Roadmaps… How Much is Too Much?
One of my favorite services, Feedly, published on their blog the roadmap for their next major release. Obviously this is not a new practice and through various mechanism companies make available for comment their product development process. In recent years the evolution of “ideation” applications has provided companies of all types a powerful capability for [...]
Real Time Monitoring & Simulation of Business Processes
My last session for the day at CASCON is to hear Alex Lau of IBM, and Andrei Solomon and Marin Litoiu of York University discuss their research project on real time monitoring and simulation of business processes (they also presented a related paper this morning, although I missed the session). This is one of the [...]
Dell Buys Boomi: Right Inline With My Cloud Strategy
Image via CrunchBase Just read that Dell is buying Cloud data integration company Boomi. That’s right in line with the focus on data strategy I’ve recommended for Cloud vendors. I’m not sure how many more companies in this space are available to be picked up. IBM picked up Cast Iron Systems, which was another great [...]
Salesforce Building a Campus
Giants Win World Series In other news from San Francisco, Salesforce.com will build a corporate campus on Mission Bay in San Francisco. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the company has acquired 14 acres in a 303 acre redevelopment zone near AT&T Park in Mission Bay with a value of $278 million and will build [...]
Oracle to Buy ATG
Image via Wikipedia Analysis The news is that Oracle is buying independent ecommerce software provider, ATG (Art Technology Group) of Cambridge, MA for $1 billion. I think it’s a good move for both companies. ATG is known as a premium provider of ecommerce solutions at a relatively affordable price with more pre-built solutions that its [...]
The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part I: Business execs are buying-in to Cloud even more than their IT counterparts
Cloud Business Services are no longer hype – both business and IT executives are buying-into the value Cloud can bring to their jobs and their organizations. The ability to access business applications quicker, faster, cheaper and in a virtual busines…
IT: Become Relevant or Die
This week CloudBlog is in Sydney, Australia, but just last week we were in Orlando Florida at Gartner Symposium – the 20th anniversary of the conference show – a feat in itself in many ways. One thing is clear, even though the two cities are roughly 10,000 miles apart, the adoption of the cloud is [...]
