I am glad to see Andy Mulholland, CTO of CapGemini, got nominated again this year to IT Blog Awards 2009: CIO / IT Director for his insightful and visionary blog, one that any IT or CIO should follow very closely.
He recently wrote this entry: Unstructured Events Call for Unstructured Data.
Behind this clever title is the acknowledgement that today’s world is changing at an ever faster pace, requiring businesses to improve their agility by working smarter and reacting much more quickly than ever before. They need to constantly have their “finger on the pulse” of market conditions, competitors, customers, suppliers, legislation, and any parameter important to running and growing their business.
To deal with this, business analysts are trying to move their day-to-day IT needs to the front-office rather than waiting for the traditionally long and expensive implementation cycles necessary for back-office applications run by the IT department. Business departments are more frequently leveraging self-service Business Intelligence dashboard tools like Corda CenterView, Palantir and ClikView, but that only helps data analysis, not agile data access. As we all now, no analysis is better than the underlying data, so having the right data, quality data, and timely data is critical for business analysts today.
As Andy writes, this is where the Kapow Web Data Server from Kapow Technologies comes in. (Andy, glad you are “getting some great results” with Kapow Web Data Server).
Do as more than 350 companies worldwide are already doing. Leverage Web Data Services and the Kapow Web Data Server to support your rapidly increasing need for agile and timely access of the right data.
I hope Andy wins for the second year in a row, he deserves it.
By: Stefan Andreasen 
