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Monthly Archives: October 2009
From Knowledge to Knowing
I recently posted on the question of whether we really understand business intelligence (BI) http://www.capgemini.com/ctoblog/2009/08/have_we_really_understood_what.php and quite quickly got into a lively debate. Everybody seemed in agreement that traditional BI really meant internal intelligence on how well the enterprise was performing against the targets it had set itself. But the challenge was how to gain external intelligence about current opportunities in order to make quality decisions that would optimise the options and boost performance. That’s …
IT Vigilante: how Charles Bronson would develop applications
I am obviously old enough to remember Charles Bronson in his most famous acting role: as a vigilante, ruthlessly taking care of any criminal crossing his path. Deserted by the police and judges, he has nothing but himself – and a few nasty street fighting skills – to get his justice. And he is quite good at it too, although admittedly half of the city is blown up and the resulting mess takes weeks to …
What is a Portal For?
Silly question, we all know the answer. It’s a way of providing a consolidated view of a large amount of data in a manner that suits the user. In case you want reassurance read the standard Wikipedia definition Regular readers will recognise that this again stresses the need to concentrate on the delivery pattern which is traditionally from raw data to the computer and then to the user. A change taking place in our daily …
Oracle OpenWorld: innovation. 2009 style.
Who said that IT does not create economic value? Oracle proved differently this week at their OpenWorld 2009 conference in San Francisco. At least, so did the 40000 conference attendees that swarmed the city and almost single-handedly reanimated the financial position of the troubled state of California. For the rest, I am not so sure. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘powering innovation’, but the messaging turned out to be quite pragmatic and down-to-earth. …
Business Intelligence with 1.3 Terabytes of in-memory Database
I recently blogged about changes in the meaning of business intelligence and how we can better use it to support real-time decision making. This raised a lot of great comments. Larry Ellison made his own impact on this topic with a webcast to introduce the second generation Oracle/Sun Exadata 2.0. This was an early indication of what Oracle hopes to achieve with the Sun acquisition. It raised all the usual comments on this unhappy with …
Delivering differentiation – with your sanity intact!
I have had posts, emails and been questioned about differentiation so much recently, here are some thoughts on the challenge. Differentiation is clearly the lifeblood of successful completion in the market, so not surprisingly, everyone is focussed on the topic. The term ‘innovation’ usually comes up as part of such conversations. The dialogue also frequently alludes to the old Paretto ‘20/80’ principle, where 20% of what we do provides 80% of the results. The results …
