Alan Kay, the Xerox PARC founder and visionary computer scientist, once said, “don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws!” 
Alan wasn’t the first* to express the view that the future can, at least in part, be invented, but he was one of its leading proponents laying much of the groundwork in the early 1970s for what would become the personal computer and ultimately, the digital revolution.
For corporate leaders and their companies in the midst of the transition to becoming digital enterprises, that future is real-time computing, or what I prefer to call ‘in the moment’ computing – the ability to make instant decisions based on live rather than stale data.
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Technologists have been talking about real-time computing for years, but it is only in the last few years that new technology platforms like SAP’s HANA (which is built around a reimagined database with built-in analytics and other functionality) and in-memory computing have made real, real-time computing possible.

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