Spreadsheet Governance
Spreadsheet governance is a specialised aspect of governance - dealing with the error-prone nature...
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What's Innovative?
Where's The Value?
- A quiet revolution
- IBM Informix and the Internet of Things
- Temando - a shipping platform for carriers and retailers
- "Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential" - How does Anaplan match up to Churchill's famous quote?
- Kii taking IoT into empowering the building sector through collaboration with HOUZE
Expert Opinion
- Uniface 10 - Now generally available
- Clarity begins to emerge
- The ethics of data science - A commentary on Weapons of Math Destruction
- Integration: Have we gone full circle in this cloud app world? - A look at the way SugarCRM has tackled the issue of mutability
- New Report from Research and Markets of Dublin on the Global RFID Market
Latest Updates
Recently updated Trend, Technology and Issue pages:
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...
Graph Databases
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
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...
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the emerging disruptive technology for the 21st Century
Streaming analytics platforms
Once there was complex event processing but now the major market for event processing is in...
NoSQL Databases
NoSQL - not only SQL - non-relational databases.
Big Data
Big data is a catch-all phrase that refers to data that, in one way or another, exceeds the...
Cloud
Cloud is shorthand for a quite revolutionary set of new ways through which the capabilities of...
Further Information
Further resources to broaden your knowledge:
Uniface 10 - Now generally available
Uniface 10 for all Uniface developers is released.
Clarity begins to emerge
There are too many databases, too many BI tools, too many ... but consolidation is beginning.
The ethics of data science - A commentary on Weapons of Math Destruction
Data science can be both abused and misused: what are we going to do about it?
Integration: Have we gone full circle in this cloud app world? - A look at the way SugarCRM has tackled the issue of mutability
We have a proliferation of apps which solve business issues but unfortunately are not open so that...
New Report from Research and Markets of Dublin on the Global RFID Market
The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global RFID market for...
Legacy, a reassessment - Legacy applications may be generating the profits that are paying for your innovation
Much of business is still running on legacy systems - if you just concentrate on innovation, you...
BMC, reports of death exaggerated? - Its forward-looking strategy is unveiled in London
The new BMC has streamlined itself and is going after agility and innovation.
Be careful what you read
Some of things published about GDPR are seriously misleading
A powerful citizen developer ecosystem - Mendix v7 brings great power - and, possibly, great responsibility
Mendix v7 has some useful innovations.
Java on the Mainframe - on z/OS rather than Linux - An opportunity well worth researching, if you run a Mainframe
Java usage on z/OS, on the mainframe, is increasing. It is being used to extend critical...
DevOps at the Oval - Development vs. Operations
DevOps does not mean NoOps
GDPR: marketing hype overdrive
GDPR should be considered strategically not tactically
Why, oh why, do banks send phishing messages.
The banks, governments and other institutions tell us the hallmarks of fraudulent communications....
Learning about Innovation in Configuration Management - An ITSM conference in Vienna and the BCS CMSG Conference in London
Configuration Management is still the basis of good governance for automated business systems. Two...
Compuware is rising from the ashes of its spinoffs. - Perhaps there really is money in mainframes
Compuware looks like it is going for growth afterall....