Singapore
SINGAPORE'S Smart Nation vision is fundamentally about data integration, says Mike Tuchen, a former Microsoft executive and now the CEO of data software company Talend.
"Smarting up" a nation boils down to using technology to build an ecosystem where data is gathered on different sensors island-wide - on the roads, round the street corners, on moving vehicles, in gas and water pipelines - and then integrated, cleaned up, and analysed to enable people to make useful decisions.
Talend is an open-core data integration platform that helps organisations integrate data into a "a single version of the truth".
In the real world where data is a mess, gathered from different systems, in different...