
Understanding General-Purpose, Cloud-Based Data Marketplaces
Last October I wrote about emerging data analytic services that could be offered under the term Insight as a Service. More recently Mark Suster wrote about the need for data as a service, and Gordon Ritter in his post added his thoughts on Insight as a Service. In my post I had proposed three types […]

Who’s the top innovator: SAP or Oracle? A customer’s query from SAP’s Sapphire User Conference
Coming down from the dais after a panel discussion on mobility, I was approached by an attendee with the following story. He was on the IT staff at a Fortune 500 company that was a wall-to-wall Oracle shop, and his boss, the CIO, had sent him to Sapphire with the following mission: make sure that […]