Download Gartner MQ for Data related technologies

 

• Operational Database Management System
• Business Intelligence and Analytics
• Data Warehouse and Database Management Solutions for Analytics
• Advanced Analytics Platforms

Download Gartner MQ for Enterprise Search

Gartner has released its 2013 MQ for Enterprise Search. Get your complimentary copy here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/itanalyst/default.aspx

The Illusions of Big Data

Gartner’s Svetlana has made an interesting post on current expectations from Big Data and how much of it can be realized. Do not miss this one ….

http://blogs.gartner.com/svetlana-sicular/the-illusions-of-big-data/

HL7 standards for Healthcare Industry

Just a quick note, if you work with Healthcare industry, you should be fully aware of information that the following organization provides.

Number of useful standards and reference information models. Most of the technology vendors like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, etc. provides compatibility with these standards.

HL7 standards are grouped into reference categories:

• Section 1: Primary Standards - Primary standards are considered the most popular standards integral for system integrations, inter-operability and compliance. Our most frequently used and in-demand standards are in this category.
• Section 2: Foundational Standards - Foundational standards define the fundamental tools and building blocks used to build the standards, and the technology infrastructure that implementers of HL7 standards must manage.
• Section 3: Clinical and Administrative Domains - Messaging and document standards for clinical specialties and groups are found in this section. These standards are usually implemented once primary standards for the organization are in place.
• Section 4: EHR Profiles - These standards provide functional models and profiles that enable the constructs for management of electronic health records.
• Section 5: Implementation Guides - This section is for implementation guides and/or support documents created to be used in conjunction with an existing standard. All documents in this section serve as supplemental material for a parent standard.
• Section 6: Rules and References - Technical specifications, programming structures and guidelines for software and standards development.
• Section 7: Education & Awareness - Find HL7's Draft Standards for Trial Use (DSTUs) and current projects here, as well as helpful resources and tools to further supplement understanding and adoption of HL7 standards.

Download Forrester Wave for Enterprise Cloud Databases

Forrester has released it ‘Forrester Wave’ report for Enterprise Cloud Databases.

Microsoft Windows Azure has come out to be the clear winner in the report and is offering the reprint of full report as free download.

Download it from here before it goes away.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/11/14/windows-azure-sql-database-named-an-enterprise-cloud-database-leader-by-forrester-research.aspx

Banks are becoming more Innovation friendly

Highlights from the Infosys and EFMA innovation in retail banking report 2012. The study of 300 banks across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Americas found that online and mobile channels are growing rapidly, with banks focused on areas of innovation that will attract new customers and grow revenues.

Get the full report from here :

http://www.infosys.com/finacle/resources/industry-reports/Pages/index.aspx

Tweek : Jobs, Free eBook, TOGAF, Gartner, Big Data

 

Gartner ‏@Gartner_inc
Couldn’t make it to Barcelona for #GartnerSYM? Sign in or Sign up to access free keynotes and 3 session credits: http://gtnr.it/SFs0n3

The S&A Group ‏@thesandagroup
I'm hiring! Global Head of Enterprise Architecture at The Strategy & Architectur - United Kingdom #jobs http://lnkd.in/7rFe9S

Ovum ICT ‏@OvumICT
Mobile and social application integration is different in nature from cloud and enterprise application integration http://bit.ly/TwHVVi

CIO.com ‏@CIOonline
Gartner Upbeat on Big Data Jobs http://trib.al/XDtwXQ

Microsoft Enterprise ‏@MSFTenterprise
Personal branding advice and cautions for executives using Twitter and other social media outlets http://bit.ly/Vqj3Dc

TOGAF(R) ‏@togaf_r
Learn about TOGAF 9 Certification, now aligned with TOGAF 9.1. Practice tests, white papers, templates etc http://ow.ly/bX9TI  

StrategyArchitecture ‏@strategyarch
Free eBook - Windows 8 for dummies http://bit.ly/Zk568V

Big Data–Open Group’s Live Broadcasts

Thanks to Open Group, They are broadcasting Live, their Big Data conference from Barcelona.

The Open Group will be running a series of live broadcasts from its meeting: Big Data - The Next Frontier in the Enterprise. This will provide a valuable opportunity to get involved in this event which will address the Enterprise Architecture challenges and solutions in the context of the growth of Big Data. Broadcast sessions are:

How Companies Extract Insight and Foresight from Big Data - Plenary presentation by Scott Radeztsky, CTO, Deloitte Analytics Innovation Centres - October 22, 8.50am (CET)

Boardroom Business Architecture - What Executives Want to Know About Big Data and Analytics  - Plenary presentation by Peter Haviland, Head of Business Architecture, Ernst and Young & Mick Adams, Chief Business Architect, Ernst & Young - October 22, 9.50am (CET)

Enterprise Information Management - An Architect's Guide to Big Data - Plenary presentation by Helen Sun, Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture, Oracle - October 22, 11.10am (CET)

