Graph Data Management: Status and Trends

Today’s social environments are getting more interconnected and the business market is becoming increasingly open and competitive. Organisations require a better awareness of their state and an accurate prediction of their evolution. To cope with this surging demand, new models and tools need to be developed. In my opinion, graph models are of a crucial interest for addressing these challenges.

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High Availability in RoQ

In the last year, we have worked with Benjamin Van Melle on implementing High Availability in RoQ, our proof-of-concept distributed pub-sub messaging system. As a consequence, we needed to expand our JUnit tests to cover individual component failure scenarios and prove they were handled as expected. This piece will show how we used Docker to achieve this.

Elastic Messaging for the Cloud
Elastic Messaging for the Cloud

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EURA NOVA Master Theses, 2013-2014 Season

Similar to the previous years EURA NOVA R&D has been supervising Master students either for their internship or for their Master Thesis during the 2013-1014 academic year. This year, 5 students have had the opportunity to work in the fields of Machine Learning, GPU compute, distributed processing, metabolic pathways and social graphs. This blog post summarizes their breakthroughs.

EURA NOVA Master Theses

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Projects Portfolio Management (PPM)

EURA NOVA - Projects Portfolio Management
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For meeting its strategic objectives, a company has to move from a situation A to a situation B. To achieve this move, it uses Projects as vehicles for performing Changes.

As you know, vehicles have specific purposes and therefore different sizes, styles, performance, costs, lifespan and sometimes also priorities.

As you also know, vehicles sometimes don’t arrive in destination B as initially foreseen: some may get out of fuel, others may use unexpected directions, or take more time than planned for arriving to destination. In worst cases, they may get damaged or even collide each others.

Let’s see how Projects Portfolio Management can select the right mix of vehicles, control them and increase success for vehicles to arrive all at the desired place, time & cost and without bad surprises.

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Testing the Tesla Model S

EURA NOVA recently tested the usually praised Tesla cars (The Model S P85 in our case). While we were impressed by the engineering work behind such a vehicle, some of its aspects convinced us that the near 100k € price point can’t be justified, in particular on the Belgian market with its volatile fiscal rules. Flashback on a very fun testing session!

Tesla Model S P85
Tesla Model S P85

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Event Based Marketing for the Telecommunications Industry

What is Event Based Marketing?

Event Based Marketing (EBM) that frequently is also referred to as Event Driven Marketing (EDM) or Trigger Based Marketing, is the discipline within marketing where commercial and communication activities are based upon these relevant and identified changes in a customer’s individual needs. It tends to identify key events in the customer’s life-cycle and trigger the most appropriate actions at the right time.

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