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1. The Mutable Business

The Mutable Business is the 21st century take on the business in a constant state of evolution.
This is now our core research focus, driven by technological innovation, globalisation and changes in working patterns. Read more about the Mutable Business

2. The Bloor MiniMag

Get the latest version of our window on to Bloor's research and analysis. This is a simple way for you to get up-to-date with our research in targeted areas and to see what is happening in Bloor.
Issue #4, just released, discusses The Mutable Enterprise.
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3. Bloor partners with CIF

… to develop a range of end user-focused initiatives, including events, research, how-to guides, e-learning courses, and structured masterclasses for Cloud adoption.
These initiatives are designed to help organisations refine and develop their Cloud migration strategies. You can also take advantage of our partnership with a significant discount off CIF Membership.
Read more about our partnership

4. Event Schedule

Have you seen our events schedule?
Featuring details of all the events we're involved in, the exclusive Winmark roundtable programme aimed at C-level professionals, and presentation materials for those events that have already past.

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Test Data Management
This is the use of tools to make a representative subset or copy of a whole database that lets you...

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...

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InterSystems "Joined Up Health and Care" - a healthcare technology conference
Report on the InterSystems "Joined Up Health and Care" conference, 2017

Building out a cloud-based critical app for a bank - SEAM number 8, a developer's meet-up
Gluster, Ansible and a cloud-based app...

Opportunities for data centre operators in 2017
Based on quarterly reports from CBRE up to the end of Q3, 2016 has been a bumper year for data...

Primetime for Cloud and DevOps
The quarterly reporting season is upon us again. IBM and Microsoft have already announced...

Talent Management: a key tuning exercise in enhancing your data centre sales capabilities
In the rush to provide sales and marketing automation tools and the need to create more and more...

Profits delayed: straddling the powerhouse to utility business model spectrum
Are data centres becoming the power stations of the 21st Century... just a utility into which we...

Has the Open Compute Project Come of Age?
As I read the announcements and reviews coming out of the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose...

Ask not what will IoT do for my data centre...
In amongst all the news about hyper-scale data centres and concentrations of data centres in key...

Data Governance is not Data Quality
And it's not Data Stewardship, either

Serverless architectures - a great idea, but some caution advised
We could be building a new spreadsheet disaster in Shadow IT

Building TRUST in your infrastructure - it's easy to lose, but harder to build and much harder to restore
Trust doesn't come with technology, it must be "baked in"

Serverless Architectures and the Internet of Garbage - AWS Lambda, Apache Open Whisk and Google Cloud Services
Serverless Architectures are rapidly becoming popular in Cloud computing (and, some would say, a...

Engendering trust in an online world
Trust is defined as the ability to rely on the reliability or truth of something ...

Digital transformation and trust - Kevin Borley looks at a Chief Information Officer's PoV
A CIO must have the authority to challenge the thinking of his/her colleagues (even at Board...

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...