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Latest Content
A selection of our latest analyst content:
Expert Opinion
- Blockchain as a TRUST enabler. - It's at the start of its hype curve, but IBM and others are betting on business Blockchain
- Cyren Cloud Security surveys its marketplace - A survey of internet security as seen by the business
- Decisions: educating the business in logic - a possible side-effect of Sapiens DECISION
- The death of Privacy Shield has probably not been exaggerated - Donald Trump disables privacy for non-US citizens
- Designing an effective Cloud Service user experience - what we can learn from the Aspect Via "customer engagement centre"
Latest Updates
Recently updated Trend, Technology and Issue pages:
Data Masking
Developers and data scientists may not be allowed to see detailed personal information but at the...
DevOps
DevOps is about encouraging a culture of collaboration across development, operations and business...
NoSQL Databases
NoSQL - not only SQL - non-relational databases.
Mainframe
Many enterprises still run on Mainframes but start-ups that value growth without early...
Graph Databases
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Spreadsheet Governance
Spreadsheet governance is a specialised aspect of governance - dealing with the error-prone nature...
Data Preparation (self-service)
Data preparation tools allow business analysts/users (sometimes data scientists) to prepare data...
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Customer relationship management (CRM) refers to the principles, practices and guidelines that an...
SCM
Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods or services and is a major...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has automated the whole process of the way business identify...
ERP
ERP is an amalgamation of information systems delivering a variety of company functions including...
Automated Business Process Discovery (ABPD)
ABPD is an emerging field that discovers the business processes based on examining the electronic...
Data Virtualisation
Data virtualisation makes all data, regardless of where it is located and regardless of what format...
Operations Management
Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the efficient and effective...
Further Information
Further resources to broaden your knowledge:
Blockchain as a TRUST enabler. - It's at the start of its hype curve, but IBM and others are betting on business Blockchain
One of my takeaways from IBM Interconnect 2017 is that IBM is taking Blockchain, as a business...
Cyren Cloud Security surveys its marketplace - A survey of internet security as seen by the business
A survey which gives some input into how businesses of various sizes see Internet Security
Decisions: educating the business in logic - a possible side-effect of Sapiens DECISION
Decision modelling in the latest release of Sapiens DECISION may help the business to understand...
The death of Privacy Shield has probably not been exaggerated - Donald Trump disables privacy for non-US citizens
Processing EU personally identifiable information needs assurance of certain privacy measures....
Designing an effective Cloud Service user experience - what we can learn from the Aspect Via "customer engagement centre"
Cloud-based persona-oriented services remove barriers to achieving the Mutable Enterprise.
More on licensing - business continuity - and governance - issues
A chat about licensing issues with Ian Preskett, a SAM process consultant
BMC Exchange 2016 - the privitised BMC is still innovating
There's still a buzz around BMC, although bringing its legacy customers along may not be trivial.
Licensing - Just another business continuity issue, and why you need Configuration Management
Poor licensing can be a business continuity issue all by itself.
Just what is risk based testing, anyway?
Ask almost any vendor what they mean by risk based testing and they'll give you a different answer.
CA World 2016 - general impressions
CA Technologies is still customer focused and sees open source integrations and AI as...
Logistics and Supply Chain blog Supply chain just got a bit riskier
This week's blog in Logistics & Supply Chain carried a blog by Malory Davies...
Low-code solutions and the problem of citizen developers
Citizen developers can run amok - they need to be governed.
Pentaho 7.0 a further instalment in the pursuit of excellence
Latest release of the Pentaho Business Analytics platform discussed
The issue with testing today - Modern systems are so complex, testing may do little more than engender a false sense of security
Accepted testing practices and techniques aren't adequate for the system complexity we anticipate...
A focus on Business Continuity - Business Continuity should be a tested part of holistic system design, not a bolt-on afterthought
Some thoughts on Business Continuity, prompted by a new iland survey