Blogs & Articles

For a long time, I’ve been interested in why it is that larger companies, like Google and Facebook, that have nearly limitless resources and technology infrastructure, are all so seriously focused on pruning their technology portfolios at all levels. This focus contrasts sharply with how I believe the rest of us, businesses of more modest […]

February 27, 2018

For many businesses, legacy app migrations are becoming an increasingly important issue when they examine their technology portfolios. Companies have the desire to move these applications, which are vital to their operations, off their existing infrastructure and to the cloud to ensure the applications can continue to provide value in the modern world. But this […]

February 22, 2018

Companies need to guard against cyber threats. But how? This infographic examines the six essential features of cybersecurity, and how each one functions to keep your business secure.

February 2, 2018

To support the research mission Saving Your Data Lake, we’re speaking with various companies to capture their perspectives on why and how data lakes fail. Arcadia Data has experience using data inside the data lake in a new way that allows analysts to interact directly with data in what they call a data native mode […]

January 31, 2018

Companies crave analytics. Without enough time, or a team of data scientists to whip up a custom analytics product from scratch, many are turning to “off the shelf” productized analytics. But with so many products on the market, how do you know which productized analytics will properly feed your business? This mouth watering infographic takes […]

January 30, 2018

To support the research mission Saving Your Data Lake, we’re speaking with various companies to capture their perspectives on why and how data lakes fail. During our conversations with Podium Data, we discussed three main failure modes of data lakes: Polluted data lakes A polluted data lake occurs when many pilot projects with many tools […]

January 30, 2018

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 […]

December 11, 2017

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 […]

December 9, 2017

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 […]

December 9, 2017

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 […]

December 9, 2017