Since our founding in 1997, TIBCO has always been there when needed. Before and after disasters struck, TIBCO was there to support businesses in need and the people they employ. The last 16 years have been tumultuous, from the scare of Y2K, 9/11, global climate change, countless catastrophic natural disasters, and… Read More →
Google something. Chances are you can find the answers you want before you finish reading this sentence. In fact, have you ever noticed Google times itself to see how fast it can produce results? In only 0.11 seconds, Google produced over 5 million results from a search of TIBCO…. Read More →
There is a big difference between invention and innovation. Invention is the creation of something new. Innovation is doing something that has been done before, differently and better. Improving on a process, tool or solution is just as important as having the original. Our lives continually get better because of… Read More →
TIBCO’s TUCON 2012 kicked off this morning with the theme, “Everything is Different.” From the start, the areas of Digital Customer Experience Management, Big Data, Social and Consumerization took center stage, beginning with the opening address by TIBCO founder and CEO Vivek Ranadivé. While You Were Sleeping Vivek talked about… Read More →
The way we do everything is different… so why are we still running election campaigns and voting relatively the same way we did 200+ years ago? Imagine if we could bring the process into the 21st century using the technologies that are innovating today? Guess what? We can.
A SIDEBAR ON NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING What about negative campaigning: does it work? Yes… and no. It does improve differential performance of your candidate. However, it does so both by firing up your supporters (everybody instinctively understands this) and by depressing turnout in that moveable middle. This – aside from not… Read More →
The recent elections in France and Greece have been watched with great interest by both politicos and investors. These choices resonate loudly across the oceans. “Political Loyalty” may sound like an oxymoron, or the punchline to a joke, depending on your cynicism level and the news headlines today, but it is real… Read More →
When customers are looking for ways of dealing with imperfect (substitute your own expletive here) data, there are five major factors that should be considered. You will find many competing claims about approaches and algorithms, but at the end of the day, my (completely unbiased) view about evaluation criteria is:… Read More →
Imperfect data – A historic perspective Our world of computing in 1969 was very different from today. In 1969, Dr. E.F. (Ted) Codd published his first internal IBM paper, “Derivability, Redundancy and Consistency of Relations stored in Large Data Banks”, followed in 1970 by the ACM publication, “A Relational Model… Read More →
The critical elements you need to fully understand before living in the cloud are the physical attributes of the cloud center: staffing, patrols, power, law enforcement and fire or other disaster access, location and method of secure backup, and recovery. This is all in addition to the nature of the… Read More →