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,…
Business Intelligence Technology Selection – 5 Crucial points for Executives
We have published previous articles on the current reality of BI project challenges in the African context. Let’s do a quick recap on our 2015 findings to date on Business Intelligence Technology Selection – 5 Crucial points for IT and business Executives are listed. The aim of this article is to serve the project teams at our clients with some key learning points for starting off with BI technology selection. The goal is to promote time savings for BI selection and implementation and to speed up the process…