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On The Importance of Design at IBM: Love and Margins.

On The Importance of Design at IBM: Love and Margins.

By James Governor on January 9, 2013

At the end of last year my founding partner dropped a quite outstanding post - The Importance of Software at IBM. In it Stephen analysed IBM’s 2011 financial results through the lens he has been using for most of the year (the end of the age of Software-only business models).  It should surprise nobody that Software is [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged apple, Cloud Computing, design, ibm, microsoft, monkigras, Open source, redmonk, VMware | Leave a response

SAP Goes All in for User Experience and Design

SAP Goes All in for User Experience and Design

By James Governor on November 18, 2012

I flew down to Madrid yesterday to check out what’s happening in the SAP ecosystem at the company’s TechEd and Sapphire event. There are a ton of angles to consider in looking at the company’s comeback, but one of the most obvious is the growing influence of SAP’s Research Labs in Palo Alto. SAP’s future is [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged design, Hasso Plattner, Madrid, sap, sapteched | Leave a response

Dreamforce 12 – Crazy Big, with Lower Barriers

Dreamforce 12 – Crazy Big, with Lower Barriers

By James Governor on September 21, 2012

Tweet Dreamforce is a big event. Crazy big. Nearly 90,000 people came to San Francisco this week for the annual celebration of all things salesforce.com. The city shut down Howard Street between the north and south sides of the Moscone Center so that the company could pack in even more people. Salesforce did a slick [...]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged benioff, df12, Dreamforce, heroku, redmonk, salesforce.com, San Francisco, Uncategorized | 3 Responses

Developers The New Kingmakers: 2 chances to see me talk next week

Developers The New Kingmakers: 2 chances to see me talk next week

By James Governor on September 14, 2012

Tweet   If you have been watching RedMonk for any length of time you’ll know that we finally found a quick shorthand name for our core thesis – that bottom up usage led by practitioners is the most powerful force in IT adoption today. New Kingmakers is the theme. As markets fragment, and new technologies [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Uncategorized | Leave a response

21 Things You’ll Learn From Blogging for 10 Years

21 Things You’ll Learn From Blogging for 10 Years

By James Governor on September 14, 2012

Tweet I was hanging out on the web this morning, looking at beard styles, as you do, when I came across a guy called John Dyers, who owns “types of beard” as a Google image search. He is a beard blogger, arguably the beard blogger. When TV news is looking for beard commentary, he is [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Uncategorized | 1 Response

Its The Data, Stupid. New Relic Goes After Insight-based Business Advantage

Its The Data, Stupid. New Relic Goes After Insight-based Business Advantage

By James Governor on August 23, 2012

Tweet We like New Relic for a number of reasons at RedMonk. Firstly, developers tell us it just works, providing application performance monitoring across cloud apps. Just tick a box from your PaaS provider, and consider your app instrumented. Secondly, New Relic is a data partner for our analytics business; if you haven’t seen the [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged New Relic, redmonk, software as a service, spiceworks | Leave a response

Retooling for Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Serena

Retooling for Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Serena

By James Governor on July 26, 2012

Tweet Serena Software has been around a long time: it cut its teeth in mainframe software development with products like ChangeMan, sold into large, traditional enterprise customers with large, traditional development methodologies. While the company does have a culture of innovation, its customers tend to be wary of change – their idea of change management [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Agile, DVCS | Leave a response

EMC Set to Geek Out, VMware To Refocus on the Franchise not the Future. All Change Please

EMC Set to Geek Out, VMware To Refocus on the Franchise not the Future. All Change Please

By James Governor on July 22, 2012

Tweet Earlier this week I was with Alcatel Lucent in Naperville, Illinois when a tweet came in that Paul Maritz, VMware’s CEO, had been dismissed from his post. I would have thought the idea was absurd, except that rumours had also been swirling that VMware was planning to spin out its cloud assets into a [...]

Posted in Business | Tagged Uncategorized | 1 Response

On recent IBM, SAP and Adobe Conferences. Developers Developers Developers… Marketers?

On recent IBM, SAP and Adobe Conferences. Developers Developers Developers… Marketers?

By James Governor on June 28, 2012

Tweet Just as it is every year May was insanely busy in the tech business. With the Spring Conference season there are plenty of major shows such as IBM Impact, SAP Sapphire and the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit. I was involved in all three of these conferences – either on a speaking, or consulting basis. [...]

Posted in Business | Tagged DX, Uncategorized | Leave a response

Kindle Simple beats iPad at State Department. NYOD. Amazon as enterprise mobility vendor. Or How much functionality is too much functionality?

Kindle Simple beats iPad at State Department. NYOD. Amazon as enterprise mobility vendor. Or How much functionality is too much functionality?

By James Governor on June 12, 2012

Tweet I came across a fascinating story today, linked to by the Bacon Queen - U.S. State Department chooses Amazon’s Kindle over Apple’s iPad. The article is worth quoting at length. Today Amazon agreed to a no-bid, $16.5 million contract with the U.S. State Department to provide 2,500 Kindle Touches for the government’s overseas language-education programs. The document released [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BYOD, mobile development | Leave a response

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