Welcoming the Youngest and Cutest Enterprise Irregular
We now have a tradition of publicly welcoming our Youngest and Cutest members here: they can’t blog, can’t even write or speak, yet somehow make it to the top of the admission list:-) Today’s happy addition is Vera Nareena Bardoliwalla, fellow EI @nenshad‘s newborn. Says the proud Dad: She perked up when I mentioned OpenWorld Blogger [...]
How to Use Big Numbers #OOW
In case you are having trouble getting your head around some unfamiliar terms for very large numbers coming out of Oracle OpenWorld this week, I wish to provide some assistance. The large numbers reference the amount of data we collectively and even individually capture and need to store to live our lives and do our [...]
The Mobile Metaphor Rules, for Better and Worse
Every once in a while we analysts have an epiphany that rings a bell on one side of the brain while shouting out a giant “duh” on the other. That’s part of the bipolarity of what we do: sometimes the most startling revelations are the ones you’ve seen a dozen times, until finally that bell [...]
TIBCO’s Tibbr: Inching Towards Great.
Few organizations providing enterprise social software have a process and integration DNA, as does TIBCO Software. The last of the independents in the enterprise integration game, TIBCO supports some of the most gnarly systems integration efforts at some of the best known organizations in the world. For these reasons, I went to TUCON 2011, TIBCO’s Annual Customer [...]
Serendipity Happens… to Deliver Million$
As the world turns… social, expect to be surprised by the fruits of serendipity. When large workforces embrace working socially, or as I love to call it – in “socialworking” mode, they discover new ways of solving problems and creating opportunities. Insights are revealed in the fluid web of connections and sharing. We’ve seen a [...]
The "Big Five" IT trends of the next half decade: Mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data
In today’s ever more technology-centric world, the stodgy IT department isn’t considered the home of innovation and business leadership. Yet that might have to change as some of the biggest advances in the history of technology make their …
On the Perils of Not Taking iCloud More Seriously
In 2007 I attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston and sat in on a session on the mobile workforce. At the time, Steve Jobs had introduced the original iPhone but it wasn’t yet shipping. As I remember it, the panel for the session included several industry analysts as well as representatives from Nokia, Motorola, [...]
Physician Practice, Meet Wal-Mart — Your New Largest Supplier
You’ve got to credit Wal-Mart with finding new markets to drive growth – in this case, in its own back yard. Over on Healthcare Matters , Tom Finn recently penned a piece summarizing and analyzing Wal-Mart’s recent move to tap the gr…
