Why HANA? Well, It’s Simple!
Even after several years after its initial launch, I still find people who think SAP HANA is primarily a fast, expensive database — a “luxury”…
Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) Is the Next Big Thing!
We’ve had software as a service, platform as a service and data as a service. Now, by mixing them all…
Innovation from the Cloud
We’ve already explored the benefits the cloud can have on business processes and the bottom line, but there’s another element…
New Revenue Recognition Rules Require Software
For most of the past decade businesses that decided not to pay attention to proposed changes in revenue recognition rules have…
Hadoop Can’t Do That
I just got back from a little executive summit conference in Dallas for Chief Data Officers. Frustratingly, I heard a…
5 Key Takeaways for Businesses from Google I/O 2015
Historically Google has been a little behind the curve with regard to gadgets, but with all their clout with YouTube,…
esProc Improves Text Processing: Fetching Data from a Batch of Files
Sometimes we need to fetch certain data from multiple files of a multi-level directory during text processing. The operation is…
Safe Big Data
Big Data is one of the most important business and government developments of the twenty-first century, but there are crucial…
5 Things You Should Know About Google’s UriBeacon and Apple’s iBeacon
Google’s new interesting initiative called the Physical Web is a great tool to manage the complexity of the Internet of…
The Joy (Division) of Visualization
This morning, I had one of those serendipity moments.As I was waiting at the bus stop to take my daughter…