App Dev

In the latest edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Tendu Yogurtcu, CTO of Syncsort, during the Strata NYC Conference. Dan covered Syncsort’s technology in a recent article for Forbes in which he describes how the company is helps businesses manage their entire data supply chain. Today’s conversation covers a gamut […]

October 1, 2018

John Schroeder is the founder and CEO of MapR. He has extensive experience in enterprise software, having worked at Calista Technologies, Rainfinity, BRYO, and Compuware. Our conversation focused on MapR’s unique data fabric technology, which is an evolution of the data warehouse and data lake. The data fabric expands upon these earlier repositories to push […]

August 19, 2018

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, […]

December 9, 2017

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 […]

December 9, 2017

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, […]

December 9, 2017

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 […]

December 9, 2017

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. […]

December 9, 2017

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 […]

December 9, 2017

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 […]

December 9, 2017

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 […]

December 9, 2017