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 […]
Dan Woods brings the context of more than 25 years of experience in technology and journalism to his speaking engagements. Having interviewed more than 1,000 technology experts and authored more than 20 books, Dan adapts his vision of making technology work to virtually any context.
If you are facing a thorny IT problem, Dan Woods can probably solve it. Dan’s background as a CTO and his 25 years in the technology industry enable him to create new technology architectures and debug organizational problems while allowing everyone to be heard.