Big Data Needs Big Architecture - An Architectural Approach to Business Information - Plenary presentation by Ron Tolido, CTO, Application Services in Europe, Capgemini & Manuel Sevilla, CTO, Global Business Information Management TLI, Capgemini - October 22, 12.00pm (CET)

Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate® - Presentation by Henry Franken, CEO, BiZZdesign - October 22, 2.00pm (CET)

Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Ask the Experts - Get your questions answered by members of the FACE Consortium and find out about their future plans and deliverables -
October 24, 4.00pm (CET)

To participate in these live broadcasts or view the recordings, please register at: https://new.livestream.com/opengroup/

The Open Group Conference - Cannes, France. April 201

As technologies such as Cloud Computing, mobile, social, and big data/analytics mature (the four pillars), organizations will increasingly look to implement them as part of their Enterprise Transformation projects.  The Open Group Conference in Cannes will provide an opportunity for delegates to:

• Further investigate the use of the four pillars based on real-life experiences and best practices
• Learn how they can be utilized to best affect as part of a standards-based Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy
• Understand how organizations move from an IT-centric to an enterprise-centric position that includes a more complete view of the business and not just IT?

These will be followed by learning opportunities, including tutorials and case studies, within tracks, such as:

• EA and Enterprise Transformation
• EA Professional Development
• Trusted Technology
• Agile Enterprise Architecture
• Cyber and Cloud Security.

On a lighter note, The Open Group Conference in Cannes will also play host to the third Open Cannes Awards, a fun evening amongst the serious side of the Conference!  Find out more about the Awards and how you can get involved.

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Register for The Open Group Conference in Cannes, France. April 23-27, 2012
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WEF Technology Pioneers 2012

The World Economic Forums’ Technology Pioneers 2012 report is out and here are few of the interesting companies featured in Information Technologies and New Media category.

Appirio enables companies to navigate today’s complex cloud computing ecosystem. Provides rapid application development platform over existing cloud platforms.”Appirio was able to build a cloud-based CRM (customer relations management programme) for Starbucks in just four weeks, based on a SalesForce.com software framework”

CloudFlare’s intelligent network accelerates Web traffic over the Internet while deftly dodging abusive bots, crawlers and denial of service attack. The virtual scaled out Web.

DoubleVerify provides tools designed to restore public confidence in business forced to operate in a global net environment increasingly exposed to swindlers, malware and cyber theft.

Dropbox connects the cloud to everyday life. We all know DropBox.

Kickstarter’s innovative crowd-funding platform lets the public in on venture capital funding for imaginative projects.

Living PlanIT develops operating systems for future cities.

Mocana’s responds to the “Internet of Things” with a deviceindependent secure platform for smart communications.

Palantir pioneers an engineering-centred approach to radically change the way data is analysed.

Download complete report from http://www.weforum.org

Free and Open : Bloomberg’s market data APIs

Under Open Market Data Initiative, Bloomberg has released its market data interfaces as free and open APIs which can be consumed by anyone with no restrictions.

The APIs are available in Java, C, C++ and .NET

Here are some deep links to get started quickly.

http://open.bloomberg.com/

http://open.bloomberg.com/pdf/blpapi-developers-guide.pdf

http://open.bloomberg.com/pdf/bloomberg_open_market_data_whitepaper.pdf

On a side thought, they can be a very good reference on how to design high performance public interfaces and APIs.

Secure your Data in Cloud

Microsoft has released a new SDK and Management called “Microsoft Codename Trust Services SDK and Management Tool” to encrypt the data before storing it in the cloud.

Microsoft Codename Trust Services is an application-level end to end encryption-based framework that can be used to encrypt stored content. Data publishers can use Trust Services to encrypt data before it is stored in Windows Azure storage or SQL Azure, and authorized subscribers of data can decrypt data after it is read from storage. Using Trust Services encrypts the data, and helps reduce concerns about unauthorized access to data by Windows Azure administrators and/or unauthorized third parties. Using Trust Services helps address data security, privacy, and sovereignty issues that might block or limit typical scenarios, such as distributing data to branch offices, making data accessible to mobile employees or customers, sharing data across businesses, and leveraging cloud scale for computation and analytics.

Download SDK

Analyze your connections using NodeXL free

NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 that makes it easy to explore network graphs.  With NodeXL, you can enter a network edge list in a worksheet, click a button and see your graph, all in the familiar environment of the Excel® window.

You can connect the NodeXL directly to your twitter, flickr or youtube accounts and analyze the connections.

http://nodexl.codeplex.com/

CIO and 2012 : What will keep CIOs busy

2012 is going to be a busy year for CIOs and their Teams. The trends which got introduced to enterprises in last 2 to 3 years are going to make a big push into the enterprises. The CIO have no choice but to embrace them.

The trends can be classified into following three broad categories:

• Data & Insights : Coming from Business, this will require converting the tsunami of data getting generated into competitive advantage.
• Cloud : Coming from Vendors and Technology suppliers, with promise of only good, is all about agility and cost savings.
• Consumerization of IT : Coming from Employees, driven by mobile and online social revolution, this will require blurring the corporate IT boundaries.

In future posts we will get into details of each trend and some useful resources.