EAI (Enterprise Application Integration): Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) vs Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Let's evaluate the following question: Is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) a technical tool implementation that aids in delivering a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? This article looks at ESB and SOA from a conceptual perspective as opposed to practical implementation. Determining the right solution means for these concepts to be fully investigated and applied to the specific enterprise and its landscape. It is therefore by no means the final say on the subject and does not prescribe a specific tool. In order to evaluate this statement, one needs to consider what ESB…
Data Science: Topoligical Data Analysis – Slaying the big data dragon for analytics
Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent field that emerged from various works in applied (algebraic) topology and computational geometry during the past 15 years. This article aims to simplify TDA to the business intelligence and data science community. Despite assuming some level of mathematical and analytical insight from the reader it provides both an oversimplified technical explanation as well as a completely oversimplified non-technical explanation of what TDA is and can achieve in business terms. It aims to be useful at an executive and technical level not limited to but including CIO's,…