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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

What Salesforce clearly understands is that in the world of enterprise, integration becomes king as organizations constantly look to get disparate applications, databases and other systems to talk to each other. Every digital transformation starts and ends with the customer,” Salesforce CEO Marc Beniof f said in a statement.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. t a surprise that we talk about dbPaaS (database Platform-as-a-Service) here.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Massive proprietary databases? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? But along the way, something strange happened. I dont think so. Expo SF (May.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

Among techies, the Semantic Web bears some similarity to a number of common technologies, including relational databases, XML, and Object-Oriented design. For people with a background in relational databases, this innovation lets them "think outside the table." Relational databases have SQL. Nevertheless, there is a common "aha!"

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SXSW Startups: Molecula

Austin Startup

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” Because of significant performance benefits , we are initially supporting Oracle’s Cloud OCI, launching Molecula on March 26 at Oracle’s Open World Singapore. How will it work with Molecula?

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Do you have a bug database?

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. Here are a few pointers: Have your developers use agile development – they will love you for it. Consider open-sourcing certain aspects of your platform. Contrast this to Zappos.

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