Five Minute Briefing - MultiValue
March 28, 2018
A comprehensive monthly publication filled with news and insight serving the MultiValue database community.
News Flashes
Entrinsik, developer of Informer, landed the "Top Performer" spot for business intelligence tools in the 2018 Summer Customer Success Report published by FeaturedCustomers.com. The Top Performer designation is awarded to vendors with significant market presence and resources and enough customer success content to validate their vision. Highly rated by customers, Entrinsik Informer consistently publishes customer-driven content and curates dozens of positive reviews from multiple third-party sites.
Having spent my entire career in IT, I wasn't expecting to learn so much in my first three months in a new position. Of course, I knew that with the transition there would come an adjustment period, as there is in any role, but the sheer amount of information I've absorbed in the past weeks has been both exciting and overwhelming.
Zumasys is offering a five day training class for programmers to become acclimated with the jBASE platform from April 9-13. Over the duration of the week, attendees will be educated on the differences of jBASE compared to other MultiValue platforms, and will explore the features of this powerful technology while being introduced to modern programming methodologies.
Think About It
With news unfolding about an app that was able to gather 50 million Facebook users' data that was later resold to a political data firm in order to try to influence American voter sentiment, industry leaders are weighing in on what this may mean for the future of governance and regulatory compliance. While not a breach or hack, the use of the data by a third party, and the particular purposes it was collected for, has drawn outrage from lawmakers and Facebook customers, and prompted heightened interest in regulations that could enable individuals to control the use of their data.