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Applying Our Research To Black Hat 2017

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I summarized RSA 2017 in the following way: It’s a bit like the supermarket, you’ll make far healthier choices if you stick to the outer aisles. Well, Las Vegas B-Sides, Black Hat, and DefCon are taking place this week and since these events differ in tone, audience, and participants, I’ve updated my advice: We’ve gone […]

Global TOGAF® 9 Certification Exceeds 70,000 in 134 Countries

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Another milestone in the TOGAF® 9 certification program!  The number of individual certifications in the TOGAF® 9 certification program as of July 24 is 70,131. This represents over 12,000 new certifications in the past twelve-month period. TOGAF continues to be adopted globally with certified individuals from 134 different countries.

2004 to 2017 Convergence of Big Data, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Graph Analytics, High Performance Computing – All These and Yet Big Data Analytics Sucks

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2004 – Tim Lee Berner   Semantic Web OWL and RDF introduced to address Semantic Web and also Knowledge Representation. This really calls for BigData technology that was still not ready. https://www.w3.org/2004/01/sws-pressrelease   2006 – Hadoop Apache Hadoop is an open source software framework for storage and large scale processing of data-sets on clusters of commodity […]

Does Your Channel Run In A Silo?

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I have spent my entire career in the channel. With 75% of world trade flowing through indirect channels according to the World Trade Organization, I’m always interested in seeing how businesses organize, manage, and execute their partner and alliance programs. We know that B2B marketers have been working to break down silos for years to […]

Get Ready For The Self-Driving Economy

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Autonomous transportation. If you’re reading this, you have an internet connection, so you’ve heard all about how autonomous vehicles (AVs) are coming to take our jobs, eliminate traffic and give machines the power to make moral choices. This technology is exciting, hence all the media hype – but what does it really mean for your […]

And the Duoploy Strikes Again

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The acquisition of Rocket Fuel by Sizmek is not so much an example of ad tech consolidation as it is one of the power of the Facebook/Google duopoly to quash competitors, this time on the buy side. Now, it’s not as though Rocket Fuel didn’t make mistakes. To start with, they are part of an […]

Organizations as Systems – Kurosawa, Clausewitz, and Chess

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In order to respond appropriately to the context we find ourselves in, it’s helpful that we be able to correctly define that context. It’s something humans aren’t always good at. Not too long ago, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War was all the rage as among executives. While the book contains some excellent lessons that […]

EA Conference in London October 2017

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Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2017 16-19 October 2017, London I am pleased to say that I will be participating at IRM’s Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2017 16-19 October 2017, London.  This provides a great opportunity to discover some of the latest approaches and thinking in EA, Business Architecture, and BPM, and the synergies between them. There…