“Honestly, history tells us the act of outsourcing doesn’t save money…” Gartner Group
This morning I nearly choked on my cornflakes to the incredible revelation in CIO.com from analyst firm, Gartner Group, that outsourcing doesn’t save money.
IBM’s IOD Showcases DB2, Informix, InfoSphere. Now, About Marketing….
It was hard to decide where to look first in Las Vegas this year at IBM’s flagship information management event. Coming as it did on the heels of a massive, sprawling Oracle Open World, it was also overwhelming, but distinguished itself immediately by its focus. Whereas Oracle has smashed together hardware systems, apps, middleware, java [...]
Locked in Paradigms
Have you noticed that Google looks terribly stale when compared to Facebook? It’s not that Google’s products are weak by comparison but rather the simple fact that Facebook isn’t locked into paradigms imposed by having widely used products that reflect how earlier generations of users see them. More importantly Facebook has a distribution capability that [...]
Mobile Data Analytics
Over the past couple of years I have met with several startups that offer analytic solutions for mobile data. I have not invested in any of them. I had felt that the data captured from feature phones and early generations of smartphones was not rich enough to lead to interesting and distinct analytics. For example, while data captured from a mobile web browser such as sites visited, pageviews, time spent browsing could be analyzed, we didn’t need a new company to do that. Omniture could do that just fine. However, the new smartphones capture more interesting data. These data sets…
A Paean To Older Workers
Should Our Role Model Be Cher?2010 MTV Video Music Awards 2010 MTV Video Music Awards My paean to older workers, a twitterverse: When does a worker become an older worker? At a particular age? when KSAOCs with half-lives have degraded to that point? When they look old? Am I an older worker? I accept being [...]
Taking a BPMS Test Drive
Last week, I tried out the Ultimus Test Drive, a guided hands-on session using a process application built with the Ultimus BPMS. The process itself was fairly simple – a purchase request process – since this test drive is targeted at end users, not analysts or developers, and intended to give the user a hands-on [...]
What Does Moxie Software Think of Social Business?
Next in our series of opinions on Social Business is SAP. Interested in the previous ones? Check out Oracle, Attensity, and Fuze Digital. 1) Where is the Social world going to be in 12 months? 24 months? Companies have traditionally segmented their external customer information from their internal enterprise collaboration, but the real value and power will come [...]
Webinar on Fast-Tracking BPM Projects
I’ll be speaking on a webinar this Thursday, November 15th, along with Michael Rowley of Active Endpoints, about fast-tracking BPM projects. The Active Endpoints tools are targeted at an IT audience of architects, developers and technical business analysts, and that’s exactly who we’re focusing this webinar on as well. From the description: Time and resources [...]
The CRM WatchList 2011 Preseason: Who’s Gonna Make The Team?
Each year, after baseball season ends, those of us who remain fanatics, spend the offseason pondering who our favorite team is going to get that will strengthen us in our run for next year’s world series. Then after the meetings ove…
Cognovision acquired by Intel
Another great exit for the Toronto startup community and some great news in advance of CIX in a few weeks. Toronto based Cognovision has reportedly been acquired by intel. According to DailyDOOH, which covers the digital out of home market, the pricetag was $17m. Cognovision was the winner of the CIX pitch competition last year. [...]
