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Update from ThoughtSpot Beyond 2022
Posted by Mike Ferguson | May 27, 2022 | BlogI attended the ThoughtSpot Beyond conference recently in Las Vegas, Nevada where the growing search-based BI platform vendor made a series of announcements to both solidify and strengthen its position in a mature BI platform market. The following summarises what they announced together with my analysis of these announcements recognising that we are in a […]
Has Informatica Raised the Bar on Hybrid Data and Application integration?
Posted by Mike Ferguson | January 29, 2018 | BlogOver recent years the adoption of cloud computing has really gained momentum with more and more retailers, pharmaceuticals, telcos, financial services and just about every business voting to forgo the headache of managing complex hardware and software infrastructure themselves to spend more time trying to make use of applications, data, analytics and self-service BI tools […]
Operational BI and Analytics in a Data Driven Enterprise
Posted by Mike Ferguson | July 16, 2017 | BlogFor a lot of my clients today, the importance of BI and analytics has never been so high. And it’s pretty clear that that opinion is no longer just in middle management. It is also in the boardroom where the belief now appears to be that BI and analytics are mission critical to success. In […]
ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by Mike Ferguson, “A Decade of Hadoop”
Posted by Mike Ferguson | February 5, 2016 | BlogThis is a ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop’s becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum behind it as a key component platform in big data analytics has been nothing short of enormous. In that time we have […]
Smart Infrastructure and Smart Applications for the Smart Business
Posted by Mike Ferguson | January 18, 2015 | BlogOver the last 30+ years I have been in the industry, I can’t remember a time when the IT infrastructure and application landscape of most of my clients has been so complicated. Today we have hardware servers, clusters, virtual servers, storage systems, file systems, databases servers, virtual storage, content management systems, application servers, cloud-based applications, […]
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