Frank Buijtendijk of Gartner warned us right at the start of the day. Nobody was allowed to say the H-word (Hadoop) before eleven AM. Annemarie-Jorritsma, mayor of Almere City and Big Data enthusiast, kept her promise. Almere has the ambition...
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BPR 2.0 - how MDM gives agility to BPM
Working which Nicholas Kitson I've just had a new white paper published around how BPM and MDM work together to deliver on the real vision of BPR, namely the ability for a business to be horizontally consistent and efficient while retaining local...
Read moreBigger Data, Faster Reporting – What next? The Applification of SAP HANA
It’s widely acknowledged that HANA is “disruptive technology”. It’s guaranteed that SAP’s Business Intelligence capabilities, underpinned by HANA, will enable the processing and analysis of bigger data-sets, faster. The announcement of...
Read moreBig Data is over the hype - can we get on with real work now?
Well that was fast, on the 7th of January I talk about killing the big data hype and then 15 days later over at Gartner one of their analysts, Svetlana Sicular, has said that Big data is over the hype curve. Cause and effect? Probably not as if...
Read moreThe problem of Data Gravity - why tactical solutions never go away
Information is Knowledge, Knowledge is power, power is energy over time, energy is mass times the speed of light squared... if something has mass then it has gravity therefore information has gravity...The odd piece about this clearly false statement...
Read moreHow to start with Big Data?
When looking at Big Data the first question is always 'where do I start?' for software vendors the answer to a company is simple 'by buying software', but then the answer from software vendors to any question is 'by buying software'. The real...
Read more#SAPonHANA – Light bulb moment or a bit of a grower?
I’ve now had the weekend and a few days to think about the Press Conference that SAP ran to announce that Business Suite would now be available on HANA. The press conference itself was interesting with a lot of detail provided about future plans...
Read moreChanging IT - moving from 'T' to 'I'
Information Technology has been a very mis-named area for many years. When you look at IT spend and investment historically its been about two things - Technology and Technologies that provide Business Processes. The concept of Information has been a...
Read moreHow can Business Intelligence help cut costs?
A while ago I was discussing the economic slowdown with some fellow business intelligence (BI) experts. I vividly remember that somebody said, “The recession is an opportunity; it is the strongest business driver so far. BI will help companies...
Read moreKilling Big Data hype - talk about the Big Questions and Big Complexities
Tech Crunch have decided that we need to kill Big Data mainly because the hype is getting silly. Over the last few years every startup and established software vendor threw a 'social' sticker onto their products and as Facebook bombed and others...
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