The problem with data quality solutions part 3
So far in this series of articles I have discussed the failures of traditional data quality tools when it comes to matching in general and product and complex data matching in particular. However,...
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.
The problem with data quality solutions part 2
I recently wrote about the deficiencies of traditional data quality tools when it comes to data matching. How the conventional pattern-based approach with user defined rules for weights simply...
Jaspersoft – is free BI the way to go?
We were recently asked by the editor of one of our few remaining computer technology weeklies, whether we thought that Open Source BI (Business Intelligence) tools such as Jaspersoft and the...
Major new accessibility features in Firefox 3.0.4
It is the morning of 17 November amd I have just switched my computer on. The first thing that happened was that Firefox upgraded to 3.0.4. At first it looked just like another security update but...
The problem with data quality solutions
There are actually a number of problems with traditional data quality solutions (which I will return to) but in this article I am going to focus on what is arguably the basis of all data quality,...
Google Book Library for the print-disabled
For several years Google have been digitising books, by scanning copies in libraries, and making them available on-line. The publishing industry was unhappy about this and they started a class...
The latest Assistive Technology: Skype
If you are a keen solo yachtsman and you go blind how do you carry on with your passion? The answer is to hook up a video link using Skype. Ed Gallagher has slowly lost his sight over the last...
Using scripting to improve accessibility
I recently went to the first day of the first Scripting Enabled Conference. To quote from the website The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers between disabled users and the...
Speculation, Streams, Warehousing and the X-Men
I recently wrote (see IBM, BEP and CEP) about IBM's release of InfoSphere Streams. I reported that rather than referring to this as a complex event processing (CEP) product they are instead calling...
IBM, BEP and CEP
IBM has just held its first annual analyst's conference on what it calls Business Event Processing (BEP). Now, followers of the complex event processing (CEP) market will know that IBM has renamed...