Folks, it is official. They are part of IBM, my division, Information Management. I am looking forward to deep interactions with Don Campbell, their CTO, who will now become part of the technical leadership team for Information Management. Every acquisition brings promise and some angst (technology overlap, new team dynamics etc.) but this one seems to be extremely positive from the get go. More on our dashboarding, OLAP, streaming, text analytics, performance management and the like over the course of next few months from me...
Meanwhile, we also announced a new family of products, branded Infosphere -- our warehousing and master data management. Fundamentally, these two, plus our Information Server, now represent the part of our portfolio devoted to comprehensive view of information across the enterprise. While I try to keep marketing to a minimum in my blog, this product family will represent a critical thrust by us.
Also, I was quite excited by a series of announcements in Lotusphere -- the annual Lotus conference. In particular, Lotus mashups -- which will have close affinity with our Info 2.0 initiatives, and Live Text, which among other things contains my favorite Avatar annotation technology. And yes, some other big events happened this week ($45B big), but let me leave that for a later date.
Thanks for the warm welcome Anant! Myself and the rest of the 'techies' at Cognos are very much looking forward to the impact we can have together as part of IBM. The sky's the limit!
Don
Posted by: Don Campbell | February 03, 2008 at 07:37 PM
tell me more about avatar annotation
Posted by: james governor | March 27, 2008 at 08:01 AM