New HfS Market Landscape: Is insurance BPO ready to grow up?
The global insurance industry faces a challenging and unprecedented market environment; insurance premiums are falling, and insurance firms’ profitability is nowhere near the pre-recession era. Added to this, insurers in the US and Europe need to battl…
Divided We #FAIL
With all my dedicated passion for the social web and its inspirational, world-changing promise, people often wonder why I’ve chosen to focus on the enterprise. My answer is: because it’s hard and #ifnotyouthenwho? One of the last bastions of resistance to embrace the tenets of 2.0 philosophy is found in the large corporate culture. It also [...]
How to Become an Enterprise Irregular
Our little (?) group of Enterprise Irregulars has been growing steadily, and I’m often asked what it takes to join us. It’s really simple. Here’s the key qualifier, courtesy of Merv Adrian: Ok… so it’s the weekend, and I had my little fun. The real answer is that there is no answer. We don’t have [...]
The Successes of Faster, More Frequent Failure
It may sound strange, but I believe that one of the tricks to success is to learn how to fail. As a generation or maybe as a society we are taught that failure is bad but when I think back…
Vendor Events: 10 Oracle Open World Tips For #OOW10
Put These Tips To Work And Have A Great Oracle Open World Oracle Open World is on the list of enterprise Grand Slam must attend tech events. This year rolls in the JavaOne and the Sun folks into one big tent. Expect up to 70,000 attendees, support staff, and partners in full force. Here are [...]
Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores
Aster Data has announced its new version, nCluster 4.6, which now includes a column data store, staking a claim as the first ADBMS to combine SQL and MapReduce on a hybrid row and column MPP system. While its R&D has hitherto been focused on enabling advanced in-database analytic processing in its flagship “Data-Analytics Server, ” [...]
Cloud And New Roles For Players
It’s often widely acknowledged that all players in the software ecosystem needs to make adjustments and put efforts to embrace the world of cloud. We saw in the earlier posts the nature of issues that need to be confronted by buyers, IT service provide…
