Inside the BriefcaseThe European software industry is mostly clustered in the largest European countries—Germany, the U.K., and France, according to the latest report from IDC. Titled “Europe’s Software Industry: Where Are the ISV Clusters in Europe?” the study reveals that in 2009 top 100 independent software vendors (ISVs) from Europe had market shares in excess of 20 per cent of the global market
Tweet HomeBank is a personal financial management application that’s a lot like keeping a ledger. This banking tool does not dwell in the realm of accounting techie talk. Instead, it is easy to enter money you spend and track money you deposit. Installing is easy, but the setup process can get quite tedious. However, once […]
Featured ArticlesIndependent research firm Forrester Research expects the global cloud computing market to reach $241 billion in 2020 compared to $40.7 in 2010, according to a new Forrester report called “Sizing the Cloud”. The report aims to provide insights into the future market size of cloud computing segment while trying to predict market growth dynamics in a new IT environment driven by rapidly growing number of cloud computing services and applications.
Tweet SOURCE: Businessweek Every day on my way to work I pass a store offering psychic readings, and I’m often tempted to stop in and ask what lies ahead in the tech world. Is the “cloud” just a passing phase? Will “social analytics” tools prove to be reliable? Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence […]
Nearly half of non-technical users reported dissatisfaction with their company’s business intelligence (BI) implementation in a recent survey conducted by LogiXML.
Heading into the cloud can seem like an attractive prospect. But there are a lot of questions companies should consider before they make the trip.
Those who create or leverage clouds, whether private or public, need to manage those clouds while they support core business processes. Cloud management is a set of approaches and technologies that are evolving as the world of cloud computing becomes more complex, and as the applications, data, and processing that reside on clouds become increasingly critical to the success of the business.
Tweet Written by Scott Cranton, Principle Solutions Engineer, FuseSource OSGi technology brings a number of much needed benefits to the Jaa enterprise application market, and is disruptive in that it impacts the software development, deployment, and management practices of many organizations. OSGi impacts deployment given the shared, modular nature of OSGi, meaning application code must […]
Tweet A radiation-detecting app for smartphones is bound to draw the interest of a lot of people, but don’t count Apple CEO Steve Jobs among them. Tawkon’s app purports to detect ionizing radiation emitted by mobile phones (not the non-ionizing radiation that is causing problems in Japan). Though it’s approved for BlackBerry and Android devices, […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Considered a corollary of Moore’s Law, Bell’s Law leaps from transistors on chips to computers, describing not how their components increase, but rather how they shrink. Bell’s Law holds that a new class of smaller, cheaper computers comes along roughly every 10 years. The arrival of smartphones conformed to the law, and the next […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Large companies may dominate the headlines coming from CTIA Wireless when it comes to hardware releases, but mobile software is still very much an open field for smaller vendors. Mobile application makers were out in force at Monday evening’s ShowStoppers event, showing off systems for finding your way around stores, turning phones into remote […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Attorneys for hacker George Hotz swung back at Sony with a claim that the PlayStation 3 maker has no right to search Hotz’s computer hard drive for a Sony SDK. The system tinkerer has been battling Sony over the publication of PS3 encryption codes, and the case has sparked a debate concerning the extent […]
Featured ArticlesTweet In a time of economic turmoil, business intelligence (BI) initiatives stand out for their potential to improve corporate performance through better use of data gathering by disparate systems. Compared with many enterprise IT projects, BI requires relatively modest investments. One of the most important trends in information technology has been the emergence of a […]
Tweet If your head hasn’t been lost up in the cirrus or cumulus, you’ve probably heard of cloud computing over the last few years. “The cloud” has figured prominently in President Barack Obama’s technology initiatives, in the business plans of familiar tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, and even in a New Yorker […]
Businesses need to have the support of users from the bottom up, not just from senior level executives, in order to successfully implement enterprise content management (ECM) systems, according to Gartner.
