I guess I have been doing this too long. I can easily see the value of Enterprise 2.0 technology for an organization, but find it a challenge at times to convey that same value to others. I also know that I'm not the only one that has that issue. Others, that have that same passion, also suffer from being, perhaps, too close to the market.
I…
ORACLE's Stephen Slade has written about addressing information overload on the factory floor. According to Slade, today's automated processes create large amounts of valuable data, but only a small percentage remains actionable.Oracle claims information overload can cost financially, as companies struggle to store and collect reams…
I was writing a post about a link I saw, but realized it was also about what companies do to this industry, so I'd like to ask your opinions on that first (the original post is below). Is it ok for companies to act childish (not wanting to share, not-invented-here syndrome, etc)?
ORIGINAL POST:…
So far, I was always creating open-source applications (or didn't publish them at all) because it was free for me to create a new CodePlex project, and upload everything. Couple of days ago I started wandering what kind of apps should I make, closed or open source. I can see "cons" and "pros" in…
Q: What’s your current role and what career
path brought you here?
J.O.: I'm currently a partner and one of the
founding team members at Altimeter
Group. I'm currently the Research Director, as well as wear the hat
of Industry Analyst. Prior to joining Altimeter, I was an Industry…
We sit down with Ryan Weber of KCNext in our office to talk about the Kansas City market for technology. The Technology Council of Greater Kansas City is committed to growing the existing base of technology firms, recruiting and attracting technology companies, aggregating and promoting…
Repeat Business obviously happens because the company has a great product or a great service.
In the software industry, do companies make the code base complex enough so that the maintenance comes back to them?
I have heard of cases where companies say "ya this code base has minor…
I encountered a developer who wanted some outside advice on their teams project. I found out they're developing a huge software suite for the companies executives, project manager and developers that can calculate metrics automatically and graph them per iteration.
As a student from…
Industrial systems integrate Windows with real-time functionality such as machine vision and motion control
Robotics - Personal computer - Companies - Industrial - Robot
Those of us in tape storage engineering take a lot of pride in what we do, but understand that tape is the right answer to a storage problem only some of the time. And, unfortunately for a storage medium with such a long history, it has built up a few preconceived notions that are no…
David Nixon, an Oracle colleague of mine, was doing some research on MDM the other day. He came up with some well founded insights that I thought I’d share with you. Gartner recently published a note asking “Should Organizations Using ERP 'Do' Master Data Management?” It may…
On October 17th, I posted a short blog and a
podcast interview with Chirag Andani, talking about how Oracle IT uses its own
IDM products. Blog link here.
In response, I
received a comment from reader Jaime Cardoso (jaimec@jaimec.pt)
who posted:
“- You could have
talked…
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Will programmers be around in a few years?
I have a passion of web development, but have been wondering of late, what is the future of web programming, and just programming in general.
I will give an example to illustrate this, companies now most of…
The reason I'm taking a general business question and localize it to software development is that I'm curious as to whether there are certain trends/etiquette/nuances that are typical to our industry. For example, I can imagine two different attitudes employers may generally…
When given multiple opportunities from various software giants, as a fresher out of school how should one decide which company to go for? Just as an example I have offers from two companies, won't name them but the two biggest dream companies for any SDE. While one company…
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