Tag: Data
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Banks are just data vaults
[…] banks need to think about how they reconstruct themselves for the 21st century. What this really comes down to is that banks are becoming pure managers of bits and bytes of data. It is the data that has the value today and it is the data that is the basis of competitive battles in the future.… Continued
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Startup Connection Cloud aims to free your SaaS data
Cool idea, difficult to pull off at enterprise quality if the data source providers don’t cooperate and offer stable APIs (but even then…)
It’s not easy to get Salesforce.com data to work with NetSuite data, for example. Connection Cloud is working on connectors for those popular applications as well as for Intacct, Facebook, Eloqua, Google Spreadsheets, Zuora and others, to connect that data to front ends like Jaspersoft, Tableau, Yellowfin, Microsoft Excel and Access, Zendesk scripting, Appcelerator mobile app building tools and Google Appscript.… Continued
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2011 Predictions
This is the time of the year where everybody is speculating about the next year, so here’s a quick wrap-up of the Data industry’s predictions, in no particular order:
- TDWI
- Ramon Chen of RainStor
- Curt Monash of DBMS2
- Noel Yuhanna of Forrester
- RainStor
- Informatica
- Progress DataDirect
- Riverlogic
- Steve Sarsfield of Talend
That should give you some food for thoughts, and I might even go and cross check if there are any contradictions 🙂