Quick Thoughts on Watson Analytics

IBM has had a ton of announcements around Watson, their cognitive computing platform. A couple of weeks ago it was Watson Discovery and earlier this week it was Watson Analytics. Still a Beta program, Watson Analytics is a cloud based cognitive computing analytics...

IoT opens opportunities, if you can deal with it

We hear the term “real-time” a lot. But “real-time” can mean everything from instantaneous to several seconds or even minutes. The industry has not properly defined a real timeliness of the term “real-time”. This can make it very confusing for business users. If...

What to Do With All That (Marketing) Data

  In the past several weeks, I’ve had more conversations about omni-channel marketing than I thought I’d have over an entire year. There is intense interest in the concept. Omni-channel marketing advocates a seamless pivoting from one marketing...

Cloud IDE Foster Collaborative Coding

Cloud IDEs help developers to collaborate and enable more flexible work environments. These new tools will help programmers stay on-time and on-budget better than on-premises tools. Click here to download the report

If I Hear the Term “Enterprise-Grade” One More Time…

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of dining with two distinguished gentleman, both analysts, both very smart. One of them was Ben Woo…yes I am sucking up to him 🙂 As we talked shop, the third person of our party said something that was surprising, yet...