This article is part of The Bloor Group’s research program, Philosophy of Data, which has been underwritten by IRI, The CoSort Company. Businesses don’t grow by resting on their laurels. The savviest enterprises understand that building a foundation on best practices and smart systems leads to wins across the board. As new solutions and processes are …Read More
Don Quixote and the Philosophy of Data
This article is part of The Bloor Group’s research program, Philosophy of Data, which has been underwritten by IRI, The CoSort Company. The pen is mightier than the sword, and as such, words can be very powerful. They can enlighten, enrage, disrupt, inform – there is no end to the list of evocations words bring …Read More
Agile and the Art of Automation
The term agile gets bandied about quite a bit, almost to the point that its meaning is a bit lost. Of course, no software vendor will advertise its product as offering brittle, clunky and sluggish performance, but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily agile. Techopedia defines agile software development as “a lightweight software engineering framework that …Read More
From the Model T to the Data Warehouse: How Automation Is Winning
A couple years back, the first moving assembly line for mass production celebrated its 100th birthday. Churning out Model Ts at a record pace, it forever changed the face of the manufacturing industry. But let’s consider the evolution of the automobile. The earliest Model Ts required 84 distinct assembly steps, and one worker was trained …Read More
Putting the R in the Open Source Revolution
Open source is not for everyone. Oh wait, it kind of is. The open source movement has been marching forward for decades, creating a rich and diverse community of developers and contributors across all kinds of software markets. Anyone can contribute code or script, regardless of background or job title, and so long as the result is of …Read More