David Terrar
David heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting and Cloud based solutions for content, collaboration, web publishing, online accounting and ERP. He is Chair of the UK's Intellect Software as a Service Group, a director of EuroCloud UK, on the governance board of the Cloud Industry Forum, and a regular speaker at social media and Cloud Computing events including chairing London's Cloud Computing World Forum in 2009, 2010 and 2011. David organizes London Wiki Wednesdays, was one of the founders of CreativeCoffee Club and was part of the team that started Amplified (the Network of Networks).
ICAEW event: Cloud is just sizzle?
Last month, on 17 April, I was invited to attend the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW)’s annual Cloud accounting event – Winning business in the cloud: reap the benefits of SaaS. A great title with with the promise of making the case for deploying Cloud. The hashtag for the event was [...]
Connecting Appian, Rinde and Wardley with the intersection of process and social
I’ve been pushing the concept of using social technologies for collaboration and connections both inside and outside of business to make companies more effective since early 2006. The naming has changed from web 2.0 to enterprise 2.0 to social business, but the concept is the same. However, when some areas of technology like smart phones [...]
Apple’s flanking move with iPad Mini and life after Steve
Last week’s Apple event has been widely reported in detail, but with a minimum of real analysis on the importance of the why, the how and the what being communicated. For me there were three significant aspects: Apple improving their leading position in the tablet business by making the leading product even better, as well [...]
Why I’ve defected from BlackBerry to the Apple iPhone
After 6 years happily thumb tapping my way around my email and messages with the real keyboard of the BlackBerry smart phone platform I defected to the Apple iPhone back in July (even though the new iPhone 5 was imminent). It’s such a shame – I’ve been a big fan of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry [...]
Inspiration from British Cycling at London 2012
We’re gripped with Olympic fever here in the UK during London 2012 as you might expect. Today has been a particularly special day (4 golds, 2 silvers and a bronze so far) for Team GB taking us to our best result in over a century, but one of the highlights was a brilliant interview on [...]
The Cloud’s 5 Key Challenges for the ISV CTO
Back on 26 April I was asked to present “5 Key Challenges for the ISV CTO and How to Beat Them!” at a Ciklum seminar for ISVs that intended to deliver a hype-free conversation among CTOs, Chief Technical Architects and other key executives grappling with the journey to the cloud. My slides for the session [...]
Trash talk and FUD harms the Cloud industry
Over here we are anticipating this year’s Cloud Computing World Forumin London, but over in the US Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder and CEO since 1977, has pivoted his position on the Cloud along with “crossing a line” to trash key competitors. Elsewhere old guard software giants like IBM are mis-communicating the Cloud messages. How does [...]
Social Business
After some soul searching I’ve just started updating my various personal profiles around the web to say I’m a social business evangelist rather than saying enterprise 2.0. I’ve got close to this before. I wanted to explain why now. …
The cultural divide on data protection – USA vs EU
We are several months past the 10 year anniversary of the September 11 (9/11) attacks, but one of the significant consequences of that event a decade ago highlights the cultural divide between the USA and Europe on data protection. Data privac…
Using the Cloud for personal productivity with Evernote
I’ve just made a significant switch in one of the main tools I use for my own personal productivity which highlights a key trend for the industry and all of us – the personal cloud. Whether it is for work or our personal lives we use desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, media players and tablets [...]
