Near miss

I always wondered why English uses the expression "near miss" when "near hit" would be more logical. But after the last weekend when hurricane Emma brought down some large trees around our house I am glad the tree missed my car and it did not not hit it:

BI minus BS equals Good Data

Today starts a new chapter of my life. After a year of hard work my team and I are coming out of stealth mode and launching a new company: Good Data Corporation.

We've built a complete, on-demand business intelligence platform combining analytics, reporting, data warehousing and data integration. Our primary focus is collaborative analytics. We believe that sharing and teamwork will allow our users to move past isolated reports and arrive at the true meaning of "business intelligence."

How is it different? It's fast, it's flexible, and it's on-demand. We've packed a sophisticated bundle into a simple package. By focusing on the right features, we've eliminated feature bloat. And it's secure, too.

We've been working hard, and I would love to hear your thoughts. If you would like to learn more about Good Data please visit http://www.gooddata.com.

Cape Clear gone

Workday announced yesterday the acquisition of Cape Clear Software. I believe that this is an important deal for several reasons:

- any successful SaaS company will have to solve the problem of data/process integration. Existing applications inside the firewall need to be integrated with an external On Demand processes outside of the firewall. An acquisition of integration company can potentially solve this problem.

- Cape Clear was one of the last independent SOA companies. This is another proof that SOA is no longer an independent activity. It is part of enterprise software (IBM, HP), BPM software (Software AG) and now Saas (Workday).

- we used to compete against Cape Clear at Systinet and it was a great source of inspiration for us. Acquisition of Cape Clear closes one chapter of my career...

We've moved!

This is the new address of Prague office:

Jindrisska 24, Prague 1

Elaine the Hacker Story

I can't wait to find out what will happen to Ellain and her mother. You can follow the story here...

Facebook Elastic Compute Cloud

Some ideas are just way too obvious and Joyent's Free Accelerator (on-demand infrastructure for Facebook application hosting) is one of them...

IBM buying Cognos

This famous Data General advertisment (it actually never ran) is over 25 years old, but after a small update it can be used even today:

They Say IBM’s Entry Into On Demand BI Will Legitimize The Market. The Bastards Say, Welcome.