A topic tangential to ZOOMS is the Web-Enabling of Databases. The relational database world is dominated by text… getting into the database and digging the information out was/still is a major challenge. In fact, this year (2009), there are still people logging into a system to copy-paste the data into Excel spreadsheets for further processing. [...] Read more »
Archive for ‘database’
Diminishing a Limitation
WednesdayJun 17, 2009
by Oliver
Eliyahu Goldratt is an internationally recognized leader in the development of business management concepts and systems. The originator of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), he wrote the book, “Necessary, but not Sufficient.” Written as a business novel, the story of software and how software alone is necessary, but not sufficient to dramatically improve the bottom [...] Read more »
Market Segmentation
SundayMay 24, 2009
by Oliver
Most everyone buys a PI database because they have a plant or laboratory. Owning neither a plant nor a laboratory, I bought a PI database in 2003 to understand the database innards, but I digress. PI’s significant strength is the ability to capture high-frequency data real-time from a variety of data sources and archive the [...] Read more »