S/4HANA and AnyDB
Third party database providers are going to have some difficulty in persuading SAP that they can support S/4HANA
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.
Is exhaustive testing a heresy?
Can automation make exhaustive testing a practicable possibility - at least some of the time?
Comfort zones
Stories are becoming broader and that doesn't necessarily make life easier
Testing is broken
Manual labour can't be right in a technology context. Why is so much testing done manually?
How outsourcers rip you off
Outsources, consultancies, systems integrators - technology laggards and body shops
“Big Data” announcements
Companies are already making announcements ahead of next week's Strata conference.
Consolidating graphs and other matters
The graph database market is starting to consolidate. There are also interesting graph and associative database developments
The Internet of Things Reference Model
The World Forum Architecture Committee has published an IoT reference model
Graph database research
I am researching a bullseye paper on the graph database market. We will also be publishing a white paper that provides a generic overview of the market.
Apple fails customers
An update on Acunu