Eight Reasons Why Data-Centricity Is The Future Of Business
The data that our businesses own has become the name of the game when it comes to what ultimately lies at the core of economic value today, now seemingly more than ever before. We appear to be entering the era of the knowledge economy, where most of what we do in business (about 50% of [...]
Tivoli Live – Monitoring as SaaS – Quick Analysis
A new SaaS offering from Tivoli: pricing, competition, and a quick analysis.
We don’t care if we look stupid – IT Management & Cloud Podcast #59
This week John and I talk about his devoxx and Interop encounters, IBM’s hyper-detailed cloud offerings, BMC and Salesforce, and Tivoli Live, the new SaaS monitoring offering from IBM.
Scoble is Wrong When He Says He is Wrong:-) Full Feeds Still Rock
Wow, I’m sensing another TechMeme Storm rising (and a certain analyst would call it a circle j***, but that’s another matter). Robert Scoble says he was wrong when he said In 2006 he wouldn’t use any news aggregator or feeds that aren’t full text. I think the Scobleizer is wrong now that he says he [...]
Cisco Will Prove the Model
It’s about that time again when bloggers and pundits start thinking about predictions for the New Year. I took a look at mine for 2009 and was pleased I was correct at least some of the time. One that is coming true, albeit a little later than I had hoped, is this one:
John Chambers [...]
Caution Around Supply Risk is Creeping into Financial Forecasts
It’s one thing to read about a supply disruption’s impact on a company’s earnings or brand reputation after it’s happened. But it’s something else entirely to see an organization guiding investors to take into account potential risks in the supply ch…
The Stimulus Backlash
It appears that one very significant problem that the Administration and the Federal Reserve created, a frightening spike in unemployment, is the result of a massive miscalculation about how the staggering borrowing by the government would play out.
The Fed endorsed a policy of record borrowing under the theory that we were at risk of a [...]
A Chinese Spend Management Vendor? Will CDC Software Target the Buy-Side?
It’s quite common in the enterprise software world for niche global providers to succeed in reaching the global marketplace. North American companies certainly don’t have a lock on developing enterprise class code. Moreover, since California has foun…
Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce – Part II
(This is a continuation of the analysis of what salesforce.com announced at Dreamforce 2009 last week that I started on ZDNet. If I were you, I’d go to ZDNet and read that first and then click on…
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