Category Archives: Customers

Social Media Monitoring with CEP, pt. 2: Context As Important As Sentiment

by Chris Carlson on February 3, 2012 – 9:45 am
Chris Carlson

When I last wrote about social media monitoring, I made a case for using a technology like Complex Event Processing (“CEP”) to detect rapidly growing and geospatially-oriented social media mentions that can provide early warning detection for the public good (Social Media Monitoring for Early Warning of Public Safety Issues, Oct. 27, 2011).

A recent article by Chris Matyszczyk of CNET highlights the often conflicting and confusing nature of monitoring social media.  A 26-year old British citizen, Leigh Van Bryan, gearing up for a holiday of partying in Los Angeles, California (USA), tweeted in British slang his intention to have a good time:  “Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America.” Since I’m not too far removed the culture of youth, I did take this to mean partying, cutting loose, having a good time (and other not-so-current definitions.) Read More »

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ANNOUNCING! The 2012 Data Virtualization Architect-to-Architect & Business Value Program

by Ash Parikh on January 25, 2012 – 7:30 am
Ash Parikh

Today, agility and timely visibility are critical to the business. No wonder CIO.com, states that business intelligence (BI) will be the top technology priority for CIOs in 2012. However, is your data architecture agile enough to handle these exacting demands?

In his blog Top 10 Business Intelligence Predictions For 2012, Boris Evelson of Forrester Research, Inc., states that traditional BI approaches often fall short for the two following reasons (among many others):

  • BI hasn’t fully empowered information workers, who still largely depend on IT
  • BI platforms, tools and applications aren’t agile enough Read More »
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Mainframe, or Not to Mainframe?

by Kin Cheung on January 17, 2012 – 12:04 am
Kin Cheung

You may think of the mainframe as a thing of the past. Stop. People have been predicting its death for years; there are plenty of old articles about the demise of the mainframe. But reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. The mainframe is more like the Matrix, where it was called The Source. A quick search on the percentage of enterprise data on the mainframe will give you results citing 70 percent of enterprise data still reside on the mainframe. The reality is mainframes are still here and powering the global economy. Read More »

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Craziest 2012 CEP Predictions – Watson, Kardashian, the BCS and More

by Scott Fingerhut on December 20, 2011 – 10:00 am
Scott Fingerhut

Remember the last time you were home in the evening, there was little in your kitchen to eat but you didn’t want to go out? Then you had an idea – that you could concoct a delicious meal made from a variety of completely unrelated and forgotten frozen and semi-fresh food coupled with rarely used spices  and other odd ingredients.  That’s a lot like predicting the future. If you stay safe and conservative, you’re going to get close to what you expect. But, if you get all crazy (think stir fry Top Ramen and turkey jerky), your prediction will sound cool, but has a low probability of working out (unless you are on Top Chef). Read More »

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Dodd-Frank Legislation and Structured Data Retention

by Informatica on November 21, 2011 – 12:11 am
Informatica

The “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” has recently been passed by the US federal government to regulate financial institutions. Per this legislation, there will be more “watchdog” agencies that will be auditing banks, lending and investment institutions to ensure compliance. As an example, there will be an Office of Financial Research within the Federal Treasury responsible for collecting and analyzing data. This legislation brings with it a higher risk of fines for non-compliance. Read More »

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