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...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...(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
Read More...The rules are shopping are changing. Are you taking advantage of it? If you're a business, are you reacting to it intelligently?
Read More...As we head into the holidays, I’ve been thinking about something. And in the spirit of what you’re about to read, I decided to share it. It’s the time of year when our focus turns to scouring for the perfect gift to give. It’s stressful for sure, not to mention time consuming and sometimes downright
Read More...When Oracle acquired Sun, you could hear the internet cacophony scream: “Java is dead! Oracle will destroy it! It’s part of the monolith now!” Not so fast. It hasn’t been widely talked about (but deserves to be), but Oracle is doing pretty much the exact opposite of what those involved with Java and the Java
Read More...We weren’t making a plan; I’ve never written a business plan. I’ve never written a business plan with any of my start-ups. With Meetup, I sketched, maybe wrote a few FAQs about how it would operate. We built it, went live, and people started using it. Then VCs called. Investors would rather invest in the
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