2011: the cloud has landed
Looking back on 2011, what stands out most of all is that the cloud became mainstream. Cloud computing even got its own Gartner hype cycle, and while some aspects of the technology are still deemed to be in the early wave of the cycle, others are far beyond any hype. Indeed, SaaS is so well [...]
Tuesday’s Tip: Apply Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs To C-Level Business Strategy
Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs Provides Prioritization Of An Individual’s Needs In 1943, Abraham Maslow put forward his paper A Theory of Human Motivation. Eleven years later in 1954, Maslow went into detail on his hierarchy of needs in his book titled Motivation and Personality. The framework outlined five needs from the most fundamental or “deficiency [...]
There’s an Analytic app for that
Are analytic applications evolving? The Unit4 approach suggests some new angles in the sector’s evolution. It’s sort of ERP meets BI that meets a PaaS ecosystem.
What’s True SaaS And Why The Hell Should Customers Care?
Why Buy The Cow? When I was barely into my teens, my mother’s (every mother’s of that era) version of the sex talk was captured in this expression: “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?” This was long before birth control pills were invented, years before the “Summer of Love,” and [...]
Capgemini Procurement BPO: Realizing Platform/Category Returns From the IBX Acquisition (Part 3)
Please click here to see Part 1 and Part 2 of this series covering the latest from Capgemini.
In this post, we’ll dig into Capgemini’s current and planned technology offerings and strategy. To begin, IBX places its “cloud procurement”…
