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Disclaimer: I am a GUI guy by trade.  I’ve worked in user interfaces since I was 6.  Yes, I wrote code in BASIC back in junior high, but it was never “fun”.  I like to just fire the thing up, look at it, tweak it, and run it.  Code has to be remembered, researched, and formatted.  It’s picky.  It doesn’t like to be “just written”.  Brackets have to be flawless.  Case matters.  So many things to think about.

Sean Nathaniel, Chief Technology Officer of Upland Software and General Manager of the company’s FileBound ECM division, wants to foment a revolution in the way organisations plan, manage and execute work.

Each platform and vertical industry “hires its own.” SAP teams want SAP people. Healthcare teams want healthcare experts. Salesforce teams look for SalesForce developers. Banks look for financial services people. It's the way of the workplace. SharePoint is no exception. Being a “SharePoint person” conveys membership in a deep-dive community of technical expertise that speaks its own language, from farms and site collections to Designer workflows and PowerShell scripts.

How many times a day do we hear or read the word “data”? Then it is changed for “information” to avoid being used too often. If we adopt the proposition that “All information is data but not all data is information”; what does a business need to do with either or both?

As the world moves towards the big data era, society will undergo a major shift. Big data is already transforming many aspects of our life and forcing us to reconsider basic principles, as we evaluate how to best utilise big data while preventing potential harm. Simple changes to existing rules will not be sufficient to temper big data’s dark side.

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