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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Business Intelligence: Vision or Business Case?
BI is a necessity. BI initiaitive should be supported, with or without a business case.
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: persuading people and making it very easy for them to provide such knowledge.
The 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 dude, but the twenty-something is true. I actually entered this week the second part of the twenty-something-ness :-) I’m not telling you this to generate more birthday wishes or …
Top 10 of Business Intelligence truths
Over the last couple of years a common understanding of Business Intelligence has been created holding some universal truths firm in its grasp. We decided – just for fun – to turn the BI world as we know it around and see what comes up if we take the opposite view.
Where’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 for the Internet. Now with the mobile revolution (well at least according to Apple and Google), one can wonder where the spreadsheet for mobile is? There doesn’t seem …
Range hoods and Business Intelligence
BI should have an industrialized approach to ensure high quality and low cost.
De-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 inside out and it will take ten years, at least, to implement. So, what is de-perimeterisation? It’s the challenge that the modern world is throwing down to perimeter-based security – which perimeter-based security will …





