Almost two years ago the late lamented Steve Jobs declared that we had entered the post-PC era. Maybe he was a little late to the party. The post-PC era was heralded when mobile phone sales by unit began to outnumber PC sales buy unit and that was over ten years ago. Its arrival was confirmed [...]

A couple weeks ago, about a hundred of Pervasive’s EMEA-based partners, customers and industry analysts gathered to discuss best practices and trends around data integration – including, cloud, Big Data, and data quality – at IntegrationWorld-Europe, which took place at the fabulously modern Cumberland Hotel in London. The event included an informative keynote from EMA Vice President Shawn Rogers who [...]

With the growing interest in the potential business value to be gleaned from “Big Data” or Extreme Information analytics, a new role has been gaining interest: the Data Scientist. The data scientist is a hybrid role encompassing computer science, advanced statistics/mathematics, forensics analytics and other advanced skills, as well as business savvy. The data scientist [...]

NoSQL became a buzz word in the last 12 months. Why? The short explanation is that there are a number of new databases which don’t depend entirely on SQL (which we can think of as Not Only SQL databases) and some which don’t depend on SQL at all (which we can think of as absolutely [...]

Over time, enterprises have usually considered data migrations a task that falls mostly to IT. Considering how crucial data migrations are to business processes, companies need to develop migration strategies that focus on the real purpose: business-ready and business-usable data. The owners of key business knowledge should be fully involved in plans and many tasks [...]