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SAMOS – How To Evaluate Disruptive Innovation

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One of the unintended consequences of distributed computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is that things get more complicated. When we refer to something as being automatic, it doesn’t mean that something will happen without being controlled by a person, but that it has a self-regulating mechanism. Complicated is not good.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: IBM Debate Series - What's.

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He is a true thought leader in the industry, and an expert in complex distributed systems, including cloud computing, data integration, service oriented architecture (SOA), and big data systems. Cloud Computing Reference Mindmap. Jan 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9832361-3-9. Popular Pages.

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IBM Cognos: Established Business Intelligence Player

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It was acquired by IBM in 2008 and is now referred to as the IBM Cognos platform. A query layer with optimized query generation combined with multiple levels of in-memory caching provides enhanced performance for complex heterogeneous data. Big data interoperability. Extensibility. Open standards.