John Ashmead

Ashmead Software & Consulting, Inc. specializes in the design, enhancement, and administration of relational  databases with particular emphasis on reliability, performance, and ease-of-maintenance.

Programming is like accounting and law in that it is something of a generalist occupation. Nowadays very few vertical markets can function without using programming services of one kind or another.

At the deepest level, the underlying procedures and practices for good programming do not change from one sector to another. Clean, clear design and correct execution against that design are required across sectors.

With that said, each area -- whether financial services, media & advertising, health care, cemetery, publishing, scientific -- has its own vocabulary, requirements, and sensitivities.

Every sector requires a strong emphasis on correctness and reliability. But what is meant by that -- in practice -- is a bit different for health care than for portfolio management.

And this is really where the art comes in: to apply the general principles of good programming practice to satisfy the specific requirements of a particular sector and of a particular client.

Stephen R. Robinson

Information security, data warehousing, and business intelligence (BI) meet in an opportunistic and potentially dangerous place. Security technology by nature throws off large volumes of predominantly useless data in the form of event logs and alarms. The opportunity lies in the potential for using BI technques to separate the signal from the noise and make this information actionable.
Data warehousing, for its part, creates a 'one stop shopping' experience for anyone intent on stealing your most valuable records. In current practice, far more effort tends to go into making this information available than making it secure

Mr. Robinson is an author and enterprise information management consultant. He has 20 years of technology implementation and process improvement experience; including consulting leadership positions at SAP, Oracle, and Ernst & Young. His industry experience includes financial management and systems development at American Express, HSBC, and Citicorp. He is a co-author of the Ernst & Young Guide to Performance Measurement for Financial Institutions. He has published several papers on the development of business intelligence applications. He is also a frequent speaker at trade shows and industry conferences.

He has also co-authored an information security text: The Principles and Practice of Information Security: Keeping computers safe from hackers & lawyers. It introduces the discipline of Digital Liability Management (DLM.) DLM recognizes that IT Security technology investments can and must be justified as a risk management and mitigation tool. This proprietary methodology emphasizes awareness of the total legal and economic exposure as well as the role of organizational behavior in the overall solution.

He is currently working with a large, successful e-commerce business to help them gain both tactical and strategic advantage over their competition by fully and safely leveraging the information on customer interactions generated by their internet marketplace.

Stephen Robinson has recently joined Ashmead Software & Consulting Inc. as a Principal, with particular responsibility for technology strategy, information security and business intelligence.

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