So SAP buys Sybase as its first major acquisition in quite a while and industry pundits speculate on the ‘what and why’ surrounding its customer base, its mobility platform, and its background in the database market. The obvious explanation was pitched first around the need to get a mobility platform, something that increasingly becomes the battleground for delivering the ‘services’ model of clouds and SaaS. Jack Gold on his Conceivably Tech blog gives a really …

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Testing is a funny topic to discuss, on one hand its essential, and professional testers are passionate about methods, good practices, etc and on the other it’s a topic that many would prefer to ignore. I find that I get very interested in the topic when I meet a real expert who can raise points that I simply hadn’t thought about before. This has just happened twice; first I got a preview copy of the …

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Again not a new topic – but I realise increasingly that many basic requirements don‘t change too much, it’s the capabilities we have at our disposal that do change, and this leads to new answers. As the focus on real time data analysis becomes the norm for helping front office workers make optimised decisions based on sliced and diced information, the amount of information to assimilate from the screen when making that oh so valuable …

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It was a US President who first said ‘it’s the economy stupid’ when asked what the top topic from a long list of issues would be most important to voters. If you substitute the role of a voter with that of a user, then the answer to the same question – what is most important to them – might well be, ‘it’s the data stupid!’ Yet bizarrely data is the one topic that we still …

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