IBM’s Business Analytics Blogger Event
Last Tuesday I was invited to speak at an IBM event for technology bloggers. The event addressed two topics that represent key growth priorities for IBM: business analytics and smarter planet. IBM’s Fred Balboni, Global Business Lead for Analytics (responsible for all business analytics services at IBM), Rod Smith, VP of Emerging Technologies, and Mike [...]
Event Report: SAP Australian Users Group Summit 2010
SAUG Summit Delivered Great Networking Opportunities And Information Exchange
Over 550 attendees converged on Sydney August 3rd to 5th, 2010 for the annual SAP User Group Summit. Members were treated to 28 session, 7 keynotes, and 4 SAP 101 educational sessions. The smart design of the conference gave attendees ample opportunities to connect and share ideas [...]
The Tremendous Growth of Useless Information
Eric Schmidt says that every 2 days we create as much new information as we did in the entire period before 2003. If that’s true, then a fantastic amount of that information must be useless, because civilization certainly hasn’t advanced to the point where it has that much to say every 2 days. What does [...]