Inside the Briefcase


History Says So….Crowdsourcing will change your life.

History Says So….Crowdsourcing will change your life.

with Siamak Farah, InfoStreet
We live in very exciting times. Wave after wave of technological innovations are changing our lives on a daily basis. Often, we don’t notice the change until we are swept up by it. For...

NYC BPM Event: Process Efficiency World  Tour 2013 with Bonitasoft

NYC BPM Event: Process Efficiency World Tour 2013 with Bonitasoft

Bonitasoft
Last Tuesday, November 5th, I had the privilege of attending a live Open Source BPM event hosted by Bonitasoft in New York City. It was the 11th stop on their 2013 Process Efficiency World Tour, and was geared...

Podcast: Humanizing BPM with Clay Richardson, Forrester Research

Podcast: Humanizing BPM with Clay Richardson, Forrester Research

In this brief podcast, Clay Richardson, Principle Analyst at Forrester Research, discusses the future of BPM and emphasizes the value of the user experience, referring to business processes today as existing within the “Age of the Customer”.

Download a FREE TRIAL of SQL Diagnostic Manager

Download a FREE TRIAL of SQL Diagnostic Manager

Find and fix SQL Server performance problems in 30 seconds or less with SQL Diagnostic Manager.

2013 Application Performance Monitoring Comparison Report

2013 Application Performance Monitoring Comparison Report

This comparison guide looks at 14 Application Performance Monitoring products developed for the enterprise and SMB.





Briefcase Highlights


APPLICATION INTEGRATION

Why It’s Time to Short the MDM Market

November 26, 2013 No Comments

By Adam Ely, BlueboxMobile device management (MDM) pre-IPO market evaluations hit an all-time high in February 2013 however, in recent weeks, we’ve seen two other companies get acquired at fire sale prices, could it be MDM isn’t the complete answer? The answer to all questions is: yes. Read More >>>

How Platform as a Service Super-Charges Software Development

November 25, 2013 No Comments

By Joe McKendrick, Author and Independent ResearcherIf you are looking for a compelling business case for Platform as a Service, look no further than some of leading firms that are racing to keep up with changes technology is imposing on their business models. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The “Glue” That Holds Modern Systems Together with Mac McConnell, Bonitasoft

November 21, 2013 No Comments

with Mac McConnell, BonitaSoftIn this interview, Mac McConnell from Bonitasoft offers expert advice for organizations looking to overcome data management and data integration challenges, and accentuates the value of BPM and SOA within this equation.Read More >>>

Debunking the Myth: Enterprise Resource Planning Isn’t Just for LARGE Chemical Enterprises

November 21, 2013 No Comments

by Stefan Guertzgen, SAPMost chemical SMEs would agree – their biggest challenges include developing innovative applications and formulations, delivering rapid response to changing customer needs, managing complex supply chains and meeting increasing regulatory requirements – all while competing with much larger players in their market space. Read More >>>

Tackling Data Integration Issues With Cloud Networking

November 21, 2013 No Comments

by Wayne Douglas, Technology ReviewerEven the mid-size enterprise has diverse sources of data flowing in every day from multiple sources. The challenge is to integrate and analyze all this information into a unified, user friendly and adaptable view. Read More >>>

History Says So….Crowdsourcing will change your life.

November 15, 2013 No Comments

with Siamak Farah, InfoStreetWe live in very exciting times. Wave after wave of technological innovations are changing our lives on a daily basis. Often, we don’t notice the change until we are swept up by it. For instance, who amongst us would have said that they would use a tablet even as recent as 10 years ago? Read More >>>

NYC BPM Event: Process Efficiency World Tour 2013 with Bonitasoft

November 14, 2013 No Comments

BonitasoftLast Tuesday, November 5th, I had the privilege of attending a live Open Source BPM event hosted by Bonitasoft in New York City. It was the 11th stop on their 2013 Process Efficiency World Tour, and was geared towards organizations looking to maximize business processes and information systems with BPM. Read More >>>

Podcast: Humanizing BPM with Clay Richardson, Forrester Research

November 13, 2013 No Comments

In this brief podcast, Clay Richardson, Principle Analyst at Forrester Research, discusses the future of BPM and emphasizes the value of the user experience, referring to business processes today as existing within the “Age of the Customer”.

Predictions: Key Trends in the Mobile Computing Space for 2014

November 13, 2013 No Comments

In this article, CEOs from four Scandinavian high tech companies offer their predictions for 2014.

CA-Issued Certificates: Grade A Value for Today’s Publishers

November 12, 2013 No Comments

CA Security CouncilNow, with digital information ranking so high on our list of assets to protect, the thought of trusting an obscure website with our credit card details seems as unthinkable as picking up a piece of gum we find on the street and popping it into our mouth. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Restructuring a Fragmented Enterprise with MuleSoft

November 11, 2013 No Comments

With James Donelan, MulesoftIn the interview below, James Donelan from Mulesoft accentuates the value of open source solutions, and outlines ways in which organizations today can achieve a competitive advantage by connecting and automating their business processes across applications and data sources. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with Rajesh Ganesan, ManageEngine – Union of Service Desk and Other Business Services

November 8, 2013 No Comments

With Rajesh Ganesan, ManageEngineIn the discussion below, Rajesh Ganesan from ManageEngine talks about the move to help IT provide more value by fusing the IT service desk with the tools needed to create business applications and services for their end users. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Unified, Complete, and Open Data Integration with Talend

