KPI (noun): Acronym for Keep People Ignorant
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Part of the problem enterprise's have had with reporting is a misunderstanding of what KPI's can accomplish. Too often, we end up sacrificing context...
Centralization Before Democratization
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Effective Democratization of Data requires...Centralization? That's the paradox of trying to get stakeholders to self-service. You can't, until you d...
Easy as Pie? The Failure of Reporting in the Enterprise
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Reporting is one of those things that everyone thinks are easy but that somehow always seem to end up not working very well. That turned out to be a ...
Tableau Rising…Hadoop Falling
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Data Viz and Data Management went in opposite directions this week - with Salesforce completing a massive acquisition of Tableau while key companies ...
The Power Dynamics of IoT
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel With great power comes great...power demand. Why the desire for edge-based compute power is double-edged sword. Almost every IoT installation has t...
Compute Power on the Edge
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel The biggest change in Edge-based computing is the type of development that the new generation of SBCs and SOMs allows. Bottom line is that they make ...
SOM vs. SBC in IoT (sheesh!)
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel It may be an acronym trifecta, but understanding the difference between a SOM and an SBC is one of the first bridges you'll have to cross to IoT la...
Getting Edgy – An Introduction to IoT Computing
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Technologies are only really interesting after they've passed through their time on the hype cycle. Here at Digital Mortar, we tried as hard as we co...
The McNamara Fallacy and the Cynicism Behind Bad Metrics
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Sometimes bad metrics just fool us. But often, the people using them have entirely cynical reasons for glomming onto the really stupid ones. Credit Y...