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By Philip Howard December 23, 2009
The first time I wrote about Apama (now Progress Apama), back in May 2002, the first thing that I wrote about it was that the...
By Philip Howard December 23, 2009
For someone who writes regularly about the merits of good quality data it is galling to have to admit that I am now a serial...
By Philip Howard December 23, 2009
Large organisations tend to be like applications. They have a bunch of divisions that do particular things but each tends to be siloed. And most...
By Philip Howard December 07, 2009
Stories, as my English teacher used to say, have a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning is the context: in this case the...
By Philip Howard December 01, 2009
Unlike Judith Hurwitz, I was not at IBM’s Information On Demand (IOD) conference last week. Partly this is because IBM now runs a European IOD...
By Philip Howard November 20, 2009
The idea of things being pervasive is making a comeback. First, IBM redefined the idea of pervasive BI and now Informatica, with the release of...
By Philip Howard October 12, 2009
HP Data Retention and Guardian Online (HP DRAGON) is a solution primarily aimed at fulfilling the needs of the EU Data Retention Directive (EU DRD),...
By Philip Howard October 12, 2009
Traditional approaches to spreadsheet management focus on replacing them completely, which is impractical in many instances; just concentrating on identifying errors; or large scale systems...