Andrew White stories

Gartner: The battle for the cloud has not even started yet
Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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saas
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cloud services
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paas
Andrew White has an interesting framework to look at the battle for the cloud today and where he thinks it will go in the not too distant future.

Comparing master data management with application data management
Mon, 20th Mar 2017
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gartner
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data management
One tactical nut that we are looking at, in the MDM team, concerns application data management.

The continuous subtleties of data privacy and security
Wed, 8th Feb 2017
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big data
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bi
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data protection
They include considering where the creator of the data existed at the time the data was formed.

Gartner on the challenges of artificial intelligence
Wed, 7th Dec 2016
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bi
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big data
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data analytics
If you don’t own the data or rights to that data, no amount of fancy algorithm or application will win. You need access to the vastness & variety.

Tech boom creates too few jobs – and the point is?
Mon, 17th Oct 2016
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it industry
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it careers
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employment
The outcome is clear: though tech-driven growth has recovered, it seems that growth has been delivered at a lower level of employment.

What to do? A little ERP? A little IOT? A little big data? Who Know...Who Cares?
Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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bi
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big data
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data analytics
I think its time we started to take a more pragmatic and in some cases new look at what we do with IT.

Gartner opinion: Are we more productive? – the final conundrum
Mon, 22nd Aug 2016
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gartner
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innovation
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productivity
Owning or using a smart phone to do your email in bed is not being more productive; it just increase output at the same rate and ruins many things.

Microsoft targets mother of all professional people master data with LinkedIn buy
Wed, 15th Jun 2016
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microsoft
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gartner
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linkedin
So you saw the announcement: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for over $26bn. Our team were contemplating the meaning of the deal.

Looking at Health IT: When integration isn’t enough
Wed, 15th Jun 2016
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it in healthcare
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gartner
EHR adoption in US hospitals is high, but lack of interoperability and excess costs hamper progress. #HealthIT #EHR.

The hype and misunderstanding surrounding analytics
Tue, 5th Apr 2016
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bi
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big data
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data analytics
The hype related to analytic technologies and vendors continues unabated. It seems that investors are still pushing up prices of analytic vendors.

Data and analytic topics on the minds of CIOs
Thu, 25th Feb 2016
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gartner
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cios
I had the good fortune to be present (and presenting) at our US CIO Leadership Forum in Phoenix, Arizona this week.