Untangling events part 2
The purpose of this series of articles is to identify if all of the different approaches to handling events are part of a single market or whether they should be treated as separate. In the first...
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.
How to tag documents with multiple languages and scripts.
A happy New Year to all my readers. This holiday season was unusual in the fact that the Christian festival Christmas, the Jewish festival Chanukkah (חנכה), and the...
Applying data warehousing principles to event processing
It is now pretty much agreed that in data warehousing environments you need a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture in order to handle very large data volumes. The important factor is...
Untangling events part 1
Complex event processing, business event processing, security event management, log management, data retention systems, event-driven architecture, event warehousing: are these topics and other...
In the data quality jungle something is stirring
Among the big beasts in the data quality jungle I don't think there are many people who would include Pitney Bowes. However, that could be about to change. First, a word about the company:...
The problem with data quality solutions part 5
Finally (I think) there is one more problem with standard data quality solutions and, specifically, with most data profiling products. I have previously referred to the fact that there is not as...
Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 published December 2008
WCAG 2.0 is a set of guidelines, that are designed to replace 1.0, on creating accessible web content. I wrote about the Proposed Recommendation when was published in November. I suggested then...
IBM events: not the whole story
A couple of months ago I reported on the announcement of IBM InfoSphere Streams as the company's high end (complex) event processing platform. I also described IBM's approach to event processing...
A key new accessible websites standard is ready for review
BSI, British Standards, is inviting all interested parties, and in particular marketing professionals and disabled web users, to review and comment on the draft of a new standard on accessible...
The problem with data quality solutions part 4
Having set out my stall with regard to conventional data cleansing and matching products (a report card that would read tries hard, could do better) I now want to turn my attention to data...