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Over the past two weeks, we’ve been inundated with the various highlight reels from the French Open, showcasing killer baseline winners, huge first serves, and wicked topspin shots — a constant reminder of how the game of tennis has evolved over the pa…
The purpose of this blogpost is to enumerate the declared ethical positions of major players in the data world. This is a work in progress.GoogleIn June 2018, Sundar Pinchai (Google CEO) announced a set of AI principles for Google. This inclu…
Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Frank Gillett discusses the smart home: the types of technologies in the market, the ways in which they’re used by consumers, and how the smart home could change the economy as we know it. Featuring: Fran…
The Open Group’s Healthcare Forum recently published (free, but registration required) their version 0.1 ‘snapshot’ for HERA, their proposed ‘Healthcare Enterprise Reference Architecture’. What follows is a quick(ish) review, together with some practical recommendations. I’ll try to be nice –…
Over the past twelve months or so, we have seen a big shift in the public attitude towards new technology. More people are becoming aware of the potential abuses of data and other cool stuff. Scandals involving Facebook and other companies have been he…
SAP announced a new name, market position, and strategy for its customer engagement portfolio. Instead of a potpourri of products, SAP will now offer the quirkily named C/4HANA, which is comprised of SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP Service…
Really excited to join Venture Beat today for the webinar: “AI-powered location: A step closer to the future?” This isn’t my first foray into the spatial and mapping world. In fact, I’ve been a big fan of maps since my days in Africa where my map of th…
Behaviours developed in a state of scarcity may cease to be appropriate in a state of abundance. Our stone age ancestors struggled to get enough energy-rich food, so they acquired a taste for food with a strong energy hit. We inherited a greed for swee…
We recently published our Risk And Compliance Tech Tide report outlining 14 core technologies to track in 2018. One of the challenging parts of this research is setting the right scope. We found risk and compliance technology everywhere, covering every…
Whether you take Zachman’s 1987 paper as the start of the architectural time-line or not doesn’t really matter. The point stands that architecture, as in the planning of IT systems, has now been around for thirty years. And so why do people still refer to it as emergent? It’s because although we may know what […]
A few years ago, I met with an incumbent telecom provider in Europe, and they came across as from “the old country.” I asked about their data strategy, and they were horrified at the thought of doing anything other than secure and protect their data as…
With the increase in regulations governing the privacy of personal…