Some days ago I had the opportunity to give a lesson at ALMA Graduate School in Bologna (Italy), within the Master in Business Administration of the Information Systems course by prof. Danilo Montesi. It’s an annual appointment for me, in which I’m honoured to participate as a testimonial.
This is a real opportunity to launch new [...]
What’s a Big Data platform?
April 8th, 2013 by Gabriele RuffattiActually, I’ve no complete answer to this question. However I know that a Big Data platform should help us to address emerging and future – partially unknown – needs, as well as to start solving present issues.
First of all we need to get a clear insight into the big data context. This blog may be [...]
Value is the most meaningful V for Big Data
March 7th, 2013 by Gabriele RuffattiHow many Vs do you need to describe Big Data dimensions?
12 years ago Doug Laney listed the 3 dimensions of Data management in a Gartner (then Meta Group) research: Volume, Variety, Velocity.
Nowadays, the evolution of Data Management also refers to Big Data. In order to describe it, Gartner added a C to the 3Vs: Volume, [...]
People innovate creating value for people
March 7th, 2013 by Gabriele RuffattiI have recently had the opportunity to read the proceedings of ITEMS Global Forum 2012.
How nice to run into other people’s thoughts and posts on which I agree. That’s a good way to reduce my efforts when writing new posts!
I’m referring to the following two presentations:
1) John G. Jung, Chairman and Co-Founder, Intelligent Community Forum [...]
Open Source Strategies for the Enterprise
October 19th, 2012 by Gabriele RuffattiLast week, during my flight to Paris, I finally had the chance to read Simon Phipps’ book entitled Open Source Strategies for the Enterprise.
Buy it. Great value at zero price!
I read it quite fast because I already knew its main contents: in fact, the book is a rational selection of Simon’s posts that you can [...]