Don’t Model Business Strategy After a Boutique or Big-Box Retailers
It seems like every product or service today is dealing with how to support the market when, by human nature, we are drawn to...
Major Plane Crashes Are Always Technology Failures, Not Human Error
There have been a number of plane crashes in the United States this year. While traveling by air has never been safer, what types...
The Surprise Behind the Most Important Part of Big Data
I try to read about business strategy whenever I get some free time. Last week, I read from Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War. If you...
Terrible Architecture Creates Poor Master Data Management
As your company implements 21st-century architecture with agility to accommodate future projects, you will likely need to combine many different data elements to form...
Maintain Your Market Share by Remaining Agile
Two pillars of consumer behavior research focus on what consumers buy and watch on television. Mass communication experts and marketers know that a fundamental...
The Secret Source of IT Insight
If you need insight into your IT infrastructure, look to your log data management—it’s like a crystal ball. Log data is generated by all...
New Lifesaving Techniques Similar to New Business Strategies
In the United States, ambulance response times can vary greatly, depending on region, population density, and government funding. New York City mandates a maximum...
ESB Does Not Equal SOA; Learn the Real Equation
By Sean O'Shaughnessey
In many older integration environments reside hundreds, if not thousands, of point-to-point integrations. System A is integrated to system B with special code...
Leverage Events in a Process Context for Optimal Results
An “event” is something that happens (or doesn’t happen) that matters to a business. Events are expressed as data and are followed by technology...
40 Trillion Gigabytes of Data by 2020
Forty trillion gigabytes. That’s the amount of data IDC predicts will be created by 2020. This growth is in part due to machines signing...