Inside the BriefcaseTweet Last year, I offered up 10 predictions for 2010 and got five right. Ones I nailed: Palm was sold; Apple released a tablet and Google a phone; Silicon Valley posted gains in the overall number of jobs; the number of public companies in the valley continued to decline; Facebook and LinkedIn didn’t go public. […]
Business intelligence is rapidly moving from the desktop computer to the smart phone and the tablet, according to a survey conducted by Microstrategy Inc., one of the largest software companies catering to corporate needs for financial and management reports and online executive dashboards. In particular, it’s happening on Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
Tweet This time of year, I always revisit “A Christmas Story.” It’s a family tradition – in fact, right now, I’m writing this by the “soft glow of electric sex, gleaming in the window.” That’s right: We have our very own miniature leg lamp replica, which my husband hauls out every Christmas and proudly displays […]
Tweet This year marked many milestones for open source, and among the four biggest stories of all, as Datamation notes, one of them was not the rise of the Linux desktop. That goal, in fact, may be a permanent pipe dream, because Linux-based open source offerings are gaining much success off the computing desktop–a trend […]
Tweet Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: HP. Barcelona — Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Barcelona, an interview with Kevin Bury, Vice President and General Manager, and Neil Ashizawa, Manager of […]
Tweet Once upon a time, a few decades ago, computers were extraordinarily expensive, room-filling machines — the kind decked out with whirring tape reels, flashing lights, and banks of switches. You didn’t pull up a chair up to use one; instead, using a process called timesharing, you accessed it via a remote terminal at the […]
Tweet The Italian Datamanager has an article titled “The Intelligence and the Conquest of SMEs” that explains how business intelligence (BI) is growing in medium-sized enterprises in Italy’s social market economy (SME). “The European market is expected to grow Bi in 2010 than in 2009. According to IDC, this increase will be 5.4 percent for […]
Tweet The Salesforce.com Database.com announcement of last week has been speculated to be many things – from a head-on competitive move against legacy on-premise databases to the “cloudification” of enterprise data. In order to get Database.com to operate with the vast majority of enterprise systems, companies need to plan for how data sources on enterprise […]
Tweet There’s no doubt that one of the bigger opportunities to emerge for solution providers in the channel in 2010 had been Hadoop. The benefit of an open source data framework such as Hadoop is that it provides a cost-effective way to manipulate “Big Data.” Rather than having to buy data warehousing appliances to manipulate […]
Tweet NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions for small and medium-sized companies around the world. It competes mainly with EMC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell in the external disk storage systems market. Cloud Computing, also known as IT as a Service (ITaaS), is increasingly being adopted as a way for IT organizations to decrease […]
Tweet Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software design approach in which an application consists of software services and software service consumers. Some of the attributes of SOA being: Loose Coupling Contracts between service provider and service consumer Allows co working of multiple technologies There may be some confusion in the air about the applicability […]
Tweet As a class of software, business process management (BPM) software has always been somewhat frustrating. It offers a lot of potential value to the business, but the complexity of setting up a BPM application has made IT organizations gun-shy about the whole category, especially given their experiences with cumbersome ERP applications. But with the […]
Tweet Currently in beta, version 6.5 of Jahia Web CMS (news, site) brings considerable architectural changes to the table with focus on modularity, transition from page-centric to component-centric — all in a composite content platform. What you will see in the 6.5 version revolves around these concepts: Composite content platform approach New integrated development environment […]
Tweet Open source middleware provider Talend last month put a little extra filling in its technology stack with the acquisition of SOPERA, an open source SOA and application integration platforms company. So with all this extra middleware sandwich filling to chew on; has the company now produced the tastiest open source middleware offering around, or […]
Tweet When CPTN Holdings appeared out of the blue to snap up Novell’s patent portfolio, the only thing anyone knew about them was that Microsoft was behind the group and that’s all Microsoft had to say about its Novell intellectual property (IP) purchase. Now, thanks to Germany’s anti-trust body, the Bundeskartellamt, we know that Microsoft’s […]