Tweet If CIOs want top execs on the board to buy into business process management (BPM) projects, they should sell them as business rather than technology initiatives. This was the general consensus at the Gartner BPM Summit in London yesterday. BPM is the creation of systems that streamline an organisation’s workflow making it more effective […]
Tweet There’s something about the phrase “mobile analytics” that holds out visions of empowered business users, but defining the value requires some sincere soul-searching within your own organization. A candid evaluation of your business requirements begins with the question: What does this phrase really mean to you, and are you ready for mobile analytics? If […]
Tweet With the advent of mobile cloud computing, increasing effort has been put into developing platforms that simplify the development of cloud-based mobile applications. Creating apps for the mobile cloud is significantly different than developing apps for a native smartphone platform like the iPhone or Android. But over the long run, the mobile cloud computing […]
Tweet Fluctuating economic conditions, increased competition and surging volumes of organizational information are pushing organizations to opt for business intelligence software. The business intelligence software was one among the few markets which was resilient to the global economic crunch, and showed a growth in the same period. The increasing requirements of Business Intelligence applications by […]
Tweet Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/027980/business_process_m) has announced the addition of the “Business Process Management: Alternative Views” report to their offering. This Cutter IT Journal special issue argues that business process management (BPM) is not just about swim lane charts; it is also about managing unpredictable processes, frequently changing rules, collective knowledge, and convergence with SOA. […]
Tweet “Mobile and banking fit together like chocolate and peanut butter,” says Jim Pitts, project manager of the Financial Services Technology Consortium, the technology solutions division within The Financial Services Roundtable. In 2011, mobile will be the focus, but that focus won’t hinder investments in cross-channel integration. In fact, Pitts says mobile innovations will serve […]
Tweet Shifting business intelligence and analytics off-premise can make financial sense, as it does with other applications. Instead of buying servers and software licenses up front as a large, sunk capital cost, paying monthly fees from operating budgets can be less expensive over the life of the application. But doing BI in the cloud also […]
Tweet Cloud computing is clearly the latest hot topic for the IT industry. In fact, it’s hard to find a vendor or service provider that isn’t making highly positive claims about the business benefits of ‘the cloud.’ What’s all the hype about? Without a doubt, there are some compelling benefits of cloud computing, such as […]
Tweet Trends in cloud computing indicate software may cease to become the tangible product we are used to buying in stores or through online shopping. Companies and individual users can access software that resides on their servers in the “cloud” or the “grid,” enabling users to acquire that software and information from any device with […]
Companies like IBM and Wal-Mart are already doing amazing things with Enterprise 2.0 technologies. Why are so many others reluctant to take the plunge? In the second of our 3-part series of extracts from his book “The Next Wave of Technologies: Opportunities in Chaos (Wiley, 2010), Phil Simon explains why organizations hesitate to embrace new systems — until it’s too late. (See our interview with Simon here.)
Exploding data volumes are creating a new wave of business opportunity and BI innovation. Organizations should look to incorporate these techniques into their BI platforms and solutions so they can leverage their data for business advantage.
Tweet Though “Jeopardy” no doubt enjoyed a big ratings boost from Watson’s face-off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the IBM supercomputer is much more than the TV celebrity it’s become. Watson could lead to “extraordinary” consequences for the future, said computer scientist Darren Hayes. “Healthcare and medicine will definitely benefit.” Read More…
Featured ArticlesTweet Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization’s unstructured information, wherever that information exists. Read More
Tweet Being able to compete well at “Jeopardy” against two of its all-time best players may seem like a modest accomplishment for an IBM supercomputer, but Watson, the machine that’s playing out a three-day challenge on the TV show, may have bigger fish to fry after it’s all said and done. IBM is working with […]
Featured ArticlesSocial media disrupts the long-standing rules of business in many ways, but crafting a social media policy is premature unless the designers of the policy answer seven critical questions first, according to Gartner, Inc.
