Billboards that Know Your Favorite Beer
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Minority Report movie release, a milestone that is noteworthy as some dimensions of the future imagined...
Modelling Choreography (with events, states and business rules)
This week the BCS SPA group held a fascinating session titled "Modelling Choreography" by requirements analyst Ashley McNeile.
Ashley described some of the past efforts...
What’s Hot in Advanced Analytics for 2012?
If there’s an article that gets read by women (and men) in consumer media, it’s the celebrity news and fashion trends columns. As we...
Event Processing Platforms vs Engines
Opher Etzion just made an interesting classification of the CEP tools market in his observations on the Bloor Research comments on CEP and Big...
BPM and Healthcare — Why Has It Taken So Long?
Healthcare is going through an unprecedented change. Some of the change is forced by external regulatory mandates and some by rising costs and a...
Are IBM and Oracle Stuck in the 20th Century?
Interesting advice to CIOs, although not surprising to us at TIBCO, analyst Dennis Gaughan heavily criticized IBM and Oracle for relying on maintaining profit margins...
CRM Analytics Go Mobile
Businesses that want to remain competitive must build stronger relationships with customers. This means CRM vendors will need to build systems that interact more...
How to Break Past Silos to Drive Advanced Analytics in CRM
Customers use multiple channels to interact with the companies they do business with.
As such, it’s critical for companies to be able to follow the...
People, Process, and Technology (and “Technology” is Optional)
It’s ironic that as a software industry professional, I rarely reach first for a technological solution when confronted with a business problem. A slightly...
Big Data vs. Event Processing
Database pundit Curt Monash made a brief mention of event processing (/event stream processing) in his discussion on “big data terminology”, presumably as a...