Inside the BriefcaseTweet Appian, probably best known as a pure play BPM vendor has tossed its hat in the social ring with the latest release of its BPM suite. Like TIBCO before it, Appian is taking advantage of its ability to hook into any application and then applying a social layer. Appian is using the opportunity to […]
Tweet The year 2010 will probably be remembered at the year that cloud computing “shaped” itself into a tangible concept, at least amongst those of us who care. 2011, on the other hand, will likely be the year in which IT figures out how to actually use cloud concepts. Read More of James Urquhart’s Blog […]
Tweet 7:30 ET It’s clear from my initial scan of the agenda, that IBM intends to use its clout with partners to create a broad ecosystem to support its cloud initiatives. It intends to help its partners develop cloud expertise by supporting five types of business partners. Here’s the list of specialties IBM has defined […]
Tweet Several months ago I had the good fortune of hearing from Professor David Dobrzykowski who teaches CRM at the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University – university of some 23,000 total students safely ensconced in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Dr Dobrzykowski a.k.a. Dave, told me that his class was using the 4th edition of CRM at the […]
Tweet While Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson loves Linux for introducing her to the open source ecosystem, she didn’t want to carry her ardor too far. “For Valentine’s I prefer chocolate and and dinner with a few drinks,” she said, “but my COMPUTER sure loves linux, and not just on Valentine’s Day. And unlike humans, it […]
Tweet Many of the most interesting big economic landmarks in IT have happened around what might be called “re-platforming,” as users take existing applications and redeploy them on new platforms, such as we see when applications move from corporate data centers to the Amazon Web Services EC2 or the Rackspace Cloud. We see this trend […]
Tweet Last week I wrote about the continued rise of social media usage and monitoring in top tier mid-market firms. Here are some related trends. An updated IBM mid-market study shows new investments in the majority of companies surveyed for innovation and growth in analytics, cloud computing, collaboration, mobility and customer relationships and suggests that […]
Tweet Linus Torvalds was the first suggestion of Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software: “It is hard to conceive of a world in which he doesn’t already have one, but we appear to live in it. I can’t imagine anyone who doesn’t have one who deserves one more.” […]
Tweet We continue to be very enthusiastic about the tremendous amount of opportunity in the Enterprise Infrastructure sector for 2011. In the past few years, we’ve seen significant innovation in technologies such as virtualization, flash memory and distributed databases and applications. When combined with business model shifts (cloud computing) and strong macroeconomic forces (reduced R&D […]
Tweet When I started out in the IT world, the first thing I ever did was to develop a Lotus Notes practice for a small company. This was the early 90s, if I recollect correctly (I’m not being evasive, merely making believe I’m an old codger, by cracky). So I would go to Lotusphere – […]
Tweet Activity Journal is a tool for browsing and finding files on your computer. I like the potential that the application has for tracking and opening files I use. It is certainly a better option than looking through a file manager window filtered by date. But the app fails in some key points that lead […]
Tweet Barclays has said it owes a plethora of business benefits to an efficient master data management system. According to Computing.co.uk, financial giant Barclays Bank has said it has cut costs, reduced complaints, increased regulatory compliance, improved staff productivity and financial reporting as well as enhanced fraud fighting systems all thanks to more efficient data […]
Tweet Focus Research introduced BIQ (Business Intelligence Quotient) a while ago and I think this is a great concept. You can get a free copy here. It aligns well with our thinking here at myDIALS and outlines the following list of “High-Fives”. Encore the fact that BI is everybody’s business Data, Data Everywhere! But I Can’t […]
As you may know, LogiXML was positioned in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. You may also already know that that Gartner’s highly regarded Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence is based on Gartner’s evaluation of a company’s completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Tweet Several private clouds are now coming to market based on the Vblock technology developed by VCE, a joint venture forged by Cisco, EMC and VMWare. Last week I groaned inwardly as I saw not one, but two announcements plop into my inbox. First came Sungard’s “fully managed cloud offering”, and then a couple of […]
