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Data Prep: The 80% Drudge Factor Holding Back Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

GIGO — Garbage In, Garbage Out — simply means that data analysis and decision making based on poor raw data or information will necessarily result in a flawed analysis. The need for accurate data is increasingly important as businesses adopt…

Haptics: Devices Providing Tactile Feedback

By Dick Weisinger

Haptics. That’s the tactile or vibrational feedback devices give off to provide signals to the user. Haptics simulate what it might be to touch or feel something in real life, and increasingly, with newer devices, the range of feedback is…

Supercomputing at the Edge: High-Performance Mobile Computing

By Dick Weisinger

IT is moving towards the use of containers, like Docker. But vendors like IBM and HP have a plan to use real containers, shipping-container sized unites, that are stuffed with a supercomputer hardware and are mobile enough to be deployed…

Manufacturing: Economic Shocks may Revive US Competitiveness

By Dick Weisinger

Trade wars and supply chains crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic are serving as catalysts for considering the revival of US manufacturing. With the supply chain link with China effectively broken during this period of uncertainty, people are thinking of ways…

CRM: Startups Target Sales Practices at SalesForce and Oracle

By Dick Weisinger

Software startups are pushing back against CRM software incumbants, SalesForce.com, Oracle, and SAP. The startups say that big companies push the tightly integrated add-ons from their software stack, alternative software companies are effectively locked out and unable to compete. 200…