What I’ll Be Looking for at Informatica World 2014

  Next week is Informatica World 2014 in Las Vegas. There are several good reasons to pay attention at what is happening there starting next Monday. First, if you are an Informatica customer, you can find out what’s new and trade tips with other custoemrs....

IBM and Big Data: Announcements from “soup to dessert”

(Why would I end a meal with nuts? That phrase never made sense to me.) IBM made some announcements on April 28 related to the Big Data space. Amongst those announcements were: The addition of Big Data/Analytics Services onto the Bluemix development platform –...

I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque

As much as I hate to admit it, Bugs Bunny might be wrong! At least, Bugs might not be right (pun intended). The Washington Post has finally documented UPS’ use of Big Data technology to identify the benefits of maximizing right turns. This is an example I often use in...

OpenText vs. Box in a Collaboration Patent Brawl

Software patents have been in the news of late. Just this week, the Supreme Court of the United States (also known as SCOTUS) has taken up the subject once more with Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International. In the world of collaboration, there was also a...

Test Data Management: Automate or Die

Cloud software allows for fast incremental releases of software which provide nearly constant new value to customers and end-users. Mobile applications are also in a race to add features but also to keep pace with the changing mobile computing environment. To help...