It’s December – the time of year when we start thinking about next year. Maybe you’re knee deep into planning for 2018. Maybe the boss is pressuring you for those budget numbers? If you’re like me, you ‘re spending a little time thinking about the past 11 months or so. As I look back at…
Watson Analytics – Watson for the Rest of Us
A lot of my conversations lately revolve around business analytics and Watson Analytics usually comes up. The question I usually get is – What is Watson Analytics? My simplest, most straightforward answer: Watson is a desktop, subscription-based, easy to use, cloud-based analytics tool. Watson is intuitive and fast and is designed to give you answers…
Disaster Recovery Business Risk Assessment – Know What Before How
In my last blog post I talked about the first step in Disaster Recovery or High Availability planning, Business Impact Analysis – The First Step in DR Planning. The next step in the process is conducting a Risk Assessment. A risk assessment will help you identify the events that could impact your organization. This will…
Business Impact Analysis – The First Step in DR Planning
Disaster Recovery and High Availability have been a pretty common theme in client conversations lately. Most of the conversation centers on the increased awareness of the need by business management and the continued decline in the costs involved in implementing those solutions. In a blog post I wrote a couple years ago I talked about…
Application Modernization – A Conversation
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post dealing with the specifics of application modernization on the IBM i platform. This inspired a conversation I had with a customer. Our conversation was not focused on any one computing platform but was more of a general industry conversation. At the heart of our conversation were…