Life savers with cloud DBs since many std features are not supported on SaaS DBs. Worth the money and especially useful if you are managing many DBs.
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If you end up concluding that DB as service (Azure SQL) is better compared to virtualised DB (VM with SQL Server) be prepared to tackle performance issues when migrating from on premises DB.
*Initially established in Croatia to ensure demilitarization of designated areas. The mandate was later extended to Bosnia and Herzegovina to support the delivery of humanitarian relief, monitor “no fly zones” and “safe areas”. The mandate was later extended to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for preventive monitoring in border areas.
I think of it as “team-setup” pattern when a separation of conflicting concerns is wanted (data team protection of data model vs risk teams reporting, for example).
In 1992, “The End of History and the Last Man” book by Francis Fukuyama was published and in 2005 at INSEAD Fukuyama’s ideas were trumpeted as the invariable, unalterable fact ie absolute truth.
In 1999, Salesforce was founded and in 2015 at an enterprise-software-decission-table Salesforce presents invariable, unalterable fact ie absolute truth.
On Monday 15 Sept 2008, I worked for a global settlement house and had to deal with Lehman*, the biggest ever US failure.
*WSJ reported: Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy protection Monday morning and Merrill Lynch had sold itself to Bank of America. By the end of the day, investors had turned their focus to insurance giant AIG, which was tottering, needing to raise billions in capital or face collapse.
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Hard to argue with not going with the latest Macs considering build quality and price. Office 2016 works well.
However Power Pivot is still not in the latest Excel for Mac. But do you really want it? I know I do.
Build models based on historic data but be ready to place bets to increase potential IRR. Track budget IRR vs current IRR and have visibility of the spend as an absolute measure what assets can move the needle.
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When entering a new market makes sense to think like a hedge fund: come early, faster, sweet tooth the market and take longer bets.
Your platform needs to be market agnostic to a practical level (limited generic functionality, low complexity) while your processes could be market specific.
IT is responsible for all tech/dev/R&D/innovation. Right?
But what is the function of IT in a fast-moving data-driven hyper-competition market?
It is no longer mostly CTOs who hold businesses’ purse strings; by 2017 chief marketing officers will spend more on IT than their CIOs, reckons Gartner.
Customers are no longer willing just to buy the latest technology; they want to pay for specific results, for instance for sales increases achieved by using analytics software.
“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” ― Alfred A. Montapert