Themes for 2012
Some thoughts about may happen next year in the information management space
The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.
FATCA and data governance - The US FATCA laws will required good data governance
FATCA is US-imposed law that applies both to US and non-US financial institutions. In the latter case it applies whenever you have US citizens as clients
Simplifying ETL - Ways to make ETL simpler
There a variety of techniques that data integration vendors could use to make ETL simpler, but generally speaking they aren't doing so
Continuous Business Intelligence and Big Data - Using CEP for real-time continuous queries
There are a lot of start-ups trying to link CEP to Big Data but it is likely that the major vendors will push them out of the way.
The accessibility bugs project – good start, more to do
The a11y bugs project aims to put pressure on browser developers to provide consistent and useful accessibility features.
Alpine Data: the first real data mining solution for the Big Data generation
Data Mining is essential to the analysis of Big Data but traditional Data Mining only scales at a great cost, making the ROI less than compelling until now
Inaccessibility of mobile apps and ebooks
Mobile platforms can be accessible but that is of limited use if the apps that run on them are not
CEP and big data
Complex event processing is a part of the big data story but surprisingly few vendors recognise this
Animated gifs are a turn off
Animation should be used with great caution, it can be dangerous but more commonly it will drive visitors away.
Informix revived
Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications