Smarter Infrastructure For A Smarter Planet
Kristof Kloeckner, IBM’s VP of Strategy & Enterprise Initiatives System and Software, & CTO of Cloud Computing, delivered today’s keynote on the theme of a smarter planet and IBM’s cloud computing strategy. Considering that this is the third IBM conference that I’ve been to in six months (Impact, IOD and now CASCON), there’s not a [...]
Panic buying spree hits cloud integration
OK, I’ve read all the coverage of Dell’s acquisition yesterday of cloud integration vendor Boomi. I’m really pleased for Bob, Rick and the team. They’re great guys, it’s a terrific company, and they’ve earned this [disclosure: earlier this year I wrote a Boomi product profile paid for by the vendor]. But Dell? I have two [...]
Social suites vs. apps: The tension between bloat and refinement
For many, the giant size of today’s social software suites is too much, while the simple functional focus of individual social apps isn’t sufficient. How can enterprises best cope with this bloat vs. refinement divide? The answer partiall…
Has KIK finally arrived?
I have been using kik pretty much since it launched last April. It was particularly useful for me because I was spending most of my week in the US at that time and kik allowed me to TXT back home while avoiding Rogers/Fido/Telus/Bell’s atrocious $1/message TXT roaming fees. The kik app was always very solid [...]
Technology and my first week home.
On October 7 while presenting in Vail, CO, I thought I had an attack of altitude sickness (not unusual me coming from sea level in Florida). The medics disagreed and had me checked into the Swedish Medical Center in Denver for 2 weeks. Last week was my first one home, and I tried to make [...]
NetSuite Opens Development Center in Czech Republic
NetSuite is making a savvy bet by opening a dedicated cloud ERP Business Suite Development Center in Brno, Czech Republic for several reasons. According to today’s announcement the company will build the center out to employ one hundred people in the next 12 to 18 months and the company already has a good foothold in [...]
Analytics Is the Social CRM Secret Sauce
A lot of information is coming together this quarter that begins to put new spin on Social CRM. While we’ve all been busy getting networked in our personal lives and professionally, a huge mountain of data has been accumulating that will make our work in social technology more valuable. Last week Harvard Business Review released [...]
Maintaining Consistency Across BPM Initiatives’ Content
In a break from the usual lineup of academics and researches, Peter Braun of Bank of America was up next in the collaboration and consistency management workshop to present on maintaining consistency across BPM initiatives’ content. They use IBM’s WebSphere Business Modeler (WBM), Information Framework (IFW, effectively a set of reference models in an enterprise [...]
Three simple truths of failure
This great Dilbert cartoon expresses several truths of failure from which we can learn valuable lessons.
Is SAP E-Sourcing (or now just “Sourcing”) Still Competitive? (Part 1)
Earlier this fall, I sat through a product update with the SAP E-Sourcing team to discuss the latest solution developments in their solution area. Perhaps most important from a nomenclature standpoint, the “E” is no more. The prod…
