Data Governance and Data Quality
Regular readers know that I often blog about the common mistakes I have observed (and made) in my professional services…
Financial Services Analysis For Free
If you work at a Financial Services organization there is a great new source of free information. Chris Pratt, formerly…
The End of Relational Databases?
Hasso Plattner, SAP’s co-founder, chairman, and “Chief Software Advisor” has been giving a series of talks including his keynote at…
Capturing IDs Correctly
A friend of mine runs marketing for a major sports team, during each game he has interns walking through the…
Should Marketing Executives Skip the IT Department?
As marketers become more tech-savvy, the demands they place on corporate information technology (IT) departments often increase. Unable and reluctant…
Email & Sleep Deprivation
We took an informal poll of eMarketers to find out what elements of their email program keep them up at…
Positioning your Database Start Up for Data Warehousing
Image via WikipediaBI/Data Warehousing is an easier market to enter for new database platform vendors. This is for a few…
How to Position your Database Start Up
I have been speaking with a lot or new database vendors over the last 12 months and this has prompted…
Positioning your Database Start Up for Enterprise OLTP
It is important to realize that there is less diversity in the enterprise OLTP market than at any point in…
The Delicate Art of Pushing Back
Commiserating a week or so ago with an old friend, struggling mightily with some external consulting firm providing technology talent,…

