Category Archives: Trends

BI Vendors failed to replace Spreadsheets

Posted on January 8, 2020 by

Toolbox published an article that, in particular, states: “Once viewed in the dashboard, business users wants to move that data to a spreadsheet. For most of the 2000s, BI vendors fought this desire from business users. BI vendors developed and … Continue reading →

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Jim Sinur’s AI Trends for 2020

Posted on December 18, 2019 by

“The future looks promising after several years of experimenting with AI. It’s not all fantastic and there will be fakes and failures. In fact, there will be high profile fails, but they are unlikely to cause another AI Winter. Even if … Continue reading →

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Why archaic and cumbersome RFP no longer makes sense

Posted on November 7, 2019 by

Forrester’s Elaine Hutton just published an article “RIP, RFP — This Is Not Your 1990s Vendor Selection Process” that explains why the RFP (request for proposal) does not satisfy modern digital business needs of innovation and agility and is close … Continue reading →

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Open Source 2.0 – The SaaS & Open Core Era

Posted on October 7, 2019 by

The article “Open Source: From Community to Commercialization” lists three Open Source eras: Open Source 0.0 – The “Free Software” era Open Source 1.0 – The Support and Services era Open Source 2.0 – The SaaS & Open Core Era

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Notes from DecisionCAMP-2019

Posted on October 5, 2019 by

DecisionCAMP-2019 in beautiful Bolzano on Sep. 17-19 will go down in history as one of the most successful DecisionCAMPs. As usual, it was packed with interesting presentations and even more interesting formal and informal discussions. I will try to write … Continue reading →

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Deploying Business Decision Models as Amazon Microservices

Posted on October 4, 2019 by

Nowadays many enterprises are moving their operational decision services to cloud utilizing Microservices and the new Serverless architecture that takes care of high availability, security, and super-fast performance. But how difficult is it to deploy business decision models as cloud-based … Continue reading →

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The “boring” benefits of AI

Posted on September 5, 2019 by

InformationAge published an interesting article “If you want to see the benefits of AI, forget moonshots and think boring“.  “While the ‘low-hanging-fruit’ approach to AI may sound monotonous, if you add all the small boring initiatives together, things start to … Continue reading →

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