What a February this has been.
Opening a New Front in Countering Unlicensed Software
In early April, the U.S. Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee sent a letter Continue reading
Let’s say you work for a food and beverage manufacturer. You want to create a marketing campaign and are trying to figure out which products to include. Perhaps you have a lot of extra inventory you want to move, and you are trying to figure out what to bundle it with. Compare on regions because you might want to have different groupings. Maybe you want to get rid of inventory. What products to package with it to get rid of the inventory? And is it different per region?
In a Forrester report entitled “The Top 10 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2012 To 2014″, the research firm surveyed 208 IT executives with knowledge of their companies’ technology strategies to see what areas they expect to change most during the next three years. Not surprisingly, the survey discovered that these executives expect to see the most business value in the next three years in business intelligence (BI), mobile apps and application platforms won out as the top three areas for change and increased business value.
All the talk is tablet and mobile. Check out what’s coming out of Forrester this past week. Forrester Research says:
I get tired of watching clients deploy unimaginative reporting solutions with unintelligible rows and columns. I almost hear some of these client CIOs convincing their business users that these solutions are ‘business intelligence.’ While those CIOs are demonstrating their capability at keeping their job by demonstrating persuasive speaking skills, they’re hardly working to put together a real BI solution. I will let CIOs who have unimaginative executive Continue reading
On November 4, 2011, the National Association of Attorneys General requested the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship to look into theft and use of stolen American manufacturing information technology and intellectual property. On April 2nd, Mary Landrieu, Chair, Olympia Snowe, Ranking Member, and the entire Senate Committee on SBE formally submitted a request to the Federal Trade Commission Chairman Leibowitz Continue reading
At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams with Gartner, said the Top 10 Trends show how IT is changing in that many of them in the past been outside the traditional purview of IT. The Top 10 Trends and their impact, briefly include:
Information as either connected or disconnected bits. This concept refers to the fact that information can be created formally (connected) or informally (disconnected), yet still lives within both the intellectual property/intellectual capital (IP/IC) capture process, as well as the broader IP/IC life cycle.
A second concept is the three evaluation criteria that we apply to Continue reading
Many of our clients and prospects that we get to meet with are facing issues with consistent reporting, compliance, etc. In addition to these issues, these same firms are running down paths toward Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS.) These issues and trends are forcing these firms to address the management of their data. Software systems have lists of data that are shared and used by the applications. For example, a typical ERP system as a minimum will have a Customer Master, an Item Master, and an Account Continue reading
Getting ready for the SQL Server 2012 launch on March 7, and I’m working through some distinctive features of SQL Server 2012. Today, I’m writing about SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS.) DQS provides approachable data quality capabilities for organizations of all sizes to help improve the quality of their data. DQS is designed to help ensure data quality through the profiling, cleansing, and matching of critical data.
Data Quality represents the degree to which data is suitable for use in and through business processes. You can define, measure, and manage data quality with metrics Continue reading
