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 –…
Winners of Mozilla Open Data Competition announced
The winners of the Mozilla Open Data Visualization competition "How Do People Use Firefox" have been announced. The competition attracted…
Data Warehousing and Data Science
David Champagne has recently written a fascinating article for TDWI entitled "The Rise of Data Science" where he reminds us…
Top Ten Predictions for 2011 from IDC
This post is built from our annual IDC group effort to lay out ten predictions. The actual document should be…
Identity Mixer: better online identity management?
Last August I wrote about the (Still Coming) Privacy Boom. I was frustrated while reporting that companies weren't coming up…
