December 12, 2006
11 entries filed this day
Data quality savings gone missing
Editor · Enterprise Applications
One thing that continues to surprise me is how little developed the business case for data quality and master data management is. When I look at data quality vendors speaking at conferences I can sit through whole sessions which do not mention the amount of actual dollars their clients saved by using their technology. In the case of MDM there is some excuse for this, since MDM as a term only recently became mainsteam, and so few vendors have real projects that are in production with clients. Indeed just 4% of companies have completed an MDM project, according to a recent survey by Ventana (though 37% claim to have initiated a project). However in the highly related field of data quality there are no such excuses: tools have been around for years, and yet trying to find examples of well justified projects with a hard dollar payback is like pulling teeth.
Filed at 6:04am
Compliance (GRC) SAP, IBM….
Editor · Compliance / Enterprise Applications / Platforms
I’ve written about SAP GRC in the past , but figured it was time for an update. At the recent analyst meeting, Doug Merritt covered SAP’s GRC story. It is well worth a watch. He clearly articulates SAP’s strategy and progress to date. Slides here. Doug looks after GRC, Analytics and Usability, an important job indeed. He came from PeopleSoft a couple of years ago and has done a great of job of balancing “I’ve got a whole lot of great new ideas” and respecting our weird Walldorfivian ways.
Filed at 7:34am
Stroke Patients Find Help in RFID
Editor · RFID
The implementation of RFID in the healthcare sector has seen a rise over the past few years. From tagging of blood to controlling diabetes, RFID seems to be playing an integral role in taking care of the health of...
Filed at 8:45am
openSUSE 10.2 @work
Editor · Networking
After testing out openSUSE 10.2 @home and being exceptionally satisfied with the new release I decided to go for clean install on workstation @office, replacing the good old SUSE 10.1. As previously, I opted for GNOME desktop environment, the reasons being: 1) PC features P4 2.8Ghz with 1GB RAM and i865 32MB shared memory video chip (unlike what I have @home): 2) using both KDE and GNOME is better, and I have such an opportunity (btw, I am thinking of using XFCE as well on my old notebook, which is running GNOME right now); 3) I can be the guru of popular DEs :-p (joking)
Filed at 9:10am
Is the desktop dead?
Editor
A year ago in Computerworld we examined the reasons why laptops were taking over in business (see Decline of the Desktop ). This year laptops aren't just on a roll with business users - consumers are scooping them up in droves as well. According to an NPD Group study cited in Business Week (see Desktops are So Twentieth Century ) sales of desktop computers are down 5% while notebook sales rose 35% over a 12-month period ending in October, 2006. For the week after Thanksgiving, laptop sales were up 25% over the same week in 2005, while desktop sales fell 2%, according to sales tracking numbers from Current Analysis.
Filed at 9:28am
Le Web 3 renamed Loic (pronounced Le Week)
Editor · Wireless
leweb3 Technology There are a lot of people at the Le Web 3 conference who are going away from the event extremely angry. Someone at lunch today said tht the conference should have been named Loic instead of Le Web.
Filed at 12:47pm
IBM Stretches Memory To Its Limits
Editor · Storage
Flash technology is quickly reaching its limit. Todays flash memory chips can store as many as 32 billion bits on a single chip, but as the demand for greater storage space on MP3 players and cell phones are growing, so are the pressure on the memory manufactures to develop faster, cheaper memory with greater storage potential to eventually take over.IBM, Macronix and Qimonda today announced the creation of a new phase-change material that could lead to the development of more powerful memory chips.The new material is a germanium-antimony alloy measuring three nanometres by 20 nanometres in size.
Filed at 2:20pm
Reconstructing Iraq's Power Grid
Editor
I just finished listening to the second installment of the new IEEESpectrum Radio program on IT Conversations. This piece, ReconstructingIraq's Power Grid is excellent and very interesting. It's notpolitical--but the size and importance of the job is eye opening.
Filed at 2:43pm
Tom Raftery (once for news)
Editor
A couple of my thoughts on things I.T. which catch my fancy.
Filed at 4:20pm
Thomas Otter (SAP/Enterprise)
Editor
Thomas Otter's musings on SAP, ERP, HR, Enterprise applications, and expensive bicycle components.
Filed at 4:31pm
Simplicity is exactly what?
Editor · Enterprise Applications
Complexity is uncool. Everybody keeps telling me that. I’ve just read an interesting post over at Parallax . In this post Niel discusses how some clever chaps in the consumer space have developed some really simple tools to do neat photo manipulations.
Filed at 7:52pm
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