Building on the idea I wrote about last week (Business Intelligence and the Data Center), I wanted to do some brainstorming about the potential impact of applying BI to the data center. Why Should Anyone Care? There are two reasons that this topic is vitally important. First, I think that IT in general is headed […]
How is your organization going to harness the power of mobile devices? In many ways, the answer to this question is a proxy for your approach to technology in general. Summary: doForms is aimed at the sweet spot of mobility: easy to create custom mobile applications doForms uses the metaphor of paper forms to create […]
Operational Intelligence refers to a new category of methods and technology for gaining visibility into business operations, discovering insights, and then rapidly taking effective action, frequently through automation. Operational Intelligence refers to a new category of methods and technology for gaining visibility into business operations, discovering insights, and then rapidly taking effective action, frequently through […]
In a series of articles collected in the problem statement “Preparing for Big Data” we have outlined the concept of a data lake, a vision for a much wider, less organized form or storing and managing data for business intelligence purposes. In a data warehouse, data goes through a structured process for extraction, transformation, and […]
CIOs and CTOs must learn to address a challenge, involving the divide between the people who know about the vast amount of new sources of data emanating from machines and other devices (“big data”) and the questions in the enterprise whose answers can be monetized. CIOs and CTOs must learn to address a challenge, involving […]
A large amount of data is now being created by Web servers, point of sale systems, RFID sensors, networks, and a variety of other systems that have long been used by people in the data center for diagnostic purposes and for performance analysis. A large amount of data is now being created by Web servers, […]
Imagine that all your business apps were people, seated in an auditorium ready to hear a speech. Here’s what I would say to them about machine data: Imagine that all your business apps were people, seated in an auditorium ready to hear a speech. Here’s what I would say to them about machine data: “Business […]
Early Adopter Research sat down with Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian, to discuss the convergence of social business, BPM, mobile, and existing applications to create a new concept called worksocial. In discussing this concept with Matt, Dan Woods, CEO and Founder of Early Adopter Research, was inspired to write a manifesto about “Completing the Social […]
How people can use a data fabric like Splunk to take machine data and use it to improve operational intelligence In the first article in this series, I explained what machine data is and how it can help business applications. In this article, I explain how people can use a data fabric like Splunk to […]
The massive firepower of big data processing systems to distill enormous amounts of data is being combined with real-time information. There is a convergence taking place in cutting-edge applications: The massive firepower of big data processing systems to distill enormous amounts of data is being combined with real-time information. The next generation of applications won’t […]
