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The enterprise is the next place where the disruption wave is going to happen. Who would have thunk it… you, perhaps? Okay, before you flame me, let me explain. Granted, enterprises are not known for taking bold innovative technology steps; indeed, it’s where legacy software [aka digital zombies] still seem to thrive. We all know [...]
Communities. A word everyone seems familiar with these days. Community represents the power of the internet created in the second half of the 2000s. The variety of social networking sites created a new kind of problem: how can all these multiple communities be integrated together? For those of your in the enterprise business, I bet [...]
Big Data is trending. According to some sources, there is a confounding amount of data generated on a daily basis. Navigate to this interesting infographic to see what I mean. The way I see it, if a company is not thinking or planning ways of getting value out of all that data being generated, they will be [...]
Search and information are key operational words in the Inforbix lexicon. We truly believe the ability to find and access information in a manufacturing organization can dramatically change the way people work and the way it does business. Consider the impact information access had on the consumer and web space (remember the days before Google? [...]
Everyone wants to make good decisions. And as everyone knows, to make good decision you need data. Not just any data, but the right data. In the good old days, when data was easy and uncomplicated to access, the hard part in making a good decision was making the decision. Today, that’s changed. The hard [...]
I’m sure you’ve had a chance to hear about Big Data. Awareness of big data is increasing these days. Navigate to Big Data on Wikipedia article, to get to broad definition: In information technology, big data[1][2] is a loosely-defined term used to describe data sets so large and complex that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties [...]
Let’s talk today about search and enterprise. Search has come a long way from being a well known feature in many applications and OSs to something different: getting access to information. Internet search engines pioneered the vision of “information access” and Google turned search into a verb: “Google it”. So, when it comes to accessing information on [...]
On today’s post, I want to talk about a topic that usually receives little attention in the blogosphere: data attributes. Let me start by establishing what I mean by data attributes and in what specific context I refer to them. As an engineer or someone that works in a manufacturing company, you probably come across [...]
Design, Engineering and Manufacturing are all becoming extremely collaborative. These are the types of environment where a single person cannot do much on their own, they need to work with others. People need to work with their customers on requirements; collaborate within design teams with different specialists; and communicate and work with people outside the [...]
It’s been awhile since I last posted a “Friday Data Story”. These usually present a topic that expand the “data” horizons of software use and also provide a bit more perspective. The topic of “ontologies” has already been discussed on this blog. Navigate to Inforbix Product Data Semantics if you need a reminder as a starting point to today’s [...]