Over the past months I have read a great deal about the Internet of Things (IoT) and how companies are moving forwards with it.
Looking across all the stories on the web it is clear that there is an IoT Continuum when you look at the different types of projects out there which many vendors are talking about.
This post shares some phases which I have summarized. I am interested to know if you think there are intermediate phases or even phases before or after these. I would also love to hear if you would alter the names and the focus!
Introducing the IoT Continuum
There are three things I see happening today with a fourth one maybe being the future. Certain projects will contain multiple phases of the continuum over time with each building on the previous one and each phase might be a milestone in a much bigger goal.
You might have ideas for different names for these and I would be very open to hearing your thoughts on that. The main question I want you to think about, after reading the phase descriptions below, is if you see different phases I have missed altogether? If so please share your thoughts and pointers to the stories that support them as I am eager to learn.
In my recent post I shared that I was leaving SAS after 18.5 years. It has been overwhelming to see all the comments in response to that post on LinkedIn, Facebook and on the Blog post itself. Thank you to everyone for the kind words and for all you did to make my time at SAS the success it was. Seeing all those comments made me even more sad that I am leaving!
Many people have asked me where I am going next. The job market is a very interesting one at the moment and it was great to receive a number of offers to consider over the time of my search. Deciding where to go next was not easy especially with some self imposed constraints playing over and over again in my mind. I must also say that staying away from the shiny lights of the booming title is not as easy as it is to write down :-).
There are many great companies out there. I hope I will be able to stay in touch with those I spoke to moving forwards. Many thanks to each of them for considering me for their roles and for their time investment!
What’s Next
Now onto the future. I am now able share my next move. It is one I am very excited about.
I am going to go work for Microsoft(although I will remain located in Heidelberg, Germany) when not travelling as required.
During a recent keynote Mike Olson, of Cloudera, stated the case for Big Data helping to take on the challenges we will face as a planet. At the same time he outlined customer use cases, the future of Hadoop and affirmed his belief that Hadoop is now enterprise ready. A fact he backed up by talking about the fact there are now many production deployments around the world.
This blog covers the first part of Mikes Cloudera Sessions Keynote which took place on October 8th at the Allianz Arena in Munich. Some of this blog paraphrases, using my notes, with other parts reflecting specific quotes I noted as Mike spoke. A follow-up blog shares a little on where Cloudera stands today and the new initiatives Mike spoke about in that talk including news around the One Platform Initiative, Record Service and Kudu.
Predictive Apps vs. Predictive Analytics. Is it really a battle between the two or is one a subset of the other? Many of us use what I would describe as predictive apps, in our consumer life, day to day but does the idea extend beyond the consumer realm and into the business? How does predictive analytics fit into the picture?
Below are a few of my thoughts but I am also interested in what you see as the difference, if any. Would you use a different phrase?
Is the future of analytics within your enterprise architecture a rapidly changing agile innovation platform (Lab), separated from operations and broad enterprise audience usage, alongside a consistently slowly changing enterprise analytics platform (factory) that supports operations and a broad enterprise audience? That is the question this blog digs into?
This is an important IT topic at the moment as working out how innovate and modernize at the same time is one of the biggest challenges organizations are facing right now. In the past this has been like changing to new wings while flying the plane which has always been slow and risky.
Over the past months I have read a great deal about the Internet of Things (IoT) and how companies are moving forwards with it.