November 6, 2013 No Comments

By Yves de Montcheuil, TalendIn the below interview, Yves de Montcheuil from Talend outlines key integration challenges that are arising with the evolution of big data and cloud computing, and the ways in which a well rounded open source data integration solution can help overcome some of these challenges. Read More >>>

Download a FREE TRIAL of SQL Diagnostic Manager

November 4, 2013 No Comments

Find and fix SQL Server performance problems in 30 seconds or less with SQL Diagnostic Manager.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Achieving a Continuum of Investment with Red Hat

November 1, 2013 No Comments

with Pierre Fricke, Red HatIn this interview, Pierre Fricke from Red Hat discusses challenges that arise as new technologies and tools evolve within the enterprise, and outlines best practices for organizations looking to integrate these mechanisms into their existing business processes.Read More >>>

NYC Event: Take An Outside-In Approach To BPM

October 30, 2013 No Comments

New disruptive technologies such as mobile and social are forcing teams to rethink process and application design from an outside-in perspective. Development teams will need to shift from “systems thinking” approaches that emphasize large scale process change, to “design thinking” paradigms that emphasize creativity and customer experience.

2013 Application Performance Monitoring Comparison Report

October 29, 2013 No Comments

This comparison guide looks at 14 Application Performance Monitoring products developed for the enterprise and SMB.

10 Reasons You Need Network and Application Visibility

October 28, 2013 No Comments

An independent ROI study of Cascade customers, conducted by IDC in April 2010, found a remarkable three-year ROI of 364% and a payback period of just 5.5 months. Find out how Cascade and other Riverbed technologies can accelerate IT performance and save money for your organization.

What Today’s Mobile Voice Apps Can Learn from Yesterday’s Telecom

October 10, 2013 No Comments

By Jason Sommerset, BandwidthThose that don’t learn from the past are fated to repeat it. Over-the-Top (OTT) communications providers like WhatsApp are presented as representative of telecom’s bright, shiny future. But they have a ways to go before they can truly replace the established incumbents. Read More >>>

Mobile Device Management and Why Enterprises Should Care

October 9, 2013 No Comments

with Bill Ho, Biscom While access via laptops is common and many companies have established use policies for them, the mobile device space is much less mature. Concerns about lost devices, embedded encryption, containerization, secure communications, and even malware disguised as apps are growing. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Optimizing Data Analytics with SAP

October 4, 2013 No Comments

with Padmini Ranganathan and , SAPIn this interview, Jerome Feltracco and Padmini Ranganathan from SAP outline key changes in data management, and offer expert advice for businesses looking to integrate and analyze company data to increase overall business value. Read More >>>

The Hype of Cloud Based Email

September 25, 2013 No Comments

by Kari Woolf Novell GroupwiseEmail is mission-critical to any organization. Whether you choose to host email on an on-premise server or outsource to a cloud-based vendor, employees cannot function without this form of communication. Read More >>>

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Spurs IT to “Bring Your Own Solution”

September 18, 2013 No Comments

By Dan Tully, Conduit SystemsPersonal cloud services are convenient, inexpensive, and always available. They also have the potential to wreak havoc on the enterprise in ways we’ve never seen before. Simply stated? Houston, we have a problem. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Maximizing Enterprise Workflow in a Mobile World with Tom Bakewell, Good Technology

September 9, 2013 No Comments

by Thomas Bakewell, Good TechnologyIn the interview below, Thomas Bakewell from Good Technology discusses Mobile IT in respect to the current Big Data revolution, and offers expert advice for organizations looking to create application workflows that are inherently secure. Read More >>>

Ease of Use: The Next Frontier for Event Processing

September 9, 2013 No Comments

by Mark Palmer, TIBCO Software Inc.For the past 10 years, event processing has been growing up on Wall Street. Ten years ago, less than 5% of the world’s trading was algorithmically event-driven; today, over 60% of trading in equities is algorithmic, and much of that is powered by event-processing technologies. Read More >>>

Moving the Channel Forward

September 9, 2013 No Comments

by Kelly Ricker, CompTIAThe IT channel has seen unprecedented disruption over the past few years. Surging enterprise demand for cloud solutions, mobility and business intelligence has left channel firms with a blunt choice: evolve with your clients’ desires or risk obsolescence. Read More >>>

Riverbed Introduces Single Appliance for Application and Network Performance Management

August 21, 2013 No Comments

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the application performance company, today announced a significant milestone in the integration of the Riverbed Cascade and OPNET product families with the introduction of its single appliance with integrated application aware network performance management (aaNPM) and application performance management (APM).

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with Rajesh Ganesan, ManageEngine

August 19, 2013 No Comments

By Rajesh Ganesan, ManageEngineRajesh Ganesan from ManageEngine talks about the rise in data center remote access and how it’s making IT professionals – and IT management vendors – rethink their approach to securely accessing remote resources. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Business Benefits of Mobile Device Management with AirWatch

August 8, 2013 No Comments

with Blake Brannon, AirWatchIn this interview, Blake Brannon from AirWatch outlines ways in which organizations today can maximize their mobile capabilities to increase productivity and gain ROI by deploying mobile applications and enabling mobile access to content. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Fine Tuning Enterprise Mobility Management with Jonathan Dale, Fiberlink

August 8, 2013 No Comments

By Jonathan Dale, FiberlinkIn this interview, Jonathan Dale from Fiberlink accentuates the importance of taking a flexible approach to Mobile Device Management, and offers expert advice for organizations looking to safely and securely manage company data stored on mobile devices. Read More >>>

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