Three Blog Posts on How Data is Transforming Society and Business

1. All businesses are now digital businesses -- using the change in business model at Netflix from physical disk delivery to online video as an example of the datafication of business generally. How retail, healthcare, and even manufacturing and logistics are now all about data 2. Real-time world. How a data-driven world demands instant results and faster answers. Demonstrated by the rise of Amazon Prime -- 2nd day delivery became the new normal, and now people want same-day. In business, systems must be real-time. Rise of SAP HANA and other in-memory systems. Rise of analytics systems that work in-database. 3. Why apps are king. How the app has become the touchpoint between human users and a world made out of data. A service like Uber was technically possible decades ago using phones and cars, but it couldn't really take off until we had a handheld device with a simple app as the front end to a vastly connected system of drivers and other users. Apps, mobility, and the Internet of Things are transforming all of business by bringing the data-drive nature of the business world (part1) and the need for real-time (part 2) directly into the user's hands. Apps are the datafication of us.