Tweet Those of us who have been part of the FOSS community for more than, oh, say 10 minutes, are no doubt already familiar with the recurring “Year of Linux on the Desktop” debate. It’s a topic that comes up again and again in the Linux blogosphere, typically fueled by some new success or promising […]
Tweet Invincea Inc. is using virtualization to help companies plug holes in their cyber-security defenses and fend off threats before they become well known. The company, backed by Grotech Ventures and New Atlantic Ventures, sells software that builds a virtual environment for running a Web browser or PDF reader, so that in the case of […]
Tweet When Microsoft releases the next version of its customer relationship management product in mid-January, a cloud-based version of Dynamics CRM 2011 will finally be available as a competitor to Salesforce.com. But Microsoft’s sales pitch will highlight, in part, that Dynamics CRM is not just on the cloud. Read more of Nick Eaton’s blog post
Tweet Long promoted as the “cloud computing operating system,” Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS will provide a browser-centric OS that wholly depends on wireless connectivity and the cloud for its core services. The first Chrome OS notebooks won’t be available until mid-2011 — unless you can get into the pilot program for Google’s own Cr-48 netbook. […]
Tweet The Open Group has released the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Ontology Technical Standard, intended to define the concepts, terms and semantics of SOA in a common language that will allow for more precise and straightforward communications and facilitate SOA adoption without ambiguity. What’s an ontology and how can it help SOA? And why did […]
Tweet Want to know how service orientation efforts are going? Follow the money — literally, as in look to see what the financial sector is doing. A recent survey from Forrester finds eight out of ten financial services firms use SOA approaches today. Plus, they want more service orientation in their business systems, delivered at […]
Tweet After all the many open source missteps Oracle has made this fall, one might think the company would be at least starting to get a clue right about now. We’ve seen the lawsuit against Google; we’ve seen the demise of OpenSolaris. There’s been the emergence of the MySQL fork known as SkySQL; there’s been […]
Tweet Business intelligence consultant Doug Lautzenheiser, general manager of Cincinnati-based Partner Intelligence, believes Apple’s iPad may be the greatest thing to hit BI since, well, the dashboard. “We think mobile devices are just more convenient for BI,” Lautzenheiser says. “You have them with you all the time. They’re always on – a touch of a […]
Tweet EMC and Aspera have teamed up to address the needs of organizations having requirements to move large amounts of data from site to site. EMC is supplying the storage virtualization technology and Aspera is supplying tools to accelerate data transfers (see Aspera – High speed data transfers for more information about Aspera’s technology). I […]
Tweet At Yellowfin, we’ve just released a new version of our Business Intelligence (BI) solution – Yellowfin 5.1 Socialize, Visualize & Decide. The release has a major focus on the quickly emerging area of Social BI, or as it is sometimes referred to as, collaborative decision-making (CDM) software. Social BI is an illusive concept, and […]
Tweet Google today unveiled new features for its Chrome browser and offered a sneak peek at what’s coming with Chrome OS, a new Web-only operating system that was first announced last year and will be launched in notebooks from Acer and Samsung by mid-next year. The company covered a lot of ground during an event […]
Tweet Insurance agencies and brokers manage a multitude of complex relationships through their normal course of business – and it’s these many moving parts that require a higher level of organization necessary to increase production, reduce administrative tasks, and streamline agency operations. Powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM, AbleBridge provides an integrated agency management solution designed […]
Tweet Analyst Robin Bloor shares an unusual twist on the topic of cloud computing. He starts out with the contention that everything we consider “cloud” could be deployed in a traditional data center, which inevitably leads to the question: Is cloud computing really a necessity? Thankfully he responded, and I hope he doesn’t mind me […]
Tweet Energy Secretary Steven Chu called today for more government action to promote green technology and warned that a failure to do so would damage U.S. potential to cash in on the new green economy. Chu, a Nobel Laureate in physics and former University of California-Berkeley professor, told a National Press Club audience that the […]
Tweet As if everything wasn’t changing fast enough: Now data centers built for decades need continual redesign. On Tuesday, IBM will announce it is selling predictive analytics software for the design, planning, maintenance and upgrades of some of business’ biggest cost centers. Not long ago, these multibillion-dollar computing palaces were built to the same spec […]
