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Import.io Ends the Scourge of Data Scraping

July 25, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Data model, Data Warehousing, Databases, hewlett packard, Io, Web browser, World Wide Web

While attending Structure in San Francisco recently I was briefed by import.io about there solution. During the event I probably did a dozen briefings but import.io really stood out to me. What they’re doing is in really fact pretty…

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EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

May 16, 2013

Business

Big data, Business intelligence, Crunchbase, Databases, Equinix, intacct, Netflix, Sales

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple…

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On Organizations’ Real Requirements Around BigData

December 10, 2012

Business

Big data, Business, cloud computing, Data mining, Data Warehousing, Databases, gartner, Vocus

Every time another vendor takes the “big data” moniker and applies it to some legacy system a cat somewhere on the internet dies. Like “cloud” a couple of years ago, big data has become the term de jour –…

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Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

August 28, 2012

Business

AppExchange, Business intelligence, Databases, Indicee, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, yammer

I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always…

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TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

August 13, 2012

Business

Blog, Databases, Florian Müller, google, Java, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, techcrunch

So Alex Williams (a great guy, good friend and awesome cloud pundit) wrote a post a week or two ago entitled “Why The Open Cloud Wins And Oracle Loses When IT Gets Virtualized.” (subtle huh?) Oracle wasn’t overly happy…

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On Privacy, and Software Vendor’s Access to Customer Data

January 27, 2012

Business

37signals, Basecamp, cloudcomputing, Customer, Databases

A mini firestorm broke out recently when 37Signals posted about their 2011 growth statistics. As part of the post, 37Signals told the world that the 100 millionth file to be uploaded to their software was the picture of a…

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Import.io Ends the Scourge of Data Scraping

EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

On Organizations’ Real Requirements Around BigData

Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

On Privacy, and Software Vendor’s Access to Customer Data