This entry is part 5 of 33 in the series Strategic TechnologiesStream processing, or the real-time processing of big data in motion, is an IBM technology growing, as far as I know, out of big data processing systems developed for the US intelligence agencies years ago. The IBM product providing this capability is BigInsights.
This entry is part 4 of 33 in the series Strategic TechnologiesContent analytics scans unstructured data such as text in social media, call center databases and emails, performs natural language processing to understand the meaning of the data, and reports the results. IBM Enterprise Content Manager (ECM) contains content analytics functionality.
This entry is part 3 of 33 in the series Strategic Technologies NoSQL is a non-relational database specialized for non-tabular data. MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database.
This entry is part 2 of 33 in the series Strategic Technologies Apache Hadoop is open source software which allows storage, retrieval and computations on at-rest big data using commodity hardware and infrastructure. Hadoop includes the distributed file system (HDFS) and MapReduce programming model. Hadoop addressed the strategic technology capability to process at-rest big data.… Read More »
This entry is part 1 of 33 in the series Strategic TechnologiesStrategic technologies are technologies which are called out in the IT strategy as being key enablers to the business strategy. During the environment scan trends and forces are studied, and threats and opportunities are identified. The strategy is crafted to respond to threats and… Read More »
This entry is part 27 of 31 in the series Defining wordsCloud Standards are open standards that allow interoperability for cloud computing. Standards give cloud computing consumers the ability to compose services across clouds and more choice about which cloud they deploy their applications to and not to be locked in. The latter ideas about… Read More »
This entry is part 22 of 30 in the series TrendsI have been wondering what to say about big data in banking. I have heard of some projects here and there but not seen much of a trend. I was reading Digital Bank and found this about what banks are doing with Big Data: “Most… Read More »
This entry is part 12 of 31 in the series Defining words Even if you already know about cloud you should watch this video by Stephen Fry! Cloud is a broad topic about new ways to gain significant business advantage by reorganizing computing infrastructure, tools, applications and processes in a way… Read More »
This entry is part 11 of 31 in the series Defining wordsOne area of business strategy growing in importance is strategy around the business of IT. I think of “the business of IT” as how IT delivers services internally vs. IT Strategy which is (how I use the term) how IT directly supports business capabilities.… Read More »
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Mobile BankingThe first thing that I can say about mobile strategy for large banks is that I can not cover it sufficiently in a blog post. Like business strategy, we will need to peel it back layer-by-layer. In any kind of IT strategy investigation I… Read More »