I remember when I started my career in tech, many of my customers were moving away from mainframes to distributed computing for those applications that required more human involvement. As a percentage, traditional mainframe programs shrunk and the skills necessary to maintain them became scarce. I vividly recall a conversation with my customer at the [...]
Today at the Teradata PARTNERS Conference in San Diego we announced a major new release of the Kalido Information Engine. Version 9 further extends our business-model-driven automation to cover more data integration tasks than ever before. We believe the impact of this is the need for separate, purpose-built ETL tools for data warehousing is quickly [...]
I’ve been thinking about the article and punditry around a recent discussion on IT/business alignment, and I’ve finally been inspired to respond after seeing this post today. Wendy compares IT to the TSA and suggests that IT has a similar image problem with its customers – the non-IT part of your business – and that [...]
On a recent trip to Barcelona, I did an exceedingly rare thing for a business trip: I went sight-seeing. The top of my list was Sagrada Familia, a gigantic modern cathedral designed by eccentric Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí. After standing in line for nearly an hour to get in, I was fully prepared to be underwhelmed: [...]
