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Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

By Tom Raftery on March 11, 2015

Apple announced a new initiative at its Spring Forward event yesterday – ResearchKit. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, described it as a framework for medical researchers to create and deploy mobile apps which collect and share medical data from phone users (with their permission), and share it with the researchers. Why […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, asthma, Blackberry, breast cancer, diabetes, ehealth, google, Health, iPhone, mobile, Open source, parkinsons, researchkit, transparency, windows

Transforming Data Into Action - Part Two

Transforming Data Into Action – Part Two

By Michael Fauscette on December 2, 2014

In part one of this series we looked at big data and transforming it into smart data, or data that is contextual, relevant and delivered to the right people / person at the right time. One of the other interesting and growing use cases in the business use of data is something called small data. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apache Hadoop, Beowulf cluster, Big Data, CRM, Customer, Customer Experience, CX, data, data2action, decision systems, Distributed computing, enterprise, mapreduce, marketing, Open source, sales, sense and respond, small data, smart data, socbiz, supercomputer

It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source:  Thoughts on the Hortonworks S-1

It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source:  Thoughts on the Hortonworks S-1

By Dave Kellogg on November 18, 2014

It took me a week or so to get to it, but in this post, I’ll take a dive into the Hortonworks S-1 filing in support of a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of their stock. While Hadoop and big data are unarguably huge trends driving the industry and while the future of Hadoop looks very bright indeed, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, Credit Suisse, Database, Goldman Sachs, hadoop, Hortonworks, Initial public offering, IPO, NoSQL, Open source, Red Hat, startups | 1 Response

Technology for Good – episode thirty four with Salesforce’s John Tascheck

Technology for Good – episode thirty four with Salesforce’s John Tascheck

By Tom Raftery on October 19, 2014

Welcome to episode thirty four of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode our guest was SalesForce SVP of Strategy, John Taschek. John and I are both longtime members of the Enterprise Irregulars, but this was the first time John and I had had a conversation outside of email! Some of the more […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged #df14, apps, climate, Comms, Electricity 2.0, GreenMonkTV, Hardware, Internet of Things, IoT, John Taschek, mobility, Open source, Privacy, salesforce.com, security, Sustainability, wearables

Thoughts on MongoDB’s Humongous $150M Round

Thoughts on MongoDB’s Humongous $150M Round

By Dave Kellogg on October 21, 2013

Two weeks ago MongoDB, formerly known as 10gen, announced a massive $150M funding round said to be the largest in the history of databases lead by Fidelity, Altimeter, and Salesforce.com with participation from existing investors Intel, NEA, Red Hat, and Sequoia.  This brings the total capital raised by MongoDB to $231M, making it the best-funded database / big […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, Database, ibm, Ingres, MongoDB, NoSQL, Open source, sequoia, Venture Capital | 4 Responses

Firefox MASSIVE FAIL - frequent, incompatible upgrades and instability

Firefox MASSIVE FAIL – frequent, incompatible upgrades and instability

By Dennis Moore on August 27, 2013

For years, I have been a dedicated Firefox user.  Before Chrome, Firefox was a browser that really met my needs.  Firefox was faster and more flexible than Internet Explorer.  Firefox was innovative, supporting tabs, add-ons, standards, and multiple platforms.  Over the years, I customized my Firefox environment to meet my needs, with add-ons that made […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Add-ons, Firefox, google, google chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Mozilla Add-ons, Open source, opensource, Twitter | 40 Responses

Activiti Update 2013: New Functionality And New Partners

Activiti Update 2013: New Functionality And New Partners

By Sandy Kemsley on June 12, 2013

I had a briefing on the latest version of Alfresco’s Activiti BPM a couple of months back, but decided to wait until the news about their new partners – BP3 and Edorasware – was released before I posted. This strong showing of enterprise support partners is crucial for them following the defection of camunda from […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Activiti, Alfresco, BPM, BPMN, Business process management, ECM, modeling, Open source | 1 Response

Stick A (Open Source) Fork In It: camunda BPM Splits From Activiti

Stick A (Open Source) Fork In It: camunda BPM Splits From Activiti

By Sandy Kemsley on March 19, 2013

At the end of 2012, I had a few hints that things at Alfresco’s Activiti BPM group was undergoing some amount of transition: Tom Baeyens, the original architect and developer of Activiti (now CEO of the Effektif cloud BPM startup announced last week), was no longer leading the Activiti project and had decided to leave […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Activiti, BPM, Business process management, camunda, ECM, modeling, Open source | 3 Responses

On The Importance of Design at IBM: Love and Margins.

On The Importance of Design at IBM: Love and Margins.

By James Governor on January 9, 2013

At the end of last year my founding partner dropped a quite outstanding post – The Importance of Software at IBM. In it Stephen analysed IBM’s 2011 financial results through the lens he has been using for most of the year (the end of the age of Software-only business models).  It should surprise nobody that Software is […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged apple, Cloud Computing, design, ibm, microsoft, monkigras, Open source, redmonk, VMware

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04

By Dennis Moore on January 4, 2013

Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its IPO. It’s doing well, with a market cap just over $8.5 billion and a constrant stream of innovation. Lots of IT failures recently, […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, analytics, android, apple, BI, Big Data, business intelligence, Cassandra, Cloud, Database, Dell, Dennis Moore, Ensw, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, Hewlett-Packard, hp, iaas, ibm, Infor, Informatica, iPad, iPhone, IPO, IT, IT Failure, Java, jobs, Linux, microsoft, mobile, netsuite, NoSQL, Open source, oracle, PaaS, Patent, patent troll, RIM, SaaS, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, SAP AG, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, vc, VMware, workday, Yahoo | 1 Response

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