You could do the minimum when it comes to data masking, touch the surface and draw a line under compliance, but what about all the other data? The transactional data, metadata and trends and relationships within your company. Databases contain information that is valuable to your company and would be of interest to your competitors, [...]
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Welcome to the Grid-Tools’ Blog
The testing is good; it’s just the data that’s bad
Remember Woody Allen in Annie Hall relating the story of two elderly women at a Catskill mountain resort? One of them says: “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible,” and the other one adds, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” The ironic quip doesn’t ordinarily enter my mind when I think [...]
Continue readingTest data and & failure to launch
“You can release a product that sounds good, but today, with social media, with people that are able to talk to each other around the world so very quickly, you really have to have something that delivers, that people can use, because that word of mouth is going to get out, so very quickly.” So [...]
Continue readingDoes Testing need a new Discipline?
I spoke with a Professor of Chemistry recently who talked animatedly not about his own field of expertise but about ‘the Edge of Disciplines’. That the overlap in research and understanding between the sciences has been reaping rewards is nothing new, after all biology and chemistry have a relationship that began in the 19th century, but [...]
Continue readingLegacy vs. Innovation
We’re all familiar with the mantra that business has to respond to fast-moving customer demands so when Forrester’s Suresh Vittal says there are customer-facing technologies that should be led by the Chief Marketing Officer, rather than IT teams, it is worth taking note. It chimes with the broader goals of an organisation like Unilever which is [...]
Continue readingGartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013
Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 If some of the top 10 strategic technology trends going into 2013 look familiar it’s because quite a few — like cloud computing and mobile– have been around for awhile but are now either morphing in ways that will continue to impact IT in the next year. [...]
Continue readingAre Banks failing the Test?
“The staff don’t know anything,” so said one irritated NatWest customer as money credited to accounts overnight failed to appear on balances the next day. Even though the original technical glitch was resolved, Britain’s ‘Most Helpful Bank’ is struggling to overcome a backlog of updates. It may be true that staff ‘don’t know anything’ about [...]
Continue readingHey You, Get Off-ah My Cloud!
Who would have thought that a Rolling Stones song written almost 50 years ago could become a technology cliché Who would have thought that a Rolling Stones song written almost 50 years ago could become a technology cliché (or battle cry) a half-century later. Yesterday, research firm Gartner Inc. said that by 2014, The Personal Cloud will [...]
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