Collaboration Technology 2.0
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About the blog
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Evapordation
21 Sep 2011 -
Business Intelligence - Corporate Oxymoron or Capability
07 Feb 2011
Ian White and Michael Pincher discuss the latest trends and technologies in collaboration software.
I don't know how many other people experience it but there's plenty of times I've gone to find data and it's vanished, disappeared, gone. You know where you saved it, know where you put it but it ...
BI has been around as a term since 1958 - an output of an IBM researcher and further brought into the public domain by Howard Dresner (the aforementioned facts come from my favourite on-line ...
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View from the bottom
27 Jan 2011 -
TIBCO Silver Spotfire pubishes BI to the Cloud
19 Jul 2010 -
IBM assimilates the competition
16 Jul 2010 -
Terradata and ESRI combine to map data
14 Jul 2010 -
Oracle announces BI 11g
14 Jul 2010 -
SAP and Sybase - who gains?
08 Jul 2010 -
IBM believes in commoditised HPC for BI
30 Jun 2010
I've sort of fallen off the wagon. Once you stop blogging its sort of hard to start again but here goes:For the last two and a half years I have been working at Microsoft, almost entirely outside ...
From the smallest home office business to the largest enterprise, the amount of data that businesses accumulate continues to grow. Using that information effectively is often challenging because ...
Porting a database from one vendors offering to another has always been difficult. To try and ease the pain vendors have product porting guides, third party tools companies have products that will ...
At the ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA this week, Terradata and ESRI announced a new collaboration aimed at storing business data and Geographical Information System data in the same ...
Last week, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g. This is a major release for Oracle and comes at a time when Microsoft and SAP have both made major announcements of ...
When SAP announced its intention to acquire Sybase in May 2010, it immediately raised a number of questions. Seven weeks on and neither side seems particularly interested in publicly talking about ...
BI needs power. Lots of power. Before multi-core processors and desktop BI arrived, companies doing serious BI either used mainframes, mini-computers or small High Performance Computing (HPC) ...
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Thank you Graham Norton
28 Jun 2010 -
iPhone 4 and my 'so what' moment
27 Jun 2010 -
Quest's TOAD hops onto the Cloud
11 Jun 2010 -
Why databases must follow the applications to the Cloud
09 Jun 2010 -
Microsoft raises the bar for end user BI
08 Jun 2010
Graham's site of the week is http://myparentsjoinedfacebook.com or 'Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook'. Very funny and well worth a look !I suppose somewhere there is a site saying something like ...
I like my iPhone 3GS, it mostly does what I want a phone to do - yes the battery life sucks and until the new OS was released, syncing with my Exchange calendar was so problematic that I rigidly ...
Next week Quest Software will announce the release of TOAD for Cloud, extending the reach of its database tools into the Cloud environment. In the first version there will be support for four ...
As increasing numbers of applications move to the Cloud architects need to think about the implications for system performance. A key benefit of the Cloud is access to resources on demand so that ...
The days when BI was seen as hugely expensive tools that were only accessible to a small number of people are gone. The use of common tools such as spreadsheets and access to query languages have ...