Big Data, Intelligence and Multi-Faceted Innovation
I’m using this diagram (below) in two posts – this one, and one to be published shortly. Why? The…
The Cloud’s Role in Standardizing Business Processes
A few months ago, I wrote a post about cloud computing's possible impact on business process outsourcing, in which I…
Kalido Directs Data Governance
Kalido recently introduced version 9 of its Information Engine product. The company has been around for 10 years but has had difficulty…
Customer Service, the New Marketing in the Era of the Social Customer
Okay, I'm not the first person to write about this idea, but it has been on my mind lately, so…
What does SOA bring to Agile? Or Agile to SOA?
We’ve just passed the ten-year anniversary of the first publication of the Agile Manifesto, which laid a philosophical and best-practices…
Physician Use of EMR/EHR Statistics
Despite the federal push for healthcare organizations to adopt effective, meaningful use EMRs/EHRs by 2014 to replace paper records, the…
R Still the Preferred Tool of Predictive Modelers Competing at Kaggle
As reported on the Kaggle blog No Free Hunch, R remains the preferred tool for data scientists seeking to win…
Crying “Cyber Attack” in Illinois
Earlier this month, a pump burned out mysteriously at a water plant in Springfield, Illinois.
Extreme Redundancy – Don’t Leave Home Without It!
Visa’s command and control center—somewhere on the east coast of the United States—is a case study in redundancy with intense…