How Much Information & Overload Phenomenon!
The Global Information Industry of the UCSD has put together statistics about how much information gets consumed by Americans every day. Two previous studies, by Peter Lyman and Hal Varian in 2000 and 2003, analyzed the quantity of original content cr…
IBM STGEvent09 – The First Afternoon
More details on what Smart Planet means for the Systems group at IBM.
SAP and the Boston Park Plaza
The SAP analyst/media summit this year was at the Park Plaza, a building which dates back to 1927. When it opened it had all kinds of innovations “in-room telephones, mail & laundry chutes on each floor and the “Servidoor,” a…
ERP Holiday Letter: Did you get one in your vendor’s card to you?
What happens when a software CEO with an oversized ego writes one of those holiday card letters and sends it to the company’s customers? Who could write something like this?
An hour with Jim Hagemann Snabe of SAP
One of the nicest things about going to an SAP event is an hour they organize with one of their executives. When I was at Gartner, we used to look forward to Hasso Plattner, unmuzzled at their annual Sapphires. More…
Cloud computing, so much more than multi-tenancy
I settled in for one of Marc Benioff’s legendary two-hour-long CloudForce keynotes in London yesterday morning (an abridged, snappier version of the nigh-on-three hour marathon delegates sat through at last month’s DreamForce, Benioff had assured me beforehand). As I listened, I thought about the role of multi-tenancy in cloud computing. The keynote hall was full [...]
IBM STGEvent09 – The First Morning
Smart Planet goes whole-hog hardware at IBM’s Systems analyst summit.
SAP Influencer Summit, Dispatch 3: Summarizing E-Sourcing On-Demand Themes
While I plan to provide additional details on some of what I
learned around SAP’s On-Demand E-Sourcing
developments (from pricing to modular component break-out information),
not to mention providing some context around how
customers curre…
12 Adoption Strategies for Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in 2010
The signs are pointing to next year being a banner one when it comes to mainstream adoption of the latest digital business models. With half a decade under the belt of the Web 2.0 phenomenon and almost as long for Enterprise 2.0, we’re just now seeing the ideas spread to more traditional corners of large [...]
Real-time Computing – Cool Video by SAP
Cool video by SAP, promoting the concept of in-memory computing. If only their UI was as cute as their videos (Cross-posted @ CloudAve)
