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The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to have a tremendous impact on environmental protection. This will come about from end-user companies, researchers, the media, environmental watchdog groups, and even ordinary citizens using wireless sensors, video cameras, and drones for real-time environmental monitoring, pollution control, and facilities management and maintenance.
This Executive Update -- Part III of a series -- focuses on survey findings pertaining to mobile application development trends and the issues confronting organizations with implementing their initiatives, including primary obstacles and issues affecting corporate mobility adoption/implementation efforts, mobile application development trends, corporate use of mobile device management platforms, and corporate use of enterprise app stores.
I live in the greater Washington, DC, metropolitan area, and, as a result, have the joy of experiencing some of the worst traffic in the US. Couple that with the winter weather, and it can turn into a real nightmare. I grew up in Ohio. I have lived in Maine. I've seen snow. And I've seen snow managed well. Yet, every year, the Washington area experiences its fair share of snowfall. And every year, the local authorities act like they're surprised. "It SNOWED! WOW! Who knew?" There are never enough plows, salt, and stamina to stand up even against a dusting. The area is hobbled.
In this Executive Update, we review recent cases demonstrating that old-school brick-and-mortar insurance policies (CGL and D&O) provide coverage for technology risks. The goal is to assist companies in finding coverage in their existing policies for what has become, in the age of the Internet, as common as shipping losses were when modern insurance was created.
This Executive Update explains what architecture quality attributes are, and why they are one of the critical focus areas of an architect's scope of effort.
Essentially, business activity monitoring (BAM) data, which is collected and produced by a business process management (BPM)-type application, is just another subset of BI within the organization. BAM data may be pushed to a big data repository, but a BAM repository should never be used for big data analysis. BAM environments are characterized by online, real-time users, where throughput and performance are paramount. BAM queries and reports should be targeted to simple operational status views against optimized, normalized tables.
If we use measures properly, we do so to improve our business, organization, or our lives. In this respect, there are many times when having some data is not better than having none.