He was in his mid-20s, and he sat across the table from me in a coffeeshop last week while I interviewed him for a job. He had been working in a call center and had recently left his position there, so I naturally asked him about it.
Increasingly, governments are using the Web to provide easy access to government-generated data, and this week a European Union official suggested this could be more than a nod to greater government transparency. It could also be a huge economic driver.
With more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created daily, the full extent of what it means to live in an information age is just starting to sink into our collective consciousness. Little wonder, then, why the term "big data," which is kind of a mild euphemism for this coming information tsunami, is one of the hottest buzzwords in Silicon Valley.
As someone whose strengths in technology have been in looking at high-level design and adoption issues in service management, I communicate regularly with cross-domain service management groups. One thing that stands out for me from this dialog is that business objectives such as cohesive strategies, phased adoptions, and cross-domain political reformation are intersecting with the idea of the “Internet” in the form of cloud computing, Web 2.0 application ecosystems, and mobility. What results is a complex set of patterns -- something like an abstract mosaic.
Over the last few months here, I've tried to draw attention to a series of software-as-a-service (SaaS) proffers, which seemed to hold promise, at least, as enterprise add-ons, always with the qualification that they need to be a good fit for the enterprise in question -- something to be decided on a case-by-case basis.
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