THE APPLICATION JUNGLE
October 26, 2009 at 2:41 PM | Posted in Future of IT, IT Architecture, Technical | Leave a commentTags: company’s architecture, enterprise, exponential complexity, Knowledge Management, mess of applications, Ontology, Technology
Most corporations today are a mess of hundreds or thousands of applications all promising to solve one problem or another. We call this jumbled mess the Application Jungle.
The problem is that for the last 50 years or so technology applications have burgeoned inside enterprise walls so that companies can no longer see the forest for the trees. Continue Reading THE APPLICATION JUNGLE…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART VI: YOUR IT SECURITY IS SCREWED UP
October 19, 2009 at 11:38 AM | Posted in Death of the Database, Elegant Simplicity, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | Leave a commentTags: Contextual Networks, data, elegantly simple, handling knowledge, IT, IT security, Knowledge Management, limitation of databases, orchestra, sophisticated, Technology
We hate to be the ones to tell you, but your IT security is probably screwed up.
If your company is anything like most companies, its security is probably based on formal organizational roles. This seems like a good idea at first, because Vice-Presidents should have more access to information than junior analysts, right? Continue Reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART VI: YOUR IT SECURITY IS SCREWED UP…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART V: SQL = SEEK WELL? WE DON’T THINK SO
October 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM | Posted in Death of the Database, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | Leave a commentTags: business requirements, DBA certification, game of Telephone, lost in translation, real-world language, sql
Getting to exactly the data you need in a database usually requires either perfect software (yeah right) or a four-year degree and a DBA certification.
The fact is that traditional database architectures serve IT, not the business, locking business users out of their own knowledge. Continue Reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART V: SQL = SEEK WELL? WE DON’T THINK SO…
InnovationWell Conference, Philadelphia, PA – #2
October 12, 2009 at 3:26 PM | Posted in e-Discovery, Knowledge Management, Pharmaceutical, Technical | Leave a commentTags: context, data, e-Discovery, handling knowledge, Knowledge Management, Pharmaceutical, Technology
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The session where I presented was very energetic, lot of open productive discussions, and lessons learned. Most people are from discovery but a few have early development and clinical backgrounds. Others were from technology companies.. Continue Reading InnovationWell Conference, Philadelphia, PA – #2…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – Part IV: Databases Have One-Track Minds
October 8, 2009 at 10:54 AM | Posted in Death of the Database, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | 1 CommentTags: corporate leadership, data-centric services, fluid access to knowledge, handling knowledge, intuitive decisions, Knowledge Management, limitation of databases, single-track processes, strategic decisions
In our last post we talked about the difference between data and knowledge, and how databases are good at handling the former, and bad at handling the latter.
Related to this, and another nail in the coffin of the database, is the fact that databases have a one-track mind when it comes to processes, as well.. Continue Reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – Part IV: Databases Have One-Track Minds…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART III: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATA AND KNOWLEDGE
October 6, 2009 at 10:42 AM | Posted in Death of the Database, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | Leave a commentTags: academia, aha, cross referencing, data, database, innovation, intuitive knowledge, Knowledge Management, knowledge-intensive industries, limitation of databases, medicine, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical, Wayne Gretzy
Yesterday you asked what the difference was between data and knowledge.
The difference is big, especially for industries like Oil and Gas, Pharma, Defense, Medicine, Academia, and any other knowledge-intensive industry.
Data is discrete, static, rigid and absolute. Knowledge, on the other hand, is intuitive and flowing. Continue Reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART III: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATA AND KNOWLEDGE…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART II: WHAT ARE DATABASES GOOD FOR?
October 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM | Posted in Death of the Database, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | Leave a commentTags: changing times, data, death of database, handling knowledge
In our last post, we made the bold prediction of the Death of the Database.
Before we start defaming the database, however, we would like to give it a chance by talking about what databases are good at. Continue Reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART II: WHAT ARE DATABASES GOOD FOR?…
IN SEARCH OF SIMPLICITY
October 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM | Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Technical | Leave a commentTags: pigeon faster, simplicity, slow dsl, south africa, Technology, wins, winston
Here’s another story that caught our attention: in South Africa, the internet service is apparently so slow that a local IT company challenged Telkom’s DSL service to a race… against a carrier pigeon.
Winston the pigeon carried a 4GB memory stick 50 miles to another branch of the IT company. While they downloaded the files onto the memory stick and as Winston took off, they simultaneously sent the file to the same location via Telkom’s DSL. Continue Reading IN SEARCH OF SIMPLICITY…
DEATH OF THE DATABASE – Part I: Death of the Horse
October 2, 2009 at 12:03 AM | Posted in Death of the Database, Future of IT, Knowledge Management, Technical | 2 CommentsTags: changing times, data, death of database, handling knowledge, horseless carriage, Knowledge Management, Technology
In 1908, Henry Ford invented the modern assembly line for automobiles and started churning out a new car every 15 minutes.
That was the year that Henry Ford killed the horse.
Of course, if Henry himself had claimed at the time that the ‘horseless carriage’ would be the death of the horse, Continue Reading DEATH OF THE DATABASE – Part I: Death of the Horse…
Going around the circle of technology
October 2, 2009 at 12:02 AM | Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Technical | 1 CommentTags: 60s, BNIs, common sense, engineers, innovation, iphone, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, miracle, MIT, NASA, President Kennedy, propeller, scientists, stratosphere, Styrofoam
Back in the early ‘60s, engineers and scientists were besides themselves to heed President Kennedy’s call to “send a man to the moon and bring him back safely before the end of the decade.”
They designed spacecrafts and rockets and telemetry and all the other things that made that period giddily exciting for the curious, Continue Reading Going around the circle of technology…
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