Pervasiveness
Pervasive BI, Pervasive data quality, Pervasive availability - what's with all this pervasiveness?
Rules the IBM Ilog way
Rules and the name Ilog have seemed to be associated forever. Last year (2008), IBM acquire Ilog and incorporate the products as part of the Websphere
System S
I have previously discussed why I think that System S is unique. Now I want to put some meat on the bones. System S has been the name of an IBM research project for some years and last...
Events and other things
The advent of IBM's System S (which I shall discuss in more detail in a subsequent article) raises interesting questions about the nature of event and stream-based processing. The reason for this...
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...
Memory supplement for an ageing population
The demographic predictions of many countries, especially in the developed world, make it clear that the percentage of old people is growing, as is life expectancy, and the relative number of...
IBM Lotus Symphony now on the Mac
In early November 2008 Lotus announced Symphony 1.2. The release includes support for the Ubuntu Linux operating system, some DataPilot table functions that provide summaries of spreadsheet data,...
Lombardi in 2008
This is the sixth in a series of articles I shall be producing based on a major piece of research being undertaken by Bloor Research on the BPMS market. For those of you who read IT-Analysis.com...
IBM does Security rather well
IBM may be big, and in some people's eye beautiful, but what are they doing to prove that their offerings are as safe and secure as any other vendor? Running a business the size and...
IBM to acquire ILOG
On July 28th 2008, IBM and ILOG announced that they had signed an agreement regarding to the proposed acquisition of ILOG by IBM.