Magic quadrant BI, 2008 – 2013

I want to store this picture to review it in the future, and try to see if my bets are right with respect the market evolution. I got it right on: Tableau, that I continue feeling that the solution is impressive. SAP, their evolution is for me a little bit stuck. I failed on: Microsoft, … Read more

HeartBleed vulnerability

Some basis I’ve learned about this issue. OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of SSL.  It is not the only implementation of SSL, and is not even the primary implementation of SSL.  Most vendors have their own implementation of SSL and TLS, which is directly related. OpenSSL is available as an installed package, or as a … Read more

SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)

I have to gain some basic knowledge on SAP MII. To do it I was reviewing some basic information and looking for some business scenarios that help me to understand the whole thing. To understand the solution, just attend to the name: MII. Manufacturing, nothing to say here, Integration, it basically tries to integrate the … Read more

Where is the money?

During last years there is a clear change of trend about the IT expenditure. The reality is that big portion of IT expenditure is done outside of the IT departments. It is done in other departments (Sales & marketing, engineering, HHRR, finance, laboratory). IT departments are mainly focused on the investments on major common platforms, … Read more

Web time response

I have found a list of pages that enable the users to measure time response in different manners. http://gtmetrix.com/ (PDF reports, history data & comparative) http://loadimpact.com/ (redundant users analysis) http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/ (Page Speed Insights by Google) http://tools.pingdom.com/ http://webwait.com/ (time response measure) http://www.webpagetest.org/ (Web Page Performance Test) Load Impact site offers a very nice service that is … Read more

Mobility ideas, field services

I have been talking to a customer of crop protection industry and how they are trying to improve their customer support. One of the ideas he was commenting me was the plans they have to improve the service support of the agriculture with smart phones. The agriculture has an smart phone, this added to the … Read more

Combining Six sigma tools

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Cause &Effect diagram (fish bone) are very similar in some of the cases. They have some pros that combined could result into a better tool. FTA provides so much value information: Logical dependency between causes (AND, OR) Probability of occurrence of a cause expressed on % Fish bone diagram categorizes … Read more