Content about computing

01.20.10

SaaS Please

Cloud computing - for long a technology that seemed to be the preserve of “bleeding edge” organisations and those with deep pockets. Cloud has now become mainstream to the extent that not evaluating how cloud computing can help, could be detrimental to your business.

11.27.09

IBM launches cloud-based business analytics service

IBM has announced a cloud-basedbusiness analytics service to challenge more established cloud computing players such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

10.29.09

MSc in Business Intelligence

Very few of us in the Business Intelligence world have any formal qualifications in the subject, mainly because when we started our careers such courses simply didn’t exist.

10.27.09

Cloud Convergence

Virtualisation vendor VMware revealed its intention to help organisations build applications directly ‘on the cloud’ with its $420 million acquisition of Springsource, whose open source technology simplifies the development and management of Java-based applications.

10.21.09

Teradata: Oracle, IBM analytics no threat

Business intelligence vendor Teradata is not worried by Oracle's and IBM's recent sabre rattling, saying the vendors' respective technologies remain fundamentally unsuited for high-performance analytics.

09.29.09

David Linthicum

Master data management (MDM) is one of those topics that everyone considers important, but few know exactly what it is or have an MDM program.

09.29.09

Intelligent Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI), like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), is a dimension of effective IT strategy, but must be considered within the totality of architecture. Acronyms have a way of becoming impotent when pursued as individual panaceas.

09.28.09

Cloud Computing

Though cloud computing is increasingly becoming part of enterprise IT strategy, it will likely be a while until large-scale, mission-critical databases make their way to the cloud. Businesses still have concerns over security, scalability and performance that must be addressed as the technology matures.