Tweet MTBS doesn’t affect only Microsoft users, consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack asserted. “The saying used to be that ‘no one ever got fired for buying IBM,’” he noted. “People have a tendency to stick with what they consider safe, and it takes something large to force a change.” Read more of this blog […]
Tweet Organisations are beginning to make their business intelligence (BI) data available to customers outside of the business, according to Stephen Brobst, CTO of data warehousing and analytics firm Teradata, reports Computing. Read More
Tweet Arthur Cole spoke with Augie Gonzalez, director of product marketing for DataCore Software, about how advanced SAN management can help with the inevitable bottlenecks that arise from too many virtual machines seeking access to too few physical resources. The more virtualization takes over the server farm, the greater impact it has on network and […]
Tweet Readers of this website may be more in-tune about what “The Cloud” is than the masses — although maybe a couple dozen raised their hand in recognition, out of several hundred attendees at the State of Green Business Forum this morning — the odds are about 100 percent that you’re intimately connected to The […]
Tweet I was not surprised to hear Amazon’s announcement that it now rocks Oracle’s database in its cloud. Clearly it’s a response to Salesforce.com’s Database.com, but it also addresses the fact that most enterprises love Oracle. Currently Amazon offers MySQL on demand, an open source relational database. However, I suspect that enterprises and government agencies […]
Tweet Wanova has been polishing their desktop management product, Mirage, again. This time, the key focus was scaling to meet the needs of large organizations having many remote branch offices. Read more of Dan Kusnetzky’s blog post
Tweet For those of us on the Linux side of the fence, it can be hard to keep quiet about our favorite operating system. After all, there’s no multimillion-dollar marketing budget at work to counteract all the promotion that comes out of Redmond, in particular, so many of us feel it our duty to sing […]
Tweet One of my predictions for 2011 is that the new opposing forces in enterprise content management are self-service and gate-keeper vendor models. Enterprises ready to adopt content management tools today have vendor and architectural choices very different from those of the last decade. More choice means buyers can select a vendor not only for product […]
Tweet Casually flicking through the latest tech magazines (as you do in this industry) I was struck with one thought – every publication mentions cloud computing at least twice per feature. Now calculating how many magazines I read and how many articles there were in each, it seems the research companies are right – cloud […]
Tweet “Father of the Internet” Vint Cerfreckons that cloud computing is great, but that it needs standards for systems to communicate. Sendmail pioneer Eric Allman argues that too many people fail to realise that cloud computing involves a return to computing approaches from decades ago. Like Cerf, Allman gave a keynote address at Linux.conf.au in […]
Tweet When people talk about the merits of Open Source software vs closed source/proprietary software, one of the most common advantages listed for open source is “you have the source, you can modify it, you can change it”. This is my worst favorite argument, and I even catch our own sales guys saying it now […]
Tweet This case study podcast discussion explains how businesses are using cloud commerce to dramatically improve how they procure by better managing the overall buying process. Cloud-based procurement services are improving cash management, and helping to gain an analytical edge over spend management while constantly improving company-wide buying efficiency and repeatability. One company, California-based First […]
Tweet SOURCE: IT BusinessEdge As IT organizations debate the merits of building their own private clouds or renting public cloud computing infrastructure, it’s becoming clear that both approaches are being seriously considered. A new survey of 100 senior IT executives conducted by Osterman Research on behalf of Electric Cloud, a provider of services for managing […]
Tweet The number of business intelligence (BI) solutions appearing in the marketplace is steadily increasing. Most of these solutions still employ the services of a traditional enterprise data warehouse, but an increasing number do not. In some operational BI applications, for example, event data volumes and/or the need for fast action times may prevent the […]
Tweet Another big CES is over. Another gadgets-fest out of the way. Lots of tablets (none however that I believe will overshadow or even remotely be able to challenge the iPad, with the possible exeption of RIM’s PlayBook – assuming it ships sometime in the not too distant future); lots of ‘me-too’ mobile devices; a […]
