Is Big Data the Silver Bullet for Advanced Supply Chain Analytics?
Leveraging “Big Data” is coming up more and more as a “must have” in conversations I’m having with clients and…
Big Data Privacy Is About You, Me, Them, and Us
Today, we live in an always-on digital world. We work online. We socialize online. We shop online. We bank online.…
Big Data, Big Payoff? Why Your Company Needs Data Literate Employees, Now
Search the hashtag #bigdata on Twitter. Blogs, industry resources, newspapers, magazines, and even memes are promoting a series of lofty…
Which Will Win? Flash or Hard Drive Storage?
Perhaps no argument has stirred up more debate in the technology industry than the ongoing fight over flash and hard…
The 5 Sexiest Big Data Jobs Available Today
It’s been estimated that by 2015, almost two million people will be employed in big data jobs in the US.…
Oracle Financials Is in the Cloud
Like most vendors of on-premises ERP and financial management software, in moving to the cloud Oracle has focused on developing…
Robot HR: How HR is Contributing to Unemployment
I was recently putting all my old articles in one place online, and I ran across this piece http://www.thekompany.com/3rd-party-watch-14-1993-august/ I’d written in…
CAPEX Deferred Eventually Makes the Company Sick
Wall Street analysts keep waiting for companies to spend money upgrading their infrastructures, but they shouldn’t hold their collective breath. …
Big World, Big Data: The Modern Day Impact on Traditional Industries
While Big Data has received a lot of attention over the last three years, the “Data” part has been a…
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Takes New Role: What Does it Really Mean?
On Sept. 18, just prior to Oracle's Q1 FY15 earnings announcement hitting the wire, the company made an announcement about…

