Archive for September, 2009
Analyzing Data in the Cloud
I had an interesting chat with Roman Stanek, CEO of Good Data last week about the debate over data security and reliability in the cloud. For those of you who are not familiar with Good Data, it provides a collaborative business analytics platform as a SaaS offering.
The upshot of the discussion was something like this:
The [...]
What is location intelligence and why is it important?
Visualization can change the way that we look at data and information. If that data contains a geographic/geospatial component then utilizing location information can help provide a new layer of insight for certain kinds of analysis. Location intelligence is the integration and analysis of visual geographic/geospatial information as part of the decision making process. A [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Security and Reliability of Data in the Cloud
Over the past few days, I got a chance to speak to two different companies in the business analytics space about data in the cloud. One was a SaaS provider, the other an enterprise software vendor. Two vendors, two different stories that illustrate the jury is still very much out regarding how end users feel [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Five Key Areas For Managing the Cloud
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog because I’ve spent most of the summer working on our Cloud Computing for Dummies Book along with Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor and Marcia Kaufman. I did, however, post a short blog about premise vs. premises, which I urge anyone involved in Cloud Computing to read.
In any [...]
