What Cloud and SOA Will Bring in 2012: Seven ‘Half-baked Ideas’
The year 2011 has been an interesting year in terms of SOA-cloud convergence, and the next year will see even…
BI 2012 Predictions – No Way!
It's that time of year when every analyst worth his or her salt is making predictions for the coming year. …
On the Government, Data, Cooperation, Crisis, and Opportunity
In government circles, Open Data is getting its fair share of attention these days. At least in the US, resistance…
Trudeau v. Kent, That’s What I Call Negative Sentiment
Last week was a swashbuckling affair in Canada’s House of Commons. Justin Trudeau (son of Canada’s favourite statesman, Pierre Elliot…
How to Use Pivot Tables to Mine Your Data
To succeed at Six Sigma or any process improvement effort, you'll often have to analyze and summarize text data. Most…
BI Clarity
On a Business Intelligence initiative, much of your success will depend upon a very special word--"clarity." Here is how one…
‘Garbage in, garbage out’ — with a 2012 Twist
GIGO — or ‘garbage in, garbage out’ — has been the programmer’s mantra since the dawn of computing, with meaning…
Three Competencies for the Entity Web
When we interact with information sources online in 2014 (note I'm not calling these things search engines, though the things…
Value of Decommissioning Legacy Systems
Most organisations reward their project managers for achieving scope, within a given timeframe for a specified budget. While scope is…
The Horizon of Data Mining
A few days ago, inquiring about projection models I was faced with a question about whether these models are purely…