BCS Roger Needham Lecture 2010: decidability of real-time systems
One evening last week the British Computer Society hosted its annual Roger Needham lecture for 2010, and as the topic included covered real-time systems...
Algo Trading: optimising distance to multiple exchanges
It is common lore that financial institutions are putting their server rooms closer and closer to exchanges' servers in order to minimise the message...
How Data Analytics and BI Professionals Used Twitter In October
Last month, we started a monthly feature called How Data Analytics and BI Professionals Use Twitter. We covered the news, insight and data found...
Could Analytics Help Choose Which Conference to Attend?
Fall is conference season so it’s time for some hard choices -- too many events in too many places. I'm sorry to have missed...
Analytics vs CEP vendors – surely this is almost the same thing?
Thanks to Brenda Michelson for pointing out this Computer Business Review article on SAS (a traditional, historic-data-based analytics vendor) poo-pooing the need for CEP...
TIBCO ActiveSpaces 1.1 released
TIBCO's data grid is now on its 1.1 release, extended with parallel batch operations, persistence interface, capacity policy, seeder policy and tuple-space lifecycle support....
SBB and Event Constraint Processing
Last week I presented "4th Generation CEP" to the TIBCO NOW event in Zurich, Switzerland. Much more interesting than presenting, though, was listening to...
Seven Questions That Make Analytics Smarter
In a recent discussion at Boston's Knowledge Management Forum, KM Forum President Larry Chait and Industry Consultant Jack Vinson shared a series of questions that...
Q & A With Howard Dresner on Mobile BI
An analyst specializing in business intelligence and performance-based management, Howard Dresner has studied and consulted in these disciplines for two decades. He worked for...
Q & A With Howard Dresner on Mobile BI
An analyst specializing in business intelligence and performance-based management, Howard Dresner has studied and consulted in these disciplines for two decades. He worked for...