Introduction Few need convincing that the pace of change in modern business is skyrocketing and that the complexity of operations is increasing just as quickly. Less clear is the path to better methods of managing that change and conquering complexity. This paper introduces the concept of operational intelligence, a way of gathering information and creating […]
If you want to get CTOs in a lather, ask them which programming language they recommend to build an advanced Web site. Jon Williams, CTO of Flat World Knowledge, recently spawned a red-hot thread on the New York CTO Club list by asking this very question. If you want to get CTOs in a lather, […]
In a recent interview with Forbes, Treb Ryan explains his analysis of how the multi-tenant architecture used for most large software-as-a-service applications will become dominant and present a challenge to the relevance and importance of a large amount of open source software. Treb Ryan is chief executive of OpSource, a company that specializes in enterprise […]
When it was revealed in 1931, the world of mathematics and logic was shocked by Kurt Godels’ Incompleteness Theorem, which holds that there are certain statements in every axiomatic system that are neither true nor false. When it was revealed in 1931, the world of mathematics and logic was shocked by Kurt Godels’ Incompleteness Theorem, […]
Common mistakes to avoid when using gamification in sales and real-world examples on how to get it right. The concept of using gamification in an enterprise setting has been getting a lot of buzz recently. Games and contests can be effective ways to help motivate your employees by incentivizing specific behaviors to achieve specific business […]
Actian CEO Steve Shine drives company growth to meet big data challenges. Under the leadership of CEO Steve Shine, Actian has become an aggressive acquirer of technology for data management, processing, analysis, and application development. Actian Acquires Versant, Pervasive Software and ParAccel In 2008 Actian bought the core code that became the Vectorwise high-performance database. […]
In a fascinating article about the architecture of Android, Ron Amadeo explains how Google is systematically freeing itself from the grip of the device vendors. In a fascinating article about the architecture of Android (“Balky carriers and slow OEMs step aside: Google is defragging Android”) Ron Amadeo, reviews editor of Ars Technica, explains in a […]
The implications of Automatically Created APIs. The convergence of applications, websites, and databases on APIs is accelerating. By convergence I mean that APIs are becoming the common method for accessing information, in many cases by passing the application UIs, the web pages, and the query methods that were the initial way to access information and […]
I’m told by people who would know that Jeff Bezos thinks of Amazon as a software company, not a retailer or an e-commerce company. I’m told by people who would know that Jeff Bezos thinks of Amazon as a software company, not a retailer or an e-commerce company. I have no doubt that large Internet […]
Executive Summary Thingworx has created the first application platform designed to meet the needs of the connected workls, a world of smart things talking to people and to each other, where an explosion of data about the state of the world floods through networks, where every person or thing has the potential to listen and […]
