Author:William McKnight

Under the Covers: Databases in Devices

Embedded databases have become a popular use of database technologies. Aggregating all the uses of databases would show embedded databases to be just as popular (or more so) than the more extrinsic approach now that there are 25 billion connected...

Getting Started with Natural Language Processing in Your Enterprise

NLP is a necessary enterprise discipline today. Understanding the challenges and possibilities will help you harness this discipline for your language applications.

Natural language processing (NLP) is poised to make major advances in enterprise applications. No longer is this...

McObject eXtremeDB embedded database system

Embedded databases have become a popular use of database technologies, especially for IoT applications in the enterprise, as I discussed in this recent article at Upside. There are many reasons to embed a database in your application’s endpoints instead of...

Informatica Winter Launch

Today, Informatica announced their Winter Launch. It’s a huge release, encompassing the bulk of their vast data management portfolio. As one of the few larger companies out there primarily focused on data management, I consider their moves a bellwether for...