At Chiliad, we are obssessed about information privacy – it is a consideration in everything we do, and it is built into the architecture of our software. Because it is not bolted on, everything our software does enforces privacy policies. We are a data analysis company, not a data collection company. Here are some of [...]
Tag Archives: Software Design
The Five Challenges to Finding Meaning in Structured Data
Relational database systems are a necessary part of most organizations. Complex schemas are designed and implemented in order to meet specific application needs. Although such structured data is required for day to day functioning, there is no scalable way to search and analyze across all the data elements of the complex schema. In order to find [...]
Architecture is Destiny
Having been in the software business now for some time, there is one over-arching lesson apparent to me: In software, architecture is destiny. There are always competing objectives when designing systems. Should our software be a platform? Should it be an application designed to meet a particular class of customer need? Is it really a [...]
