I have always been fond of two things: cooking and analytics. Believe it or not, there are many correlations between cooking your perfect recipe and getting that perfect analytical dataset that drives actions. Yes, we know that when in doubt, follow your heart, or so they say. And when it comes to your enterprise, the parallel should be that whether in doubt or not, always follow the data. Data is the driving force, the fuel…
There are two words that that data industry loves to use today: complexity and simplification. The latter is obviously intended to counter the former… and the ultimate objective is the Holy Grail of Data Nirvana (HGDN) i.e. a so-called ‘single source’ of data where firms can look at every aspect of their business on one software platform. This is the rationale that SAP is currently keeping at front of mind as it develops what it…
Jim Czuprynski, an experienced database architect and published author on database troubleshooting, has spent a month hammering on the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse. His insights are worth noting, not only because Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison has called the new “self-driving” technology one of the “most important things we’ve ever done,” but also because the leap to autonomous computing has many DBAs worried about losing their jobs. Czuprynski’s three-word summary of the new…
Gigamon, a company that provides network traffic intelligence to security tools, that I’ve profiled before, announced the acquisition of ICEBRG, a Seattle-based security startup. Now, I receive press releases about acquisitions and mergers all the time, but I took particular notice of this one because it suggests that a theory of mine is beginning to be born out in reality. Over the past few years, both in my Forbes columns and on my research site,…
