The data and information puzzle
Discussions about the meaning of data and information is not new, as data managers have debated the semantics of data, information,…
Turns out IBM’s Watson is Not a Supercomputer!
Talking to a friend at IBM last night, I learned that Watson, technically speaking, is not a supercomputer. This was…
Doing Data Mining Out of Order
I like the CRISP-DM process model for data mining, teach from it, and use it on my projects. I commend…
Integrating NoSQL in the Data Warehouse
Just putting NoSQL in the title of a post on B-eye-Network might raise a few hackles ;-) but the growing…
IDC: Decision Management Market at $10B by 2014
The folks at IDC (Dan Vesset, Maureen Fleming, Steve Hendrick, Henry Morris and others) have just released Worldwide Decision Management…
With PMML, interoperability is truly attainable
Developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG), an independent, vendor led committee, PMML provides an open standard for representing data…
Teradata Tops the Chart, Again
By now, everyone knows that Teradata’s ‘secret sauce’ is the massively parallel processing of the Teradata database. It’s that advantage…
The “decline effect,” random variation, and evidence-based marketing
There’s an interesting article by Jonah Lehrer in the Dec.
My take on why ETL has not always kept up with the integration workload
Why are companies reaching the limits on the workhouse ETL? Here are some thoughts that occurred to me as I…
Book Review – BRFplus Business Rule Management for ABAP Applications
My friend Carsten Ziegler, with Thomas Albrecht, has just released a new book on business rules for SAP customers –…
