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Yearly Archives: 2017

Manufacturing and Smart Factories: Products of the Digital Industrial Revolution

By Dick Weisinger

Manufacturers are reinventing their industries by applying new technology.  A report by CapGemini finds that new tech manufacturing in the form of smart factories will revolutionize manufacturing and by 2022 will drive productivity increases by as much as seven times.…

Data Capture: Real-Time Systems Hindered by Delays in Capturing Data via ETL

By Dick Weisinger

ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) is a data preparation technique for moving data from standard applications into a data warehouse or analytics system that specializes in translating and interpreting trends and meanings from the data.  The E-T-L of the name…

Technology and the Automotive Industry: A Story of Disruption

By Dick Weisinger

Disruption from technology is hitting the automotive industry.  From self-driving automobiles and trucks to the introduction of electronic and gas-alternative powered vehicles, the industry is changing.  Apple, Google/Waymo, Baidu, Uber and Facebook all think that they can compete, not to mention…

Security: Will the Equifax Breach Bring an End to Social Security Numbers?

By Dick Weisinger

On Thursday last week, Equifax announced that they had discovered in late July 2017 that their website had had been hacked. The data on their site was breached and it is likely that the personal identifying information for as many…

Cognitive First: Letting Data Drive the Development Process

By Dick Weisinger

Data has become the fuel for a new breed of applications based on analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning.  In recognition of that, one proposed method for developing applications is to first understand both the business problem and the data…