I recently participated on a panel at a Wall Street Technology Association event titled Innovation, Disruption and You, and wanted to share some highlights and key takeaways from our discussion. The panel of six included representatives from financial institutions (FIs) and technology-solution vendors. The panelists were asked to address the moderator’s questions by first talking about the operational/human issues, and then by covering the role of technology in innovation.

Government agencies have been readily adopting mobile technologies over the past decade to deliver self-service applications to their constituents. However, for internal agencies’ needs they are still faced with lack of hardware support, security and infrastructure challenges when trying to leverage smartphones and mobile devices.

3rd Eye Technologies is a leader in addressing these challenges. I recently spoke with Ron Huda, CEO of 3rd Eye Technologies to learn about their new offerings

German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

When it comes to NoSQL, it appears that Oracle is trying to cover all of the bases. In a recent eWEEK article outlining a perplexing argument against NoSQL, Oracle ridiculed NoSQL, violently opposed it, and then said that they have NoSQL, too. I’d like to address several key points they tried to make

Relational databases have resulted in accidental complexity that keeps most organizations spinning in circles. Organizations simply cannot keep up with the many shapes, sizes, and types data that are quickly growing in volume and changing.

In the previous post, I discussed why today’s dynamic, constantly changing data is a problem for relational databases. In this post, I am going to discuss a somewhat related, but unique problem that is also not easy for relational databases to handle.

Today, change occurs frequently, and data modeling is a huge challenge because of the time and resources that relational databases require. Unfortunately, when using a relational database, even a simple change like adding or replacing a column in a table might be a million dollar task.

From CIOs to developers, everyone is realizing that relational databases were simply not designed for the challenges with today’s data. That’s why there’s been an explosion of data and new database products