up a sweat, and basically not going anywhere. Therefore I try to make this task a little more attractive by watching TV...
Read moreDe-perimeterisation and Collaboration Oriented Architecture
Many people have vaguely heard of deperimeterisation – ‘isn’t it something to do with getting rid of firewalls?’ is a comment I often hear. Actually, de-perimeterisation is a whole lot more that that – it will turn the whole security world...
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