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There’s an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal about Big Data in Manufacturing.  Manufacturers are now leveraging sensors and scanners throughout the factory floor to collect data about everything from screw turns to temperature and humidity in an effort to improve quality.  My favorite part is actually this line:

In the past, some of that data had to be typed in, creating the risk of errors.

This is the future of software: invisibility.  The days of us sitting in front of a computer typing in data are numbered.  With the cost of data collection, storage, and analysis all plummeting, the software of the future will gather data seamlessly from your activities.  You will no longer have to tell your software what to do — it knows.  You will no longer have to put in strict relationships between data (this email is for this order) — it can figure it out.

One day, a six-year-old will ask you “Grandpa, did you really have to sit at a computer to order things online?”  What can you say?  Maybe “Yeah, but my grandpa had to shovel coal in the snow, so it wasn’t so bad.”

We’re looking for developers who’d like to work with on server-side OSGi Java, client-side Javascript/CSS/HTML5, and MongoDB database back end applications.  (See opentaps 2 framework.)

If this sounds like as much fun to you as it does to us, please contact us right away!  We’re really flexible and can accommodate part-time or full-time, remote or on-site.

Think that Big Data will solve the world’s problems?  Read The Signal and The Noise first.  This interesting books talks in detail about forecasting, including the good (baseball and weather), the bad (econonmics, politics, and earthquakes), and the very difficult (long-term climate change, terrorism.)  In the end there is a warning to all of us: with the explosion of data has come an explosion of noise, of spurious correlations which are not grounded in sound theories.  Think twice before you believe something because of “The Data.”

Many companies seem to follow a “Christmas morning toy” routine when it comes to business intelligence and analytics: See cool reports and charts “We want those!” Spend time and money implementing them “Wow, these are cool!” Move on something else and eventually forget all about the cool reports and charts Sometimes there’s also a “CNN...

A recent study by Accenture found: While 55% of businesses thought they were very good at understanding and segmenting their customers, but only 21% of those customers agreed. More companies chose “personal experience” over analytical data as very important in business decision making. When analyzing customers, companies focus on profit by customer and lifetime value...

Every time a customer buys (or returns) something from us, he’s telling us something very important about the product and himself. With opentaps Analytics, we wanted to create an easy-to-use tool for you to use that information to your advantage.  Want to know which products sell best?  Whether you need more help on Mondays?  Which...

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You can go through the following links to experience the Opentaps environment: 1> About Opentaps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentaps, http://www.opentaps.org/ 2> Opentaps Documentation/Wiki: http://www.opentaps.org/docs/index.php/Main_Page 3> Source Repository(SVN): http://www.opentaps.org/community/source-repository 4> Framework introduction and videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46CDSZ-rnVw 5> Forum: http://www.opentaps.org/forum 6> Service Providers And Partners: http://www.opentaps.org/partners 7> … Continue reading →

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