Taming the beasts that are the Web 2.0 and cloud computing to serve your needs in Business Intelligence, Web Analytic and Dynamic Simulation

Welcome to this blog.

Hopefully, I will be more diligent blogger on these subjects than other subjects I've tried before.

I'll do a quick introduction on the different subject that will be touched by this blog.

• Web 2.0: refers to the latest generation of web sites technologies and designs. It employs a fare share of technologies as Ajax and Flex.
  
• Cloud Computing: refers to a way to do computing that uses resources available on internet. It allows to distribute servers, resources and data on internet without the need to consider where the applications or the data is located.
  
• Business Intelligence: refers to the practices, technologies and skills used to help businesses to understand the environment in which they are evolving in.
  
• Web Analytic: refers to the measurement, collection and analysis of web content to help optimize website usage.
  
• Dynamic Simulation: refers of techniques used to replicate systems that exist in the real work. The new system can be tested with different input variables to predict how changes will affect the real system.

If you did not get all of these, it's okay, it should become clearer with time with newer post.

Why write about these subjects? To make a long answer short, I manage a business intelligence and web analytic team. Being a small team, we are trying to leverage as much technologies as we can to get the most bang for our bucks. Among those technologies, Ajax which is the spear head of web 2.0, and cloud computing which allows us to use software/applications develop to help us succeed in our goals.

One other things is that over the years, I've discovered that writing about a subject is the best way to learn about it.

So, hopefully this blog will help you in your quest to succeed in business intelligence, web analytic or dynamic simulations.


-- Simon Vaillancourt