Visiting the neighborhood supermarket on weekends to shop for groceries has become a weekly occurrence for most working people. We all know buying food everyone in the family likes can be a difficult task. I normally have a lot to purchase during these visits because my wife and I have different kinds of breakfast. I am a person who loves the full English breakfast while my wife prefers the delicacies of Indian cuisine.
The Grocery List
Listing our shopping items is a simple process carried out easily in our minds and through conversations. However, for companies that produce the items we buy at the supermarket, maintaining product catalogs is more complex and difficult. Each product is made up of ingredients vital to the nutritional value, flavor, and aroma of the product. For my frosted flakes with honey and almonds to taste perfect and be marketed with the right labels, companies use a data management system to ensure that the right ingredients go into the right products at the right time. Consolidation of information about core products and optimizing product information workflows, increases operational efficiency by providing people and systems in the company with a single source of accurate and consistent product information. [Read more...]
Sometimes, just sometimes, what happens in Las Vegas shouldn’t stay in Las Vegas. That was clearly the case this week when TIBCO CTO Matt Quinn took the stage to talk about the myths and realities of Big Data. In Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart, Rich or Pretty, Quinn provided his perspective on Big Data based on years of experience in some of the biggest data environments around, like FedEx, Nielsen, and others.
In more than one instance, opposite poles attract each other, from marriages to difficult colleagues at work. One person is usually organized, predictable and manageable, and the other one can turn out to be lazy, moody, or totally unpredictable, but these parings often end up being the best matches. The same is true between the marriage of something standardized and automated like BPM and something as messy as social media. The knot to tie them together is people. Engaging people to collaborate and be a part of the process is the secret to the happy marriage.
Whether it’s infographics, maps, flow charts, or other design-driven diagrams, data visualization is now seen as the preferred way to interact with data. In fact, infographics and other visualizations have been some of the most shared images in social media history. Why? They’re easy to understand, quick, and beautiful. They engage.
I asked Gene Kim, researcher and co-author of The Phoenix Project, five thought-provoking, high-level questions about how DevOps and Platform as a Service (PaaS) can benefit 21st-century enterprises right now and in the long term.
I asked John Skovron, Senior Director of Engineering at TIBCO, five thought-provoking, high-level questions about how DevOps and Platform as a Service (PaaS) can benefit 21st-century enterprises right now and in the long term.
DevOps is more than just a hot IT buzzword. Unlike other “flash in the pan” tech trends, DevOps is a real chance for companies to evolve their IT departments. In his book, 
Cloud computing is rapidly pushing companies for new models to virtualize physical resources, allow for more efficient use of servers and networks, and provide an ability to scale resources based on demand. Gone are the days of building infrastructure for the moments of highest demand, which then sits unused at off-peak times. We’re moving into the age of elastic computing that can happen on-premise as 
If your company purports to want to innovate and become a market leader, why do they seem satisfied with an average data solution? What’s even worse, businesses unwillingly aspire to be just average while spouting off to employees and customers they are anything but. Companies with average IT solutions will always produce average results and never go from average or good to great.
