I get asked the following questions often: What is real-time data warehousing? Is there such a thing as real-time? Who defines ‘real-time’ anyway? Is real-time really just ‘near-time’? It comes down to this concept: the ability to have valuable, quality data in your data warehouse as quickly as that data is generated within your operational
Read More...As industry veterans in the enterprise software and professional services business, the notion of “what’s next” in technology is continually being discussed, especially now that spending is resuming. I recently attended a Gartner Group presentation entitled Top Predictions for 2011 and Beyond, expertly presented by Dan Plummer. It’s obvious now that technology is tied to
Read More...2011 comes out of the gate nicely: NEW YORK—U.S. stocks rose to fresh two-year highs on the first trading day of the new year, aided by data pointing to improving conditions in manufacturing and construction. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 110 points, or 1%, to 11687. The measure hit 11695.19, its highest intraday level
Read More...Today’s post is going to be a smallish browser tab clean-out, much like every other Friday Linkology post we publish, but this one will be especially incoherent because I’ve had a fever for the past two days and my thinking was a bit bizarre. Really, if you’re looking for a ‘2010 Year in Review’ thing,
Read More...A few good, worthwhile links before you get into the eggnog and rum balls today: The CIA has put together an investigatory task force to assess the damage caused by the leak of 250,000 diplomatic cables. It’s name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short. (I couldn’t make this up if I tried.) Why net
Read More...Just a quick note today to let everyone know that the blogging schedule will be lighter through the holidays. By lighter I don’t mean we won’t be posting, but we’ll be concentrating on smaller posts, perhaps a bit more sporadically, with interesting links and/or web finds rather than short- or longform blog posts. Judging by
Read More...It’s not often (read: ever) I go into ad hoc iPhone or Android app reviews here, but today I’m going to break with tradition and tell you about an amazing iPhone app. If you’re an iPhone user, buckle up. Word Lens is an augmented-reality app that translates or otherwise modifies text in real time through
Read More...(Ed. note: Jeff Micallef is a Managing Partner of MIPRO Consulting.) Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~ Newt Gingrich Perseverance eventually pays off. As we look back at this past year I am reminded of the childhood story of the race
Read More...Originally noted by Ganesh A.M. over at the Oracle PeopleSoft blog, PeopleTools 8.51 offers a PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) as part of its PeopleTools Objects array. I can see this being useful for POC/development and QA/testing teams. Here are some videos to illustrate how it works. Questions? Fire away in the comments. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Read More...This is the first year that I have completed my holiday shopping completely online – I have not set foot into a store and actually purchased something on my list from said store. What’s more, I cranked out my shopping in about 40 minutes – 25% of which was me screwing around looking at things
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