New thinking on spreadsheets
There are some interesting new kids on the block in the spreadsheet world
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.
Informatica and the buyout - Informatica is going private – what does that mean?
Like stock markets users do not like uncertainty and until certitude is returned these are dangerous waters for Informatica
Chartio – bringing BI to the Business
Chartio have brought a point and click reporting tool to market that combines a low TCO, with ease of use and professional looking results.
Guavus – leading the way with analytics in a complex world
Whilst most analytics vendors offer capability Guavas offer real world solutions
Tackling the storage provisioning nightmare and business clamour to save costs
Load DynamiX's appliance stress-tests large throughputs and infrastructures addressing the "what-ifs"
Thinking outside the firewall for mobile storage protection
How Druva's approach to mobile backup and recovery exposes others' shortcomings
Close to the edge
The Internet of Things is going to require distributed stream-based processing
Updating data preparation
There seem to be more self-service data preparation platforms emerging every day.
Naming things
It's not easy to think of good names for new areas of technology
Watson – finally!
I think I finally understand the difference between Watson and Watson Analytics