If you don’t think diversity is important, you are an idiot.
This debate, often (in my world) framed by anger and shock over the under-representation of women in technology, keeps popping…
Gamification and Social Gaming
Gamification and social gaming are two trends that are taking social network communities to an entirely new level. Although very…
The Death of BIG Business intelligence
In the second decade of the 21st century the BI platforms from the SIMO vendors (SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle) are…
Top 10 Ways to Apply Predictive Analytics in the Insurance Industry — and Your Industry?
Actuaries are experts at using mathematics to forecast risk at a human biological level. CAN is the expert at using…
5 Benefits of Managed Cloud Computing
In previous blogs I wrote about the benefits of private cloud computing and the benefits of public cloud computing based…
Information, Intelligence and Process: Combining Forces to Better Answer Business Needs
Data governance can be seen as formalized policies, practices and processes set up to manage voluminous data assets across enterprises.…
An Open Source Solution for Master Data Management
In most large organisations, managing master data is a very complex problem that technology alone will not solve. The majority…
Zero Latency: An Obsession with Velocity
Vendors often promise some derivative of the term “faster” in marketing and sales literature (i.e. faster decisions, quicker time to…