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Bounty of options creates complexity for cloud developers, says Wikibon
The opportunities for application developers to address new market opportunities has never been greater. But selecting the technologies to use to create those applications, particularly when building a digital business platform, has never been more difficult, writes Wikibon Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. He provides a framework for making the critical high-level decisions that will guide ...
Cybersecurity offers first glimpse of the future of Big Data applications, says Wikibon analyst
A new generation of cybersecurity applications is arising that uses machine intelligence applied to computer log data, part of the big data pantheon, to recognize malware and other security breaches even when their code signatures are unknown. These applications identify unusual activities, such as data being copied to an unknown outside URL. To do this, ...
Microservices are emerging as the basis for the new application architecture – Wikibon
New, more flexible architectures are emerging in cloud-native applications, writes Wikibon Analyst Brian Gracely. Understanding these new architectures — based on “The Twelve-Factor App” and cloud-native application architectures — is becoming a critical requirement for IT organizations and digital product teams. They shape best practices in three areas: Defining the scope of a service; Defining ...
Prioritizing digital projects requires a framework – Wikibon
Digital technologies provide powerful new channels for reaching customers, but they also carry greater risks of failure, writes SiliconAngle Media Research Director Peter Burris. Planning digital projects invokes expectations from executives in sales, marketing, product management, service and fulfillment. Burris argues that successful digital planning requires a framework that starts with three questions: What should ...
Big data apps don’t look like your father’s ERP, says Wikibon
For a year or more big data market observers, including SiliconAngle Media Co-CEO John Furrier, have been expecting off-the-shelf, packaged applications to appear to simplify the complexity of build-it-yourself, custom installations. Now, the first applications are finally appearing, writes Wikibon Lead Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert, but instead of the enterprise resource planning (ERP)-like ...
Ad-tech is a prototype for systems of intelligence – Wikibon analyst
Systems of intelligence (SoI), the most complex class of big data applications, apply machine learning to anticipating and analyzing human interactions. However, as yet no end-to-end packaged applications the likes of the ERP model have appeared. In their absence, writes Wikibon Lead Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert, ad-tech applications provide an architype that ...
AWS favored by departments, startups, use case analysis shows
Users considering using infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms should look at user case histories for guidance for which workloads might best be developed on or migrated to public cloud, writes Wikibon Consultant Ralph Finos. An analysis of the brief descriptions of 650 customer solution stories on Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS) shows, unsurprisingly, that it is a ...
Digital business apps demand new approach to data management – Wikibon
A new generation of digital business platform applications is arising, writes Wikibon Lead Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. These new applications are data-intensive, providing enterprises with a real-time view of how customers are interacting with their digital products. Companies use this data in various ways, including anticipating customer needs and improving their products based upon customer ...
Digital business turns analog experience into digital data – Wikibon
If, as Peter Drucker said, “the purpose of business is to create and keep a customer,” then what is the purpose of digital business? Today’s customers want digital engagement because it improves their buying power and offers new sources of value, writes SiliconAngle Media Head of Research Peter Burris in “Transforming to Digital Business.” Internet of ...
Open source reshaping vendor business models – Wikibon
A new trend among enterprises to make open source software a priority in their criteria for new infrastructure and application use will impact venture capital investments, startups, established IT vendors and cloud providers, writes Wikibon Lead Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely in “Open Source Software: Reshaping Vendor Business Models” on Wikibon.com. In this second part of Gracely’s ...