The Gamut Of BI Applications This is the second posting in a series of postings that will discuss the Information Oriented Architecture (IOA): The whole point of having an IOA is to support the applications that need a data service. In the IOA Diagram we show 11 such categories of applications. It’s arguable as to [...]

  Below is an up-to-date illustration of the Information Oriented Architecture. “What’s that?” you may be asking. Well if you’ve read any of my recent blogs you might remember my suggesting once or twice that there ought to be an Information Oriented Architecture to complement and integrate with the Service Oriented Architecture. I was deeply [...]

When we speak of data, most of the time we’re talking about well-behaved and well defined data that is stored conveniently in databases. We refer to this proudly as “structured data,” and well we might because unstructured data is far less convenient. An often quoted statistic is that “only 20 percent of data is structured.” [...]

In a word – Yes. But it might not appear that way yet. So let me play the angel’s advocate and see where the logic takes us. The first point to make is that cloud computing is still young, in fact it’s very young – just out of kindergarten. So there are many CIO and [...]

Continuation of the conversation with David Inbar, Pervasive Dir of Strategic Marketing Dev and Robin Bloor on the implications of the new DataRush 5 parralel processing development platform. The energy consumption and greenIT conversation continues as well as DataRush support for more programming languages, and what that means in terms of cloud computing requirements.