The Economic Logic Behind Tech and Talent Acquisitions
There’s been a lot of speculation lately about why big companies spend millions of dollars acquiring startups for their technology…
SAP Provides Facts over Fiction on SAP HANA and Launches NetWeaver in the Cloud
At the SAP TechEd conference in Las Vegas this week, the global software giant unveiled the latest versions of its technology, platforms…
Data Quality: Opinions and Impressions Matter the Most
The perception of quality and the reliability of data assets can change with time. It only takes one incident or…
How the Cloud is Changing the Data Center’s Bad Reputation for Energy Inefficiency
A few weeks ago, a New York Time’s article, the first in a series about cloud computing, The Cloud Factories:…
Big Data in Insurance – Is the Industry Ready to Take Advantage?
The need for information has created this disruptive nomenclature that has taken the world of data by storm. This revolutionary…
You Don’t Have to ‘Go Big’ to Get Started With Big Data
I wrote a blog for Harvard Business Review recently titled I wrote a blog for Harvard Business Review recently titled…
The Driving Force Behind Big Data: Data Connectivity
In most organizations, stakeholders maintain the perspective that Big Data offers tremendous benefits to the enterprise, especially when it comes…
Counteracting Our Obsession with Speed
In the quest to get as close as possible to the speed of light for faster decision making, it appears…
Cyber Summit 2012: Big Data, Small Presentations and Rock and Roll
Last week Cyber Summit 2012: Leading the Way in the Age of Big Data took place in Banff (October 1-3). Last week Cyber…
